Tomorrow sees us take on Sunderland at home in what has now become a massive match. Steve Bruce has taken them to the next level, although they're a sort of Jackal and Hyde side as they're nowhere near as good on their travels as they are when playing at home. Sound familiar?
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what? we are!

We've all had a bit of time to mull over the not so shocking defeat at the Emirates. It wasn't so shocking really was it? For a start; on the back of quotes attributed to Robbie Keane; our squad couldn't stand up to that of Arsenal's. At full strength perhaps we have players who are of a similar calibre, (Defoe/Van Persie, Modric/Arshavin and Woodgate/Gallas), but with a squad that seems to change uncontrollably due to the forced hand of Redknapp.

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Bendtner to repeat this act?

As an Arsenal fan, today is the day we wait with abated breath. This is the first fixture I look for whenever the new season kicks-off. For Gooners, it comes no bigger than the North London Derby. Spurs visit Ashburton Grove looking to find the first league victory over Wenger.

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So the big game is here at last and oh how lovely it would be to give these spuds a damn good mashing, we haven't done so for a while and it would make it rather sweet.

You may think I'm wrong in calling the 4-4 game a defeat, but after getting so close to beating them only to see them haul it back, it felt like a defeat.

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Normally the points in this fixture are rather an irrelevance, but this time there is more at stake than just bragging rights. The sides go into the game separated only by goal difference, and the three points up for grabs could prove crucial come May. Ultimately, league position is the gauge, and this season for a change we have a realistic chance of finishing above l'Arse.

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If you enjoy those 15 half-time minutes when the subs come trotting out and half-heartedly ping the ball around, you'll love tonight. Pav, Bentley, Hutton and Bale are all in line to start, as ‘Arry rings the changes with half an eye (in a manner of speaking) on Saturday's game.

League or Cups?

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On Tuesday night, Boro sacked Gareth Southgate: cue rejoicing on Teesside. Southgate was the clueless manager who got us relegated for the first time in 12 years. He was the man who took us from the Uefa Cup to the foot of the table. He was the man who sold our best players, and brought in our worst.

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Believe it or not, win this by four goals and we'll be top of the table, albeit until Chelski conclude their evening game. Try informing your nearest Spurs-supporting chum of this fact, and the chances are that you will be greeted with little more than a nod of approval and a healthy dose of perspective.

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Evening, campers.

Perhaps noteworthy, tomorrow will see the loudest two sets of fans come head to head for the first time this season. According to those poindexters with the clipboards and ear horns, Stoke and Tottenham emit the highest level of decibels from their respective strongholds; with Stoke ahead by a whisper.

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'oww'

Good news/ bad news day today. Best to start off with the bad news I guess just to get it out of the way. Have a whiskey to settle your nerves.

Modric; who many were led to believe that could be running around our left-hand side once again is unfortunately feeling a bit of a twinge on his broken fibula.

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futuresight: harry does a maradona...

Apologies for my absence in these recent days; been quite busy with some other commitments; though the guilt of leaving my beloved Spurs in the lurch as we found a drop in form; In some ways I feel partly responsible. For the most part though; if you haven't got anything nice to say best not to say anything at all right?

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Well first the bad news. Sergeant Wilson is a likely absentee today after helping Honduras qualify for the World Cup Finals on Thursday. However, he carries possibly the best no-show excuse in the history of the game, as he is returning late on account of having been ordered to stay behind and party, by the country's ruling military junta.

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The Sun has said that Harry could be lining up a smart little mover for David James.
Let's just hope that a deal materialises this time round, although I do think Levy was right to not sanction a £2 million transfer fee for the 39 year old, even if he was the England keeper at the time, which, let's face it, isn't hard to be with the current crop of England keepers. Click to continue reading...

Ah it's that time of the week again, and once again I'm rather late with my match report. Is anyone surprised? I thought not. As always here's the BBC's statistical preview, complete with a rather corny sword/pirate(?) analogy. For some reason this week they actually wrote quite a bit about the game (probably because people in the media actually care about Tottenham), they mention the "iron fist inside Tottenham's velvet glove".

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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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Where would Tottenham Hotspur's second XI finish in the Premier League? You be the judge. I've got: Cudicini - Naughton (or Hutton), Dawson, Woodgate, Bale - Bentley, Jenas, Bostock, Kranjcar - Pavlyuchenko, Crouch.

Is that better than Liverpool's second XI: Diego - Degen, Agger, Kyrgiakos, Fabio Aurelio - Lucas, Plessis - Benayoun, Voronin, Babel - N'Gog?

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Table toppers take on newly promoted Brum.

Tottenham came through their Carling Cup match with Doncaster without any new injury worries.
But Benoit Assou-Ekotto will undergo a late fitness test on a ankle knock picked up against West Ham last Sunday.

Birmingham's Kevin Phillips (back) and Keith Fahey (bereavement) return to the squad after missing the midweek Carling Cup win over Southampton.

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No. No it's not.

There is just no way Spurs will last the pace. They have been cut from 200/1 to 30/1 after an impressive start - that's a huge over-reaction from the bookies. They will be the Villa of last season, a bright start fading away at Christmas as teams get wise to them and fatigue sets in.

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Enough said.

Only one thing grates about last night's sublime win and our ascension to the Premier League summit. Watching the bliss unfold on Sky Sports News in a pub in Southampton, I bore witness to news of each of the first four goals and celebrated in the manner of appropriate euphoria. I was particularly eager for Defoe to claim his hat-trick both for the glory of it and the rather selfish fact that he's in my Premier League fantasy team (I'm winning two different mates leagues, if anyone's interested).

