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Daily Spurs Guide: Rafael Wants Real Champions League Test

by Dan Fitch on September 3, 2010

On This Day In Spurs History: 3rd September 1988 – On this day in 1988, Paul Gascoigne made his debut for Tottenham against his old club Newcastle at St James’ Park. Gazza was showered with Mars Bars whenever he approached the touchline and to make matters worse, Newcastle took a 2-0 lead. Gazza’s fellow ex-Magpie [...]

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We Haven’t Bought A Striker, But We Must Pretend We Did

September 2, 2010

If you had asked any Spurs fan what type of player we needed to sign this summer, the majority would have said that we could do with a striker. Instead we bought a reserve goalkeeper, an ex-Gooner defender, a defensive midfielder and most impressively of all, Rafael van der ‘bloody’ Vaart. The lone striker that [...]

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Daily Spurs Guide: Robbie, You Owe Us £8m

September 2, 2010

On This Day In Spurs History: 2nd Sepetember 1977 – On this day in 1977, Frederic Kanoute was born. Kanoute was signed for Spurs from West Ham in 2003 and played 73 times, scoring 21 goals, before joining Sevilla for 6.5m Euros. Kanoute has subsequently been a huige success in Spain, scoring far more goals [...]

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Daniel Levy And The Definition Of ‘Brinkmanship’

August 31, 2010

As the minute hand of the transfer deadline clock clicks away, it looks as though we might again have left things too late and will be left disappointed when the window closes. This has been a familiar feeling over the years, as our chairman Daniel Levy attempts to buy players for the least amount of [...]

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Daily Spurs Guide: Adebayor The Next Ex-Gooner At Spurs?

August 31, 2010

On This Day In Spurs History: 31st August 1960 – On this day in 1960, the eventual Double winners defeated Blackpool at White Hart Lane. Bobby Smith scored a hat-trick as Tottenham ran out as 3-1 winners. Spurs Quote Of The Day “I read in the papers that Terry Neill says he’s going to put [...]

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Proof That Tim Lovejoy Knows Nothing About Football

August 30, 2010

For anyone that’s ever seen Tim Lovejoy on television, heard him on the radio, or read his work, it’s patently obvious that he knows absolutely nothing about football. This isn’t a crime in itself, unless you’ve been coining a living off the back of the beautiful game for many years. Tim Lovejoy is the sort [...]

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Spurs 0 Wigan 1: We’ve Got Our Tottenham Back

August 30, 2010

They scored their one goal, but we just forgot to hit our nine. Harry Redknapp has stated that this defeat wasn’t due to a Champions League hangover. I don’t think that our players were tired from the midweek shenanigans, but it certainly seemed to have left the crowd subdued. The atmosphere in the stands was [...]

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Daily Spurs Guide: Late Bids For Star Strikers?

August 30, 2010

On This Day In Spurs History: 30th August 1969 – On this day in 1969, Spurs were in action at home against Ipswich Town. Tottenham took a 3-0 lead with goals from Alan Mullery, Alan Gilzean and Jimmy Greaves, before the visitors pulled it back to 3-2 with strikes from Ron Wigg and Colin Viljoen. [...]

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TottenhamBlog v Gray v Lawro v Stelling: Wigan

August 28, 2010

Welcome to a new feature at TottenhamBlog. Every Premier League weekend I will go head to head against Betfair’s Andy Gray, the BBC’s Mark Lawrenson and The Sun’s Jeff Stelling, to correctly predict Tottenham’s results. The scoring system will work like this. One point for getting the result right and three points for getting the [...]

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Why Do We Sing For Pav But Not Crouch?

August 27, 2010

When Roman Pavlyuchenko came on against Young Boys the other night, the crowd immediately started the Super Pav song. The chant made me feel sorry for Peter Crouch. At the time he had scored twice and by the end of the game he had claimed his hat-trick, but there was no singing of his name. [...]

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