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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Easy, easy, easy. A blistering first half put paid to Stoke’s ambitions to record their first win on the road in the Premier league.

Our goals were quality especially the second which was the result of a slick passing move. When we’re knocking it about like that it reminds you of how we can play. Despite Stoke not being brilliant away they’ve held Liverpool so it was encouraging to see how we carved them up in the first 45.

Bolton away next, hopefully we can keep it up. I doubt it we’re always dog shit up there but let’s keep them crossed.

Anyhoo, here’s the goals from our magnificent win.

Tottenham v Stoke

A dire game in which only Spurs players scored. We were good value for the lead after half an hour but what difference a deflection makes. The thing that was hardest to take was the way Ubited constructed the winner. Carrick lifts a peach of a pass into Berba who finishes with aplomb. The Bulgarian seemed to be a gentleman about it but it’s hard to tell if he celebrated or not. The most gallng part of the whole sorry affair is that we didn’t have Carrick and Berba in the same time at Spurs and the goal they manufacturered was a taste of what could have been. We may have made good money on the sale of the pair to the mancs but at what price. In Carrick’s last game for us we were a win away from entering the Champions League, with Berba we came fifth and won a cup. Now we’re near the relegation zone.

If we go down the £35 million we cleared on Carrick and Berbatov’s sales will seem like small fry.

Here’s loads of Spurs players scoring at Old Trafford.

‘Spurs are on their way to Wembley (boom boom) Tottenham’s going to do it again’. We didn’t deserve it though. Burnley outplayed us in both games, if it wasn’t for that incredible 45 minutes at White Hart Lane where Burnley imploded we would have been humiliated. Well more humiliated anyway.

Harry’s outburst after the game will gain some column inches. I’m undecided as to the rights and wrongs of it. One thing’s for sure, that was not good enough. But for a bit more composure in front of goal, demonstrated by our expensive strikers and lacking from Burnley, we were out.

I show Pav little respect but he did it again, scoring another important goal and he showed a few touches that may make me stop calling him Pile-of-wanko, I don’t understand how he does it but I like it.

Ho hum at least we are one game away from retaining our cup.

‘They can’t stop them the boys from Tottenham the boys from White Hart Lane.’

Check out the robbery below.


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I can’t wait until we have one of these in the Premier League. Rory Delap eat your heart out.



As good as she is she’s still got a way to go though.

Do you get the feeling ‘Arry is trying to distance himself from the predicament we’ve found ourselves in?

After the Wigan game he piped up saying, "At the moment we have some players who cost this football club a lot of money and they need to be better for the team,"

"They are supposed to be quality players - and they have got to show that on the football pitch.” "If you look at our results - two points from eight games - it cannot always be the manager's fault, can it?"

Don’t get me wrong the blokes got a point. We have some prima donnas and pretty boys who have gone missing when most needed. There’s a handful of players who seem up for it when the chips are down which isn’t good enough.

But my beef with Redknapp is he said similar things when he went to Southampton and Portsmouth saying the squads were much worse than he anticipated suggesting there’s little he could do as he can’t work miracles. When he arrived at Spurs and got off to the best start of any manager in beards he was bigging up the players saying he can’t believ we were in this position. Now things aren’t going right for us it’s become, “it cannot always be the manager's fault, can it?"

Hopefully the rant was for the players sake rather than creating a ready made excuse in case things don’t go well for us.

I had to post this again. Only because it’s the best thing ‘Arry’s ever done.

So we’ve loaned out the crown Prince until the end of the season. At the moment it looks like a good bit of business but I hope this isn’t the last we’ll see of him. Remember he’s only 21 and showed glimpses of the player he could be. The likes of Kevin-Prince, Taarabt, Bostock and Giovani should be the future of the club rather than spending over the odds for similar players in a few years. They may not be doing it for us at the moment but, and I hate to say it, those lot up the road wouldn’t have them anywhere near their first team until they were ready.

By the sounds of things this move could go permanent. The stuff Boateng has been saying suggests he’s glad to get out of White Hart Lane.

"I am delighted to be back at a German club and to be able to speak German again. I am filled with all possible emotions that have to do with happiness and am relieved that the transfer pushed through,"

Clearly the lad needs to play football to improve so sitting on the Spurs bench may not be the best place for him but if he does mature over the next few months we should have him back.

So long sweet Kevin-Prince and good luck in Germany. Hopefully we’ll see you soon. You do have silly hair and bad ink though.

