Where’s Our Strike Force Gone

22nd of November 2009 was a wet day in N17 but it was ahot on the pitch as we humiliated Wigan Athletic by nine goals to one. With Jermain Defoe playing his best football we have seen in years and a creative midfield behind him the skies seemed the limit for our nimble forward. So in to the 2010/11 season, the first year we were in the champions league, we had just signed Rafael Van Der Vaart, Bale had blossomed into the player we were all told he would become and more importantly the year ended in a 1. Now I am aware that we have had limited time from Jermain Defoe on the pitch but from 10 Premier League games so far this season we have seen a return of 0 goals, suddenly 35 million for Andy Carroll or 15 million for Suarez looks like an appetizing deal, and although Pavlyuchenko is capable of a moment of brilliance and Crouch’s goal scoring record in the Champions League they both lack the natural strikers instinct due to poor movement and badly timed runs shown best by Crouch at away at Everton and Pav whenever he plays. I hope we finish in the top 4 and I hope Levy and Redknapp bring in a striker of real quality in the summer so we can be talking of another world class player at the club along with Bale Modric and Vaart and hopefully push for greater and better things. However until this is addressed or we start scoring I cannot see us progressing further forward as a football club