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Spurs Duo Could Return Soon

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Dec 132010
 

Following yesterday’s Chelsea game Harry Redknapp talked about his central defenders after he was down to his last fit pair in Michael Dawson and Sebastian Bassong and even Dawson himself has just returned from a 3 month lay off.

“Michael did well. It’s his first week back and I had to play him.

“I was hoping Kaboul would be fit, Gallas did his hamstring on Friday, so we had to throw Michael in. I was worried he wouldn’t last the game and you have to be careful. He’s done great, a fantastic competitor and an amazing fellow.

“Kaboul could be back next week. I don’t know when Gallas will be back. He stretched for the ball and felt it tear.

“We’ve coped okay whoever has come in. Luckily we’ve got plenty of centre-halves who’ve done well.”

Harry then talked about Tottenham club captain Ledley King and a possible return. “Ledley is improving and he might be back soon.

“We have a date for Ledley to have an operation. The surgeon is available until December 23 but is then away for four weeks so we have to make a decision by then.

“He’s coming on well. If he feels okay we will not operate. If he has to have it, it will be five weeks. But he’s feeling good.”

So hopefully either Kaboul or King is fit for next weekend, even to just go on the bench because if something happens to Dawson or Bassong we have nothing left.

Good News For Ledley

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Dec 102010
 

Tottenham club captain Ledley King has received a major boost after being told his groin problem doesn’t need surgery. King had missed the past couple of months with Tottenham through his troublesome groin and fear he would need surgery. Ledley flew out to Copenhagen to see a specialist who gave him the all clear and also told him he can start training again next week.

Tottenham assistant manager Joe Jordan said:

“If all goes will and he continues to improve, Ledley will be back with the squad next week,”

“We’ve tried not to go down the route of surgery, but instead make progress by strengthening the muscles in that area. He feels that there has been an improvement and we will continue like this.”

Good news, wouldn’t it be amazing if in the new year we could boast fit defenders like King Woodgate, Dawson, Gallas, Kaboul and Bassong. Yeah I know I am dreaming but you never know.

What An Insult

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Dec 102010
 

You will have to forgive me for this one because I know primarily we are a Tottenham blog but I just want to discuss the Newcastle situation at the moment.

Chris Hughton, done a fantastic job in his first managers position since leaving Tottenaham. He steadied the ship and got the team playing again as a unit, they worked for each other. The players loved him and the fans recognized what a great job he had done. Chris took Newcastle United back up to the Premiership where they looked comfortable in mid table but that twat Ashley wanted a big name manager in and was waiting weeks for Newcastle to lose another game so he could sack Hughton.

Anyway so Mike Ashley wanted a big name manager in so what does he do? he appoints Alan Pardew! Come on that is an insult to Chris Hughton, he has done a better job in his short time as a manager than Pardew has his whole career. To be fair to Pardew I thought he done a decent job at reading then I thought he was a bit harshly treated at West Ham but come on what has this bloke ever done that warrants sacking Hughton and replacing him with Pardew. I might be able to understand if it was Jose Mourinho who replaced Hughton.

I am sorry to all you Newcastle fans, you have been through a lot the past few years but Ashley has got it wrong and I think you all know it. I will poke my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon if Pardew is successful with Newcastle but I can really see this upsetting things again and I can really see that eventually you will slump down the table again.

Your chairman is an embarrassment to football, he doesn’t have a clue and he doesn’t listen to the fans and most of all he has disrespected Chris Hughton who has done a great job and replaced him with a pony manager. I think it tells its own story when you see the small number of people who turned up to welcome Pardew to the club compared to previous managers. Us Spurs fans know how you feel, whenever we lost our managers we used to end up with David Pleat.

Once again I feel for you Newcastle fans, things were starting to look up for you, hopefully they still will but I am not so confident anymore. You deserve better than the chairman you have.

Aston Villa Set To Swoop

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Dec 092010
 

The rumours are gathering momentum that Aston Villa are set to make their move in a £6 million deal for Tottenham and Ireland striker Robbie Keane.

Keane wants out of Tottenham after falling down the pecking order to 4th choice striker at the club and with his wages of £60,000 a week Spurs are desperate to offload. Robbie accepts he will take a pay cut when he moves on.

Villa have been looking at Keane since the summer but a deal never materialized after Martin O’neill left the club. Gerard Houllier however has reignited his interest in Keane and the rumours are spreading that Villa are set to make an offer anytime soon as they fear they may miss out because of the other clubs sniffing around.

Tottenham will look to invest the money they make on Keane in their own new signings in January.

We want our Tottenham back!

