Good morning. There will be some feeling as we travel oop north today we have far too much in common with the one legged man who entered into a bottom kicking competition. Striker-less is an unkind phrase as midget gem and all round diminutive dynamo Jermain Defoe is ready, willing and able. As he proved the other night for England. But is he what we really need? Well, my dears …he’s what we’ve got. On an upbeat note, he’s never in his career have a better opportunity to ‘turn it on’ and really prove he’s worth his place. Nevertheless for…
Author: Harry Hotspur
Good afternoon. We play Newcastle United tomorrow teatime and the transfer window doesn’t close until the 31st of the month but judging by snippets from a good many sources last night and this morning we could still be in for more shocks than Fabrice Muamba got at The Lane. The chairman I am told was in talks yesterday with Bilbao for the services of Fernando Llorente who according to The Daily Mail has a £28.2m buy-out clause in his contract. The 27-year-old would be just the ticket having burst the onion sack 30 times from 53 appearances. Moutinho is rumoured…
Good evening. This just in from superdeporte.es who believe that a rebuffed bid went in for Valencia’s Roberto Soldado. If I’m reading it right, the suggestion is that an initial bid of €25m went in, then €30m to hit the release clause figure for the player. I don’t cut and paste this for mocking effect as I believe the language communicates the that rare emotion of ‘protection’ in football, The refusal of the VCF, the next move was to communicate their willingness to reach 30, the Soldier buyout. But they have found a player tremendously involved in this project, it…
Good evening. The suggestion is from @theSPURSinsider that the sale of Modric to Real Madrid has prompted the purchase of João Filipe Iria Santos Moutinho and subject to the usual bumfluferies a Spurs player. Now this is admittedly a brave move but I have to say yet again this makes sense. Nobody specifically knows what the deal is with players whims and wages and other demands but if this guy has/could be landed I’d be ecstatic. Why? He’s primarily a central midfielder, who also operates as a holding or attacking midfielder on either wing. He is a glaringly obvious André…
Good evening. This transfer window has been torturous. My best guess is that it the need for copious amounts of booze and good humour will only increase as we move ever onwards towards Saturday’s game against the Bar Codes like flies towards that purple light thing in the chip shop before we hear that last fizzipsch! Here’s some rubbish to capture the mood, buy it a dandelion and burdock and perhaps provide an outlet fort the insanity. Apologies to The Usual Suspects. Funniest caption suggestion wins the major prize. HH’s decision is final. No cash alternatives. Your home may be…
Good afternoon. After nothing very much at all and along comes a whole host of bits and pieces. In the interest of sanity I’m just going to run through them without bothering to weed out which ITK ought to be accredited with what because quite frankly none of them are blazing a trail and there is more than a fair amount of duplication and if anyone thinks I’m spending my afternoon cross referencing hearsay they can *ahem* think again. To kick us off, one from the archive is the tale of Arry wanting to sign Craig Bellamy. And Bellamy wanting…
Good evening. 836,357 people have assured me this evening that I need to lose weight and brush up my social skills a bid has been accepted for long term Chicken Badge allergy sufferer Luka Modric. If this is the case then goodbye and good riddance. Ooh …’nasty Harry’ I hear you say. Well, not really. My bitter sentiments don’t get borne out of boredom. Chancers like Luka and Dimitar could have stayed where they where and been an integral part of something good. Something worthwhile. But when we are dealing with these type of half men …who spiritually come from…
Good afternoon. Three snippets from the foreign press to explain if not excuse, the near complete and utter lack of success in the transfer market by Barter & Droppit Enfield Ltd t/a THFC. “I feel sorry for Adebayor because he has no chance at City, has no chance of playing here this season. So it is important that you can find a good solution,” The above from Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini who was talking to a.bola.pt about the impasse on the Emmanual Adebayor fiasco. A.bola say that the actual transfer fee agreed between City and Spurs was €7M, but Ade…
Good afternoon. I was in analysis, you should know that about me, I was in group analysis when I was younger, ’cause I couldn’t afford private…I was captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you’ve never seen neurotics play softball, it’s really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back. Obviously stolen from Woody Allen, but I am seriously beginning to wonder about the mental health of my fellow fan. The narrow mindedness of many has left me pretty…