Good morning. Gambling has brought our family closer together. We’ve had to move to a smaller house. That may well be the closest you come to a grin on a Spurs blog today. The crew that’s representing in Mother Russia later on today doesn’t exactly have me on edge counting away the hours between now and 4 o’clock. Deeds count, talk is cheap but Pav has been remarkably forthright for a footballer and actually spoken quite clearly about his intentions for January. He’s wants out. So whatever performance we get from him will be casually dismissed as a ‘shop window’…
Author: Harry Hotspur
Good morning dependents of the revolution. It’s good to kick off with a funny and so here’s something that by rights ought to have you admitted to hospital with the sort of laughter that induces breathing difficulties. “It’s difficult to put the crowd’s role into words. It’s having another 50% in your energy levels and your performance levels. You get so much confidence hearing that crowd roar. If you make a mistake you’ll try something again without any fear of reprisal. You might try and get past someone and he nicks it off you. But if you’ve got the backing…
The word lavish is bandied about a lot in the book business. Usually it relates to a book that has lots of pictures. Or one that has production values superior to your average pizza menu. Harsh, but tell me I’m wrong. This book is lavish to degree whereby you might need to bite a pretty unpleasant bullet and decide if your coffee table is cool enough to handle it. 1537 grammes, 216 pages, 290mm by 230mm of hardback loveliness encased in a cloth covered slipcase. The content is courtesy of Doug Cheeseman, Martin Cloake & Adam Powley. The editorial team…
Good morning. Poor old comrade Pavlyuchenski. A number of things have conspired against him. Before we dip into these, it’s important to remember that every player is ultimately the master of his own ship. This isn’t a race horse that wasn’t trained right, wasn’t fed right and nobody knew because the horse couldn’t speak. In true Dragon’s Den speak, here’s where the old mad Russian is at right now. “I have to do something in the transfer period. We’re ahead of the European Championship. If I don’t change my club then Euro 2012 will be played without me. I was…
A big well done to Chris Purvis of Colchester who has won a copy of Norman Giller’s, ‘The Managing Game.’ I received my own copy a few days ago and have to say it’s simply tip top. A book of two halves is how Uncle Norm describes it and he ain’t wrong. The first half is a definitive analysis of every single Tottenham Hotspur manager there has ever been. Even fans who would like to think of themselves as having an encyclopedic knowledge of the Lilywhites will pick up something new here. The second half of the book is a…
Good morning. Those bookmakers still trading this morning must be spitting feathers. It seems every Spurs fan this side of the Great Wall of China had lumped on the 3-1 win. But the real reason to be cheerful for all was Scott Parker. We hear all the time about ‘winning mentality’. It’s a depressing truth that this mindset at Tottenham is something that seems too often be something that happens almost by chance. One of the main reasons that we have been driven out of our minds watching Spurs is having to watch too many of our lot seemingly, ‘not…
Good afternoon fight fans and welcome to a brave new world. Will this work? Well if drinking Heineken and getting to the pub early shows attention to detail then success in is guaranteed. So the box below should be live when I hit the button with the prong attached to my forehead. I say a brave new world but we’ve been here before. I remember doing a few of these on OleOle. One was good and I think our old mucker Lord Of The Wing put some class of a Caledonian hex on another :-D QPR Live Blog
Good afternoon, ladies. Well that’s ironic. Turns out Michael Dawson’s Achilles heel was in fact his Achilles. Some people wander the planet for years in fear of having one, not knowing what if they have one or if they do what exactly it might be; living in the shadow of the unknown nature of their downfall. And Michael’s was right under his nose all the time. Or in this instance his sock. It will be under several noses soon though. One belonging to specialist and then one would imagine another belong to someone wielding a scalpel. That leaves our back…
You may have heard of the game, The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon –http://snipurl.com/w8izl – I propose a new contender as the centre of the Small World Phenomenon; his name is Morris Keston. And he knows everyoneworth knowing. Morris has co-authored a book with Nick Hawkins, entitled “The amazing life of Morris Keston, Superfan”. His is a 66-year old story that is unlikely ever to be comparable to contemporary fanatical fandom, especially as everyday access to footballers is now nigh on impossible. With a few pennies in his pocket, a patient and understanding wife and a tenacity borne of his love for Tottenham Hotspur,…