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        <description><![CDATA[Some people ask me whether I prefer playing attractive football or winning. I say I want both. I want to play attractive football to win matches. Some say doing both is impossible. But then the impossible dream is kind of what Tottenham Hotspur is about - and that's why we love them.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Patterns in the Snow]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[SanDRO…SanDRO…at least he’s warm and he ain’t in the snow]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Not a Repeat]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Evil Switch]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Jaws of Victory]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cold and Conflicts]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cottage Pie]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bale, Brown Trousers and Burger Sauce]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pride After the Fall]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lazzzzzzzzzzio]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Adebayor, there's the door]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[“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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[No Cushion, No Comfort]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Start of the Slide]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hijacked at Halloween]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[It's Never too Easy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Going in 2-0 up at half time without having to survive so much as a corner, let alone a shot in anger, we were slicing through the Saints with abandon. Lennon was dragging the full-back inside and releasing an untracked Walker time after time, while Defoe... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maribore]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Labouring]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Looking for the Performance]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Straining Relations]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Daring to do]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Plucking the Home Duck]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There was a horrible monkey on our backs going into the weekend, but we’ve (ahem) spanked him off now. Four home games in and we’ve got that win. But boy did it look unlikely. If that display against Norwich was one of the worst I’ve seen in about a decade,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Batten Down the Hatches]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Up, but not yet Running]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[At least whatever else happens, we’re not going to have two points after eight games. I’m not ashamed to admit that this nightmare scanario seemed like a little more than a remote possibility after the utter rubbish we put in against Norwich, but Sunday... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cheers Rafa]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why Rebuild when you can Refurbish?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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