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The transfer window closes on February 1st, 2010 and rumours are totally doing the rounds. While some rumours like the Ruud Van Nistelrooy move and the high profile Wayne Rooney transfer to Real Madrid have been put to rest, there have been newer ones. The Spurs already seem set to lose David Bentley and Jamie O [.

By Ollie Irish

Updating a popular list we first published back in March 2007...

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#20 David Bentley - Cocky son of a gun, could use a firm tap on the jaw

Photos: PA

NB. This is an entirely subjective list, which no doubt many of you will quibble with.

Tottenham's Jermaine Defoe has spoke out about the fact that Joe Cole could be leaving Chelsea this summer. Like all Chelsea fans he finds it hard to believe.
He said:
"I can't believe Joe Cole could be leaving Chelsea. He will be out of contract in the summer if he doesn't sign a new deal and Chelsea would lose a magnificent player.

It was just like old times, those sepia-tinged, heady days of late-summer 2009, when rubbish teams would traipse up to the Lane and be promptly destroyed, with our heroes requiring nothing beyond second gear. From the outset the only worry last night was that we might fail to turn domination into goals, but merrily this was not to be one of those wretched occasions.

Quite a week for Gareth Bale, now universally regarded as being up there alongside Pele, sliced bread, the wheel and opposable thumbs on the list of The Best Things Anyone Has Ever Seen Anywhere, Ever. Unfortunately, and I suppose inevitably, one publication has gone completely overboard in their praise of the chap, the Daily Telegraph going to the ludicrous extent of describing Bale as "photogenic".

In between various planes and trains back from Morocco I managed to catch yesterday's goings-on at Elland Road, and jolly heartening they were too. One of my brothers, for whom the rigours of parenthood mean that Spurs-watching is less frequently indulged in these days, texted afterwards to note that, as the first full Spurs game he has seen in around a year, he was pleasantly surprised by our performance.

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It rains all the time in North London. Not just some of the time. All of the fugging time.

Heroically, Tottenham Hotspur FC have turned the inadequacies of the British weather to their advantage and appear to thrive on excessive moisture. We were initially alerted to this when the squad undertook some rather interesting ‘bonding' activities in the off season, but last weekend they took it up a notch by refusing to allow a torrential downpour to dampen their bubba parade.

I think we can all agree that Jack Wilshere is the most exciting young talent for English football. The ‘Next Generation' (as if they are robots the latest update from apple the iball) of English footballers are being criticised, praised and scrutinised since the World Cup, Jack is one of the players leading the way for the youth across the country but the FA need to get this right.

Are you becoming frustrated, stampy and/or stabby trying to navigate the wasteland of blatantly fake footballer accounts and semi-convincing fake footballer handles on Twitter?

Never fear, Jermaine Jenas is here to help.

No, really. After seeing all the fakers out there, homeboy's stepping up as a beacon of social media clarity.

Despite the number of names that were tipped to leave Tottenham during this transfer window, things have been very quiet. It certainly doesn't look like we'll sell more than one player at most, so yesterday I set up a poll to determine who you would most like to see leave.

One of my motivations was to test the water regarding the popularity of Robbie Keane.

Team selection was never really an issue when we were banging them in left, right and centre and the side picked itself, but times are a-changing. While annus horribilis is probably a bit strong, our form since the turn of the year has been worrying, reflected not only by poor results and sloppy performances but now scrutiny of the line-up.

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Can the real Liverpool team please stand up? A week after beating Spurs 2-0 at home and looking once again like contenders for that 4th Champions League spot, Liverpool traveled to Wolves and could only manage a 0-0 draw.

Even with captain Steven Gerrard back in the line-up, Liverpool lacked that cutting edge in front of goal, something that Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez alluded to in his post-match press conference.

At the start of the season, an away trip to newly promoted Birmingham City would be viewed as no great challenge, but the form of Alex McLeish's team means that they must be treated as a very serious threat.

Their midweek defeat to Chelsea brought an end to an unbeaten run stretching back 15 games.

Really not sure how to call this one. Back in August I would have pencilled in Birmingham away as a solid point and a good chance for all three, but it's a different kettle of fish here in January 2010. Our win over Fulham was bizarrely comfortable, but hardly suggested that the Tottenham juggernaut is revved up to full throttle, ready to blitz aside all-comers.

You think a 29 year old man would understand the ramification of cheating on his wife Toni Terry with Wayne Bridge's ex-girlfriend, Vanessa Perroncel. Not John Terry, he has always been a bad-boy. From mocking the 9/11 victims or publicly urinating, Terry has no regard for the rules. He parks his Bentley wherever he wants and has sex with whomever he wants.

While David Bentley has done pretty well in recent games, I don't think that there's many Spurs supporters who wouldn't want Aaron Lennon back in the team, as soon as he's fit.

This could be as soon as our next league game against Wigan. Although it will be hard on Bentley, it will certainly be for the good of the team.

AANP did a Landon Donovan on Sunday and missed the entire ruddy thing altogether. If you want a blow-by-blow, warts-and-all account of Sunday's magnificence you may be disappointed, as I was keeping tabs on big Martin Jol (blessed be his name) - a not entirely salubrious stag weekend culminating in a trip to the Amsterdam ArenA on Sunday lunchtime, to watch Ajax vs Utrecht (4-0, lest ye be wondering).

"He got a bit homesick for Glasgow - which is a bit strange considering he's a Bulgarian."
Martin O'Neill discusses Stiliyan Petrov's bedding-in period at Aston Villa when he arrived from Celtic in 2006.

"International football is no longer the pinnacle for players. The pinnacle of a career, for many of the top footballers now, is getting the big contract, the Bentley and the blonde.

