Guten Abend und herzlich willkommen auf dieser, die Champions-League-Sonderausgabe von Harry Hotspur! Hitler… there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats! There are two excellent reasons why Bayern Munich should win the Champions League final. Firstly on a superficial level it will facilitate us and we get to play in the competition ourselves. The ripple of pride that went through our ranks upon qualifying last time was nothing shy of a complete delight. But also, there is the story of a man called Landuaer. This bloke Kurt Landauer was a Jew. Sure he was Jew, but he was also…
Author: Harry Hotspur
Good morning. Roberto Martinez, then. I have watched with what I can only describe as ‘some considerable confusion’ the adulation of the Wigan manager reach fever pitch. How the hell did this happen? Let’s start somewhere near the beginning and let’s stick to the facts of the matter, eh? As a manager he’s been accused of achieving much and being a rising star. SO what has he actually done? Well, to say he’s won nothing might be harsh, but it’s undeniably true. But he’s only been in management since 2007. And so to the first myth. How many times have you…
Good afternoon. €75,000 a week is the salary being touted by Dutch journalist Jan van Eyck . Personal terms are not the issue. But the stumbling block appears to be the fee. The gap between the alleged asking price and the alleged offer seems big, if not insurmountable. Ajax are said to want €16.3M for Jan Vertonghen and Spurs are supposedly offering €10.1M. For the Eredivisie player of the 2011/12 season it seems to be small change and we need to get this done before the whole thing goes sour and we’re left clutching straws. Vertonghen’s stock is well valued…
Guten Abend, meine Lieblinge. If ever there was a modern day footballer tale worth turning into a movie then it’s that of Adebayor. How so? A plot that includes playing and scoring goals at the very highest level domestically, internationally and even on one occasion under machine gun fire. Moving from Arsenal to City, ‘that’ slide and now these quotes. He came to us certainly not for the money and definitely not for the frills. Why he came I do not know. Maybe he likes playing Yahtzee with Benny on the bus to away games. Maybe he enjoys practicing bad…
The Fenway Sports Group have terminated their contract with Kenny Dalglish and whilst for some, their heads won’t be in the right place to do so today is a good day for Liverpool fans to have a good long think about how they approach the future.
Good morning. According to an In The Know type johnny on Spurs Community the white goods wizards Beko are in the running for the rights to push their wares on the old Lilywhite next season. Beko are a top, top brand. I think that they were originally Turkish and it was they who bought out Grundig. If I’m wrong I’m sure someone will dislocate a vital organ in order to tell me. My great great uncle had a Grundig TV. In the early eighties he asked my dad how much he thought he might get for it second hand, because…
Good morning pop pickers. And the hits just keep on coming. The Loic Remy piece of yesterday appears to have legs as a French journo, Matt Spiro who writes for Ligue.1.com has revealed that… Matt Spiro @mattspiro Marseille have told Loic Remy to cancel his planned visit to Spurs’ training ground this week. They want to agree fee with #THFC first This positively reaffirms the idea that we are ‘properly’ in for the player, but it also rather comically might indicate that they’ve just found out who our chairman is and want to get all the money side of things nailed before their boy starts…
Good evening. This is from a video featuring Under Armour’s Kevin Plank (Founder, President, CEO and Chairman) who was the Plenary Speaker during the National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting at the University of Maryland April 18. This appears about 5 minutes and twelve seconds in and looks rather nice. Follow @theboyhotspur
Wotcha. I keep reading comments from awfully well meaning types this morning saying that at the beginning of the season they would have taken fourth. Wow. How noble. But more to the point, what a really odd thing to say. In isolation, finishing fourth is a good thing – no; an excellent thing. Champions League football and peck on the cheek from the Prom Queen. So what if another team outside the top four wins the Champions League and nudges us out? What are the odds?! You can’t legislate for crazy, madcap things like that happening. Can you? Well you…