According to ‘Arry someone has come in with an offer for Hilario. Three months ago that would have been the best news we could hope for but the keepers performances over the last ten games or so have been consistent. We aren’t conceding as many goals, although we couldn’t hit an aircraft hanger with a ukulele, and Gomes has put in a few man of the match performances, especially against Liverpool and United when they came to the Lane.

Surely it’s no coincidence that Gomes’ rebirth started with the arrival of Tony Parks as our goalkeeping coach. So special mention should go to him. Parks is doing significantly better than Sir Les who was brought in as our forwards coach. Since the big man came in our goals have dried up.

Maybe we could send him on a scouting mission. But then again…

Little Jermaine is back, yippee. We’ve been chanting his name since the day he left and didn’t even mind when he scored against us.

The numbers involved are a bit confusing. We sold Defoe for £9 million, bought him back for about £15 million and the word on the street is Pompey hasn’t even paid us yet.  To be fair I don’t care as long as Jermain scores a shed load of goals and has learnt the off side rule.

Hopefully the wee one will be with us for a while now. Like Martin Jol said in 2006, "There's no problem with Jermain. I wouldn't swap him for Miss World - he would probably swap me for Miss World though"

Welcome back son.

Can any of you help me work out Roman Pavlyuchenko? Non Spurs fan pals of mine refer to him as Pile-of-wanko, I call him the lump, he doesn’t win headers, has an awful fist touch and the turning circle of northern Cyprus. But the bloke scores goals, like loads.

The Russian is just ridiculous in front of goal, sometimes. As much as I’d like to I can’t complain the bloke’s scored 10 goals since he signed. Another good sign is Luka is totally justifying ‘Arry’ plan to build the team around him. His third goal in four games the wee man is really looking the business which is another reason we have to improve. If we lose him in 18 months because we’re rubbish I’m going to smash the place up.

Talking of crowd reactions you’ve got to feel for Hossam Ghaly. Booed of before he got he won’t play for Spurs again. What he did with the shirt was unthinkable but he’s only young and the sort of player we could do with in the squad. He’s brave scores the odd goal and has potential to improve. Shame really, personally I wish him well but I could be in the minority.

Bloody hell that was close. Two down at half time and on our way out of the cup we had to dig deep. Or did we? The UEFA Cup is a strange old competition where only the top 4% of the population can work out how you go through. Luckily they’re making it even more complicated next year and I hope we’ll still be in it so moan about it.

Glad to see Modric off the mark. He’s been threatening it for a while and it looks like he’s finally got to grips with life in England. Hopefully he’ll figure out his teammates are rubbish and try and do it all on his tod. Congrats also to the Hudd. I love the bloke and the more important goals he chips in with the more we’ll see him on pitch, which can only be a good thing.

So into the knock out stages we go I just hope we don’t draw any of the European powerhouses left in our competition. We seem fragile at the moment and a good side will expose us.

Here’s hoping.

United at the weekend and for the first time in a long time I’m not scared. We used to be shit against the big boys but now we struggle against the so called lesser teams. I’m not sure what I prefer.

The red nosed raindeer is trying to get in our heads talking about taking Campbell back which we should ake as a compliment. He won’t talk about you unless he sees you as a threat. We need big games froour big players. Modric lookslike he’s getting close to the bloke we saw in Euro qualifying and it’s time for Bentley to deliver for longer than the time it takes to embarrass the arse from half way. Hopefully today’s the day.

Check out the vid below, it’s a Hoddle round up but the goal on 33 secs is the peach of a volley he scored against united many moons ago. Bentley if you’re reading, watch and learn.

‘Arry’s back at the Boleyn Ground this weekend ad he can expect a decent reception, sort of. Later in the season this game could be significant so we need a result.

Hopefuly it will be like the game a couple of years ago which has to be one of the most entertaining in Prem history. Here’s a reminder of how we broke their hearts.

Shit game great result. We can’t ask for fairer than that at this stage of the Cup. Past the quarter final stage with a 66% chance of getting a Championship side in the semis our most realistic avenue into Europe is still wide open.

Despite getting through there’s still plenty to keep us concerned. Basically we lack an edge, probably because we have a goalie, Woody and 9 players who want to play in the hole. Obviously I’m exaggerating but it’s not that far off. Especially as our flair players aren’t producing regularly enough. You can say what you want about needing time to settle in to a new squads but these millionaire need to hurry up.

As the game was so very rubbish here’s footage of a better individual performance by a Hotspur against Watford.

Watford in the QFs next and we’ve got a really good chance of doing well in this cup. Again. The arse and united are still in it but we can’t be scared of them considering that we overcame the north London interlopers and the new money from Fulham en route to the winning the booze cup last year.

