Morning. Is there another football club like us? Our players take to the pitch a creaky PA system blasting some macho Star Wars tune. Our intrepid boys ought charge out to The Entry Of The Gladiators. Just as I thought we were on a reprieve from the day to day idiocies of life in the N17 fast lane – news from yonder Evening Standard breaks. Clive Allen has given Jermain Defoe a Jimmy Greaves golden goal compilation video. Innocent enough you might think. Until you discover it was in the guise of a ‘How To Guide.’ This is not so…
Author: Harry Hotspur
I went to bed last night with a mild sense of unease. Awoke with a full on pain in my shoulder and then it dawned on me. My goat. The goat was gone. I’d not switched on the TV for more than a few minutes and it everything fell into place. Sluralix had got my goat. “You hope you get a really strong referee in games like this, it was a major game for both clubs and you want a fair referee, you know … You want a strong referee, anyway, and we didn’t get that. I don’t know why…
When Football Was Football is brilliant. Let me qualify that. It’s a photographic historical document rather than just a book. The guy behind this has gone above and beyond the call of duty to bring together an exceptional collection of images that lead you through the history of our tribe. The use of the Mirror’s archive is inspired. And so the result you get is a genuinely unique one. Adam Powley – we salute you. Nice work, fella. And is that Sid Trotter, third snap down, in front of the bus? Buy it HERE.
Guten Tag. I feel asleep and when I woke up it was one nil. Dropped off again and this time when I focused in there was Nicolas Bendtner stood there, a hat-trick to the good trying not to smile, trying to do something with his hair. I thought when Jim Henson made them that big they put people inside. Barry Hearn was good value before the kick off. He presents very well and one can only hope he manages to get something as positive as himself back from his begging letters to the wide and the worthy over the winding…
Hello listener. Can I shock you? I’m looking forward to another FA Cup tie tonight. ‘They’ say that these domestic pots are dead, but they still hold a bit of magic in the Hotspur household. Even if you minus the Arsenal factor from proceedings, the FA Cup throws together big fish and minnows and that can only be good for football. Anway, word in via Italian media of all places is that a football club called Paris Saint Germaine Greer made an approach for Kaboul In A China Shop. The enquiry was greeted with a brief but polite, ‘Not today,…
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…
Morning. Good old Arry. Loves a bit of the old microphone. And 7Days.ae found our Arry most obliging. “The Champions League’s so important for us, we need to make it again, it’s so close with us, Manchester City and Chelsea. I think it’s between us three for the final two places. “We had a terrible game away to Blackpool, which was a massive setback for us. Everything just went wrong on the day, so we have to come back from that now. We can’t afford to slip up again. “It’ll be a tough game at Wolves, but it’s one we…
On Defoe: “Defoe has an injury again. He’s had a problem with his ankle before and it didn’t feel too good,” “We’re trying to finish in the top four and it’s so close. But we’ve got so many players injured, people forget. We’ve got Tom Huddlestone, Younes Kaboul, Ledley King, Woodgate, Bale, Van der Vaart. If you could pick a team of injured players it would be a fantastic team.” “We had a terrible day at Blackpool, which was a massive setback for us,” he said. “We had been playing so well and everything just went wrong on the day.…
Word on the street is that the player will either go to Olympique Marseille or rock up at The Lane when his contract expires in June. Oscar Wendt is 25 years of age and a left back and we have had people watching him very recently I am assured. Not the stuff to spark school hysterics as a solution to our Jerry Cottle striker situation. But if we did land him it would certainly be one of those intelligent, shoring up the squad for campaigns on many fronts type signings. And at the rate we’re gifting penalties these days, it’s…