Something is happening behind the scenes that Pompey that is worth a great deal more headscratching than what it's generating at the moment. The club's present footballing situation is a nightmare, and after rumours that players and staff have not been paid, the financial situation cannot be much better.

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A curious one, this. Back in the days of yore, when Luka Modric limped off against Birmingham, I don't think anyone foresaw things panning out quite this way. Robbie Keane undroppable, wingers treated like lepers, long-ball upon long-ball. We're muddling through, but the sooner both the Croatian genius and Lennon return, the better.

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As we edge closer and closer to decision day, I am becoming increasingly frustrated with my line-up and frantic in my trade ideas. I think you'll see from the roundtable - after the jump - that I've come to a conclusion, but that Neal is sensibly (and probably in my best interests) trying to talk me back from it. Click to continue reading...

In Family Guy:

Chris Griffin: Dad, was there ever a real city of New Orleans?"
Peter Griffin: "No one knows, Chris. No one knows."

It is interesting to see anyone and everyone walk into Pompey, buy up the club, and walk out two days later. The revolving door has led to Pompey being dead last in the Premiership, player wages being delayed, and transfer fees that have yet to be paid two years later.

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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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A few weeks ago we hit Burnley for five despite not playing particularly well; this time our scratchy performance did not have a five-goal veil to mask it.

Bravo Stoke

Stoke, labouring under the misapprehension that cracks would appear in the sky and the apocalypse hasten if they let the ball ever come into contact with grass, showed precious little attacking intent until we were down to ten men.

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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...

Luka still on road to recovery.

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The Croatian international, who also suffered the heartache last week of seeing his country fail to qualify for the World Cup finals, was expected to be back in action by now.

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What's more offensive - Redknapp's language or his haircut?
Congratulations to those nations that have qualified for the World Cup over the international break, but now let's get back to our addictive hobby - trying to manage ourselves into the world's fantasy football elite...
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The game may have been meaningless but Niko seemed to like his last gasp injury time winner against Kazakhstan.

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Niko Kranjcar scored a late winner as Croatia battled in vain for the win that may have given them hope of securing the second spot in Group 6, only for Ukraine to romp past Andorra 6-0.

0-1 Vukojevic

1-1 Khizhnichenko

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Redknapp gets closer to getting his man.

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Tottenham Hotspur are in talks with Inter Milan regarding a move for Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari in January, according to the player's agent.

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Redknapp has another former player on his radar.

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Inter Milan midfielder Sulley Muntari is yet again being linked with a move to Tottenham Hotspur in the January transfer window.

The 25-year-old sealed a £12.

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There are some things that are constant in this world. There's no science or logic to it, it's just meant to be and there's no point trying to avoid it. Whoever wins The X Factor will probably be a bit of a pretentious twat. The Murdoch family will constantly complain about the BBC. England will always exit major tournaments on heartbreaking penalty shootouts. Click to continue reading...

I miss Ledley. Some games we're so rampant going forward that he is barely needed at the back, but on days like yesterday we cry out for someone to hold things together and be in the right place – as well as dealing with any aerial bullying meted out by opposition forwards. The lack of a commander-in-chief at the back was notable in the first half in which Spurs players competed earnestly with each other to be the most obliging to our hosts.

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Optimism Returns to The Reebok

• Saturday, October 3, 2009
• Venue: The Reebok Stadium
• Attendance: 21,305
• Referee: Mike Jones

• Ricardo Gardner [4]
• Tamir Cohen [32]
• Niko Kranjcar [34]
• Jermaine Jenas [35]
• Fabrice Muamba [59]
• Kevin Davies [69]
• Vedran Corluka [73]

Bolton Wanderers went ahead twice but a determined Tottenham Hotspurs fought back to earn a point in what was a highly entertaining match.

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Spurs will have to wait another year to break their winless streak at the Reebok Stadium. Their 2-2 draw against Bolton was the first draw in their EPL campaign.Harry Redknapp's side climbs up to third place with this point, but there are still 4 games yet to be played this weekend. Do Tottenham have what it takes to be a Premier League top four side? Click to continue reading...

Curiously, our most emphatic win in recent years was achieved without us ever really hitting top gear. There were some moments at the end of the first half when we played true champagne football, and Defoe might have finished off a couple of moves so pleasing on the eye they ought to have been put on canvass and stuck in a gallery.

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Two consecutive defeats it may be, but even the most pessimistic amongst us have struggled to make a convincing case for this being a crisis. Man Utd and Chelski are the best two teams in the country, and amongst the best handful in Europe. Losing to them is not exactly to be welcomed, but neither is it a cause for alarm.

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No-one does fickle quite like we do at Tottenham, yet despite this, the reaction to last week's defeat has by and large retained a sense of perspective. 12 points from 5 games still represents a ruddy good start to proceedings, and with forthcoming fixtures involving Burnley, Bolton, Portsmouth and Stoke we ought to be chugging along nicely by the time the clocks go back.