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Dec 082010
 

I normally love watching the latest act of idiocy on Tyneside, be it calls for a “boycoutt” or another fumbling screw-up from Mike Ashley.  I hate the ongoing media love-in over the Geordies and their football, the way we’re always being told we “don’t understand how much football means” in the North East, and I enjoy watching them being taken down a peg or two. But the sacking of Chris Hughton has absolutely appalled me, and not just because of Hughton’s Spurs past. It’s such a ridiculous decision that I can’t help but be outraged, and for once, I really do feel sorry for Geordie fans, who had thought there was finally some stability and pride back at their club, only to see the chubby purveyor of jockstraps who calls himself their owner needlessly ruin it all again. And their obvious confusion and anger sent me on a trip down memory lane to our own dark days of “we want our Tottenham back” misery. Haven’t heard that sung for a while. Remember singing it at Leyton Orient before going absolutely mental when Gary Doherty scuffed an injury time winner? God, we were pathetic.

Football is a fickle game, and as we cruise into the CL knockout stages, we should remember one thing – until very recently, we rivalled Newcastle as the biggest circus in the Premier League, and one day we probably will again. Right now is an absolutely sublime time to be a Tottenham fan, and we should enjoy it while we can.

Just in case you’d missed it, take a look at Pot One for the upcoming Champions League last 16 draw:

Schalke 04, Manchester United, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Shaktar Donetsk, Tottenham Hotspur.

There we are, one of an elite eight clubs at the pinnacle of global club football. It’s what we’ve been waiting for, for years and years and years. Who would have imagined it that day on the terraces at Brisbane Road?And yet I’ve noticed that some fans seem to have already started taking it all for granted.

Against Werder Bremen a couple of weeks back, I was stunned to see fans leaving in large numbers well before the final whistle. We were about to qualify for the Champions League last sixteen, having never before been in the competition at all, and yet people thought beating the traffic was more important  than clapping the team off? Are we already so infected with “Big 4” arrogance that we can’t appreciate what we’re seeing, and give this side the love they deserve?

This season has seen us come from behind to beat the Scum away, destroy the reigning European Champions at the Lane, witness one of our players become one of the most talked about midfielders in the world, top the Champions League scoring charts, break records and set Europe’s top club competition alight. It is, to borrow a phrase, Schoolboy’s Own stuff. Let’s make sure that the atmosphere at the Lane reflects that, and let’s think very, very carefully before we bitch about anything, because before you know it we could be appointing Alan Pardew.

Heard A Whisper About Woodgate

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Dec 082010
 

I know some people don’t like ITK stuff and I don’t usually do it myself and if anyone else who knows anything can confirm before I get slated that would be great.

Someone I know who’s in the Spurs academy said good old Jonathan Woodgate was doing some light training this week and looked to be ok.

Woodgate had an operation a couple of months ago which Harry said was his final throw of the dice. It was reported a few weeks ago that everything seemed to be so far so good and Woodgate was doing some work in the gym. Jermain Defoe said the same. Sources tell me he has started light training and running this week.

Harry said that Woodgate would eventually undergo a month of intense training and if he can come through that without any setbacks he will be back in the Spurs 25 man squad in January.

If true then it’s good news, would be like a new signing to have Woody back. Obviously it would take him a while to regain his sharpness and he probably wouldn’t be as sharp as he was before but he will still have enough to be a top defender for us.

Champions League Knockout Stages – Who Tottenham Could Face

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Dec 082010
 

*UPDATED*

Here is the final list of who we could face in the knockout stages of the Champions League.

In this round we can’t face any English teams neither can we face a team that has won their group, it has to be a 2nd place team from another group.

Eight of the 16 teams in the draw – those that won their sections in the group stage – are seeded, with the eight runners-up unseeded. The runners-up are drawn first and play the first-leg matches at home. They cannot be paired with either the winners from their section or clubs from the same association. The draw will be on 17th December.

1) Lyon (Runners up group B)

2) Valencia (Runners up group c)

3) FC Copenhagen ( Runners up group D)

4) Roma (Group E)

5) Marseille (Group F)

6) AC Milan (Group G)

7) Shakhtar Donetsk (Group H if Arsenal top the group after tonight)

So who would you fancy and who would you like to avoid?

The Arsenal Handbag Wall (A Must See)

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Nov 212010
 

Following up from my last blog I had a lovely piece of work sent in by a fan, picture is by Nick and Martin Fry in Jersey, good work lads.

You might remember a similar picture made up of the Argentina team of 98 and if you wish to see that picture it is in my previous blog which you can find a link to over on the right.

As we all know we beat Arsenal Saturday, good goal by bale and another by Kaboul at the end but there was one goal which lead to us being awarded a penalty. Take a look below to see what I am talking about.

Now obviously I expect I will get slated by this by Arsenal fans, let me just take this opportunity to say this is a light hearted bit of banter that we have waited a long time to give you guys as you have dominated the derby’s for years. If you are a true Arsenal fan you have to admit that your players need a good old fashioned telling off for the way they bottle it when in a wall and for that, your players fully deserve to have pictures like this made up.