Watford shouldn’t be underestimated but anything other than a win would be a travesty.

Hopefully these two Watford ball boys won’t be playing. They look mustard.

Not strictly anything to do with us but apparently the small club in Fulham aren’t going to throw money at all their problems anymore. We’ll see in January but if that realy is the case look forward to plenty more days like this.

Carling Cup quarter final time. It’s about when the Prem clubs who are still involved start taking it more seriously. But as holders we’ve always tried in this competition.

The Watford draw was seen as a good one at this stage but it can never be said that we’ve taken the easy route having dispatched Newcastle and Liverpool on the way.

There’s no easy games etc.. but we should navigate this round. It’s a good chance for Gomes to continue building up his confidence. Who knows he could even pull off one of these.

….. and the Spurs go marching on. 7 wins in 9 games, two clean sheets in a row and progress in the UEFA Cup all but assured it was another good nights work. Add to that our 1 – 0 win was accomplished with a side more likely to play in the Carling Cup than a league fixture and we can be thoroughly pleased with ourselves.

Don’t get me wrong NEC Nijmegen are no European powerhouse, a my flatmate put it ‘who? They sound more like a reggae band than a football team’. He could be right but the ramblings of a bitter Liverpool fan can’t take anything away from the position we find ourselves in.

Jamie O’Hara, who is fast becoming one of my favourite players, was the pick of the bunch in a professional away display. There were a couple of concerns David Bentley has struggled to impose himself in open play all season. His delivery from set plays is still a threat but we haven’t seen sustained brilliance from him in a Spurs shirt. Also the lad Campbell looked a little out of sorts but he is lively as you like so there’s not too much to worry about.

Hopefully we can keep it up against Everton at The Lane. In the last couple of years the toffees have done us at home but these days Harry Hotspur has turned WHL into a bit of a fortress.

COYS

Check out the goal below.


NEC 0:1 Tottenham-Highlights - MyVideo

Back in the UEFA Cup and Harry has picked a young side to go to Nijmegen and do the biz.

Chris Gunter has been tipped to start, while children John Bostock, Adam Smith, Yaser Kasim, John Obika and Ryan Mason have all travelled to Holland. We’re likely to be without Deadly Ledley but if the showing against Liverpool in the league cu is anything to go byy no matter what team we put out they should be good enough to get a result.

To be totally honest I know little about the Dutch outfit but as long as they don’t have two burley centre forwards and decent delivery from out wide they shouldn’t cause us too many problems. Hopefully it will be a calamity free day for Gomes and he can continue his rehabilitation.

Let’s hope he does nothing to get a cackle out of Kammy.

Skysports Fanzone. Is it rubbish or just really poor? The miseductaed fans trying their hardest not to swear shouldn't make Gray and Tyler lose sleep just yet but every now and then the Fanzone throws up a classic moment. Here's two or three out of ten.

He’s short,
He’s fast,
He scored against the arse,
Arron Len-non, Aaron Len-non

The chant may not work musically but it doesn't make it any less true.

The we man with the quick feet has found some form again since Redknapp’s arrival if we can keep him close to his best we’ll do well this season and he could force his way back into the England team.

One of  the things I love about the little fella is he’s got an awfully deep voice for his stature. It sounds weird, in a good way.


Keep up the crossing practise Aaron we can’t wait until your doing stuff like this every game.


We love you Aaron.

Like my great aunt Maude used to say, “Sif, there’s no better reason to get on the booze than when Tottenham win and a*senal lose”.

She was a smart lady that Maude. Check out wenger’s boys getting their arse handed to the twice in a week.

First Villa turn them over in their own back yard.

Arsenal V Aston Villa

Then City gave them a lesson at a ground we turned the blue bottles over a fortnight ago.

A home win, a clean sheet and we’re out of the bottom three. It was a good day. Harry is still the man picking up 13 of 18 available points. We bossed them today and have much to thanks jet heeled, turbo dwarf Aaron Lennon for. Blackburn had no answer to him in the first half. He single handily reduced them to ten men and created our opening goal. Now that’s the Lennon we know and love.

At the other end Gomes did enough without ever convincing but at least he had a shut out which is exactly we what he needed. Woodgate and King looked good together again which spread confidence through the team. Even though it was only one nil we never really looked like losing.

Now we have to keep it up for our trip to Holland to play N.E.C. Nijmegen in the UEFA cup on Thursday.

Onward and upwards.

Check out the highlights below.