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Paul Hart was nominated by various broadsheet football journalists as "Manager of the year" last season despite only taking charge of half of Pompy's games, following a disastrous start by Tony Adams. Hart showed his experience and got the team organised again; keeping Portsmouth up for another season in the top flight with relative ease in 14th position.

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From White Hart Lane, Attendance 35,785 , Referee A Marriner Tottenham 1 3 Manchester United

Jermain Defoe (1)

Ryan Giggs (25)
Oliveira Anderson (41)
Paul Scholes (s/o 59)
Wayne Rooney (78)

Tottenham Team Statistics Manchester United 1 Goals 3 6 Shots On Target 10 5 Shots Off Target 5 3 Shots Blocked 3 3 Corners 3 0 Offsides 9 17 Fouls 13 3 Yellow Cards 2 0 Red Cards 1 49. Click to continue reading...

Before beginning the gruesome business of the post-mortem I think it's worth doffing my cap towards Man Utd – they were a quality act yesterday. I demonstrated in my preview that mathematics is hardly the academic subject of choice at AANP Towers, but nevertheless it really did seem that being reduced to 10 men made them play as if they had 12.

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From White Hart Lane, Attendance 35,785 , Referee A Marriner Tottenham 1 3 Manchester United

Jermain Defoe (1)

Ryan Giggs (25)
Oliveira Anderson (41)
Paul Scholes (s/o 59)
Wayne Rooney (78)

Tottenham Team Statistics Manchester United 1 Goals 3 6 Shots On Target 10 5 Shots Off Target 5 3 Shots Blocked 3 3 Corners 3 0 Offsides 9 17 Fouls 13 3 Yellow Cards 2 0 Red Cards 1 49. Click to continue reading...

Curses upon the international break. I guess that now we will never know, but I am convinced that if the season had continued uninterrupted by this pesky World Cup business right through until May, such was our momentum we would actually have won literally every one of our 38 Premiership games. Honest.

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Ah the Premier League. How I've missed you over the last week or so. Your absence has deprived me of the chance to witness Spurs pick up another precious three points and that trend is certain to continue come tomorrow afternoon with the visit of league champions Manchester United... on second thoughts, I'll get me coat. Click to continue reading...

For Premier League fans around the world, the last couple of weeks have been almost too painful to endure as something very important seems to have disappeared out of our lives. But with yet another international period finally in the books, we can once again look forward to the return of our most beloved brand of football this weekend.

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Some moments are never meant to be forgotten. The entire world of football witnessed one such shocking moment a little less than two years ago in London. On a rainy evening at Wembley, hosts England were expected to advance to the finals of Euro 2008 with just a draw needed against visiting Croatia.

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The solution to the above question is simple. You sign his Croatian counterpart Niko Kranjcar.
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.Arsenal Transfered In: Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax, £11m), Damian Martinez (Club Athletico Independiente, £1.3m), Jamie Edge (Cheltenham, undisc) Transfered Out: Abu Ogogo (Dag & Red, free), Amaury Bischoff (Academica de Coimbra, free), Emmanuel Adebayor (Man C, £25m), Kolo Toure (Man C, £14m), Jay Simpson (QPR, loan), James Dunne (Exeter, free), Rui Fonte (Lisbon, free), Rene Steer (Oldham, free), [. Click to continue reading...

If you are Paul Hart - by far the bookies' favorite to become the first sacked manager in the Premier League this season - you would need a miracle to save Portsmouth from relegation at this point. Four games into the new season, Pompey are yet to scrap up a single point, which is a clear indicator of how the team roster was in desperate need of major bolstering on the final day of transfers.

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Arsenal striker Eduardo has been suspended for two matches for his dive during Arsenal's recent UEFA Champions League victory against Celtic last week. He will now miss the first two matches of the group stage.

Eduardo was punished for pretending to be taken down by Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc on a play that earned Arsenal a penalty kick.

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Arsenal striker Eduardo has been suspended for two matches for his dive during Arsenal's recent UEFA Champions League victory against Celtic last week. He will now miss the first two matches of the group stage.

Eduardo was punished for pretending to be taken down by Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc on a play that earned Arsenal a penalty kick.

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Just a year ago Harry Redknapp was still managing Portsmouth. Just a year ago Redknapp turned down a 12M pound offer from Monaco for his star playmaker Niko Kranjcar.
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I feel like Mr Pink after the dust settles in that brief, but oh-so-memorable shoot-out. I'll just tip-toe around the bloody mess, pick up the case full of loot and hot-foot it out of here.

The bloody mess is Bentley to Man City, Petrov the other way, David James splattered all over the place, and even Anton Ferdinand, sitting lifelessly on a chair minus an ear.

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