Earlier this week I posed the question as to whether we thought that Tom Huddlestone would make the England World Cup squad. A resounding 73% of Spurs fans unbiased voters, think that the big man will be on the plane to South Africa. I wonder if Fabio agrees?

What's more important of course, is that Huddlestone returns to fitness and gets back in the Spurs team.

While Spurs were playing two players out of position in central midfield against Stoke, in an effort to make sure that Wilson Palacios didn't get another booking and leave us even shorter staffed in this area, a potential solution to our problems was busy down in Portsmouth.

For all those people who always say that Jamie O'Hara isn't up to playing for Spurs, I offer you this.

Massive game. Win this and we all get a day trip to Wembley, with hopefully another one to follow. To be honest I'd rather the semi was played at the Emirates, if only to prove that it isn't impossible to generate an atmosphere in that stadium, but you should never sniff at the opportunity to watch your team play at the national stadium.

"Then like our dreams, they..." oh, wrong club. So near. So far.

The first half was more or less excellent, Duff leading the team towards Wembley by his overpowering excellence. We scored after he jinked inside, slipped a lovely ball through to Zamora, and our enigmatic centre-forward slotted low past Gomes' right hand to make it 1-0.

Whoever came up with the idea of football matches being split into two halves with a break in the middle, is an absolute genius. Without that man, there would have been no words of dressing room wisdom from Harry and no half-time substitutions to change the game.

We arrived for the first half expecting something special, but got nothing but a limp display from Tottenham and the disappointment of going 1-0 down to a well taken Bobby Zamora goal.

Well we had better get cracking with the inquest then. The slew of instant reactions I have overheard in the couple of hours since meltdown have included "Sack Harry"; "Sell Crouch"; "Recall Keane"; and even "Get Jenas back in the team". Okay, I made up that last one, but some of the opinions ventured do seem possibly to have been delivered a tad hastily.

Danny Rose's goal was good, but exactly how good was it compared to the other best strikes against our North London rivals?

I've set up a poll for you to vote for the best goal scored by a Tottenham player against The Scum. They're all quite recent efforts, because I wanted all the contenders to have some corresponding YouTube action, so don't start complaining that I've missed out Bert Bliss' effort from 1915 or whatnot.

Tempus doesn't half fugit when things are going swimmingly. It barely seem five minutes ago that we pitched up to the Lane for the first time this season, to offer Steven Gerrard some legal advice ("Self-defence, you're having a laugh") and salute BAE's frankly mental long-range effort.

Rafa Benitez ready to offer Yossi Benayoun to lure White Hart Lane man to Anfield.

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Liverpool are considering a shock move for Tottenham misfit David Bentley this summer. Rafa Benitez is looking to bring in some bargains as he tries to add more creativity to his midfield using a shoestring budget and has identified the White Hart Lane man as a suitable target.

Something for your withdrawal symptoms if, like yours truly, you have such a Tottenham-shaped hole in your life that you now spend the first half hour of your working day actually working, rather than trawling the interweb for morsels of Spurs news. Before season 2009/10 becomes but a sepia-tinged memory sending good vibrations through your very core, it is only right and proper that the second AANP End of Season Awards are dished out.

Sure, we think "Keisuke Bentley" also has a nice ring to it, but we can deal. The cute Japanese star striker (and peroxide lover) is about to do his thing against Paraguay for a place in the Quarter Finals. Good luck to both sides!

By Ollie Irish

Rumour of the day: Tottenham want Villa winger Ashley Young good young player, no doubt and will offer David Bentley, Robbie Keane and Jermaine Jenas in return. Classic Redknapp, always looking for a Del Boy deal.

Wenger has never been right.. has he? (note to the simpletons: tongue is firmly in my cheek here)

When he helped guide our beloved club to doubles, season's unbeaten, cups galore... the issue was "too many foreigners" or "Wenger is killing England"... etc (you know the guff, some of you so-called goons even participated in such guff talk)

We now see every successful team in Europe, full to the brim with overseas players, Inter Milan won the treble last year with maybe a pair of Italians in the starting eleven at most, the large majority of the time, they played eleven "foreigners"

Was Mourinho labelled a killer?

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has admitted that there were many positives to come out of his side's crushing 4-1 defeat against Arsenal on Tuesday. The manager insists that it was an excellent chance to give new signing Sandro his debut, and it also allowed fringe players such as David Bentley a chance to get some playing time.

Micah Richards at the September premiere of Blue Moon Rising in Manchester, England. Image: Nick Pickles/Getty Images.

"I don't think there are any with £10,000 watches, I think that was a bit extreme. But it's become part of football nowadays. Everybody likes a nice house and a nice car and nice things.

With the season entering November, David Bentley has had just one Carling Cup appearance in which to persuade Harry Redknapp he's worth a place in the Spurs first team. Bentley can't afford to have another season playing reserve team football and if things don't improve on the field, maybe our midfielder will be on his way out of White Hart Lane in January.

What a night it was!
The 100th Episode of Winning Ugly, the first time we've broadcasted the show live, was a huge success!
Thanks to everyone who participated, interacted and listened and a special thanks to Sarah Wilson, Brian Bentley, Jared DuBois, Hank Alexandre and Ted Meyer for being on the air with us.

A penny for ‘Arry's thoughts, ahead of the Third Round of the Cup. Not the predictable dross with which he closes his little team-news spiel on the club's official website – "Hopefully we'll turn in another terrific performance" – but rather his sentiments regarding a successful Cup run and, say, a Quarter-Final replay, or Semi-Final date in April, adding a spot of fixture congestion at a time when we, presumably, will be making a final push for the top four.

New rumour has one-time English international David Bentley heading to Spain in a loan move away from White Hart Lane.