Tottenham v Aston Villa – Starting Lineups

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Oct 022010
 

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With kick off just moments away we bring you the starting XI from both teams.

Harry has gone for 4-4-2 but Ledley King hasn’t managed to be fit for the game, it looks as though Tom Huddlestone will be playing at the back with Bassong, oh dear how unlucky are we with injuries that we have to play one of our best midfielders at the back. I don’t know about anyone else but it doesn’t seem like the best move loaning out Caulker now, maybe we should have held on to him for another month.

If we are going to win the match then we will have to win the battle of midfield, we have our strongest midfield on the pitch except Hudd who is at the back, how will he cope there, last time he was asked to play there he did ok, nothing special but he done a half decent job. The back four will be our main concern and I am sure Villa will be looking to exploit it. Bit of a strange selection, Corluka is on the bench and surely he would have been obvious choice for center half, I am guessing that Harry has been spending a lot of time this week training with Huddlestone at the back.

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Have We Used The Olympic Stadium To Get What We Want?

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Oct 022010
 

OK so the new White Hart Lane development plans have now been approved by the Council which leaves Boris Johnson two weeks to also approve things, so my question is why are we still being linked with the Olympic Stadium? I have a couple of possibilities in mind.

It’ll be to act as pressure for the Mayor of London and the Secretary of State to approve the development of WHL. Everyone knows that the Tottenham area is in desperate need of redevelopment and if they think for a second that Spurs will move to a different venue then they will approve it. Nobody else is willing to pump millions into the local community. Spurs are just “encouraging” them to make their decision more quickly. I don’t for one minute think we’ll move to the Olympic Stadium.

The bid for the Olmypic Stadium could be there for back-up should Tottenham not get the full approval needed to start redevloping White Hart Lane which would then give us the option of moving to the Olympic Stadium should we win the bid. I don’t think this is our intention, I fully believe that making White Hart Lane into an almost 60,000 seater stadium is the number one goal here.

It could just be another masterstroke by Daniel Levy by putting pressure on the council to approve plans, it has taken months to get the council to approve it and to me it’s no coincidence that the day we are linked with making a bid for the Olympic Stadium that Haringey Council unanimously vote in favour of Spurs being able to redevelop White Hart Lane.

Of course we can’t rule out the possibility that the board actually do want the Olmypic Stadium to be our new home ground, they might see this as the cheaper option although I don’t think they will ever have the backing of the fans should they decide to push ahead with the idea.

Van Der Vaart Taunts Sneijder

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Oct 022010
 

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Rafael Van der Vaart may well be suspended for the Champions League clash between Inter and Spurs but that hasn’t stopped him taunting his Dutch Pal Wesley Sneijder by text message ahead of the big game.

“Wesley is a good friend of mine. We talk a lot and I was looking forward to playing against him.

“I am going to miss playing – but I might be sending Wesley some texts before the game.

“We must be careful. He is in great form.”

Sneijder and Van der Vaart played in the World Cup Final together in the summer for Holland but were beaten by Spain, both players are good friends and both thought of very highly in their homeland.

Tottenham v Aston Villa Live!!

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Oct 022010
 

To watch live today at 3pm click the link at the bottom of the article for the forum.

Nothing less than a win today please Harry, after last week’s result against The Hammers we can’t afford another slip up, not even a draw is good enough today.

Due to Spurs injury worries at the back Ledley King may play two games in a week should he tell the Spurs boss he is up to the task, if King does feel he can handle another game he will be joined by Bassong at the back. I would expect Hutton to play right and BAE on the left which will free up Bale for the left mid spot. Should King not be able to play then Corluka will join Bassong at the back.

Jermain Defoe, Michael Dawson, Jamie O’Hara and Jonathan Woodgate are still all long term casualties although Michael Dawson may return to training by the end of the month to boos Harry’s options at the back.

Aston Villa have Richard Dunne back in contention for today but Gabriel Agbonlahor is still injured. Houllier has taken the reigns at Villa Park and the players will be keen to impress the new boss so Spurs will have to be on top form to earn their three points.

Possible Teams

Tottenham Squad: Gomes, Cudicini, King, Hutton, Bale, Bassong, Corluka, Jenas, Assou-Ekotto, Huddlestone, Lennon, Palacios, Sandro, Kranjcar, Bentley, Modric, Van der Vaart, Dos Santos, Crouch, Keane, Pavyluchenko, Pletikosa.

Aston Villa Squad: Friedel, L Young, Dunne, Collins, Cuellar, Warnock, Albrighton, Petrov, Reo-Coker, Downing, A Young, Heskey, Guzan, Clark, Ireland, Davies, Bannan, Carew, Agbonlahor, Delfouneso.

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