For those looking to keep tabs on the fortunes of our youngsters at White Hart Lane, you don’t have to go very far to find out how they’re all getting on. Most Spurs fans’ timelines are choc-a-bloc with Tweets detailing how our fantastic U21 side have been coping with life in the rather tediously titled ‘Professional Development League’ and beyond. Furthermore, the mainstream coverage that the NextGen tournament has attained – in which our boys sadly went out of at the hands of Sporting Lisbon last night in a spirited 5-3 defeat – has ensured a lot more of us…
Author: Sam Antrobus
It wouldn’t of course be the first time that Tottenham Hotspur have tried to raid the south-coast for a prodigious, teenage, left-sided talent, but regardless of whether we really are in for Luke Shaw or not, his recent link with a move to N17 gives us a good bit of food for thought. Yesterday’s report in the Haringey Independent hardly amounted to a cast-iron bit of journalistic fact, but the cited claim of Daniel Levy feeling smug confident about landing an initial £8million deal – potentially rising to a £15million- for the 17-year-old seems to check out in both fee…
As nightmares go, Sunday’s 1-0 home calamity against Fulham must sit up there with one of the biggest humdingers we’ve had all season. A 5-2 spanking away to the hands of the Arse, it most certainly was not. But the timing of it couldn’t have been worse. Not one single bit. Like your ex-wife and dirty bit on the side coming back to haunt a perfectly stable relationship, Big Martin Jol and Dimitar Berbatov played their part in ensuring Andre Villas-Boas was in the doghouse with the majority of the fans. And that’s putting it mildly following the second bizarre…
It’s not often such an abject train-wreck of a performance can still manage to bring such joy, but for those still claiming they have little emotional attachment to the Europa League, we can all be pretty sure that’s absolute garbage. Last night was the sort of performance that we all know and love from Tottenham Hotspur. A proper Spurs performance I’m sure you’ll agree. After going on a remarkable, record 12 game unbeaten run in the league, it felt almost as if this team had forgotten how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, but last night suggested that…
He may have had a tough time of it in recent weeks, but one thing you can’t accuse Kyle Walker of is hiding away. Especially so when he’s putting his reputation on the line against some of the best FIFA 13 players that this country has to offer. Gary Neville once described Chelski’s David Luiz as looking like he was ‘being controlled by a 10-year old on a Playstation’ which surely on the same grounds would mean Walker was being controlled by a senile 70-year-old on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum last Sunday. Either way, this week the England full-back had…
Following The Hotspur Way’s weekend grievances with Kyle Walker, we thought it only fair to contrast the criticism with a dabbling of praise and in particular, shoot down one small moral panic that was beginning to arise amongst a handful of supporters. Following the turn of the year, a time when Spurs have been heavily backed in Premier League betting markets, our dear old Mousa Dembele managed to upset a few of us by proving he was, contrary to popular belief, a human being. Such was his alarmingly consistent ability to mug opponents off in the centre of midfield and…
There aren’t many sets of supporters that could somehow manage to come to the end of a 12 match unbeaten run in a fiery ball of raging debate, but for Tottenham Hotspur fans, we’ve managed to defy the odds once again. The overwhelmingly stand-out talking points from yesterday’s 3-2 defeat away to Liverpool (if you were wearing white, of course), were undoubtedly the two suicidal spots of defending that gifted Brent-don Rodgers and his boys their equalizing and winning goals respectively. But there was only one man that was dominating discussion. You can put a Rizla paper between who…
While The Hotspur Way was quite keen on pining for a ‘big European night ™’ it’s probably fair to say that none of us were expecting that. Far from just rising to the occasion and indulging in one of the finer marquee ties that – not just the Europa League, but European football as a whole – had to offer, Spurs actually raised it up a notch and churned out arguably the finest all-round 90 minutes of football that we’ve seen at White Hart Lane this term. Now before we start flying off the handle on this one, it’s worth…
It’s always hard to write one of these pro-Europa pieces without aiming a sly-dig in the ribs at the twitch-hiker over in charge at Loftus Road these days, but as we look forward to this evening, it’s ever so hard to resist, isn’t it? There’s nothing better than throwing the words, ‘big’, ‘European night’, ‘White Hart Lane’ and a poor Italian pun all in one sentence. But, bellissimo – isn’t this what it’s all about? Our match tonight will of course evoke memories of that magnificent Champions League encounter and it seems a little bizarre to think over two-and-a-bit years…