Where Do I Start?

I purposely waited for a while before I wrote today's match review, simply because I was In such a bad mood earlier It would have probably consisted mainly of swear words and I don't expect much of it would have made sense. Nevertheless I expect this will possibly have one of my lowest 'read counts' to date - and I'm not really surprised!

Where do I Start? I guess the one positive we can take out of the shambolic display today Is that as usual the crowd was fantastic! As I said In yesterdays preview the atmosphere at The Lane on new years day was pretty pants, well today was the complete opposite. Apart from a few token efforts the Fulham support was woeful, even at 4-0 the yids were still making all the noise! Good job!

Fulham In The Cup...again.

This weekend once again brings with it the FA Cup, this time it is the forth round and we once again have to play Fulham; this is getting to be quite a regular occurrence now having played them a number of times in the competition in recent years.
In all this will be the sixth meeting In the cup, Tottenham coming out on top In all previous games. We have already played them twice in the league this year as well, having done the double over them with a 2-1 away win and a 1-0 home victory.

So the advantage is most certainly in our corner, however as we all know the cup is one of those competitions where anything can happen and this tie could potentially be one of those. Fulham spanked Peterborough 6-2 In the previous round and will have a degree of confidence from their recent results, they have only picked up 5 league wins all season however 3 of those have come in the last 6 games so it could be potentially interesting.

Friday musings

Wow, slow news week! I don't remember it being this quiet over the course of a week for Spurs related news since the beginning of the season! Yes there have been a few happenings, for example the ongoing stadium issues and of course more transfer speculation.

However nothing really new. In fact I was hoping to be writing about the OPLC decision on The Olympic Stadium which was due to be announced today - as I expect you know by now this has been delayed because they are lacking somewhat in confidence on actually making a decision - what does that tell you?!

The future shouldn't be this concerning

Everyone's afraid of the unknown.
Be It the future state of the economy, the '2012 end of the world conspiracy' or what Wenger really gets up to behind closed doors. In this case I'm seriously worried about the future of our beloved Spurs.

The debate has raged for a long time now over the Northumberland Development Project and The Olympic Stadium, yesterday saw it confirmed that the decision will be postponed as the OPLC need 'more time to seek further clarification with both bidders', fair enough but this only really tells me one thing - that they are seriously considering our bid and we could therefore soon be confirmed as the preferred bidder.

Lennon saves my weekend!

Probably a fair result in the end if I'm honest. St James' Park is always a bit of a pain to go to and our record up there is pretty grim. I said before the game that I would be content with a draw but actually now the games finished I'm really not.

Tottenham for large parts of this match played really quite good football, the first half was as exciting as a conversation with Avram Grant but for the most part we played well. The big downer being that Bale was forced off on 12th minutes with a reoccarance of his back injury - hopefully it wont be anything serious!
The same can be said with the second half, a little more end to end but we played well. Unfortunately Coloccini nearly wrecked my weekend by scoring in the 59th minute (good goal to be honest) but thankfully Lennon came back with a great goal in the 90th and rescued a point for the Spurs.

Harry, Levy and the forgotten Newcastle Preview

It's not often that I buy 'The Sun' - in fact I actively try to avoid it, there's only so many 'Jordan related' front pages that I can bare to look at, for the record I don't give a toss...

However today was different, the back page was mostly about The Olympic Stadium and actually had a point of view from Harry on the subject - something we haven't had as of yet. I was a little disappointed when I read the article as it didn't really give an opinion at all, apart from the fact that Harry doesn't like running tracks in football grounds. I suppose it was a 'pro Tottenham' article in the race for the stadium but only in the fact that it slagged off West Ham's offer for it - he didnt really give much of an opinion as to what he thought of us moving, in fact the closet he gets is this comment:

Twitter says we've signed Pienaar?

Yesterday brought with it our second signing of the transfer window, some would say it was our first considering very few people have heard of Bongani Khumalo. (In case you are one of those he scored against France while playing for South Africa in the World Cup).

Regardless Steven Pienaar is now a Spurs player after penning an apparent 4 and a half year deal, details are sketchy but it looks like we paid around £3 million for him. It goes to show where we have come to these days, as this was all confirmed by Pienaar via his Twitter feed before being confirmed by Spurs:

Two points lost

0-0.

Quite frustrating In the end If I'm honest. United didn't really turn up (just like their support) but did enough in defence to stop us getting what would have been a deserved win. Well actually United's defence was only half the story, the other half being Crouchie's seeming inability to not only score but control the ball and win headers.