The word on the street is that the interlopers from up the road are having a few internal struggles. In an attempt to deflect attention from his piss poor captaincy Billy Gallas spilt the beans claiming that players are being disrespectful when he confronts them. "I am trying to defend myself a bit without giving names. Otherwise I'm taking it all (the blame). It's very frustrating"

We say diddums. Best of all it nearly went off at half time when the scummers played us. "There was a problem at halftime. The only thing that I could say at halftime was 'Guys, we resolve these problems after the match, not at halftime." You can imagine how they felt at full time.

Check out my artists impression of how this info came to light.

Saying "go on, go on go on, go on" has never really been commentary but the portly Spurs chap is my hero. His reactions mirrored mine exactly on the night.

I'll never get tired of watching this.

The draw for the quarter finals of the League Cup were made last week and it completely slipped under my radar. We’re playing Watford.

The good news is we don’t have to play a Premier League team. The bad news is we’re away from home. But despite generally being smelly hairy bollocks away from home a trip to vicarage Road should be something our squad can negotiate.

I’m not getting ahead of myself but if we can get passed the Hornets we’ll undoubtably meet a*snal youth in the semi finals. The Woolwich boys have turned a few heads in this competition so far and despite Burnley’s heroics against Chelsea you wouldn’t bet on Arsne’s ankle biters making it into the last four. Providing we get through we’ll be ready for them, hopefully we can put six past them this time.
Here is the draw in full.
Carling Cup quarter-finals draw:
Stoke City v Derby County
Manchester United v Blackburn Rovers
Burnley v Arsenal
Watford v Tottenham Hotspur

And anyone looking for an omen check out what’s perhaps my favourite Hoddle goal against Watford many moons ago when men played football in hotpants.

We’ve sacked off our goalkeeping coach. Which seems a bit harsh. Unless he was telling Gomes to throw it into his own next every 85 minutes I can’t see how Hilario’s current slump is his fault. But that’s why Harry is the boss and I just write blogs about him. Hans Leitert, the bloke on his way out, has only been with us since the summer and the goalie coach is perhaps the last area Redknapp hasn’t got his own man in so I suspect that’s the reason for the change. But this announcement got a lot more press since Gomes’ calamity performances of recent weeks.  

Harry is trying to stand by our No.1 saying, “He's our number one so he's got to do the job - we're relying on him heavily.
"I believe in him and we have to believe in him."

But he doesn’t sound that convincing. The fat we’ve called back Ben Alnwick from his loan spell at Carlisle suggests Harry has lost patience with Gomes, or at least wants to have a look at Alnwick to see if he’s upto the job. Don’t be surprised if he gets a run out against NEC in our UEFA Cup game at the end of the month.
Let’s pray that Hilario plays a blinder against Blackburn at the weekend and turns into the best ‘keeper in the league. I’ve got as much chance of holding onto that slither of hope as Gomes does of holding onto an aerial ball.

Surely he can’t be bad as any of these lot? Can he?

The fairytale is over, for now. Our first loss under ‘Arry and one significant crack has emerged.
Gomes is a clown.

I hoped the kick in the face he got against the ‘pool would have knocked some sense into him but his skills and confidence is at an all time low. ‘Arry tried to give him some support after he threw the opening goal in his own net but you can see he wasn’t happy. We were hardly at the races against Fulham where we have a poor record but once they scored we never looked like getting anything out of the game. All the Tottenham rejects had a good game against their former employees, which tends to happen, but how they can give that goal to Simon Davies is a mystery to me.

Looking at the positives united striker took his goal well and even though I expected more going into the game Fulham are formidable at home already beating the arse at the Cottage this season. In fact this season it seems like everyone who beat us beat a*snal or vice versa.

Thankfully it’s international week and some of the boys who have been at the forefront of our revival are likely to be off with their countries. I just hope that the break will do Gomes good. He can practice catching in his garden and come back the keeper we thought we bought. I bloody hope so our next game is Blackburn at home on Sunday and in Santa Cruz, McCarthy and Roberts they have three strikers who thrive on the aerial challenge so Hilario better be ready.

Check out how bad he was at the weekend.

What a game. Again. We love it when the scousers come to The Lane. Like the chant at halftime went, “Can we play you every week?” We turned the ‘pool over thanks to the united striker and big Pav taking advantage of some comedy defending by the league leaders.

Granted this wasn’t the strongest outfit they could have sent out against us with 10 changes from the reds who went out at the weekend but we hardly had our strongest 11 out with 7 changes of our own. The feel good times are entrenched at WHL at the moment and ‘Arry can do no wrong.

