There's never a Bulldog handy when you need one.All on the beach in Monaco I expect. The JimmyG2 Column And MOM ( Mammal of the Match) goes to .....the cat. Good movement, ran the channel well, certainly had an eye for goal, and flummoxed Friedel twice in the space of 20 seconds which is more than Liverpool did.

Spurs played for a scoreless draw, Spurs got their scoreless draw.
While Liverpool's attackers could and should have done more, Tottenham's defending merited the scoreless draw. King and Dawson were outstanding, with Parker almost as important. After a paucity of clear cut chances for both sides, each could have scored the winner in the last five minutes, with Friedel and Reina making huge saves on Bale and Suarez.

'You can't always get what you want.But if you try sometimes.. you get what you need.' Harry has sought advice from Mick Jagger to soothe the ruffled feathers of Spurs fans pining for 'Marquee' signings. The words above proved prophetic when Gallas came in and more recently with the arrival of Friedel and Parker which made even this Spurs diehard eat his words.

Wednesday:

• Tim Bolton

Wheater: No Rafa...

Reports say that Tim Bolton deal is etched.

Ream will battle former Middlesborough phenom David Wheater for playing time at Bolton with Wheater getting the first call obviously to replace The Overrated Gary Cahill.

So the Premier League season is finally here, it's Tottenham Hotspur's opening game versus Everton..........

That's how the preview for this one should have started, but the unfortunate and unseemly rioting of early August put paid to Spurs opening fixture. Now this is the game in hand it's vital that Spurs get maximum points if they want to be taken seriously as title challengers.

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JimmyG2? Blimey even 'is own muvver wouldn't recognise him. The JimmyG2 column Now as you regular readers know I am usually a glass half empty kind of guy in the wonderful dreamscape that is Hotspurland though not generally outside in actual real life. Over the years I have learn't to find reasons to be cheerful but have been quick to wake up in the cold light of the day after the latest

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For the first time in many games, there are far more questions to deliberate ahead of predicting the starting XI for tonight's match.

As we all know, Aaron Lennon has been ruled out of this game while Gareth Bale remains a major doubt. There are question marks too over Ledley King, Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor.

What has two thumbs and couldn't be more desperate to leave?Hold tight comrades, this is the serious shit now. Rejuvenated Sunderland came to the Lane on Sunday with a cunning plan to further derail our campaign after the damage inflicted by Corporal Pulis' Stoke Taskforce the week before (ably assisted by rear gunner Foy, it must be said).

It wasn't pretty. On a cold December Sunday afternoon, Tottenham Hotspur saw off a resilient Sunderland to record a 1-0 victory and get back to winning ways in the Premier League.

Winning ugly is the sign of champions. Not getting carried away here, I'm not suggesting Spurs are going to win the title, there's a chance of it, but Manchester City are a scarily good outfit and their neighbours are impossible to write off.

The Sunderland fan on the train has low expectations but he's loyal and a long way from home on a cold Sunday afternoon. Spurs have more points, better players and better prospects but he has his devotion to his club, a precious commodity these days for any any fan as far as I'm concerned, so he expresses this in the time-honoured fashion: 'Where were you when you were s**t?

A nervy first half that saw Lennon removed with injury. With Modric drifting away from the left and VDV sure to drift away from the right, I was worried we'd have no width. We didn't, we missed it, but Pav gave us the lead and King, Gallas, Sandro and Friedel kept it for us.
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Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland, White Hart Lane, Sunday 18th December, 3pm Kick off

So on Thursday night Spurs European adventure for this season came to an end, despite a 4-0 win at Shamrock. The perceived wisdom is that this is a blessing in disguise and can leave Harry Redknapp and his team to concentrate on getting Spurs back into the Champions League.

The news just broke.

Liverpool here I come!

Landon Donovan going on loan to Everton this winter. Precisely what the Toffees need and frankly probably all they could afford. Everton are not awash in cash. There certainly not awash in goals.

