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Another Derby Defeat.....Stop Me If You've Seen It Before.

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Win, lose or draw I generally try to leave it at least 24hrs after the end of the match before jotting down my musings on the outcome. This means whatever happens I'm feeling like I'm allowing for a period of reflection and post Wednesday night thats certainly required. On the face of it what happened was completely predictable. A stereo-typical North London Derby if you like, certainly the ones played at the Emirates. One team was far superior to the other. The lesser team failed to take advantage of the situation they found themselves in half an hour in.  The side with the predeliction for conceding comedy goals in sometimes unfortunate circumstances conceded a comedy goal in unfortunate circumstances and of course followed it up by conceding again almost immediately following two or if your being harsh, three individual errors. Burgvall Gets Stuck In, Johnson Looks On In Admiration Despite improving after the break the lesser team failed to have another shot on target after ...
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Lose, New Goalie, Win, Win (Eventually) - Welcome To 2025

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Unfortunately, lots of travelling for family reasons over the past couple of weeks has meant that I haven't been able to keep up with my writing up of how I see things going on with Spurs as well as I would ideally like. Obviously the ramblings of a middle aged misery are not exactly important compared to the health and well being of those you love and hold great regard for but I do hope to keep the scribbling up. Call it a sort of New Years Resolution. Anyway, the last game I commented on was the draw with Wolves. Next up was in-form Newcastle at home with what seemed like an almost 'International Break' gap of six days between the matches. Something quite unusual happened in the first four minutes in as much as Spurs actually took the lead. Dominic Solanke placed a superb header from a Porro cross into the corner of the Newcastle net. Sadly the lead lasted about as long as a Truss premiership and within two minutes the visitors were level.  Making his debut in goal for th...
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Out With The Old (Year) In With The New

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There's been a lot of two-ing and fro-ing in the build up to and indeed the period of Christmas thats meant with one thing and another I just haven't had the time to blog any Spurs updates for a while. Since my last effort, just after the 4-3 home victory over Manchester United in the League Cup quarter final the games have been bizarre, wholly predictable and very frustrating. In that order. First up was the home fixture with Liverpool. Now given how Liverpool have been performing under new boss Arne Slot this would have been a more than tricky game even with a full strength side available. Probably worth noting at this point that when Spurs were interested in employing Slot as manager they refused to pay the release clause included in his contract at Feyenood. The rest is of course history. This game would also be a dress rehersal for the first leg of the League Cup semi final where due to the draw we've avoided the humiliation of losing to Arsenal over two legs only to f...
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That 20 Albums Challenge From Bluesky

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Around about a montgh ago, one of the fellow Spurs fans that I follow on Bluesky  Steve Shearman  reposted the post below with his own first choice for the challenge. It seemed that it might be fun to have a go myself and started that day. Where it all started. As you see, part of this was to make no comment or put them in any kind of order, literally its just a case of using a picture of the album cover to show your choice. I decided I would be as spontanious as possible and try not to think too much about it until the moment that I would make my daily post. That is a lot more difficult in practice than in theory as I tend to overthink even the most simple of decisions. I also thought that when I've finished the twenty days it would be quite theraputic for me to put down my reasons for making the choices I did.  This was how it panned out:- DAY ONE DARE - THE HUMAN LEAGUE (Released October 1981) This was a very easy place to start for me. The album that spawned the numbe...
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Spurs Upset Media By Winning A Quarter Final

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It has suddenly occured to me today what Ange Postecoglu's biggest problem is, and its as plain as the nose on his face. Apart from the obvious one, that he's the manager of Tottenham Hotspur which brings its own internal problems when trying to create a winning team, its the fact that he's Australian and Australia as we all know is not a 'proper' football country. If only he were German, Italian, Spanish or Portugese. Second top scorers and joint third best defence (despite not having one) For me, then can be no other conclusion given the unbelievable reaction to our 4-3 win in last nights League Cup quarter final tie with Manchester United. Now you don't have to be a genius to know that the broadcaster (Sky TV) and the current sponsors (Carabao, whatever that is) would much rather have preferred United to get through, especially given the subsequent semi final 'draw' that paired Spurs with Liverpool. But for them to show such open annoyance at the end ...
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The Nonsense Of Rashford To Spurs

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Firstly I have to explain that I believe that Marcus Rashford is a very good footballer who plays in a position that is vital to the way Spurs currently set-up. He would be a very good addition to the squad if he was to rediscover the form thats been missing for the last year or so. This is not really up for debate but I'm more interested in the thought process that leads people to think that this transfer might actually happen. Rashford is a 27 year old England international who earns around £350k per week and is contracted at his club until 2028. Assuming that he's not prepared to take an enormous pay cut and would want a minimum four year deal, without even thinking about the potential transfer fee, his next club would be committing to approx £65-70m in wages. Lets say United were in a generous mood or the new boss really wants him out, you'd still be looking at a £40-50m transfer fee in addition to that. Its quite well known that Spurs have a somewhat 'restrictive...
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Son Shines On A Gray Day

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Having been away I didn't get the chance to put my thoughts on last Thurdays match in Glasgow against Rangers down on paper but in summary it was pretty much what we've seen barring one or two exceptions for most of this season.  Star man again was Fraser Forster, who is making me meet eat so much humble pie recently I'm thinking about joining 'Weightwatchers'. Like Spurs, Rangers played exactly how I expected them to and could count themselves a little unlucky not to win the match. Although Ange called out the performance of Timo Werner after the game, he could have been talking about any of the front five or Bissouma all of whom were dreadful in the first half. Given the situation, the defenders did well and the team improved with the second half changes. Kulusevski scored a fine equaliser, so now we roll on to the last two matches in the league stage still with a half decent chance of avoiding the extra round by finishing in the top eight. Sometimes the footballi...
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