The Spurs that turned up for this game were hungry, sharp in the tackle and showed plenty of quality, which is the Tottenham we sporadically know and always love. We still managed to make it more difficult than it shouldv’e been. At 3-0 up most teams think a game is dead but how many of you were still a bit wary going in at half time? United and City have done us over from the same position and Chelsea and a*snal have com eback from 3-1 down to us before so we’re never out of the woods unless three goals up with seconds remaining.

The performances of Hudd, O’Hara and most impressively Campbell caught the eye but (not so) Hilario’s clown impressions are really beginning to worry. I forgave him his fumbles early in the season thinking that’s what happens if you’re the last line of defensse in a team of shite, but now the rest of the team has picked up and he’s serving up the same shite week in week out. He is going to directly cost us points soon and with nobody to challenge him for a place there is no one to apply pressure. We just hope our mega expensive ‘keeper can start to justify his price tag.

Progress in this competition is looking good with the draw for the QFs in a few days. There are plenty of beatable teams left in the League Cup after
Barnsley’s heroics. If we get through our next tie put all your money on another Spurs – a*snal semi final, it’s tradition.

Look at how good we are.

spurs v reds

And the Spurs go marching on. As a club we’re either sublime or ridiculous and nothing in between, We’ve gone from our worst start to a league ever to the best start by a Spurs manager in donkey’s years.

We turned an inconsistent City over with the most satisfying part being another come from behind result. After little Bob’s opener we didn’t crumble. Traditionally we’re dog poo away from home so to come out on top after going behind is most satisfying. We’ve now got something on our travels after being one down against Chelsea, the arse an the blue mancs. Add our home game against the scousers and we have the look of a team with a bit of grit.

It’s good to see Bendy is still red hot. At the end of the transfer window we were saying he’d have to score as many goals as Keane and Berbs put together because we have no strikers, well he has so far so you can’t say fairer than that. As the form English stricker he has to be a shoe in against Ze Germans at the end of the month.

Personally I just hope he gets more league goals than Nando Torres so I can get some pride and much needed money back from my ill fated bet of last season.

This is how it went down.

Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur

Blimey we’re good. Sometimes. After tonking the scoucers we go and put four past Dinamo Zagreb. Bendy got a hatrick, Hudd scored a peach and Bostock danced his way into the record books. We really do look a bit tasty these days. We all know the Croats weren’t brilliant but we put them to the sword comfortably and that’s all you can ask.

Looking ahead there aren’t many teams we fear. If we don’t play well enough the chances are we’ll win anyway. A couple of weeks into the season going to Man City would have filled me with dread but these days nobody frightens us, home or away.

Check out some average replays of the goals to a rock soundtrack.

Can someone tell me what’s going on? We were awful for over an hour staring defeat against a very good Liverpool side in the face. Then all of a sudden we’ve beaten the league leaders. Like Sir red nose reindeer once said, “football, bloody hell”. Now we’re unbeaten against three of last years top four, which suggests the real standard of our team. United come to town next month and if we can make it a full set any lingering doubts over relegation are likely to be put to bed.

The scousers look the real deal. Difficult to play against with a threat going forward they could really challenge this year. We were lucky to get anything out of the game but who cares?

David Bentley is quickly becoming one of my favourite Hotspurs. He was rubbish for long periods but gave us about ten minutes of quality which turned the game. His ball in for the equaliser couldn’t be defended and his last minute shot led to Pav’s winner. If he could spread his contribution to half an hour imagine what we could achieve.

Hat’s off to ‘Arry. Whatever it is he’s doing seems to be working. The same players playing pretty much the same way are picking up remarkable results. Oneday must be sitting at home screwing wondering why the boys wouldn’t do that for him. Now we’re off the bottom of the league and confidence is sky high. They call it the ‘Redknapp Factor’ and long may it continue.

COYS

Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool

What. A. Game. From Bentley’s wonder strike to Lennon’s last ditch equaliser that was awesome. Classic Spurs. We can’t get too carried away there were a few things wrong with our performance. We have a clown in goal who inspires comedy defending and after we scored our 1st goal we sat off them too much. But we were away to a*snal and they’re not so bad at keeping the ball so all in all it couldn’t be helped.

It was a joy to see us have an attacking threat again and Modric really looks like he’s getting into the groove. This is what it’s all about shipping a shed load at one end and banging in a lorry load at the other. That’s what we’ve been brought up on.

Good on the lads and special mention should go out to JJ who has scored in his last three games against the gooners.

Treat yourself to the highlights below.

It’s all change in the backroom at Spurs. Kevin Bond is onboard and it looks like Tim Sherwood will be next. There may be some internal promotions for Clive Allen and the boys but the new look Spurs coaching staff is beggining to take shape.