The LA Galaxy announced on Thursday that Donovan will venture over to Everton on a two-month loan kicking off on on Jan.

You know what they are going to do. You don't like it and wouldn't play that way if it meant 80 points a season, but that's what they are going to throw at us and if we're not prepared, it's down to us.

I don't like it but I'm not going to go on about it because then I'll end up like Arsene Whinger, always complaining about injustices that his precious little angels have to face when they play those awful big boys from up north.

I sighed a little reading about the dust-up stirred up among fans when Brad Friedel made some remarks to the effect that Landon Donovan took "the easy road" by staying in Major League Soccer, as compared to Clint Dempsey, who plays in England for Fulham.
Friedel backtracked a bit by going on to explain his comments were not meant to disparage Landon or any other MLS player.

Harry Redknapp has a few injury concerns ahead of Sunday's game with Stoke but the extra day could give Ledley King, Jermain Defoe and Gareth Bale the time they need to get fit.

There is cover in place for King and JD but Harry will certainly be reluctant to take to the field without Bale, who is back to his best and scored both goals here in our 2-1 win last season.

THFC1882 presents Siva's guest report on yesterdays action:

Tottenham: Friedel; Walker, Kaboul, Gallas, Assou-Ekotto; Lennon (van der Vaart 72), Parker (Livermore 85), Modric, Bale; Defoe, Adebayor

Goals: Bale 7, Lennon 50, Defoe 61

Well that was easy.

The main question this weekend appears to be whether Rafael van der Vaart will return to the starting line up and reclaim his regular place behind the main striker.

According to manager Harry Redknapp, VDV is fit once again to challenge for his slot but there is a doubt over Sandro who has picked up a groin problem.

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The opening goal came from West Brom, we weren't quite awake when Assou Ekotto failed to close down Reid outside the area, the cross came into Mulumba who found himself unmarked in between King and Kaboul. The resulting header flew past Friedel and into the net. 1-0.
Great link up play between Adebayor and Lennon saw Aaron bust into the box, only to be clipped by Nicky Shorey, penalty Spurs.

Saturday 26th November 2011, 3pm Kick-off. The Hawthorns.

It's a rare Saturday 3pm Saturday kick off for Tottenham Hotspur this week. Not that the game time should faze Harry Redknapp's dazzling Spurs side, on the face of it, not much could or should at the moment.

Rafa clearly believed in the power of his groin a little too much"Pay your tax, my lord, pay your tax," the Aston Villa fans sang to Harry Redknapp, to the tune of 'Kumbaya', during the second half on Monday night. Within seconds, the home crowd replied in near unison with: "2-0 down, my lord, 2-0 down, oh you're 2-0 down.

The Aston Villa online forums are a darkened picture of despair at the upcoming match against us. Hutton is getting some abuse for being useless and the Villa fans reckon that if Bale can make Maicon look crap, Hutton is going to look worse than a Sunday leaguer. They reckon we should expect at least one penalty from Hutton gifted most likely against Bale.

THFC1882 present another guest blog. It's Rob again with his preview of Monday nights return to action

Monday 21st November 2011, White Hart Lane. 8pm Kick off Live on Sky Sports 1HD & 1

Another International break is over and we can get back to the important domestic business once again.

The total from this year's Spurs Poppy Shirt auction will be in excess of £40,000. Exceeding last years £38,000 total.
Listed below in order of the average final sale price, you can't really complain about the power of ebay bidding in deciding the order of our most popular players.
Parker, rightly at the top.

'The more I practice the luckier I get ' The JimmyG2 column For over 20 yrs from the mid fifties Fulham's Chairman was the comedian Tommy Trinder. He was President of the club until his death at 80yrs old in 1989. His catchphrase, 'You lucky people', could no doubt be heard resounding around the great Stadium in the Sky on Sunday night after his beloved team, though themselves no mugs on

That infernal Redknapp quote now has some significance worth shouting about. As we know, that sad Fulham puppy Martin Jol took us to two consecutive 5th place finishes. And were it not for a dodgy lasagne, it would have been fourth. Ramos was brought in and after 8 games, we lied broken at the bottom of the league with only 2 points.

