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Life is tough for Jamie O'Hara.

Having recovered from a hernia operation, the 26-year-old midfielder has got to start going to work every day for the first time since August.

Now, he'll get up at the crack of 9am and drive one of his sports cars to the Wolverhampton Wanderers training ground.

Whatever the hell you think is going on at Chelsea right now, whatever you think the club is mired in A Carlo-esque bad moment, crisis, et al. it doesn't matter. What we all can agree on is that anything less than a win this weekend at home to Wolves is going to see the shit hit the proverbial fan.

It was a bit of an unusual Saturday for me in terms of my viewing habits. I began the day by watching Portsmouth against Birmingham City in the FA Cup. But instead of watching my customary 10am ET Premier League match, I watched Nottingham Forest against Swansea City and later regretted it after seeing Forest's late winner go in to the back of the net.

It was a weekend that was at times as smooth as a Guti backheel, as bleak as a cold stare from the lugubrious one and as heroic as a late winner off the head of a man who looks to save face for club and country. There was a relegation 6-pointer and a massive title implication match between old foes, all offering the best of the Barclays Premier League.

The long protracted deal involving Jamie O'Hara was finally come to fruition with confirmation of his transfer to Wolves. The 24 year old joins on a five year deal following a loan spell with the West Midlands club for a fee worth £5m.
Wolves manager Mick McCarthy is certainly pleased with the deal: "Jamie made a big impact when he first came here," he said.

It may be one of the candidates for the least surprising piece of transfer news this summer, but it would seem that the Jamie O'Hara saga is about to come to a conclusion. Reports are coming through that the player has already agreed personal terms with Wolves and the ink is expected on a £5m deal any day now.

While we ran the rule over Steven Pienaar yesterday, another Spurs midfielder was receiving great praise from his manager. However, the player in question was Jamie O'Hara and the manager was Mick McCarthy of Wolves – Jamie's loan club.

If it hadn't been for the problems at crisis club Portsmouth, O'Hara may well have left the club last season and if Wolves secure Premiership survival, the player's Spurs career could be finally over.

t was pointed out on here in one of the comments that it's not that easy to get rid of our fringe players if nobody wants them. Players such as Bale and Modric are naturally going to be in demand but there aren't exactly a flood of rumours concerning the likes of O'Hara, Bentley and Keane.

Spurs as a club may not have been in action over the weekend but there were plenty of Tottenham players on show for various clubs.

At West Brom, Jamie O'Hara scored a stunning goal for Wolves to earn a 1-1 draw, while David Bentley was a second half substitute in Birmingham's 3-0 FA Cup win over Sheffield Wednesday.

Could the exit door have the name of Jermaine Jenas written on it by the end of the transfer window?

While many have expected a mini exodus of Spurs' midfielders this month, JJ wasn't reckoned to be one of them, but with Aston Villa suddenly finding the money they denied Martin O'Neill, they have supposedly asked Tottenham to ‘name their price'.

Putting rumour and gossip aside for one second there have been some updates on our walking wounded this week.

Both Jamie O'Hara and Johnathan Woodgate featured in our friendly against Charlton on Tuesday. O'Hara played for 70 minutes, as he looks to prove his fitness ahead of a proposed January move.

Midfielders Jamie O'Hara & Niko Kranjcar both seem almost certain to be headed for the exit door this month, either on a temporary or permanent basis.

Over the weekend, the Teamtalk website first announced that Kranjcar had confirmed his desire to leave the club. The catalyst seems to have been the arrival of Steven Pienaar.

Remember Jamie O'Hara? With the arrival of Steven Pienaar adding to the embarrassment of riches in midfield, there are truly some forgotten men in the ranks at Tottenham.

O'Hara, whose last competitive outing was last season's F A Cup final while playing for Portsmouth against Chelsea, took his place in a strong Spurs XI that demolished a QPR side 9-2 on Tuesday.

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.

I've found the situation with Jamie O'Hara very frustrating. Here is a young player who very much wants to play for Spurs and has always put everything into it when he does, yet hasn't been given much in the way of opportunities.

This season he's found himself out on loan at Portsmouth and whilst playing every week will help with O'Hara's development, it's been annoying to see him playing much better for Pompey than Jermaine Jenas has for Tottenham.