Good morning. Midweek European duties sprinkle the games across today and tomorrow with ours being a 1500BST job which means Streamsville Dakota. What joy. So I’ll bang the drum again. There are cameras at the stadium and the overwhelming majority of supporters are not able to attend and they would be willing to Pay Per View. If you billed the millions of football hungry fans and sold the advertising rights properly you could drop the admission prices at the stadiums and still have people queuing around the block to get in. Instead of the Premier League exploiting their product, they…
Author: Harry Hotspur
Wotcha. Last night was a lot like the game against the Bubbles but with 13,000 Rammstein fans in the crowd. The overwhelming concern to all of us watching was that it really was a terribly dull fare. Once you got past the Maribor ‘I’ve been shot in the face’ play-acting the actual entertainment to be had was less than meager. The star of our show – that if it was a pilot episode wouldn’t get commissioned for a series – was Tommy Huddlestone. I’ve been increasingly frustrated with him and the ‘myth of him’ perpetuated by his fanboys. But in…
Good afternoon. This is it folks. The Maribor Ultras have been a strict diet of kosher breakfast salami for a fortnight now and are chomping at the bit to greet our valiant away fans who have been issued with kevlar scarves and tote bag sized fire extinguishers in event of any rogue flare related issues. What better to get you in the mood that another healthy dose of Hotspur’s Half Hour? Okay. Cold imported beer and maybe some salted snacks on the side. But you know what I mean. This week our extra special guest star is the firm’s top…
Good morning. Paternity leave eh? I noted that on this blog that responses of outrage toward my tongue in cheek ‘I’m Surprised He Didn’t Consider Adoption Given The Importance Of The Game’ piece were all from men. On Twitter the biggest moans and groans of disbelief that Bale bailed on the Chelsea game were from women. Underlining what we all knew already: some girls are bigger than others. “It is an indisputable fact that Tottenham are the favourites, but Maribor will be a difficult opponent,” said the 24-year-old. “We are highly motivated and ready for this big match. We want…
Good afternoon. I’m struggling to get my head around where the boss is heading with this whole Adebayor business. Now clearly I write this from the perspective of someone who believes Adebayor to be a superior player to Defoe. …at the moment we’re using one striker and Defoe is doing extremely well. At the moment, Adebayor is in contention for games where we play two strikers. He’s done extremely well in the games that he has come on but we have not found comfort in a formation with two strikers yet. Villas-Boas oversaw this transfer. It was so – on…
Good morning. Shakattack Don’task play Chelsea tomorrow night and another Spurs summer target that didn’t happen Willian has said: ‘Tottenham is a big club and it has a good person in charge. Andre Villas-Boas wanted to bring me to Chelsea and also tried at Tottenham. He always sends me messages. We are always in touch, and he has become a friend, for sure.’ Which sounds quite positive until you read on… ‘Choosing between the two clubs would be difficult. I don’t know. Chelsea is Chelsea. They are a great team, with amazing players and are the champions of Europe. ‘I…
Good afternoon. Well. That wasn’t very nice was it? We were in all too many respects link a racehorse the handicapper got to. Bale’s wife went into labour. Dembele was injured and these two absences sent the dominoes inexorably falling. The worst of it was in the middle of the park. Sandro without his foil found himself drowning. The first mistake was starting Brad. I really believe that we need to give Hugo a run of games now. He’s not some child, give him the shirt and let’s get on with it. This isn’t taking a punt. He wasn’t cheap.…
Good morning. Before the the aftermath the math – and a few moments of your invaluable time in relation to Kyle Walker. Today’s sermon is entitled, ‘Abuse, When Is Good Time For You And Will There Be Light Refreshments?’ Let me kick off by saying I didn’t send Kyle a nasty Tweet yesterday. Or at any other time. To the best of my knowledge I’ve only had a pop at two footballers on Twitter. I definitely expressed a belief to ***** that he was a wage thief. That prompted about a dozen or so 15 year olds to tell me…
Good evening. What becomes of the broken hearted? It would seem they end up supporting Tottenham Hoyspur. The game took two turns for the worse before the kick off as the news broke that both the boy himself Gareth Bale and Mr Demblele were going to both out of action. On the Bale end of things I have to express a dismay. I know people who’ve had to miss funerals due to work commitments. In my limited yet hugely valid experience of childbirth the father being there tends to use the, ‘I was there, wasn’t I?’ as some sort of…