With the international breaks at an end for a fair few months now, Tottenham have an opportunity to lock their collective mind on continuing their impressive progress in the Premier League. Wigan visit the Lane tomorrow afternoon and as enigmatic as the visitors appear to be at times, Spurs' slick passing should be more than a match for them and provided the strikers can locate their specially made shooting boots, there could be goals in the offing. Click to continue reading...

Thierry Henry. A contentious and topical subject if ever there was one.
Whilst the footballing world today recoils in disgust at the actions of the France captain, there are plenty of misguided Arsenal fans who will be lightning quick to shout you down if you dare as to utter a derogatory comment. Click to continue reading...

Apologies about the lack of posting recently. I've slipped into an euphoria-induced coma at the sight of Tom Huddlestone and Peter Crouch both coming on for England in Doha on Saturday. The prognosis? I'll be okay in the long run but Jermaine Jenas definitely won't go to the World Cup.
I promise normal service will be resumed shortly, once the deluge of Uni work is eased a little bit. Click to continue reading...

Before the Arsenal-Tottenham game:
Tabloid hack 1: Oi... you heard about this?
Tabloid hack 2: What's that?
1: Robbie Keane. The fool. He's only gone and said that Spurs are better than Arsenal and will definitely take their top four spot this season, hasn't he? Click to continue reading...

That could have gone better. But I'll stand by my previous comments; Arsenal fans are generally morons.
Essentially, we did badly. We did very badly indeed. But up until about 40 minutes in, it was looking like a very close gig. We were defending both in numbers and extremely competently. Apart from one or two hairy moments, Ledley King and Seb Bassong were doing a more than adequate job. Click to continue reading...

I'll keep this very brief.
I don't care what they've achieved recently or in the past. I don't care how much better they are than us. I don't care how big their stadium is or how illustrious their manager is. I don't care what players they've got or whether their better than ours or not.
The truth is they're a bunch of cheating, arrogant, whining Frenchmen and no matter the score today or any other day, we will always, always be the pride of North London. Click to continue reading...

As an ardent Tottenham fan and journalistic pretender, a piece on The Telegraph's website today wrangled with me for numerous reasons.
As part of the 'Daily Bung' segment, writer Mike Norrish (on evidence of this, a Spurs-hating, subjective fool) has spewed out the most ridiculous and contradictory piece on why Tottenham will probably lose the North London Derby on Saturday. Click to continue reading...

Some fantastic images of the new stadium put out in the last few days. Also announced was the inclusion of a single tier stand to rival the Kop at Anfield as Tottenham attempt to create one of 'the best atmospheric stadiums in Europe'.
The proposed moving dates have also been released to the public with Daniel Levy stating that Spurs will be playing in the their new, as yet unnamed, stadium by 2012. Click to continue reading...

Ah. Didn't see that one coming at all. Batter a team and lose to a late goal? How typically Tottenham.
Now that I've had a day to stew over it, the effect's of yesterday's cruel defeat to Stoke are now in plain sight. We hammered them for 80 odd minutes and achieved absolutely nothing. And one defensive slip cost us. Click to continue reading...

Stoke at the Lane today and, if I'm being frank, we should batter 'em. And that's with all due respect to Tony Pulis and his side of muscled brick houses. Anything less than three points is calamity.
Jonathan Woodgate could be in line for a first start of the season but one suspects Harry Redknapp may choose to blood him back into the side in the Carling Cup clash with Everton rather than today. Click to continue reading...

Excellent article in today's Times. Oliver Kay discusses the narrowing of the gap between the supposed 'big four' and the nearest challengers. Applying a social class structure to teams in the Premier League, he opines that the so called 'middle class' (Tottenham, Manchester City, Aston Villa, etc) are becoming more and more of a genuine threat to the domestic supremacy of the 'aristocrats' (Manchester United, Chelsea, etc). Click to continue reading...

If the draw at Bolton a few weeks back was a game the Tottenham of old would have certainly lost, then today's hard fought 2-1 win down at Portsmouth was definitely in the same bracket. Ahead through a well placed header from Ledley King and a marvellously worked goal from Jermain Defoe, Spurs then contrived to find themselves under overwhelming pressure for much of the second half. Click to continue reading...

So there was no vociferous reception for Harry Redknapp from the home fans. For all the exaggerated talk and empty threats, the ex-Portsmouth boss was afforded a mild welcome from the South Coast faithful and Tottenham grabbed a battling 2-1 win. I'll discuss the game later on but, for now, Redknapp deserves a smattering of good words for his conduct. Click to continue reading...

Ledley King is rumoured to be extremely likely to play at Portsmouth tomorrow after his prolonged absence from the starting XI. This is, obviously, great news - if I see Tom Huddlestone lining up at centre back one more time, I'll have a coronary.
But the other bit of defensive comeback news that we should all be throwing our proverbial hats in the air for is that Jonathan Woodgate has resumed full training again and is thought to be inching closer to a first start of the season. Click to continue reading...

Peter Crouch, for all his sins, made the strongest case possible to be included in the England squad for the World Cup in South Africa next summer. And, despite his two goals and general dominant display, it wasn't enough to stop ITV and Steve Bruce's love-in with David Beckham. The decision to award Goldenballs with the man of the match award was more like handing Osama Bin Laden the Nobel Peace Prize, rather than Fabio Capello's particular analogy. Click to continue reading...