I don't want to turn this into a Crouch rant as he has done some great stuff for us in the past but he simply isn't cutting it at the moment. The cries of 'Jermian Defoe - he's a yido' went either unnoticed or ignored by Harry until the 78th minute. When quite frankly it was too late for him to make an impact. Shame.
I really don't remember him winning a header until the 60(ish) minute, quite frankly this is just plain poor for a striker that's 6ft 7 - he should at least be winning headers!

United? More like Hotspur!

Its that time again ladies and gents - no not to book a holiday to Tunisia - Its time for our home tie against Manchester Utd. This is one of those games that we always look forward to, over the years though I'm not really too sure why.

This has been a pretty depressing fixture to watch in recent times, even more so when you factor in the away games! In fact we haven't beaten them at home since the 19th May 2001 when thanks to a Korsten brace and a Ferdinand single we managed to turn them over 3-1.

It was 23rd October 1999 the last time we beat them at Old Trafford but we all know how unlucky we have been there over the years - Mendes anyone??

A week in Lillywhite

What a week this has been!

I really cant remember the last time that Tottenham have featured in the media this much over the course of 7 days! It seems that every time i put Sky Sports News, BBC news or Sky News on there is some sort of Spurs coverage - and it doesn't stop there, the newspapers and their on-line versions have jumped on the 'We Love Spurs' bandwagon as well.

Ok so about 60 - 70% of this press attention has focused on Beckham training with us, i think SSN have had a correspondent on permanent standby outside Spurs Lodge every day since his arrival. Just in case something happens, like Beckham getting a blister or something...

Olympics? Sorry I'm a football man!

January 28th.

A date that could well be a turning point in the history of our beloved club. If you didn't know that is the date that The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) will recommend who is the most suitable for the Olympic Stadium - this obviously being between ourselves and The Spammers down the road.

The Olympic Stadium itself is fantastic, have been past it on a number of occasions (ironically on my way to Spurs) and it is pretty impressive! The transport links would be fantastic and it would cost a significant amount less compared with The Northumberland Development Project.
The potential is also there for a much greater capacity stadium than we would get at White Hart Lane, this would be a fantastic thing for the fans as it means many more of us could see our team every week. It would probably see the end of our enormous season ticket waiting list as well! (at least for the time being anyway!)

Despite all this though, am am hugely against this idea.

Who's number 31??

So yesterday I was a little late getting to my seat which meant that I missed the line up announcement on the jumbo-tron, this always makes the first 10 minutes or so a bit of a pain as you try and work out who is actually on the pitch!
It makes it even more frustrating when you see someone running around with 31 on their back. Who the hell was this? A quick check on the back of the program didn't help and so I had to wait until mid way through the first half when I realised that it was Andros Townsend.

Iv'e never seen him play before but had heard good things so this was going to be interesting.

Ugly scousers and Charlton at home...

The big story so far today?

Roy Hodgson has left Liverpool, not Spurs related I know but felt it was worth mentioning.
In fact I was watching Sky Sports News when it broke this morning and far from the fact of being surprised I was more concerned with the ugly scouselet in the background. (See picture)

Now its a known fact that if you put a camera in a public place people will flock to it, but why is it that they are always like this kid? He minced about in the background for bloody ages with a shopping bag looking so gormless it defied reality. Leave it to the 'pool fans to show some class!

Anyway that's my morning moan out of the way.

Lift off!

With a new year comes yet another Tottenham orientated blog!

And what a time for it to come along, the January transfer window is upon us and its time to see whether or not any of the myriad of players we have been linked with since September do materialise!

The list is bloody huge as well, some of them realistic others just plain ridiculous, the list however includes among other the following:

Luis Suarez

Emmanuel Adebayor

Steven Pienaar

Christopher Samba

Karim Benzema

Ashley Young

Luis Fabiano

Scott Parker...*yawn*

I also think i saw a rumour that we were going to bring Gary Lineker back again - bloody tabloids!

Obviously the biggest topic is the potential loan of some 'Beckham' guy, whoever he is! Seriously though out of all these rumours I would have put him as the most unlikely back in September, now it looks like its merely hours/days away!

I think the one big trend here however is that they are for the most part front men. Lets face it, at the moment our strike force is probably our problem area (in the sense they aren't scoring) - what a difference half a season makes! Keano is on his way out, Crouch cant seem to score in the Premiership and Pav is laziness personified. I'm hoping that Defoe will get back to last seasons form soon but he hasn't really had a chance yet - what with the injury and getting sent off  against Villa!

And you cant just rely on Bale and VdV to score them all!