December 2009

Football A lot of people can’t stand Didier Drogba. His marauding arrogance, his cowardly diving and his pathetic tantrums are not what fans look for in their sporting heroes. In fact, if anything he’s been long vilified as the very embodiment of all that’s wrong with modern football. Overpaid, over-pampered, over-inflated and, seemingly, allowed to go unche […]

Football Jose Mourinho has dropped his biggest hint yet that he’ll try to sign Monaco striker Radamel Falcao in the summer, as his long search for a reliable striker goes on. Demba Ba, Fernando Torres and Samuel Eto’o have all failed to convince Mourinho that they fit the bill. “The problem at Chelsea is that we’re missing a striker,” the Chelsea coach told […]

More SportsRugby Union Unibet ambassador and former Scotland captain Gavin Hastings makes his betting predictions ahead of the penultimate Six Nations weekend... Ireland 1.02 vs Italy 14.00 - Saturday 14.30 Ireland are going to win this game, that’s for sure, but it won’t necessarily be as easy as the home fans would like to think. Italy are a good side. No […]

Football The limp and lifeless display at Olympiakos, arguably the weakest side left in the Champions League, was the final straw for many Manchester United fans. David Moyes’s United are languishing 11 points behind fourth-placed Liverpool in the Premier League, are out of both domestic cup competitions and are now staring down the barrel in the Champions L […]

FootballChampions League It’s the most anticipated game of the season so far. The formidable machine that is Manchester City against the former kings of Europe Barcelona, who have designs to reclaim their status as continental champions. It’s a finely balanced game that could go either way – but here are five things that we can almost certainly expect from t […]

In a season already punctuated all too frequently by both despair and dark comedy for Spurs fans, the most painful moment took place the best part of 1,000 miles away from White Hart Lane on Wednesday night. With five minutes to go and the scores level between Barcelona and Real Madrid, Gareth Bale ran 50 yards -- at times on the wrong side of the touchline […]

There have been many casualties of Tottenham's disastrous season, but perhaps the figure that cuts the saddest sight right now is Erik Lamela. Of the seven signings made last summer, it is Lamela who has made the least impression. Christian Eriksen and Vlad Chiriches have been the success stories, Roberto Soldado has shown flashes of quality, while the […]

If you wanted a typical Spurs-under-Tim-Sherwood performance, then I guess the 3-3 draw at West Brom might be it. There were plenty of goals at both ends. The defence played nervously and consistently made errors, while it was only a moment of individual attacking brilliance that saved Tottenham and Sherwood's blushes. - Crace: Six-goal thriller or emba […]

It might look like one of the season's great comebacks, but that only tells half the story. The more accurate description is that Spurs gifted West Brom a three-goal head start, an act of largesse that the Baggies promptly returned to end the game 3-3. For almost the first time this season Tim Sherwood named an unchanged side, but the only real consiste […]

At this stage of the season a team generally doesn't want to have to face a side fighting against relegation. Luckily for Tottenham, it matters little if they win, lose or draw. After the 5-1 win over Sunderland, some fans got carried away to the extent that they started to speculate that Spurs could still qualify for the Champions League. If there is s […]