Another weekend without Spurs? However shall I cope?!?

Wish I was in Dubai!

It was only last week that I wrote on here about coping with a Tottenham-less weekend, a week later and I'm doing the same.
This week, instead of playing The Filth at home we once again facing a rest - with a slight twist however as the squad are sunning themselves in Dubai! Whether this is actually about giving players some 'warm weather training' or Harry's plan to take over an unstable middle eastern country is anyones guess. Actually if its the latter then my advice is Harry gets some people in who can actually shoot - as Defoe, Pav and Crouch are having problems with this of late. Zing. (How many complaints will that get me).

A brief look forward...

Well Tuesday was a bit of a shocker!

Sorry for my lack of posts this week, has been a busy one and simply haven't had the time!

Tuesday was a strange one, how on Earth we didn't win that game is a complete mystery to me. Its really quite frustrating as well, not for losing against Blackpool - they have proved themselves to be a tough team this year.
No im annoyed because we blew the chance to go third, that win would have really consolidated fourth place as well and put us in a commanding position at least for the time being!

A weekend without Spurs? Whatever next!?

Spurs aren't playing? Whatever shall I do?

Well after the excitement of The Champions League on Tuesday we are back to the FA Cup this weekend, in our fifth round tie we are at home to Bolt.....oh thats right we went out of the cup. Well in that case this weekend see's Tottenham face a rest.

And quite frankly they deserve it. Its been all systems go on planet Tottenham for some time now so a weekend of R&R will actually be quite welcome, hopefully it will give the team a chance to get over some of the little niggles that every team gets at this time of the season!

So whats been going on then since my last blog entry?

A real Glory Glory night!

Crouchie gets the winner

Wow - What a night!

Before the game I said I would be happy with an away goal, I would even had taken a loss (depending on the score!) if we could get that away goal as I was very confident of beating them at home. Not only getting that away goal but winning AND keeping a clean sheet was quite frankly fantastic!

This season has seen some great Spurs moments, The Champions League has certainly seen to that and at the moment this doesn't look to be ending any time soon. Last night saw one of the best performances I've seen from a Tottenham team, at times it wasn't pretty and the second half saw AC Milan hold a huge amount of the ball but Spurs battled.
Two legged fixtures such as this have to be treated very carefully, going on an 'all out attack' although great to watch does have its drawbacks - the goals we've conceded in the competition thus far can support this. We needed to go to Milan, get an away goal and try to snatch the win and this is exactly what we did.

A return to Champions League!

Well firstly I hope you all like the new blog design - gave it a little face-lift as I think it needed it!

The San Siro could arguably be the venue for our season defining moment. 4-0 down at half time and then a second half resurgence spearheaded by Gareth Bale that culminated in a 4-3 defeat. Although a defeat it gave the team the belief it needed to play the biggest teams, from then on our play in The Champions League has been much more focused. Essentially they believe they can beat anyone which is a fantastic thing to have!

2-1 and the yids go marching on!

Another great win!

However what an awful game!

In the push for a top four finish though we can’t afford to be picky and with City losing to United and Liverpool only drawing at home to Wigan It was a bloody good day for us!

It's Niko time!

Before I start I must apologise, the internet decided to stop working which meant I missed out talking about The Olympic Stadium on Friday and doing a match preview yesterday – great timing!

Anyway back to Sunderland.

Wheres the drummer gone??

Theres something that has been worrying me this season. Something that has never before been an issue to me but is slowly becoming more apparent when watching our beloved Spurs play at The Lane. This is going to be quite controversial and may really frustrate some people but I believe it has to be said.

Our support is not what it was.

Would somebody shut her up?!?

There Is one person at the moment who is rather rapidly shooting up 'My List', to the point that I don't think I would care If she met an 'untimely end'. Ok so maybe thats going a little far (or maybe not?) but you can't help but feel anything other than bitter hatred for Karren Brady.

Just when you think the Olympic Stadium debate is slowing down and might finally get out of the news for 10 minutes BAM along comes Karren Brady and makes a public arse of herself once again. She just craves It - right now I could make a joke about her cravings and working with porn barons but ill leave that one for now.

Kranjcar to the rescue!

THAT is why I keep banging on about Niko! My regular readers will know that I do beat the 'Kranjcar drum' quite often and yesterday he justified that and bagged us 3 points in the process.
After that display he really should be given a starting place, especially when you consider the huge amount of injuries our squad has at the moment - unfortunately Van der Vaart becoming the latest casualty.

Niko scores the winner in the 92nd!

I predicted a 2-0 win yesterday, a lot of people thought it would be more than this and it could be a potential rout. Oh how they were wrong. Although I got the result right it was so nearly the fourth premier league draw of the season that I've seen at The Lane!

At home to Bolton

Tomorrow could be an interesting day. For a number of reasons really. We are now definitely at the beginning of 'the business end' of the season, now that the transfer window is behind us all the speculation and unease can disappear also.
Talking of which the results of my latest poll (Are you happy with our January dealings?) was a resounding 85% to "where's my striker?" not too surprising really!
Unless its about David Beckham - already the speculation has started that we will sign him in November/December when his LA Galaxy contract expires - I'll leave that chat for another day though!

Our last outing saw a well deserved and well needed away win against Blackburn, Harry and the team will want to build on this going forward and a home tie against Bolton should be a guaranteed 3 points. Especially when you consider that our next two league games (potentially 3 depending when the Ars*nal game is rearranged for) are away from home.

Back to winning ways

Tottenham do know how to keep you on the edge of your seat! What's it called again? "Squeaky bum time?" Well It certainly applied here at times!
It was a strange game really, at times the play was fantastic - our distribution was at its best, the passing fluid and direct and the forward thinking top notch. Other times It was the opposite, the ball was given away far too easily throughout the game and lapses in concentration nearly cost us more than once.

However a win Is a win, especially away from home and its a much needed boost after the last weeks events on and off the field. Especially when you take into account the amount of injuries the squad has at the moment.

Back to the football then!

Today brings with it a return to The Premier League, Its been a mixed week for us Spurs fans but one that seems to have left most ultimately disappointed.
Sundays 4-0 thumping In the cup was followed by rumours of big money transfers that culminated In bids for Phil Neville and Charlie Adam. No striker materialised and to make matters worse Chelsea, City and Liverpool all strengthened their front lines. (Yes I know 'pool did sell Torres but they replaced him with two quality strikers).

So following all this tonight's game has an added importance on our season, results last night didn't go our way with wins for Utd, Chelsea and the filth just adding to the importance of three points. Also City are away to Birmingham and Liverpool have Stoke at home tonight - this adds even more to tonight's fixture as you can expect wins from the both of them.

Deadline day round-up

Well that's the transfers finished now until the summer and as usual it was a pretty crazy Monday. In total during the January transfer window a total of £218,525,000 was spent - far more than both the last January window and even the summer window!

As we all know our beloved Tottenham needed a striker, really really needed a striker. Things were looking very positive in this respect with the breaking news on Sunday night that we had had a number of bids for top striker in La Liga rejected. This list included:
Sergio Aguero  (apparently £38.5m rejected!)
Alvaro Negrado
Fernando Llorente
and Giuseppe Rossi