We're great when we're winning. Opponents are forced to push forward, and we duly pick them off on the break, with the clinical precision of a trained sniper (until Keane starts stumbling over his own feet). We have the players, including those on the fringes of the squad, to counter with pace and inventiveness, on top of which it makes for a cracking spectacle.

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If you enjoy those 15 half-time minutes when the subs come trotting out and half-heartedly ping the ball around, you'll love tonight. Pav, Bentley, Hutton and Bale are all in line to start, as ‘Arry rings the changes with half an eye (in a manner of speaking) on Saturday's game.

League or Cups?

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Redknapp may well happily take Steve Bruce's money.

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Sunderland manager Steve Bruce is "compiling a dossier" on Alan Hutton and is "sending his spies" to keep tabs on the Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland right-back.

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Oh Spurs. You do warm the cockles of my heart on these blustery Autumnal nights. I love these little PR stunts. You know, the happy, smiley, 'look-at-us-we're-all-friends' gems that pop up on the official website from time to time.
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Well truth be told I've found this all a little unsettling so far. Top of the league, three wins in three - and looking good value for it too. This is not the Tottenham I grew up with. The Tottenham I know and love would consistently let me down. Capitulate from positions of seeming invulnerability.

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A win against a top-four team; a win away in a potential banana-skin of a game against relegation fodder; now a London derby - one way or another we are certainly having our credentials rigorously tested in these early days.

I desperately hope we win tomorrow. This has nothing to do with the whole issue of enmity with West Ham - as I have previously confessed, I am neither here nor there on that issue.

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Well first up I think it's only right to indulge in a moment of smugness from this lofty perch atop the country's pile. While I don't think any of us are daft enough to make fanciful predictions after four days of the season, the cockerel is crowing, and the morning-after smugness in the office has proved particularly gratifying.

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It's been a pleasant few days, as we've all had ample opportunity to bask in the warm afterglow of the well-deserved win over Liverpool. It has also been pleasing to note that, despite this, a healthy sense of perspective has been retained. Most reasonable souls have avoided the temptation to conclude from the win against a top-four team that we're just about nailed on for the title.

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Goodbye Lescott?

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Everton boss David Moyes is making a £12 million double raid for Tottenham bad boy David Bentley and Scottish international team-mate Alan Hutton.

The Goodison club have opened talks with Spurs for the available pair and could get their men if they increase the offer before the window shuts at the end of the month.

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Looks like it's happening for Spurs and Bassong.� Here are a few quick thoughts.�
1) Nice move for Spurs as they need a young, healthy, high quality centre back with upside.�
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The Wembley Cup came to an end yesterday and Tony Mowbray's Celtic side won the tournament after a fairly straightforward victory over Spurs. Two noteworthy asides. Great goal by Georgios Samaras and the repeated booing of Alan Hutton for being a former Rangers man.

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So, our first signings of the summer are announced – and rather curiously they are more full-backs. The trendily-named Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker – 20 and 19 respectively – may sound like characters from Starship Troopers, but they are now lilywhites, plucked from Sheff Utd for anywhere between 5 and 10 mil, depending on which website you trust.

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So, our first signings of the summer are announced – and rather curiously they are more full-backs. The trendily-named Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker – 20 and 19 respectively – may sound like characters from Starship Troopers, but they are now lilywhites, plucked from Sheff Utd for anywhere between 5 and 10 mil, depending on which website you trust.

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So, our first signings of the summer are announced – and rather curiously they are more full-backs. The trendily-named Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker – 20 and 19 respectively – may sound like characters from Starship Troopers, but they are now lilywhites, plucked from Sheff Utd for anywhere between 5 and 10 mil, depending on which website you trust.

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Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill has had to fend off approaches for some of his own stars from last season, but the Villans are now starting to pursue some of their own targets. Villa is lining up a £15 million bid for Tottenham's Jermaine Jenas and Alan Hutton in a bid to replace departed midfielder Gareth Barry.

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Suffering withdrawal? Desperately seeking an unnecessarily nail-biting one-nil win? Confused by the absence of someone at whom to scream "F*ck sake Jenas"? Then knock yourself out with the All Action No Plot Awards, and re-live Tottenham Hotspur, season 2008-09

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Step forward Heurelho Gomes.

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Eighth is looking likeliest, which I think we'd all have accepted after Two Points Eight Games™. While AANP� could not be bothered� to work out exactly how well we've done this calendar year, I'd expect Spurs would be somewhere near the top of any table based solely on 2009 form. Home form all season has been spot-on, the record of only conceding ten goals in nineteen games mildly astonishing.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics, but a scoreline never spoke a truer word than Everton 0-0 Tottenham yesterday. We edged the first half, they edged the second half and neither ‘keeper had a serious save to make.

There were some interesting sub-plots though. ‘Arry Redknapp has developed a serious allergy to change of any form, either before or during games.