It won’t always be fun and games at training though. Didier Zakora best watch out.

With the a*senal game coming up here's a reminder of what happened the last time we played them. You might not recognise half the players and may barely remember the manager but you all know the result.

So we lost again. Geovanni’s strike was a bit special and we did hit the wood work a couple of times but it doesn’t change the fact we’re still bottom of the league.

Oh why do we bother?

It's Juande Ramos and Jamie O'Hara's birthdays today. When they blew out their candles you'd get short odds on them wishing for our expensively assembled squad to finally click.

Many happy returns guys, here’s a bunch of scousers to sing you best wishes.


 

That was awful. The first half was one of the worst 45 minutes of football ever witnessed. These were meant to be two Premier League sides but it looked more like a reserve team game. People pulling out of tackles, no cutting edge and nobody prepared to take responsibility. All the people who stayed away had the right idea.

The few positives that came out of the game were, firstly we won, Pavlov’s dog looks like he can handle himself and the Rushing Russian got his first goal, Dos Santos showed he’s fearless when he came on and Jamie O’Hara impressed again. Other than that JJ had another anonymous game and our better players struggled to get into the game.

We were looking for a performance but the result will do. All the talk after the game was about how we’re now unbeaten in three and ‘moving in the right direction’, hopefully that’s true. We’re away to Pompey next and after the drubbings they’ve been handed in the last few days you can’t expect it to be an open game. Unfortunately with the players we have at our disposal that’s exactly what we need. Last night showed that in a nervous cagey affair our shining lights are ineffective. We can only hope it was nerves but I suspect not.

Oh well, onwards and upwards.

Check out the goals below.

I so wish Kammy was my mate. I'd give up two memebrs of my current family for him to be my uncle. It would be unbelivable.

A lot has changed since the draw for the 3rd Round was made. Here's an idiot who loves to get it wrong.

Is it any wonder people are revelling in our misery?

Having a look through the other prem bloggers they seem quite a jovial lot.

The Bolton bloke has been posting football based comedy clips in a move which can only be described as ‘I wish I’d thought of that’.

City bloke has introduced us to his cat. How is Zizou anyway?

Stoke bloke has given us one of the best chants in football.

Even the cats with the silly hats look happier than your average Spurs fan.

To be fair if I was a City supporter I’d be doing backflips but Bolton and Stoke are only a win away from us. Yet they see the fun and enjoyment to be had out of this great game.

They should be an example to us all. Bollocks they should. This is what spurs fans sign up for when we adopt the cock on our shirt. Total misery or ultimate joy. Nothing in between will do (which is strange for a club that finishes mid table more often than not).

This fella has the right idea.

And it gets worse. Sitting in a car listening about the clash of the titans that was united chelsea, expecting to hear good news from the lane that never comes is a rubbish way to spend your Sunday.
I’ve since read match reports and seen it on MOTD and we looked lack lustre at best. Some have called it our worst performance of the season so far which is a worry after seeing the Villa game where we were awful.

Our new team has no leader. With Robbie Keane misfiring at Anfield maybe we can buy him back (for a fraction of the price). He’d more than welcome. Pavlov’s dog looks like he’s auditioning for the ‘New Rebrov’ title. It may as well be called ‘Scars In Our Eyes’ because it’s painful to watch.

Bendy looks game but limited and the rest of them are anonymous.

Next up are the geordies as we start our defence of the booze cup. That trophy win seems a very long time ago now. Every Spur I know has been saying it for weeks but hopefully a performance and a good result can kick start our season.

COYS

Check out highlights of how we got on. If you can be arsed.

Can someone please explain what’s going on? Your Spurs editor goes walk about for a few days and we’re still rubbish. With no Setanta on the road I found out about how we got on against Wisla Krakow the old fashioned way. Via text. With the number of expletives clogging up my inbox it’s safe to say we were shite.

I’ve since seen some highlights and we didn’t look great.

Bentley took his goal well but the way they carved us up for the equaliser was frightening. Bent’s finish was workman like with the Man U striker in the Spurs shirt doing well but I for one am terrified of the return fixture.

Surely this shower have got to get it right some time.

For anyone else who didn’t see it this is what happened.

What’s most disconcerting is the reason I didn’t see the game was because I was in the north east. Missing the game looks like a blessing but having some of the toon army in the pub next door chanting “Let’s all laugh at Tottenham” when they found out I was a Lilywhite was galling.

The rudderless Geordies laughing at us?

Catflap mag has a lot to answer for.

