THFC1882 presents guest writer Kenny Palmer's report of Tottenham Hotspur versus Wigan:

A man of the match performance by Gareth Bale against obliging opponents Wigan helped reignite Spurs title challenge, as they now sit just five points behind the Manchester clubs following the leaders City's defeat to Everton.

THFC1882 welcomes back guest writer Kenny Palmer with a preview of Tottenham Hotspur versus Wigan.

A week is a long time in football, as Spurs two contrasting performances highlighted. Heroic in defeat against Manchester City earning plaudits for the character they showed in coming back from 2-0 down to level the scores before losing to an injury time penalty.

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.

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?

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.

THFC1882 welcomes another guest writer on board. This time it's Glen Bocking. Glen is an Essex boy but now lives in Stoke so is handily placed to attend this game. Glen's first Spurs memories are the '91 FA Cup semi and final! Great start to his Spurs watching!

THFC1882 gives a debut to Siva who previews the Bolton game for us. Siva has been a Spurs fan all his life and as the man puts it himself he was born with lilywhite in his vains! The first game Siva remembers was when he was 5 or 6, Ledley King (or Mr Spurs for Siva) is his favourite player and he likes a drink in the Bell and Hare pre match.

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.

THFC1882 presents Rob's guest report on last nights action:

Tottenham Hotspur team: Friedel; Walker, Kaboul, King, Assou-Ekotto; Lennon, Modric (Sandro, 89), Parker, Bale; Van der Vaart (Defoe, 69); Adebayor

Goals: Spurs Adebayor 14, 40.

'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

THFC1882 present Ciaran Griggs guest report:

"When is a win not a win?"

So yet another Sunday afternoon Spurs fixture and yet another fixture that 12 months ago would have struck fear into the heart of any Spurs fan. This particular writer has been accused of being overly optimistic towards Spurs results and performances this season.

JimmyG2 takes his message to the streets. And so once more gentle readers we come to the age old dilemma: would we rather outplay the opposition as we did frequently last season and yet fail to take our chances and draw or even lose the game? Or would you rather we played poorly and won? We are unbeaten in ten in all games and won 5 of the last six in the Premiership.

THFC1882 presents guest writer Ralph Dixon's match report:

Chickens 1 2 Cockerels

The previews for this match, the chat on Twitter and the fan forums were all spot on and the match hardly needs a report from me at all. You Spurs fans know it in your hearts already, even if MOTD manage to edit their highlights to give a different impression.

Napoli, Juventus, Udinese and Cagliari look to continue their winning ways midweek. While manager Eddy Reja is sticking with Lazio after having his resignation refused by club president Claudio Lotito which means, start to the famed Italian managerial sack race is avoided if only temporarily. Champions Milan will be looking to avoid a back to back loss results when they welcome visitors Udinese.

The good news is that there isn't any bad news We started the window in the belief that 'no news is good news' but now that the Modric and Harry sagas have stalled we are beginning to change our attitude. The bad news though is that there is no actual good news. All our best players are still with us; but so are all our not so best players too.

This episode of Serie A Weekly is a special one with returning guest Juan Arango of GOLTV USA, SimplyFutbol.com and LaLigaWeekly. Juan and Kevin discuss Copa America Q-final action, surprising Peru and Venezuela, the success of Uruguay and agony of Brazil. Part 1 centers on the Brazil-Paraguay q-final match, while PartII is all Argentina and finally Part III takes a closer look at Uruguay.

This episode we welcome freelance writer Scott Fleming from Football-Italia.net. More on summer 2011 and Italian Serie A new arrivals in clubs, players and owndership. give the podcast a listen and leave your comments Recorded during the previous 24hrs with Italian football discussion including, the new and not so new Lazio a hazy transfer window Rossi to Juventus Cesena build up the return of.

The Serie A Weekly crew are happy to welcome back from the Guardian sports desk Paolo Bandini. Paolo and I log the first podcast of the summer talking well transfers and managers of course. Recorded Monday this week, all is still very fresh and relative with topics on, Inter's new managerial plan Leonardo to Paris Pastore "should I stay or should I go" Oh where will Cesc.

The Serie A Weekly crew are very happy to welcome Football-Italia.net writer Susy Campanale to the show. Susy graciously made herself available for this recording while under the weather so big applauds for our guest as she enlightens on the progress of the Italian National football squad under manager Cesare Prandelli.

Well after missing a week or two SerieAWeekly podcast is back with a season finale. Our guest this episode is the incomparable and always ready to make a defence for the best league in Europe, Goal.com's Subhankar Mondal. Subhankar covers Italian Serie A for those other guys and is sure to surprise with his take on matters Serie A.

