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Post and Ba
I didn’t get to see much of the game on Saturday night. It was the missus’ birthday, so we left it 20 minutes in and headed off to a delightful steakhouse just outside Epping Forest. Lovely. At the time of departure, Spurs were looking pretty good. Controlled...
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Adebayor, there's the door
“How can the same sh*t happen to the same guy twice?” – John McClane, Die Hard 2 We were all left feeling a touch of the McClane’s on Saturday as one of the worst results in my Spurs-supporting life repeated itself with a merciless abandon. I remember...
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Not a Repeat
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,...
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Stepping off the Throne
Trying to talk about Ledley King without using a sh*t pun is almost as difficult as playing top-level football without any cartilage in one of your knees, but I’ll give it a crack. It’s worth the effort for a man who, barring the odd bit of boozing and...
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Dank Holiday
Dejected. Dispirited. Downcast. Disbelieving. Drained. And Spurs weren’t that great either. After encouraging signs in the previous two games, the Easter weekend brought us one dour, measly point from a very attainable six – and that coming against a...
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Hijacked at Halloween
This was Jason Voorhees thrusting his hand through the driver’s window. This was Leatherface (despite his size, lack of grace and the amount of sheer bloody noise he makes) somehow sneaking onto the back seat without the girl noticing. This was Michael...
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Lazzzzzzzzzzio
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...
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Labouring
What’s the last thing you want to hear only minutes before you take to the field against the current league leaders and London rivals? That probably your best player’s partner has gone into labour. Add in the absence of your most creative midfielder and...
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Taking Gambles
One of the last words I’d ever use to describe Daniel Levy would be ‘gambler.’ He’s notoriously stubborn when it comes to transfers, squeezing every last pound – and every last second – out of a departing star, and saving every last pound on an incoming...
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Pride After the Fall
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,...
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No Cushion, No Comfort
I’m not naïve enough to think we’d go to the home of the champions, tweak their noses and toss the gauntlet at their feet, shouting ‘tally-ho, it’s high time you were given a darn good thrashing, you cacophonous, high-spending knaves,’ or some similar...
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Why Rebuild when you can Refurbish?
Don't worry, it’s not some dodgy Channel 4 building show spin-off – just another half-arsed tactical observation. Why is it that whenever we're on the verge of achieving something good, we stop what we’re doing, dismantle our squad and start all over...
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The FA Official Behind the Grassy Knoll
I’m not generally the kind of person who believes in conspiracy theories. Not even after Marton Fulop’s hat-trick of howlers deprived us of third place. After all, everyone’s entitled to one huge clanger now and again. Even two clangers. In fact, he hasn’t...
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Bale, Brown Trousers and Burger Sauce
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....
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The Booby Prize
Step forward…..Tottenham Hotspur. You’ve secured a top four position in one of the hardest leagues in the world by playing a brand of entertaining, attacking football that’s becoming increasingly recognised all over Europe. In fact, you’ve even been voted...
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Maribore
When they announced the Europa League groups, ours almost looked like a Champions League group. As well as Lazio, we had two sides who got knocked out in the qualifiers. In reality, now that we’ve had the chance to assess the relative strengths of each...
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The Bale-out
Too much has been made of Bale’s withdrawal from the Olympic squad, with comparisons drawn to the outstanding fitness and professionalism of Ryan Giggs, who’s kindly offered his services to Team GB after negotiating another gruelling season of Premier...
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Looking for the Performance
It’s fair to say that before the Villa game, we hadn’t put together two consecutively good halves of football on our own ground. We’d had the odd half here and there and some good signs away from home, but not much to hint at last season’s demolitions...
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Straining Relations
It can be tough for a Greek boy in London. As if following Spurs wasn’t traumatic enough, your extraction gives you almost as many boyhood clubs as Robbie Keane, meaning you get three times as many teams to worry about as everyone else. A few years ago,...
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Batten Down the Hatches
Eastenders has finished and there are a couple of hours to go until Family Guy, leaving you with an entertainment blackout for most of the night. It feels like there should be something exciting filling the void, but it’s not there. Don’t you have something...
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Daring to do
Recently, there was a programme featuring the 50 most shocking moments in Premier League history. Even I was surprised by how many of those moments involved us being on the receiving end to Man Utd. I felt like a right little victim by the end of it....
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The Start of the Slide
We’re into November and the Lane is already less a fortress, more a bouncy castle: inviting, soft and easy to penetrate. It’s now very obvious that those early season horror shows against West Brom and Norwich weren’t just bad days at the office. They...
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The Lesser of Two Evils
As Spurs fans, we’re used to being happy when a manager leaves – invariably because they’ve made a mess of it. We find reassurance in the change, comfort in the instability, pleasure in the knowledge that whatever’s gone wrong has now been stricken from...