Tomorrow’s visit of Wisla Krakow is huge. We’re only four fixtures in and already we’re talking about massive games. The good news is Wisla lost their last game 4-1 at home to an unfancied side. The bad news is we’ve lost all of our home games this season.

Our woeful start in the league has made a decent UEFA Cup run essential so an early hiccup is unthinkable. Quite simply we have to win. Expect us to field our strongest team which will hopefully include Ledley King.

The Poles haven’t got a great deal of European pedigree despite a win against Barcelona in the Champions League this season.

This is how they did it.

Let’s hope they don’t turn us over.

COYS

Villa visit the lane tonight as we try and lift ourselves off the bottom of the league. The corresponding fixture last season was classic Spurs. Go 4 – 1 down at home, get back to 4 all and celebrate it like we won the league. On our birthday.

Lightening shouldn’t strike twice but I can easily see this happening again. Villa are an exciting outfit and we are still bedding new players. Corluka and Pavlov’s dog are expected to make their debuts and if Deadly Ledley plays he’ll make his 200th appearance for the Mighty Spurs.

We haven’t notched a W for 10 league games, which is frankly poor. We have been woeful of late so it’s time to step it up.

COYS

It was mad though.

Mohammed Ali Amar will always be loved at White Hart Lane. He played in the '91 Cup winning team, scored a spectacular volley against Liverpool and bagged a hatrick in a cup game against city.

But he'll be most loved for something he did in the 1995 Cup Winners Cup Final when he wasn't even a Hotspur. It was so good a "Nayim from the halfway line" chant doesn't have to come out against a*senal.

The last time I heard it we were away at Leicester.

Legend.

Don't let me ruin for you, check out the story here.



And here's the goal in all it's glory.

The first round of World Cup qualifiers are done and the good news is all of our players came through it unscathed. None of our boys got a run out against Andorra whilst Luka Modric notched against the mighty Kazakhstan.

With the Croatia England matchup on Wednesday watch it from behind the sofa and pray the national team can pull out a performance and Bentley and Modric don’t fly into each other for  blockbusting 50/50 challenge.

I’m keeping them crossed.

Check Luka’s strike on Saturday night, hopefully he'll be doing this for us in the coming weeks.

With so many new players coming in recently the theory is the international break has come at a good time for us. Bollocks. Most of them are internationals going into leg breaking fixures of their own. We may not have many England players anymore but most of the imports are amongst the best in their countries.

Ho hum, while we wait for the arrival of Villa on the 15th check out highlights of our creditable draw against the small club from Fulham.

This little chav is in with a shout of being the greatest Spurs legend of the modern era.

Here's a lesson in receiving instant hero worship.


Still he's got a little way to go before he reaches this rude kid's status.

Don't want to rub it in but there won't be many more opportunities to see these without being physically sick.

I’ve gone right off the bloke but watching this makes the hairs on your neck stand on end.

Would someone put us all out of our misery? I thought the Ronaldo to Madrid saga was boring but Berba to United takes the biscuit. There have been no shows, crisis talks and Sir red nosed reindeer saying he thinks the deals off. The Bulgarian clearly wants out but it looks like the powers that be are having a pissing contest. We value Bera at £30 million, United have offered 25. This needs resolving in the next couple of days before it defines our season.

One of the most unsettling things about all this nonsense is Spurs are seen as a bridging club for good players. Dos Santos is rumoured to view us as a shop window, if he turns out to be mustard I don’t know what I’d do if he buggers off to a Champions League side in a year’s time.

Woody’s had some good chat all the right things. He’s quoted as saying, “"I'm not using Spurs as a stepping stone - they're going to be a top club.” He’s also stood up to be counted saying, whilst unsettling, the players can’t hide behind the effect of Dimi’s transfer situation. Hear hear. The guys on the pitch have to take responsibility for our terror-start but these other distractions can’t help.

When the Berbatov move was first muted I was prepared to say farewell with our blessing. But with everything that has gone on in the last few weeks I suspect sad sack will be roundly booed on his return to White Hart Lane whoever he plays for.

We'll miss him though.

There is so much speculation about the potential comings and goings at The Lane it’s hard to keep up. Pavlyuchenko has been spotted in London but until I see footage of Roman and Juande with a Spurs shirt between them and White Hart Lane in the background the deal isn’t done.

The arse-shaving deal looks like it’s gone cold. Again. All the noise coming out of St Petersburg is we missed the boat. Apparently £16 million won’t be enough to prize the Russian away, even though it sounds like he’s up for coming to join us.