Episode 18 welcomes guest writer Rocco Cammisola to the show and a return to the podcast analyst position of Adam Digby. Part I focus starts with banter on the success of AC Milan as scudetti number 18 arrives at the San Siro. Give the show a listen and leave your comments below also make sure to follow us at SerieAWeekly on twitter Additional topics include, Top Four place just out of reach for.

Kevin flies solo this episode with guest Phil Schoen from GolTV. The one on one starts off with some Champions League banter, quality of play in Spain and this week's potential finalists. (podcast recorded prior to mid-week match results) Give the show a listen and leave your comments below also make sure to follow us at SerieAWeekly on twitter Additional topics include, eternal battle of.

No special guest in episode 15 just the boys talking a quick look at matchday 33 in Italian Serie A and some discussion on the top four to be finishers in Italian Serie A Give us a listen and leave comments for Adam and Kevin, and make sure to follow us SerieAWeekly on twitter Topics include, AC Milan try to do the Double!

Very happy to welcome Mr. Kieron O'Connor the man behind The Swiss Ramble blog. Kieron joins us to discuss the bottom-line in Italian Serie A football finance. We start the show off by discussing his latest ramble on Fiorentina "The Most Profitable Club in Serie A" Given us a listen and leave comments for Adam and Kevin, and make sure to follow TheSwissRamble on twitter.

Cavani: "I'm sorry for my friend Muslera, but we aim to win"
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Normally only a Monday to Friday feature, we found so many excellent articles from our favourite writers on Friday that we felt an extra edition was required to bring them to you, so here it is! First up friend of the show James Horncastle with a typically brilliant feature piece on Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri for football-italia.

Normally only a Monday to Friday feature, we found so many excellent articles from our favourite writers on Friday that we felt an extra edition was required to bring them to you, so here it is! First up friend of the show James Horncastle with a typically brilliant feature piece on Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri for football-italia.

Lorenzo Vicini and Julian De Martinis make a return to discuss Palermo and Roma plus talk on the Milan Derby and the Battle of fourth and fifth between Lazio and Udinese. Oops almost for Glorious Cavani and the Partenopei. Given us a listen and leave comments for Kevin and Adam Topics include, Milan Derby all Milan Phillipe Mexes injured but bags packed perhaps Pato loves everyone Udinese and.

Here we go again with Serie A Weekly giving you a list of five stories to read this lunchtime that we have seen from around the web and enjoyed ourselves. Many of these will be about Italian football of course but there is always room for something different and those will be here too. Take a look at our recommendations, pass them on and be sure to leave a comment on these great articles.

Dejan Stankovic scored the goal of the season with a volley from the centre-circle before there were thirty seconds on the clock. A perfect start but from there things didn't exactly go the way of Leonardo's Nerazzurri!
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Here we go again with Serie A Weekly giving you a list of five stories to read this lunchtime that we have seen from around the web and enjoyed ourselves. Many of these will be about Italian football of course but there is always room for something different and those will be here too. Take a look at our recommendations, pass them on and be sure to leave a comment on these great articles.

Here we go again with Serie A Weekly giving you a list of five stories to read this lunchtime that we have seen from around the web and enjoyed ourselves. Many of these will be about Italian football of course but there is always room for something different and those will be here too. Take a look at our recommendations, pass them on and be sure to leave a comment on these great articles.

Prior to the Roma-Juventus tie the Curva Sud held 201 "Totti" banners aloft, one for each of the Captains Serie A goals
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Leonardo Feels The Hate As Milan Fans Call Him "Judas"
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Back to join us during this international week of Euro 2012 qualifers is Giancarlo Rinaldi. The panel discuss the Prandelli revolution or evolution, depending how you see things. Topics include, Born in Brazil but with roots in Rovigo What are Oriundi, Giancarlo? Midfield footing Age of the ‘destroyer' is over New partnerships Players of interest include, Stefano Mauri, Giampaolo Pazzini,.

Here we go again with Serie A Weekly giving you a list of five stories to read this lunchtime that we have seen from around the web and enjoyed ourselves. Many of these will be about Italian football of course but there is always room for something different and those will be here too. Take a look at our recommendations, pass them on and be sure to leave a comment on these great articles.

As Milan and Inter prepare to lock horns in Saturday's latest installment of the city's derby, could it really be winner takes all in the race for lo Scudetto? You tell us.
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Here we go again with Serie A Weekly giving you a list of five stories to read this lunchtime that we have seen from around the web and enjoyed ourselves. Many of these will be about Italian football of course but there is always room for something different and those will be here too. Take a look at our recommendations, pass them on and be sure to leave a comment on these great articles.

Back once more with this old favourite here on Serie A Weekly giving you a list of five stories to read this lunchtime that we have seen from around the web and enjoyed ourselves. Many of these will be about Italian football of course but there is always room for something different and those will be here too.