As the magic of Mauricio Pochettino slew another ‘cursed’ ground for Tottenham in emphatic fashion, Mourinho’s misery deepened as a title-chasing Lilywhites side destroyed Manchester United at Old Trafford on Bank Holiday Monday. For the past couple of years, people have toyed with the idea that Tottenham look good enough to challenge for the Premier League title. However, question marks have always been raised over the club’s away form against its peers in the so-called ‘top 6’. Those who were in the habit of questioning Tottenham’s bottle at the Premier League’s elite grounds were silenced somewhat back in April, when…
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Tottenham are improving season on season, and once more look like being a key contender for the Premier League title, in 2017/18. With the North London club bereft of a top flight title since 1961, the more cynical Tottenham fan would see Chelsea’s unassailable haul of 93 points last term as a typical turn of fate for the Lilywhites. However, bookmakers appear to have more faith than ever in Mauricio Pochettino’s squad, even with the club now playing full time at Wembley for the next two seasons. According to the latest markets on football betting, Tottenham are currently 8/1 at…
Tottenham are a club in a desperate search for answers. It seems ridiculous for a club to spend over £100m on players to still fall so desperately far short of their Premier League ambitions. Those that tipped Spurs for a title tilt will be disappointed to find the North Londoners struggling to even squeeze their way into the Europa League reckoning for next season. Liverpool by contrast are flying high and will enter Sunday’s encounter with Spurs chasing their 7th consecutive league victory. Despite playing a game less, the ‘Reds’ have opened up a 9-point league over Spurs, and this is in no small…
Tim Sherwood is a man on the warpath, and who can blame him. The Tottenham boss was scathing in his assessment of the capitulation last weekend, and in the build up to tonight’s match he doesn’t seem to have softened his tact. Spurs’ Premier League top four ambitions are effectively over, and for Sherwood time appears to be running out on his fledgling managerial career. Whether or not Sherwood is simply keeping the seat warm for a more illustrious name at Spurs we don’t know, but clearly the Englishman wants to go down fighting. Speaking ahead of tonight’s Europa League tie with Benfica he…
Emmanuel Adebayor has been in menacing form since his return from footballing exile at the turn of the year. The Togolese frontman now has eight goals from just 11 Premier League appearances; a feat that has made him by far Tottenham’s most potent marksman. His imperious form has catapulted Tim Sherwood’s side back into the Champions League reckoning, and has left a number of the league’s finest defenders cowering in fear. The comparison between Emmanuel Adebayor and the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, is perhaps a tenuous one. Yet this hasn’t stopped a recent mock-up of Adebayor as the Wall St trader from…
Tottenham appear to be in the midst of a mini-revival under new man Tim Sherwood. Having matched their best away run since the 60’s and boosted their hopes of Champions League qualification in the process, it now seems strange that the managerial question continues to rear its head. Given their recent Premier League run it perhaps isn’t surprising that many Spurs fans are blinded by optimism. Sherwood was hardly the number one pick after AVB’s dismissal, but many having seen the change in style and ambition are happy to see how this new era pans out. The fact he is English and up…
‘The Spurs Way’ The notion that is for many the true test of a Tottenham manager. Indeed manager’s down the years have been branded failures and elevated to legendary status because of it; you only have to look at AVB to realise the value placed on playing with a flourish at White Hart Lane. Sacking the manager with the best win percentage in Spurs’ history was always going to be about more than just results, the Portuguese tactician was never able to create anything like the style of football that was expected of him in North London. There are echoes of the…
I don’t think anyone embodies a cult status more than our enigmatic German enforcer. Over 100 appearances and not a goal to show for his trials and tribulations say it all. A rugged, hard working individual who lacked any real degree of quality; but lets be fair we love him all the same. Freund typified an era of mediocrity for Spurs, and he shone out as a source of solidity amid our fragile footballing outfit. Infamous cries of ‘shooooot’ could be heard on most weekends, with our German midfielder notoriously told not to venture past the halfway line under George…
August has been a strange old month for the club, with the squad towards the back end baring little resemblance to that which we began the month with. A lot of the new recruits have made positive impacts during their first few weeks at the club, but my stand out player for August is someone that has risen through the ranks at the club. A breakthrough month for Townsend was finally recognised by a full England call up, having represented the country at junior levels already. It is perhaps easy to get carried away with the rise to prominence of…