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When 1st Meant More Than 4th
Heaven had planned him for a peaceful world. Unfortunately Heaven had not planned a peaceful world for him. He lived in a world of obstinate and incessant change, and in parts where its operations were unsparingly conspicuous. Reading the above quote...
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A Guide to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
A Guide to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Introduction Tottenham Hotspur is a London-based professional football club playing in the English Premier League. Founded in 1882 by pupils from a local grammar school, the club plays its home games at White...
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Olympic Spurs
I don’t know, you just can’t run a worldwide sporting event without a few Spurs fans holding things together. And that’s not to mention the likes of Danny Rose, Steven Caulker, Sandro and Giovani representing their respective countries in the football...
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Oh no. Not this lot Again
Meek and shivering, you emerge from a dank, decrepit, overcrowded bombsite of a dressing room after an awkward 15 minutes of tripping out of your school uniform and into your games kit without accidentally catching an unwanted glimpse of your neighbour’s...
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Why do we Bother?
It’s got to be one of the most frequently-asked questions among football fans, especially when things go wrong. You wonder what the point is, whether all the time, money and emotion you invest could be better deployed in another, less hurtful pastime....
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The Ade Enigma
Big Manu’s last two performances were as polarised as opinions of him amongst Spurs fans. That’s hardly surprising when you consider he’s not just a former Arsenal player, but a former Arsenal player who tormented us whenever we faced him. Without wanting...
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Half Cock
Semi-final. The second half of that phrase should carry the most significance. You’re one step away from the big one, its proximity made all the more tangible by the semi-finals being played at the same venue. But for us, the significance of that phrase...
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On the Right, in the Wrong
So many questions. Why such a slow start? Why so flat, so shapeless and so aimless? Why was Bale on the right AGAIN? Why didn’t we shift him across to his preferred side earlier? Why didn’t we start playing until it was almost too late? After we finally...
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The Beer and the Bubbly
For the first time this season, we’ve ground out a home win without a lot of the Champagne football we’ve become accustomed to recently. Hamstrung by the absence of our wide men, losing the sparkle of Defoe and missing the powerful presence of Kaboul...
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Go Fourth
It seems virtually every game has been ‘must-win’ over the last couple of months. The trouble is, we haven’t been winning them. And as must-win game has followed must-win game, the following one has ended up being even more of a must-win game. Sunday...
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A Quarter of Solace
‘You missed, Mr Bond.’ ‘Did I?’ We might have been playing it as smoothly as Bond, but we certainly weren’t scoring like Bond as we entered the latter stages of last night’s quarter-final. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one fearing the worst. After all, we’ve...
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Drawn, but not Blank
Draws are weird. It’s hard to know where you stand with a draw. It’s especially hard when a game’s been so hyped up by headcams and hysterical headlines that you think it can only go one way or the other, either glory or despair. A draw leaves you with...
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King's Greatest Conquests
His early career might not have coincided with the most successful period in our recent history, but Ledley certainly managed to achieve a few things in his time at the Lane. Here’s a selection of the best: Bradford City , 9th December 2000 Although this...
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Superpavhaspackedhisbags
.....andnowhesgonetorussia It seems Pav’s departure has been on the cards for almost every transfer window since he joined the club, but now it’s finally happened. The striker’s a bit of a footballing Devon Malcolm – managers and teammates alike must...
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Onwards but Downwards
After a third minute comedy penalty conceded by Admiral Nelson, a horrible injury to Daws and another niggle for Lennon, our decision (correct as it goes) to start a strong side against Stevenage was backfiring with abandon. In fact, it looked for 25...
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Touching Cloth
We almost did what we needed to do in our two consecutive away games. Almost, but not quite. While Man City overcame their last big obstacle to leave themselves touching silver, we’re left touching cloth. On the Wednesday, we finally saw a controlling...
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Twice Bitten, but Still not Shy
I’ve got the feeling I’ve been here before. Two seasons ago: Wolves score a soft early goal from a set-piece and proceed to tackle and time-waste for the best part of the next 90 minutes, holding on for a 1-0 win. Last season: Wolves score with their...
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The Kaiser Returns!
Okay, I’m going to level with you. When Daniel Levy released the managerial trapdoor underneath Harry’s chair and proceeded to unleash the hounds, I was kind of hoping that a certain German legend would be returning to the club this summer. But instead...
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Dead on our Feet
Even by Tottenham Hotspur’s standards, Saturday’s defeat at QPR completes one hell of a capitulation. I say ‘completes’ with a month of the season still to go because for us, the season is over. It’s as over as Barcelona’s, but without the guarantee of...
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Why Always Us?
Margins. The finest of lines between two actions, choices, results. A boundary that separates two vastly different outcomes and extremities of emotion. From being seconds away from a great weekend – with a positive result from what on paper may have been...
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Keeping the Balance
Balance is a funny thing. Balance is strength, stability and certainty, but it’s based on fragile foundations. All it takes to upset the balance is the slightest change in conditions. When Harry took the Spurs job, for example, we were an unbalanced rabble...
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Cheers Rafa
In many ways, Rafa Van der Vaart was made for Tottenham Hotspur; an immense talent capable of absolutely anything, but often flattering to deceive and playing a frustrated second fiddle to those with greater consistency. He was someone who needed to be...
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Celebrity Spurs of the Year
With the likes of reggae king Bob Marley, Hollywood hardman Ray Liotta, Canadian cheesemonger Bryan Adams and the A-Team's Dirk ‘don’t touch the face’ Benedict, it’s fair to say Tottenham Hotspur have always had some pretty damn cool celebrity fans. Certainly...
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Swing Low
It had to end sometime, and I kind of had the feeling it would end like this. Close, bitter, painful and a little bit unfair just to rub it in, as if all the pleasure we’ve had in the last few weeks was just the prelude to some big slice of heartache....
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A Win in the Window
What a strange night. The Premier League programme played out against a backdrop of rumours and rumblings, of putting two and two together and getting 22. That’s Harry’s style of maths all right. ‘Defoe’s not even on the bench – he must be on his way...