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So, it's once more unto the breach, for the new season is upon us. The friendlies are done, fantasy league teams picked – all that's left is for AANP Towers to rustle up a list of top ten aims for season 2009-10, and then we can get cracking...

1. European Qualification

Top six, or a trophy.

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Bassong, eh? Well first up, if you're looking for an in-depth Strengths-Weakness-Opportunities-Threats analysis of the chap, then look elsewhere. We at AANP Towers spent most of last season watching Spurs, rather than Newcastle, which I would suggest is a fairly pardonable offence.

Word on the street is that he is quite handy.

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Beauty, grace, and poise, it's Miss Ameri - er, I mean, Peter Crouch. Enjoy, Spurs fans.

With the news that Peter Crouch is set to sign for Spurs, I'm afriad I've had to scratch my head in confusion at. Old 'Arry's transfer policy has seemed increasingly questionable to me lately, and this has served only to confirm my suspicions that he's got too much money to spend and not enough ideas about what to do with it.

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Tottenham Hotspur are set to offer central defender Jonathan Woodgate a new contract. The England international has reportedly been attracting interest from Arsenal and Manchester City, and Spurs are keen to ward off any bids for the player. The 29-year-old's wages were being paid in part by Middlesbrough, the club he left in January 2008 to join [. Click to continue reading...

Relax fans, JimmyG2 has re-entered the building. I have been on holiday on the Orange Coast south of Valencia in Gandia with daughters, wife, and grandchildren. They call it 'Madrid on Sea' as its an easy motorway drive down from the capital and the closest point from there to the beautiful beaches and the sea. Click to continue reading...

The rumour mill continues to spin as fast as Spurs' revolving door transfer policy and after a relatively quiet start we seem to be up to our usual 'linked-with-just-about-every-half-decent-player' standard. Let's face it, this really is one of the best times of year to be a Spurs fan.
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Well this is yer lot for 2008-09, which is now being definitively wrapped up in newspaper, shoved into cardboard boxes and locked away in a great big wooden crate like the one containing those ghost things that melted the Nazis in Raiders of The Lost Ark. Entirely subjective, not necessarily listed in strict order of merit and cobbled-together in the least-scientific manner possible, it's the All Action No Plot Top Ten Spurs Ruddy Marvellous Goals of 2008-09.

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Well this is yer lot for 2008-09, which is now being definitively wrapped up in newspaper, shoved into cardboard boxes and locked away in a great big wooden crate like the one containing those ghost things that melted the Nazis in Raiders of The Lost Ark. Entirely subjective, not necessarily listed in strict order of merit and cobbled-together in the least-scientific manner possible, it's the All Action No Plot Top Ten Spurs Ruddy Marvellous Goals of 2008-09.

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Well this is yer lot for 2008-09, which is now being definitively wrapped up in newspaper, shoved into cardboard boxes and locked away in a great big wooden crate like the one containing those ghost things that melted the Nazis in Raiders of The Lost Ark. Entirely subjective, not necessarily listed in strict order of merit and cobbled-together in the least-scientific manner possible, it's the All Action No Plot Top Ten Spurs Ruddy Marvellous Goals of 2008-09.

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Suffering withdrawal? Desperately seeking an unnecessarily nail-biting one-nil win? Confused by the absence of someone at whom to scream "F*ck sake Jenas"? Then knock yourself out with the All Action No Plot Awards, and re-live Tottenham Hotspur, season 2008-09

Two-Points-Eight-Games Award For Completely Turning Around His Season
Step forward Heurelho Gomes.

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Well this incredible season fizzled out very tamely in the end. We played as if we didn't really want European football and gave Liverpool too much space to play in and played at too slow a tempo to stretch them. For the first 20 minutes we were completely outplayed. However Liverpool are a very good team and we should have had two goals from the ball over the top as they played a very high line. Click to continue reading...

After yesterday's supposed Liverpool-Spurs "preview" morphed onto a completely different topic, I spent the entire night racked with guilt. (Actually, that's a pretty blatant lie – I spent last night pickling my liver and hurling down shapes on various London dancefloors. That new Dizzee Rascal number is rather a toe-tapper).

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Sorry for the weeklong absence, but I'd rather wait until the end of the season before beginning the requiems, and there's been little else to talk about. Next week will be different.
This is the first time all season a Liverpool league game isn't on TV in the States. Not even on delay (wtf). Click to continue reading...

Autor: Premier Fever
Empezamos con este blog a escribir opiniones variadas acerca de la Premier League, la liga que para nosotros es la mejor del mundo. Germán González, Armando Molina, Konstantino Tsibis y Miguel Melendez nos conocimos en Foro Premier League, el cual les recomendamos visitar por que hay mucha gente, información, etc. Click to continue reading...

Howard Webb. The English Premier League's top official. The best referee in the country; he has just been appointed the man in charge of the FA Cup match on 30th May. A fantastic achievement for him. However - that will all be overshadowed by his performance at Old Trafford yesterday evening. Where, not only did Webb hand United the title, he gift wrapped it, and wrote ‘with love' on the label. Click to continue reading...

Ledley gets selected for England. Harry has a fit. Fabio explains he wanted to see King for himself within the England set-up. King arrives. King leaves. Harry has another twitch aimed towards Fabio, who cites the Hutton injury issues to call Harry a hypocrite. Words still exchanged via exaggerated tabloid articles, including the possiblity of King perhaps being selected for England in the future. Click to continue reading...