Tottenham Hotspur Season Preview 2011-12 Part 2 How Do We Fit Everyone In?

It’s started. Prematurely ecstatic over Diarra’s arrival, a couple of days ago a messageboard poster was positively drooling over his midfield selection. ‘Diarra and Sandro as DMs, Modric and Hud further forward with Lennon and Bale on the wings. Can’t wait to see that!’ It took a while before a few people gently pointed out [...]

Postponement could prove a blessing

Yet when you see the likes of Manchester City, Liverpool and Manchester United spending big money to bring in top names it just makes you realise how far away from Fourth Spurs actually are.

Stoke make final offer for duo

Stoke City have made a final take-it-or-leave-it offer for Tottenham duo Peter Crouch and Wilson Palacios.

Crouch: Arsenal are catchable

Tottenham striker Peter Crouch believes the club can leapfrog rivals Arsenal in the race for fourth spot next season.

Crouch pleads for Modric stay

Tottenham striker Peter Crouch has pleaded with in-demand midfielder Luka Modric to remain at White Hart Lane next season.

Tottenham Hotspur Season Preview 2011/12. Now Is The Time

Football hardly seems important in N17 today. Regards to the families and good people of Tottenham. Here’s part 1 of the season preview – an overview. More on Tuesday, earlier if I pull my finger out – the best of the rest, tactics and off the field Season 2011-12 represents a watershed in the modern [...]

Pav agent believes Crouch will leave

Oleg Artemov, agent of Roman Pavlyuchenko, believes that it will be Peter Crouch who will leave Tottenham this month.

Vucinic For United? Do We Need Him?

Roma’s talented striker Mirko Vucinic is being linked with a move to Manchester United according to his agent who claims preliminary talks have started to sign the Montenegro international.

Vucinic For United? Other Clubs Need Him More

Roma’s talented striker Mirko Vucinic is being linked with a move to Manchester United according to his agent who claims preliminary talks have started to sign the Montenegro international.

Spurs need to open the doors for Summer Sales

The vision of Harry Redknapp arriving at a remote car park in the early hours of Sunday morning, his boot stuffed full with Alan Hutton, Roman Pavlychenko and Giovanni Dos Santos, might seem far fetched now, but time waits for no one these days.

The real reason Spurs came fifth?

There has been many a discussion post season as to why we finished in fifth spot in the league last season, when many, myself included, thought that fourth should have been a definite and maybe even second or third was a real possibility. Some of the post mortem debates have been; Was it the lack [...]

Rentrée médiatique

Avec la reprise de l’entraînement, les journalistes se sont rendu au centre d’entraînement de Tottenham, du moins à l’entrée de celui-ci pour poser des questions aux joueurs désirant s’arrêter. Sur le site de Sky Sports, les vidéos des déclarations de Rafael van der Vaart et de Benoît Assou-Ekotto sont disponibles. van der Vaart s’exprime sur [...]

Crouch et le miroir, la suite

Crouch en 2 vidéos

Ces derniers temps, 2 vidéos concernant Peter Crouch ont fait leur apparition. Même s’il n’apparaît pas physiquement dans la première, le joueur de Tottenham sert d’exemple pour une démonstration du concept de  Pro Player Intelligence du jeux vidéo FIFA 12. Celui-ci prend en compte les points forts des joueurs contrôlés par l’IA pour rendre les [...]

Gyan to go. To Spurs? Or transfer talk just getting silly

Niall Quinn’s denial is welcomed and reported at this link. Rather puts Mr Alan Nixon of the Daily Mirror on the spot. Read on … Last week Salut! Sunderland offered an unfashionable defence of football journalists after all the speculation surrounding Jordan Henderson, at least to the extent of pointing out that despite kneejerk condemnation [...]

Rafa praises Crouch

Tottenham midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart has lavished praise on team mate Peter Crouch.

Crouch and Pav happy at Spurs

Tottenham striking duo Peter Crouch and Roman Pavlyuchenko have both insisted they are happy at White Hart Lane.

Redknapp, Friedel, Kaboul, Crouch, Jol…

Interrogé par Sky Sports, Harry Redknapp indique de nouveau qu’il ne souhaite pas que Bale, Sandro et/ou Modric quittent le club. Son objectif est de consolider son équipe avec la venue d’un ou deux joueurs de haut niveau et non … Continuer la lecture →

Does Peter Crouch have reason to complain?

When Emile Heskey used to play for England (one retirement I was happy to hear of) he never used to score goals. In fact he was so un-prolific that the other players had to make up reasons as to why he was in the team. “he holds the ball up so well” or “he brings other people into the game” as I remember he seemed to have trouble holding himself up let alone the ball and apart from when he was subbed, there was very little evidence of him ever bringing other people into the game.

Crouch to consider international future

Tottenham striker Peter Crouch has said he will consider his international career over the summer.

Chapter 1: 2010-11 Review of United’s season

If Sir Alex Ferguson were a boy scout, he would have earned his firefighting badge several times over in the 2010-11 season. The FA doesn’t keep stats for such things but I’d be willing to wager a few bob that Fergie spent more time attempting to put out fires than he did preparing the Red…

Tottenham Hotspur That Was The Season That Was. The Manager

Harry Redknapp has met me. Years ago my neighbour at the time organised a testimonial for one of the Charlton players against West Ham and my wife’s family are rabid Hammers, so there we were in the director’s box at the Valley. Before kick-off Peter waves to me and beckons me down to the front. [...]

Seven candidates to transform Tottenham’s attack

Thumbs up if you’d probably score more goals than CrouchUltimately, it all comes down to goals. In 2009/10, we scored a lot of them and were able to finish fourth as a result. In 2010/11, we couldn’t hit the proverbial barn door with a banjo. End resul…

Spurs vs Birmingham City Review- 90 minutes that mirrored our season

So that’s it for another rollercoaster year at Tottenham Hotspur and it ended in a deserved victory but also a performance that highlighted all the deficiencies that have been a constant thorn throughout this season. It also ended in relegation for Birmingham City, a club who if I’m honest I won’t miss. I must admit [...]

This is as good as it gets

Firstly, frequent readers of this blog, I apologise for the lack of activity this past week in the build up to the season finale. I was brainwashed by the other half and spent most of it with her and the rugrat. Something about the latter celebrating h…