That infernal Redknapp quote now has some significance worth shouting about. As we know, that sad Fulham puppy Martin Jol took us to two consecutive 5th place finishes. And were it not for a dodgy lasagne, it would have been fourth. Ramos was brought in and after 8 games, we lied broken at the bottom of the league with only 2 points.

VDV celebrates his first. That's 5 wins out of the last 6 now for us. A brilliant run by Kyle Walker down the right allowed him to get into the Rovers penalty area. He cut it back for Rafa to slot home from inside the area. 0-1.
Endless sloppy tackles and defenders climbing on Blackburn strikers resulting in endless free kicks.

Me neither. In fact, I'm not sure there is a soul alive who understands quite how we managed to toddle off from that with a win, but bearing in mind the perils that lurk within the mouths of gift-horses I suggest we stuff the three points under our jumpers and sneak off before anyone notices.

It might be an idea for Jake Livermore and Sebastien Bassong to bond over a Jason Statham DVD night or some other such bromantic activity, because last night neither seemed to be aware that the other was of the same species, let alone the same centre-back pairing.

A scrappy first half in which both teams seemed content to pass to the opposition for 45 minutes was interrupted when Livermore pressured and poked away at the dithering Cabaye, which sent Adebayor chasing then tumbling. Which left VDV to despatch the penalty. 0-1.
Modric easily skinned, the limping Walker unable to cut out the cross, defenders marking all the wrong people, Ba unchallenged.

Team selection for Sunday's match at Newcastle could go right to the eleventh hour with several key players remaining a doubt for the game.

The biggest question is over Emmanuel Adebayor who is rated 50/50 at best following the hamstring strain that he picked up in the win over Arsenal.

Harry Redknapp's been involved in football long enough to know that great opportunities are hard to come by. It's taken him many years to reach the level he has, so should he risk throwing it all away?

A look at previous England managers such as Eriksson, Keegan, Hoddle and McClaren proves that it's hard or even impossible to recover your reputation.

The North London Derby kicked off at White Hart Lane in the blistering heat, along with a rancorous atmosphere which commonly typifies this fixture every year. Throughout Arsene Wenger's reign, Arsenal always went into this match as the favorites, and for the first time the shoe was on the other foot, with Arsenal looking up at their hated neighbours and looking to go into the International break on something of a high.

By Dru Boyer Welcome back to your (nearly) weekly update on America's footy heroes abroad. This week saw Timmy Howard get paired with an American sidekick, Friedel chase out the competition, and the AmeriGers on fire. POTW honors go to the two-headed goal scoring monster of Carlos Bocanegra and Maurice Edu for their performance this [.

Spurs v Liverpool as it happened | Tom Lutz

Match pointers • Since taking over at Spurs, Harry Redknapp has overseen five wins from seven games in all competitions against Liverpool and in only one of those games has his side failed to score at least one • Jamie Carragher has scored the same number of Premier League goals for Liverpool in his career as he has own goals for Tottenham (three) • Tottenham have conceded as many goals (14) in their past six home matches as they did in the previous 25 at White Hart Lane • Liverpool have kept only one clean sheet in their past seven Premier League matches 12.

THFC1882′s Stuart Watts presents another guest appearance by Ciaran Griggs, previewing tomorrows match:

Spurs vs Liverpool. Premier League. White Hart Lane. Kick off: 1.30pm Sunday 18th September 2011.

Following on from their Thursday night exertions in Greece, Spurs return to Premier League action with a potentially difficult home match against a new look Liverpool side.

Liverpool face a tough game against Spurs on Sunday afternoon.
Harry Rednapp's side turned us over last season 2-0, ending our bid for Europe for the Season.
Its a crucial game for Liverpool having cruelly lost to Stoke last Saturday, we need at least a draw at Spurs to stay with the top teams.