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What seemed like a great idea suddenly didn’t seem so good. A rare opportunity to get to an away game and a £15 ticket, sounded rather splendid during the week. However, when my alarm clock went off at 7am on Sunday morning, the prospect of a four hour journey to Bolton seemed dreadful. I rolled out of bed, quickly got ready while my mate came over...
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Hands up all those who were not surprised at the goings on at today’s Leeds game. It really was a microcosm of the weird and wonderful way that Spurs have operated under good old ‘Arry. In no particular order: · Defoe misses a penalty----it is mystery why, in Keane’s absence, Defoe gets the responsibility of taking penalties. I am yet to see him take...
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Apparently we’ve got one of the best squads in the league. We’ve got a stronger bench than Arsenal’s according to Robbie Keane, although he looked a little foolish a few days after making that statement. To the casual observer, it looks strong as it has expensive internationals sitting on it. However, on closer inspection that is not the case. David...
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Much has been said over the past few years about the growing "nanny state" mentality of the government. Stupid rules that 10 or 20 years ago people would have laughed at if you'd told them. Things like kids having to wear "protective clothing" tp play conkers as it's dangerous. A church clock which has been wound manually since 1793 may have to be modified...
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Matchday Diary: Spurs vs Everton, Carling Cup I only told my lad he was going to White Hart Lane on the Tuesday morning so he wouldn’t get too excited. I’d taken advantage of the £5 for kids offer for that game, and managed to get a pair of tickets in Lower south stand block 25, row 18 I think. This was to be Luke’s third trip to see Spurs live, and...
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Some background information for ease of reading and understanding: 1) I moved from North London/Hertfordshire to the Gold Coast nearly 4 years ago. 2) I had never met a Stoke fan whilst living in London. 3) A good friend of mine over here is a Stoke fan, not your average, thick northern monkey Stoke fan but a proper old school Naughty 40 Stoke fan....
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There was a time when I regarded Portsmouth to be the luckiest team in English football. Through a tiny piece of geographical chance, the fates had decided that never would they lose a player for daring to jump within a yard of another, or for having the temerity to make a fair and clean tackle on one of the Premiership's known divers. Those times now...
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The title is to be taken literally, Robbie Keane was not wanted back and most of those that did want him back have quickly abandoned him. Robbie Keane has become the new Jermaine Jenas, a naming that should bring chills down the spine of ANY footballer. With that chalice will come the most intense scrutiny and vilification a footballer can experience,...
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Being a 5.30pm kick off it meant I got more time to sleep of the hangover, meaning when I did actually wake up I wasn’t feeling too bad. The sun was also out and I had a feeling it was going to be a good day. I wasn’t going with the usual crowd as two of them had to work due to the England v Australia odi at Lord’s, so two mates had their tickets. There...
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What a shame the media frenzy that ensued in the wake of the witch hunt and subsequent convictions of a 42 yr old long-standing Spurs season ticket holder Ian Trow and his 14 yr old son hasn't extended to reflect this conviction being quashed....
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Redknapp’s Loyalty vs. The Fans From the stands you can say what you want about a team; only you know what kind of fan you are. Just be willing to give a shade of support if someone has shown qualities that deserve your following….and make no mistake, Redknapp HAS earned this. From a stand point that had most fans calling for the sale of over half the...
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God I'm hungover. So hungover. Thursday nights out are a killer. But it was worth it. Why? Because I went to Faces . I'd never been before, but I'd seen Ledley on the front page of the Metro falling out the front door so many times, I felt like a regular. Needless to say it was a good night, and thankfully I didn't bump into Aaron and T Hudd breakdancing...
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There are nights in a team's evolution when all come together as one to play with a purpose and drive that signals their intent to the world. This was one of those nights. England were rampant - tearing the Croatian defence apart with ease, sniffing out every Croatian attack before it had even got started, chasing the ball across every blade of grass...
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So according to the media, tonight's international between England and Croatia is pretty much Spurs v Spurs. Defoe and Lennon are the darlings of the media (and Beckham now finished.... again) while Bilic has been crying into his bean stew over the loss of Modric and Corluka. And then there's Kranjcar and his new role as the creator of Croatia in Luka's...
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Football's a funny old game, torn between the riches and fame of the modern era and the values and traditions of its long history. "Don't dive" they tell us, "it's bad sportsmanship". Fair enough. "No manager will admit it" they say, "but you do everything you can to win". Say what? As football has evolved into a multi-billion pound industry, with it...
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I'm not sure quite what Defoe has to do to start for England. 8 goals in 12 appearances under Capello, and 7 in 6 starts this season for club and country, are apparently not enough to force the prolific Emile Heskey out of the starting XI. If Capello picks Heskey to start against Croatia on Wednesday, I'll rip out my fingernails with a pair of tweezers....
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International break is always pretty dull. Normally a few Spurs players get called up and play a bit part in a boring England friendly. One of them usually comes back with an injury. The squad gets together a day before our next league game. We usually lose. It's a total waste of time really. And it's not like we didn't have one a month ago, just three...
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Morning Yiddos It always feels a bit strange at this time of year. The transfer window shuts, the ITK rumours cease, PL football is off the calendar for two weeks... it's almost as if I've been on a 48 hour bender and now I'm suffering from a massive Monday morning comedown. There's an emptiness inside which no amount of friendlies against Slovenia...
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I feel tired this morning. I was out at Gaucho last night and I drank too much red wine. I didn't sleep well. And the transfer window knocked the fucking stuffing out of me. I don't know why I bother getting so worked up over what inevitably ends as a damp squib. I suppose it's some sort of self-masichism, another form of pain that comes with supporting...
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Deadline day fellow yiddos and it looks like it's going to be another busy day for Levy - It never rains but it pours. As the BBC blog says, "Thank heavens for Tottenham...", I honestly don't know what Andy Burton (CAD) would do without us. There's been plenty of bullshit flying the cyberweb the past 24 hours, but it seems one of the rumours has legs....
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My day began at 750 with the sound of my alarm. I awoke rather bleary eyed and ears still ringing from the night before. My favourite DJ - Markus Schulz had made a last minute appearance in Newcastle so I couldn't resist the temptation of heading out to see him which meant I didn't get in until after 3. After staggering into the shower I quickly made...
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Bank Holiday Monday brings a welcome respite from work and one final fling on the transfer merry-go-round before we shut up shop, batten down the hatches and realise we've just sold half our squad to Man Utd without any replacements. At all. Apart from that 18-year old they gave us on loan. How kind of them. So it's with sodden brow, clammy hands and...
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I dont really know what it is about a 3pm kick-off on a Saturday afternoon, maybe it's the traditionalist in me, but it always feels that bit more special than the Sky-governed Sunday games. Todays trip down the M6 and M1 was going to be a touch more enjoyable. Of course we were top of the League at the time, that helps, but this afternoon our hometown...
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It all seemed to be going so well. 12pts from 4 games, 100% record in all competitions, Lennon in the form of his life and Arsene Wenger throwing a tantrum. But then Lee fucking Bowyer, who else, had to come along and deck our Croatian maestro. And while it wasn't intentional, or even that bad a tackle, it still makes me stand up and shout "Bowyer you're...
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Tomorrow brings a challenge of a different type. Up until now, each game has represented a challenge. Liverpool at home, Lawro the cad predicted a draw. Hull away, most of us expected a tough game. West Ham away, well it’s their cup final isn’t it? But Birmingham at home is supposed to be one of the easy ones, a 3 pointer, one of those enjoyable Saturday...
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