The Miguel Veloso interest is exciting. The 22-year-old Portuguese has been tracked by a host of clubs but it looks like we’re at the front of the cue. I hope we throw loads of cash at the situation to get the lad. He’s a quality defensive midfielder, exactly what we need. And he’s got lovely hair. If we can get Miguel in a Spurs shirt we could achieve the much-needed balance in our talented midfield.

Check out what he can do.

Our defence of the Carling Cup starts against Newcastle away. Outside of playing last years top four we couldn’t have had a harder fixture. They’re not quite our bogey team yet but we’ve lost our last five to the Toon who look rejuvenated this season under king Kev. The booze cup will be a realistic target for the Geordies so we can expect them to put out a strong team.

But if you’re going to win things you have to beat whoever is put in front of you. We saw off four Premiership teams en route to winning the cup last season including a*senal and Chelsea, why can’t we do it again? It just feels a bit early to be playing the magpies especially with our poor early season form. But we’ve got three weeks to build up a head of steam and crucially by then all the unsettling transfer speculation surrounding the club will be well and truly put to bed.

I’ll save the predictions until closer to the time. In the meantime have another look at this.


Cc Final - A funny movie is a click away

It was The Sun who uncovered it. That’s right the current bun have found irrevocable proof that Dimi is going to join the reds of Manchester.

What’s tipped them off?

The obligatory manager one side, shirt in the middle, player on the other side shot with the stadium as the back drop? Nope.

Comments from the player’s agent claiming a deal has been done? Nah.

Word that a press conference has been hastily arranged for tomorrow? Uh uh.

No, it was a pic of the mardy Bulgarian signing a Man U shirt. Yep. Dimitar Berbatov signed something a fan stuck in front of him. It’s been the worst kept secret of a couple of summers that sad sack with the silky skills wants to play for Sir Alec but come on The Sun you really are clutching at straws. It’s the middle of the Olympics and the day after an England game. It can’t be that slow a news day.

United’s next centre forward did score a brace last night against Bosnia-Herzegovina. Check the goals out to a Euro house beat below.


Bosnia-Bulgaria 1:2 - Watch the top videos of the week here

The latest suggests the Arse-shaving deal is dead and we could be looking at Diego Forlorn. Is there anyone we haven’t been linked with? What I’m worried about is having our pants pulled down when negotiating because of our buckets of cash.

The smart money is on Usain Bolt becoming a lilywhite by the end of the window. Looking at him he’d do a job anywhere on the park. He’s big, he’s strong and the fastest man on the planet with more records than Hoddle and Waddle. Best of all the Jamaican Amateur Athletics Association would bite our hand of for £3.5 million.

He’d be cheaper and younger than Freddie ‘King’ Kanoute. Now if only he could do this…

The wee-uns play tonight with the big boys on show tomorrow. All the talk has been about J Tell getting the armband but spare a thought for Gabby Agbonlahor. The lad got a 'trick at the weekend but didn't get a call up. Maybe Ivanhoe Heskey's contribution outshone him. But even worse than that he won't even start for the Under 21s. Now that is harsh, especially as Frazier Campbell got the nod ahead of him. I couldn't work out if Fergie's fledgling looked more like Faiser Crane or Naomi Campbell on Sunday. 

Ho hum, at the end of the day it's not our problem.

All I care about is how will 'The Hudd' get on?

North London natives since 1882, 1919 still not forgiven, Bill Nicholson – best ever, push and run, Greavsie, Gilzean, year ends in one. First British team to lift European trophy, first double winners. Hoddle, Waddle, Chas and Dave, cups, Ossie’s dream, “Is Gasgoine gonna have a crack? He is you know.” Klinsman’s dive, entertainers, decline, love a moan, false dawns, now’s our time, maybe next year, sell best players or walk for free. The Tottenham way.

Can any of you help me work out Roman Pavlyuchenko? Non Spurs fan pals of mine refer to him as Pile-of-wanko, I call him the lump, he doesn’t win headers, has an awful fist touch and the turning circle of northern Cyprus. But the bloke scores goals, like loads.

The Russian is just ridiculous in front of goal, sometimes. As much as I’d like to I can’t complain the bloke’s scored 10 goals since he signed. Another good sign is Luka is totally justifying ‘Arry’ plan to build the team around him. His third goal in four games the wee man is really looking the business which is another reason we have to improve. If we lose him in 18 months because we’re rubbish I’m going to smash the place up.

Talking of crowd reactions you’ve got to feel for Hossam Ghaly. Booed of before he got he won’t play for Spurs again. What he did with the shirt was unthinkable but he’s only young and the sort of player we could do with in the squad. He’s brave scores the odd goal and has potential to improve. Shame really, personally I wish him well but I could be in the minority.