deathorglory

In the freezing depths of winter, with the wind howling and the clock ticking and the snow stinging our eyes, Clint struck the last match in the box to ignite the dying embers and rescue us from the cold. For 92 minutes, this was classic Man United: nick...

Sadly, Sandro’s injury was about the only thing of any note that happened in that turgid affair at QPR last week. Having Parker back is a huge boost, but losing the Brazilian is one hell of a blow – not least because he’s been getting better and better...

For the last 26 years, I doubt a single meeting between Spurs and Coventry has passed without being dubbed “a rerun of the 1987 FA Cup final.” Regardless of the competition, the clubs’ respective fortunes or the distance or indeed divisions between them,...

Okay, that’s it now. I want to know who keeps flicking the magic switch that sends our team into standby mode. Acting in a similar way to the on and off button on a TV, this dangerous device induces a collective tiredness, panic and loss of concentration...

As the unthinkable became a harsh and horrendous reality yesterday, there descended on me the kind of feeling that can only be expressed through acts of violence towards innocent, inanimate objects. Words have trouble doing that feeling justice. Even...

It was a night of cold and a night of conflicts as the Spurs (who my relatives in Greece and Cyprus support from a distance) met the Grecian greens of Panathinaikos (the team we all follow over there.) Not to be confused with Olympiakos, their biggest...

In a time when the comeback is king and the dying embers often prove to be the hottest, Saturday’s result goes to show that the first goal can still be massively important. Unless of course we’re having one of our ‘take the lead, have a man sent off and...

That’s another perfectly good pair of underpants ruined. To be fair, I am still wearing them (got home late…roadworks on the A10…terrible business…nightmare finding something to eat and all) but along with the ruination was another perfectly good win....

We’ve shown some alarming recent signs of reverting back to our late 90s-early 00s status as London’s Premier League laughing stock, so losing at home to the Hammers would have been even more catastrophic than usual. Fuelled by the events in Rome in midweek,...

As another hugely uneventful European game passes us by (Dembele’s return and Lloris’s saves the only notable features) we find ourselves in almost exactly the same position as last season: a home game with a Greek team to determine whether we get through...