For those that like their full-backs to have big hair, bigger personalities and occasional suicidal tendencies within their own penalty area, the chances are that recent reports linking our very own Benoit Assou-Ekotto with a move away from Tottenham Hotspur are likely to have you dismayed. Indeed, while we are at pains to remind one and all that the Daily Mirror’s ‘scoop’ – one first broke by the faultless journalistic institution that is the Sunday People – is hardly the word of gospel, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Disco Benny’s name linked with a move away from the…
Author: Sam Antrobus
It was always asking too much to make whatever fate that may eventually lie in wait for us to be quick and painless. As it goes, defeat to FC Basel on penalties was indeed the most heart-wrenching and excruciatingly painful way to go out imaginable. Luckily for us, we’ve got the whole weekend to drown our sorrows without the impending doom of a Premier League fixture and for both players and support, the postponement of the Chelsea fixture now looks like something of a Godsend. But as the dust starts to settle on the morning after the night before, perhaps…
The squad’s on its knees, our league form has capitulated and we, the supporters, are showing about as much composure as a Noe Pamarot challenge in the penalty area. So are we gonna go hell for leather in a Europa League away tie we appear to have little chance of coming out of on top? You bet we are. For those who have any gripes with the notion of AVB putting out a full strength side this evening, far from simply pressing the ‘x’ button in the corner of your web browser, you’re probably best off watching Cowboy Builders on…
Now that the dust has settled on the Everton game and we’ve all had 24 hours to calm down a little, now might seem as good a time as ever to sift through the wreckage that is our now defunct seven point gap (R.I.P) over the Arse. But far from finding the black-box and weeping uncontrollably over how it happened, now’s not the time to dwell on the past. It is what it is and contrary to popular belief, we’re not dead and buried just yet. It’s time to get some home truths going on and ease a bit of…
If tomorrow’s game against Everton is the second of our eight remaining cup finals in the Premier League, then we seem to have stumbled into it with all the preparation of a raging alcoholic going on a 12-hour bender before a job interview. The carnage we managed to inflict upon ourselves within the 2-2 struggle against Basel during Thursday night’s Europa League tussle could of course happened during any fixture this season. But as we head into the game against the Toffees with both Aaron Lennon and Gareth Bale set to sit on the sidelines, we seem to have got…
Quite how much of a role the Bank Holiday played in suppressing the traditional moaning that usually seems to accompany every Spurs game this season, we can’t be too sure. Although we like to think you also all feel nice and refreshed after enjoying a weekend that didn’t involve hearing the words ‘doomed’ ‘4-4-2’ or ‘that useless *insert profanity here* couldn’t hit Martin Jol’s forehead with a banjo’. Well, it’s probably pushing it to go three days without slaughtering Adebayor, but still, it’s progress. Yet instead of waiting for the next gripe to rear it’s ugly head like Luke Chadwick…
A hard-fought 2-1 win over a handy Swansea City side might not exactly have us cracking out the champers, but with seven cup finals still remaining, perhaps we can at least give ourselves a nice pat on the back after success in our first one. Indeed, with the team now carrying a crushing Andy Reid-sized weight of expectation and pressure upon their shoulders, yesterday’s visit to the Liberty Stadium was all set up for another devastating fall. But far from writing our own obituaries just yet, we managed to overcome what was a very tricky hurdle indeed against Michael Laudrup’s…
It perhaps tells you everything you need to know about football in today’s age, that a seethingly bland corporate press release is now enough to get the pulses racing. It may well be more a reflection of The Hotspur Way’s limited threshold of excitement, that BT’s recent announcement that it’s signed our very own Gareth Bale up, was enough to get us smiling. But in the grand old scheme of things, it’s enough for us to make a couple of wild assumptions – one of which will probably build our hopes up high enough to get painfully smashed at the…
Rejoice, revel and praise the Hodge: the Jermain Defoe three-month goal famine has finally ended and by God, didn’t he just end it in style. A well taken brace against a bunch of part-timers in the guise of San Marino the other night is hardly going to bag our JD a Ballon d’Or, but regardless of how pony the opposition were, we shouldn’t underestimate the confidence that might now start flowing for the wee man. Because regardless of the small injury lay off Defoe endured following the West Brom game, the brutal truth is that the 30-year old has been…