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One of these days, watching Tottenham will be the death of me. They'll score early and dominate, but then instead of scoring a second against submissive fatted calves bred specifically for the slaughter, they'll spend the final hour earnestly faffing. I shall chew my nails, squirm and curse; and then swear and kick people; and finally become so wound up by the faffing that my heart will pop and I'll keel over.

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It ought to be thoroughly lovely to be back in the swing of the Premiership, what with our blistering form and the carrot of a European place; but I have to confess that the prospect scares the bejesus out of me. It ought not be thus. On paper we're the form team in the Premiership. Performances [... Click to continue reading...

Well, we got there. And no more.To borrow a phrase, at the end of the day the result was what mattered. And we got it.Not without a scare. Not without a period of domination in the first half that we failed miserably to convert into a lead. And not without a period in the second half when a poor Icelandic side took the momentum. Click to continue reading...

Well, we got there. And no more.To borrow a phrase, at the end of the day the result was what mattered. And we got it.Not without a scare. Not without a period of domination in the first half that we failed miserably to convert into a lead. And not without a period in the second half when a poor Icelandic side took the momentum. Click to continue reading...

A virulent strain of man-flu left me stuck in AANP Towers, and unable to venture out in search of the curious GCSE Media project that is Setanta. 5Live and ITV highlights for me – the extended exposure to 5Live's Alan Green robbing me of much of the will to live – so my take on [...] Click to continue reading...

I was complaining earlier that there is currently a lull in newsworthy items to comment on. I was wrong. Found another three. Just like the buses, eh? Actually, make it four. Just thought of another one.br /br /strongspan style="font-size:130%;"Defoe/span/strong is on his way back to regaining full fitness, which will prove to be interesting with regards to how he'll fit into the team with Robbie Keane (captain) reclaiming his place as darling of the Lane. Click to continue reading...

1. We're going to need more free alcohol Bolton gave away 1,000 pints of pre-match beer to try and encourage some more vocal home support against Blackburn. Nice idea, but it takes more alcohol than that to make a drab goalless draw look entertaining. Unless one lucky fan got their hands on all one thousand pints [. Click to continue reading...

As my children are half Scottish, I have a family obligation to cheer for any team or sporting hero from Scotland. Trust me, it doesn't take up much of my time. Well done Chris Hoy for getting 3 golds in Beijing and go on, Andy Murray, take out Nadal in the semis of the US [...] Click to continue reading...

It's certainly been a busy summer at White Hart Lane this year as Juande Ramos begins to weed out the players he feels are holding Spurs back over the last few weeks and looks to bring in the kind of players he feels can bring more silverware Tottenham's way. With the exception of Robbie Keane, [...] Click to continue reading...

They say that what goes around comes around and this certainly appears to be the case with Chelsea. They are a team that have consistently been at loggerheads with referees throughout the season, bringing the game into disrepute on several occasions and showing no remorse after the event. How Avram Grant had the audacity to [. Click to continue reading...

It has only been weeks since Alan Hutton signed for Tottenham Hotspur from Rangers but he already has a silverware to boast of. In only his third appearance for Spurs, Hutton notched up the Carling Cup when Spurs beat Chelsea at Wembley last weekend and he is also in line to win the UEFA Cup with [.. Click to continue reading...

And it's all because Glasgow Rangers failed to beat Lyon in their final Champions League group match in December. The Daily Mail explains that the Scottish team's failure to reach the knockout stages of the above competition means that Alan Hutton cannot play for Tottenham in the UEFA Cup. A UEFA spokesman exclusively told Sportsmail online: [. Click to continue reading...

Benjani to Manchester City (very close at least)! Portsmouth's best forward move has made Harry Redknapp's life a living hell now, unless he's got transfers lined up today. Benjani's exit, Utaka and Kanu at the ANC, and Dave Nugent out with an injury leaves Portsmouth rather thin at the forward line. Click to continue reading...

One piece of transfer speculation has crash-landed and unfortunately it pertains to poor old Spurs. Their defence has been one of the worst in the Premier League this season and manager Jaunde Ramos is looking for a huge shake-up at the back. One of his plans this January was to sign highly-rated Rangers full-back Alan [. Click to continue reading...

Poor Alan Hutton. The highly-rated Glasgow Rangers defender has made it abundantly clear that he wants to stay in Scotland, only to find he'll be sold to Spurs regardless of his views. The Times report that Gers chairman Sir David Murray has met with the Scottish international to point out the various benefits of the [. Click to continue reading...

The January transfer window has swung open and not unexpectedly the Red Devils are once again the subject of plenty of speculation. Berbatov's name keeps on cropping up in reports linking him with a move to United. The latest stories centre on the Spurs manager hinting that it will cost the Reds over £30m to acquire the Bulgarian. Click to continue reading...