The clock's ticking....

I felt I'd lost a £1.00 and found 50p yesterday. Ok, before the game I would have gladly settled for a point at Spurs, especially as they over-ran us in the first 30 minutes. But as we came more into the game we gave as good as we got. A number of chances fell our way, but unfortunately none counted. Our workrate helped us to keep Spurs' internationals under control, but without providing an end product. Then is a space of a couple of minutes we went from dispair to elation, when first Charlie had a penalty saved only for him to be given a second chance, from which he scored to put us 1-0,with 15 minutes to play. We always knew it would be a nail biting time and we knew Spurs would throw everything our way, but we still managed to hold things together until the 89th minute. In the past Ollie has been criticised for not trying to defend a lead, so yesterday he brought on Craig Cathcart to shore up the defence, but unfortunately he wasn't quick enough to close down Defoe who equalised from the edge of the box. That was my 50p moment. There I was, one moment thinking, wow, 3 unexpected points only to feel disappointed with the one point I would have been happy with at the start. Sadly for Gareth Bale, Charlie's tackle on him looked very nasty and he will count himself lucky if the FA don't punish him for it. If they do, let's hope it's not before the last two remaining matches. West Brom's poor performance today against Wolves has meant we are back in the bottom three. So, our fate we be decided next Saturday when we host Bolton, because anything short of a win will mean relegation. That will prompt us to look at all the points we have thrown away, which if we had won would have put us in a mid table position. But if football was that easy no one would get relegated.