Tottenham Hotspur FC

Another missed opportunity to beat wenger’s lot in the league.
When eboo boy was sent off I smelt blood but we just couldn’t get it done. Keano looked lively as ever and Palacios was superb in the middle of the park, even at 11 versus 11 we had the edge.

Nobody was surprised when wenger claimed, “I didn’t see it” when quizzed on eboo boy’s sending off. Come on arsene, it was right in front of the dug out. If you can see the disallowed goal incident from your Ferrari seat on the touchline why can’t you see what’s going on righ in front of your eyes?

At least we killed off any lingering hopes the scummers had of mounting a title challenge. If Modric could have converted that last minute chance it would have been a happier day.

I was going to post highlights of the game for those who have trouble sleeping but here’s  Eboue being booed off by his own fans instead.

Enjoy, I know I did.

Norf Londun derby tommorow and I can’t wait.

The scummers from down the road are in decent form not being beaten in 9 but they haven’t been too convincing.
We on the other hand have won one in the last five and that was against travel weary Stoke. We haven’t registered a win against a*senal since agent George Graham was at the club and we’re at the opposite ends of the table.

Still I think this time we’re going to turn them over. Robbie is bak and he is bound to score. He loves to score against the south London interlopers notching in 5 of his 15 appearances against them Also we actually have a defensive midfielder with energy who can tackle in Palacios. Add to that we now have two good keepers and we can be confident.

Usually we take the lead in this fixture, play brilliantly for an hour then lose it late on.

Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself.

I got sent this from a pal who supports another team.

“Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has blasted Premier League players for being too pampered, claiming many players from the top flight would not have survived 20 years ago and need to ‘toughen up’”

Who could Reders possibly mean?

Oh that’s all of them.

Harry Redknapp sees no reason why new captain Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe cannot form a lethal partnership for Tottenham second time around.

Probably because it didn’t work last time mate.

The little and slightly smaller pair have had plenty of opportunities to hit it off as a pairing but it just didn’t happen.

A lot will depend on the we play. We’ve been going from back to front more directly of late. This clearly won’t suit them as anyone who saw us when Robbo used to lump the length of the pitch over the we ones heads.

But Harry hasn’t said anything about the way we’re going to play being the reason Keane and Defoe will be dangerous together. Instead it comes down to, "I wanted them both, I know them and they are good players - good players can always play together."

We wish it was true but if that was the case England would function perfectly with fat Frank and badge kisser Gerrard in midfield. We all know how that one has gone.

Hopefully Redknapp is the man to make it work.

I for one am keeping them crossed.

He is little though.

Good video. Shame it’s about 24 seconds too long.

So ‘Arry’s given Keano the armband?

Not a bad idea.

Woody was the stand in captain when Deadly doesn’t play. You’d imagine he’d still boss from the back. Giving Robbie the captaincy means we’ll have a leader a bit further up the pitch.

"If Robbie has something to say, he is going to say it," stated Redknapp. "He is a leader and has the personality to be a captain of Tottenham."

Good. But to be fair as long as we beat the a*se at the weekend Harry’s missus can do the coin toss.

I can write without fear of contradiction that this is the greatest video ever made.

The big news this year is the return of a few of our old boys. The moves that made the biggest waves happened at either end of the transfer window as a couple of goal machines have come back to their spiritual home.

Defoe and Keane’s homecoming has notched plenty of column inches and split fans opinion. The naysayers see the acquisitions as a backward move, the people for their return think it won’t take as long for them to settle.

What can history teach us about those who return to Spurs?

First up is a man who stole our hearts, broke them then stole them all over again. When Jurgen the German came back to us we were knee deep in a relegation battle. Sound familiar? He went on to score 9 goals in 15 apps and was largely credited with keeping us up in 1998.

Back in 2001 Spurs Hall Of Famer Edward Paul Sheringham came back to the Lane after his four-year hiatus in Manchester. Teddy was one of Glen Hoddle’s and Daniel Levy’s first signings. A crowd favourite if you will. Sound familiar? He came back to propel us to our best Premier League finish at the time and a cup final scoring 22 goals in two years to boot.

Looking at these examples it bodes well yeah? Well there are differences. Firstly we didn’t buy Teddy and Jurgen at the same time. Secondly if we had it would have been a good thing because of their proven partnership together in their first coming. Keane and Defoe have not always faired so well in the same team.

If Jermaine and Robbie could have the same impact as either of these guys, this January’s bit of business will be seen as a master stroke. If not…

It’s an easy thing to imply after the transfer window but I hope Bendy comes good. Until he joined us he was a feared, accomplished Premier League striker. I don’t see him as ‘a Spurs player’ but he tries hard and made this move with the best intentions. I feel we as a club have let him down as often as he’s let us down in front of goal.

Harry’s words wouldn’t fill me with confidence if I were Darren. The boss said, "If Darren plays as he did on Saturday then he's going to be very important to us." Hardly a ringing endorsement.

The injury to Jermaine Defoe should provide Bent with enough opportunities to prove his worth and secure himself a move to a club better suited to his talents.

It just remains to be seen if the Bent we see is.



Or he can get back to this sort of form.



Go on Dazza prove them wrong.

Robbie’s back. Yup, somehow someway we’ve signed Robbie Keane from Liverpool for £ 5million less than we sold him for.

Now that’s mental.

For the Spurs squad this has to be good news. Keano is one of the players ‘Arry has been saying we lack. Someone with character a bit of drive and prepared to stand up and be counted (sorry I ran out of clichés).

One question. What the Fratton is Jermaine Defoe going to think? The reason he left us in the first place was because he was behind Keane in the pecking order. The reason Keane left the scousers was because he hardly completed a game. Now history is bound to repeat itself.

I don’t care as long as we get closer to the heights we reached when they were both firing for us.

Welcome back Robbie, Jermaine and Pascal, hopefully your second coming will be more successful than David Pleat’s.

Here’s a round up of all the goings on over the last four weeks.

INS: Jermaine Defoe (Portmouth, £15.75m), Wilson Palacios (Wigan, £14m subject to work permit), Carlo Cudicini (free from Chelsea), Pascal Chimbonda (undisc. from Sunderland), Robbie Keane (£15m from Liverpool).

OUTS: Charlie Daniels (free to Leyton Orient), Kevin-Prince Boateng (loan to Borussia Dortmund), Paul Stalteri (free to Borussia Monchengladbach), David Button (loan to Bournemouth), Troy Archibald-Henville (loan to Exeter City), Hossam Ghaly (undisc, Al-Nasr), Cesar Sanchez (free to Valencia).

Close but no cigar. After staging a remarkable comeback we still bleeding lost.

We conceded two from set pieces which is a worry but most teams lose out to goals like that against the trotters.

It was good to see Bendy notch, I doubt if Mrs Redknapp would have gobbled up those chances, plus he’s still ahead of ‘Nando Torres in the goal scoring charts which makes me piss myself.

Click here to see what the Boton bloke thought about it.

Check out the goals below and pray we beat the scum next Sunday.

There has long been a myth in the league that Bolton are a*senal’s bogey team. Under Big Sam they used to stand in the way of the odd title challenge which made me like them. After all Bolton played in white and beat the arse, what was there not to like.

But looking at the stats the scummers aren’t the north London team with a Bolton whoo doo, we are. Of our last seven visits to the Reebok we’ve taken to points.

The weekend has to be different but I suspect it won’t.

Especially now goal king Defoe is injured. The boy with the blazing boots has got a foot injury. Get well soon son, we need you soon.