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By cockerel downunder Well, the Spurs are about to go marching in... excitement’s building, travelling fans planning their journeys, the manager finalising his team selection, the big premier league kick off is only one day away. And yet... this feels like an odd time to be previewing the season, and reviewing the summer. With the small matter of our...
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I’ve previously made my admiration for D. Berbatov clear. I have been less enamored by our other star forwards, R. Keane and J. Defoe—they are both good players but not great (in the same way that D. Beckham is a good player). However, losing all three strikers without replacement, leaving only the yet to be proven in a white shirt D. Bent, can only...
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The problem is that if you want to follow YOUR team you have to renew. OK, in real money terms £3 a match is not major. Don’t buy a program next season and it’ll cost you no different per match. But as a percentage is STEEP! 10% on average the survey in today’s paper reckons!! Problem is season tickets for Spurs are Dead Men's shoes.............
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…….and what a very special rat he is. He was born Adel Taarabt in Berre L’Etang in France on the 24 th of may 1989, of Moroccan descent but now playing for his adopted home nation of France, he follows a path taken by other players of African origin that play for the great football nation across the channel. He has represented France in four consecutive...
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After the Cup Final win against Chelsea, while celebrations were ongoing, it was clear that the Spurs supremo had the future on his mind. In a speech to the assembled gathering, he told the players that they should not be getting big headed. After all, he told them, they hadn’t won anything yet. This wasn’t a linguistic mix-up. The coach meant it alright,...
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Well thank you very much KLM!! Arrived at Heathrow airport on Wednesday to catch my 11.50 flight only to get to security and be told the flight was cancelled and we were being bumped to the 14.50 flight. "OK" I thought "tight but should still make the match." Well 14.20 comes around and and check which gate we're boarding at and find we're delayed another...
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Dear Mr Levy A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to be able to spend a few minutes asking you some questions on the telephone after the EGM. One of these was about the ground share rumours that you, as a club/company, were considering sharing West Ham's ground should you decide to rebuild White Hart Lane stadium. Your reply was it was an option...
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Silly season is (almost) over - the transfer window, barring the freak situation with Benjani is closed for business and the rest of the season will be a rumour free easy ride (yeah right!). For Spurs, this was one of the busier January windows since the system was put in place. Indeed when you total up all player moves, Spurs were involved in 8 player...
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I’ve seen many questions asked about the rules of qualification to the European Cups, on this, and on other forums. There seems to be a lot of assumptions and uncertainty in people’s knowledge about the subject so I thought I’d write a short résumé to clear things up. Here it goes… All countries and teams in Europe are ranked in what is called the UEFA...
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You know its been one hell of a night when you wake up the following morning with a huge smile on your face, a smile that doesnt go away for the rest of the day and gets even bigger when you see certain people, certain people who have been able to give you dogs abuse for the previous 8 years. Tuesday the 22nd of January will be forever etched in Spurs...
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Its been duly noted by the new top brass at White Hart Lane that the lost art of defending is at the present time exactly that - lost. As so succinctly put by Gus Poyet after the Aston Villa game, enough is enough. This would appear to spell the end for some if not all of the current Spurs backline. First in the firing line appears to be Pascal Chimbonda....
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As a fan, there will always be certain players that stir strong emotions, either positive or negative. John Pratt was always the player that I couldn’t stand as a kid. My recollection, which may be apocryphal, is of one particular gem; Pratt’s fifty yard back pass that let an Arsenal player in on goal. Pratt could do no right in my eyes, even though...
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Now, I am just going to be writing up a few lines on this fixture. Aalborg (or Aa lborg B oldspilklub as the clubs full name is) come from northern Denmark and is a city with proud footballing traditions (by Danish standards and compared to the city size. They have in fact done something Spurs never have, and that is qualifying for the CL, where they...
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Well I have to say I was surprised at the message left on my voicemail this lunchtime. "Hi this is *** from Spurs press office. Daniel's offering to answer questions from a couple of the fan sites and I wondered whether you'd like to arrange a time to talk to him?" Hmmm, that's a toughie! HELL YEAH!!! I've been talking to a couple of people at the Lane...
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Sunday's game at White Hart Lane was, it appears, one of the hardest to watch live (outside the ground) ever. Indeed scouring websites and tv listings, I was reduced to watching the brief, brief, brief highlights on Match Of the Day. So then we're four games into the Ramos era. I read over the weekend and today also that some people - journalists and...
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Ground share. What’s your preference? With the rumours flying around that Spurs are finally about to redevelop The Lane which would mean us playing elsewhere for 2 seasons there have been rumours in the papers of where we’d play in the mean time. Wembley has apparently tried to charge us too much money (no surprise there when a hotdog is nearly £7)...
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It’s said that even the worst of humanity is of some use: to stand as exemplars for the rest of us. By this measure, the methodology behind the firing of Martin Jol stands as a fine example of how to lose friends and antagonize supporters. The only people to benefit from this fiasco have been the press (what would they write about without us?), our...
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The public face of Tottenham Hotspur, oft tarnished by rumour and accusation, took another broadside last night. Martin Jol, the alleged "dead man walking", finally was served his last rites. Sadly its unlikely to be the last recrimination in this saga, as the impending appointment of Juande Ramos, while based on good footballing merit, is steeped in...
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Like most people I like to think I stay abreast of current affairs. Catch the news on TV most days and read the daily papers whilst stuck on the tube. But if I'm honest I don't really pay much attention and generally start reading the papers from the sports pages forwards. I don't, as a rule, resort to going on to Government websites to find out what...
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Spurs have a season ticket waiting list and sell out virtually every home game and yet for our first home UEFA Cup group game we have thousands of empty seats. We don't want to start looking like Boro or Bolton with half an empty stadium for a European match do we? How much do we laugh about "pitiful support" when Chelsea and Fulham have to advertise...
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Tottenham Hotspur travel to take on Newcastle United on Monday night, as a Newcastle United supporter and a regular on this site I offered to write a piece about the game, nw7 yid put the questions to me about the upcoming game. How has your season been going so far? So far it has been a very stop start season, we’ve only played 10 games and are already...
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Having left the Aston Villa game early on Monday night because I hadn’t packed and therefore missed our 3 goal fight back, made even worse by the fact I listened to the remainder of the game on the radio whilst sitting on the train to Liverpool Street I was looking forward to my trip out to Cyprus all the more. I still didn’t have a ticket but a friend’s...
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Before the season started many thought this was the year Tottenham really made a stand for “The Rest” of the premier league and more importantly, where Tottenham displaced one of the top four powerhouses. The flaw in that assumption was a very simple one and the most obvious to see, it stems from an idea that seems to be as old as God Himself, which...
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It has taken a few weeks to get the North London derby out of my system. Rumours that I was incarcerated after the game are false, although my father’s arrival just as his team took the lead (see earlier blog) was particularly bad timing. Nonetheless, I have rationalised that game. We were beaten by a better team on the day. There, I’ve said it. The...
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In an earlier entry to this blog, I let slip that I have been supporting Spurs for forty odd years despite the fact that my father is a fan of that other North London team. One respondent queried how my allegiance ended up at variance to my paternal influence and I promised to provide an account. Ultimately, I see parallels to Harry Potter who could...
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