And number 1, is Robbie Keane...

Just noticed Keano is 4 goals away from the magic 100 goals for the club. Very impressive overall Spurs career statistics of 96 goals in 222 games. We'll miss him over those three games, but he should hit the magic 100 this season. Hopefully the rest will do him good and he'll come back even stronger at Christmas.

I remember when he signed and Ghod said he needed a club to ''bed down'' in. He has now bedded down like a mother.

He's banned for three games?

That red card was madness.

Still fuming.

Yes, 3 game domestic ban, but he can play tonight in the UEFA Cup.

He used to really annoy me when he joined cos he was full of fancy flicks that didn't really go anywhere. However, he has really matured as a player (hence vice captain of Spurs and captain of Ireland) and the competition from other strikers has pushed him on.

Can't argue with his overall goalscoring form of a goal every 2.3 games, while more recently I think he's got something like 30 goals in his last 40 games for us.

He's only 27 years old I think, no reason for him to leave (unless we go down), his game doesn't rely on pace so he could still be banging them in well into his 30s. Here's to the next 100 goals!

( unless we go down ).

& he's the only one in the team who encouraging others...

I saw he boosted up the team spirit at both the start of 1st Hf and 2nd Hf of last match game V Birmingham...

Keano Keano Keano...

I'd like to think Keano could push well into the top ten all-time list of goalscorers for the club, possibly even top 3 if he stays with us for his whole career:

1. Jimmy Greaves 266
2. Bobby Smith 208
3. Martin Chivers 174
4. Cliff Jones 159
5. George Hunt 137
6. Len Duquemin 134
7. Alan Gilzean 133
8.Teddy Sheringham 124
9. Les Bennett 116
10. Jimmy Dimmock 112

Incidentally, I notice Keano only needs 5 more goals to become our 2nd all-time top scorer in Europe (Berba is also close, only needs 4):

1. Martin Chivers 22
2. Mark Falco 13
3. Alan Gilzean 13
4. Martin Peters 13
5. Bobby Smith 10
6. Jimmy Greaves 9
7. Garth Crooks 9
8. Dimitar Berbatov 9
9. Terry Dyson 8
10. Robbie Keane 8

Sorry, in a bit of a statto mood today!

spur'don wrote:

( unless we go down ).

Glass Half empty!

If he stops pointing fingers at teammates for a misplaced pass or giving uncredited bollocking to the referee, and stops trying the fancy stuff, he is a good player.

I miss the crappy cart-wheel!

Should we start a campaign to bring back Keano's rubbish goal celebration?

Barry Lineker wrote:

I miss the crappy cart-wheel!

Should we start a campaign to bring back Keano's rubbish goal celebration?

I read in an interview that he said he's getting too old to do it and he has a few back problems.

He's 27 years old for gawd's sake!

Definately my favourite player!

Like the avatar!

charltonYID wrote:

Definately my favourite player!

so thats you with Keano and Jol. We need Ramos now for the full set

I aim to please!!!! hows that i've thrown Gus in too for ya!!!

Wow, you are the man! Or not, as maybe.

GDG wrote:

Wow, you are the man! Or not, as maybe.

very clever GDG ... I'll guess that's you next to Ramos, right charltonYID ?

Yup, she's the girl in the pic.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2242811,00.html

Strikers may come and go but Keane is a constant for Spurs




David Hytner
Friday January 18, 2008
The Guardian
When Dimitar Berbatov was dominating the headlines at the beginning of the month, after his agent's announcement that he wanted a move to a bigger club, one of the talking points concerned how his Tottenham Hotspur team-mates would subsequently regard him.

The opinion of one dressing-room insider was illuminating. "It will be interesting to see what Robbie Keane has to say," said the source. "Robbie is hugely influential and the others take their lead from him."






The circle has turned for Keane and the Dubliner has not only become the key figure on the playing staff but has emerged as the one constant in the club's tale of four strikers. He cannot have said anything incendiary about Berbatov and the spotlight has drifted away from the Bulgarian - his future will be back on the agenda in the summer but meanwhile those of Jermain Defoe and Darren Bent continue to be debated. Defoe says that the manager, Juande Ramos, is content to let him leave and the interest from Aston Villa beats louder and louder. Portsmouth, too, and Newcastle would like to take him. Bent, meanwhile, has not found form since his £16.5m summer arrival from Charlton Athletic and has had to suffer "waste of money" whispers.


Ramos has seen little persuasive from him and in the background the sporting director, Damien Comolli, has been looking for a new striker. He has had discussions about Fred, the Brazilian international at Lyon, only for the player to declare yesterday that he was staying put.

Keane in the past has had to live with question marks over his Tottenham future. He has had to battle for his place and during his spells out of the team he might have been tempted elsewhere. But he has endured and after a spectacular calendar year in 2007, when he scored 31 goals for the club in all competitions, he has challenged a clutch of perceptions.
When he arrived at White Hart Lane he had played for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry, Internazionale and Leeds inside four years. But that was the summer of 2002. Keane is a nomad no more.

He is also becoming recognised as a goalscorer rather than a scorer of great goals. Although the epithet of "prolific" has not yet attached itself, he has consistently been the club's leading Premier League scorer and he finished last season with 22 goals in all competitions. He has 15 so far this time out, to promise an even greater return, and he is now only one short of his century for the club. He brushes aside talk of personal landmarks, though, to see the bigger picture.

"The cups are very important but so is the Premier League because we want to get into the Uefa Cup [via league position] and that is still not out of our reach by any means," he said. "We proved that over the last couple of years."

Keane has proved himself time and again and, with uncertainty in the air, Ramos can be thankful that he intends to keep doing so.</FONT>

Future LEGEND!

I bought Robbie Keane's biography at Page One last night. Costs me $300!

how much was the second page?

worthless

did you get my PM?