When your name is started being batted about by a couple of token publications about a nonsensical move abroad, it’s usually a sure sign that you’re enjoying a half-decent season and in regards to Aaron Lennon, that simply couldn’t be more true. In recent days, both the renowned powerhouses of journalistic truth in Football Italia and Portuguese daily A Bola, have reported that tomorrow night’s visitors to the Lane, Inter Milan, are about to make an £8million move for our right winger. Now regardless of the fact £8million would probably only buy you a shaved eyebrow and a pair of…
Author: Sam Antrobus
From white Armani suits on cup final day, to kicking off with a couple of airhead-Americans on a reality TV show, Neil Ruddock doesn’t tend do the understated. Indeed, such is Razor’s larger-than-life, footballing Godfather persona, it’s easy to forget that the former-Liverpool man, Spice Boy, Big Brother Contestant and one-time England man enjoyed an incredibly underrated spell at Tottenham Hotspur. So when The Hotspur Way caught up with Razor, we were only too keen to hear what he had to say about AVB, Bale-mania and what he thinks about our chances moving forward this season. Razor, it was…
Looking for another reason to celebrate yesterday’s win might seem a bit like sleeping with Michelle Keegan and then boasting about the colour of the bed sheets. Although beneath the hysteria, seven point gap and copious amounts of AVB man-love that came out of yesterday’s 2-1 win over the Arse, we also slayed one of the lazier urban myths that have been thrown our way in recent times. If you simply looked at the score sheet without actually watching a minute of yesterday’s game – which it often feels as if might be the case with half of Fleet Street’s…
Eleven games to go, North London derby approaching and a strike force with all the sharpness of a Jason McAteer stand-up routine; the Lilywhites are screaming out for a fresh pair of legs up front and right on cue, Jermain Defoe appears ready to return to battle this weekend. Speaking in the press conference ahead of Sunday’s clash with the Arse, Villas-Boas told reporters: “Jermain trained with the team the last two days and so hopefully he will be available for selection if he trains again tomorrow. “He’s definitely a contender for the game.” Indeed, given the impotency/non-existence/steaming pile of…
Shedding ten stone in such a short amount of time is a feat usually afforded to such mythical figures like Andy Fordham or the Nutty Professor but following Gylfi Sigurdsson’s scrappy goal against the Spammers on Monday night, we can add the Icelander to that list, too. Speaking to Ham & High today, the faltering 23-year-old described how his equalizer in the glorious 3-2 win felt like both a weight of the shoulders and a shot in the arm of confidence, all in one go. “Getting that first goal, I feel 10 stone lighter,” he said. “This is why I…
Well that was good fun, wasn’t it? Given the eulogising that’s donned more or less every corner of the digital footballing sphere over the past 12 hours, there’s not particularly much left to say about Gareth Bale at the moment. For all the really quite absurd amounts of potential supporters saw in him, it’s difficult to believe quite how far his journey’s come from a hair-clipped full-back of fragility to one of European football’s most devastating weapons. Make no mistake about it, watching him play in a Spurs shirt is a blessing at the moment and long may that continue.…
From one cup final yesterday to another this evening, our return to Upton Park after a season’s absence sees us renew our participation in the bubble-blowers’ favourite match of the year. Ah yes, it’s the one which usually involves our seasoned mockney friends from the good ‘ol affluent Essex East End spending 90 minutes trying to convince us that we should despise them more than Arsenal. It’s good fun, isn’t it? Obviously we do take it a little more seriously than we all like to make out. After all, there’s nothing worse than your Spammer supporting work colleague (usually a…
When your only notable contribution of a match comes around 30 seconds from full-time, then you better make sure it’s a good’un. And in scoring a rasping 20-yard strike to send his team through to the Europa League last-16, the odds are that Mousa Dembele won’t make a more important singular contribution all season. Of course, while we would have all liked to see some form of seasoned, experienced away performance against Lyon last night, that simply isn’t the Tottenham way and after about 10 minutes, we were already looking like a Die Hard sequel; relentlessly rubbish, but strangely captivating…
Another European away day and another story of Spurs (and to a greater extent, that of an English clubs) supporters’ blood being spilt on the streets. Sounds all rather melodramatic, doesn’t it? Perhaps if you’re a Uefa bureaucrat sitting within the confines of your minimalistic Nyon office, it might. If you’re a football fan – or more importantly a half-decent human being living in the confines of reality – there’s nothing much to overplay about getting assaulted by a bunch of Neo-Nazi scumbags. We will eagerly await Uefa’s reaction before casting further judgment, but for an institution who deem a…