Keller will start as usual in the North London Derby match preview: http://www.4thegame.com/previews/form140239/afcthfc.html
* * *And now, the news* * * From Tottenham Hotspur's official site, a team news feature: http://www.spurs.co.uk/article.asp?article=171471 From sportinglife.com, team news: http://www.sportinglife.com/footbal...3/11/07/manual_081806.html&TEAMHD=premiership Also from sportinglife.com, "Keller bemoans luckless Spurs": http://www.sportinglife.com/footbal...=soccer/03/11/07/SOCCER_Tottenham_Keller.html From skysports.com, "Pleat: Big hitters want Spurs job": http://www.skysports.com/skysports/article/0,,7-1110509,00.html Also from skysports.com, team news & a match preview: http://www.skysports.com/skysports/article/0,,58-1110455,00.html From Yahoo's UK site, via TeamTalk, "Hughton: Spurs can shock Gunners": http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/031108/21/edeg1.html Same source, "Gunners boss Wenger baffled by Tottenham's demise": http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/031108/21/edef8.html Same source, "Poyet targets derby win": http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/031107/21/edct0.html From the BBC's site, their match preview, with facts and figures: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/3232991.stm Match preview, from Soccernet (includes a quote from Keller): http://soccernet.espn.go.com/preview?id=108210&cc=5901 Plenty to discuss here. Lineups coming quite soon...
KK ready for battle............. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ma...o08.xml&sSheet=/sport/2003/11/08/ixfooty.html
What's the TV back home for this? I've got the game live here in Australia, on free-to-air, on SBS. I'll do the PbP, if no else can put their hand up.
Keller starts. Lineups... ARSENAL 1. Jens Lehmann 12. Bisan Lauren 23. Sol Campbell 28. Kolo Toure 3. Ashley Cole 8. Fredrik Ljungberg 15. Ray Parlour 19. Gilberto Silva 7. Robert Pires 25. Nwankwo Kanu 14. Thierry Henry Subs 10. Dennis Bergkamp 17. Edu 18. Pascal Cygan 33. Graham Stack (GK) 45. Justin Hoyte TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 13. Kasey Keller 2. Steve Carr 30. Anthony Gardner 36. Dean Richards 3. Mauricio Taricco 11. Stephane Dalmat 7. Darren Anderton 26. Ledley King 16. Paul Konchesky 8. Helder Postiga 10. Robbie Keane Subs 12. Gary Doherty 21. Mbulelo Mabizela 24. Robert Burch (GK) 25. Bobby Zamora 27. Rohan Ricketts Arsenal top the table in the Premiership, Spurs lie in 12th spot.
I'm watching on the PPV package in the US but I've got company here in the house so I want be able to add much to the PbP.
After a little looking, USA TV is via Setanta PPV. The game is on! The North London derby is underway...
Under those circumstances, add what you can. I'll take the reins, at least for now. May hand over the chores after halftime-- after all, it's 2 a.m. local time here, we'll see how my fatigue level holds up.
I know the feeling. Although it's 10am here on the East Coast, i was up most of the night with my 3 week old daughter (I guess she was just too excited about Derby Day to sleep. ) GOAL to Spurs!
4th minute -- Anderton puts Spurs up 1-nil. Ran right onto that ball, didn't see who played the ball into the box. But a very opportunistic finish... 6th min. -- Keller gets his first touch, cleaning up on an errant through-ball from the Gunners. 6th min, still -- Keller saves well from Henry, conceding a shot destined for the lower-left corner. Corner comes to nothing.
Arsenal's clear ricocheted off the shin guard of Robbie Keane right into the path of Anderton who got a step behind the defense at the back post.
11th min. -- Parlour booked for Arsenal, tackle from behind on Taricco. 11th min. -- Henry makes a run into the box, but Spurs' defence marshalls the ball well into Keller's hands. 12th min. -- Keller saves well again from Henry.
Have Spurs really not won at Highbury since the 1992-93 season? I could be mistaken, but I may have overheard Martin Tyler saying something to that effect on the broadcast. Can someone please verify?
Yellow card to Konchesky for encroachment on a free kick. (earlier Yellow card to Parlour for hard tackle by the way)
15th min. -- Henry with a free kick, just barely high and wide of Keller's goal. Kasey appeared to have it covered, though.
Good call, I missed that. Teamwork, baby. 19th min. -- Anderton booked, high challenge, debatedly late.