July 2010

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Language English The Big Guns of the West duel on Sunday for the first time as the NBA’s Western Conference Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Memphis Grizzlies tip off. It promises to be a best-of-seven series for the purists, with two smart and hard-working squads, filled with unselfish performers, squaring off for a spot in this season’s NBA Fin […]

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Language English The Premier League season is, thankfully, almost over. There’s nothing left to do but sit back, drain the last whiskey bottle on all of your tables, and join in with raucous applause for the 2012/13 Alexander Netherton Football Awards! The 2012/13 Award for Passive Aggression: Roberto Mancini Tweet […]

Language English The final of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia 2013 sees Roger Federer take on Rafa Nadal for the 30th time in their careers. Rafa is looking for his 20th victory over Federer in what is an amazing eighth straight final for the Spaniard since coming back from injury. Nadal has only ever lost two matches here at the Foro Italico and is looking […]

If my last column was a sign of a man accepting his fate, this one is where he desperately clutches at some straws, so that he can go into Sunday with a small iota of hope in his heart. Here are my five reasons for Tottenham fans to be cheerful, as we go into battle with Arsenal, fate and lady luck once again. - Vaughan: Bale has no off-days Tottenham always […]

When I'm not writing about Spurs for ESPN, I can often be found offering football betting advice to any gambling company that is willing to pay me. One of the golden rules of football betting is not to put your money on a team that have nothing to play for. This is especially true when their opponents have everything to play for. So forgive me if I don […]

Tottenham Hotspur continue to be frighteningly bad at defending set pieces. Some things never change. One thing that certainly has been transformed of late is the form of Spurs' match winner at the Britannia Stadium, Emmanuel Adebayor. - Adebayor, Dempsey deliver in Spurs win The Togolese striker bagged the winner against 10-man Stoke City when it looke […]

We should not forget that it says a lot for Tottenham Hotspur's progress that Wednesday's 2-2 draw at Chelsea will leave most Spurs fans feeling somewhat deflated. - Lythell: Chelsea hit panic button in Spurs draw - Carr: Spurs have work to do We should also not forget in all of this that Chelsea's starting XI cost in the region of 200 million […]

Let me take you to 1990. Football was a very different place indeed and almost unrecognisable compared to the landscape we know today. It was a time when Manchester United had gone more than 20 years without winning a league title. A time when Arsenal could boast of having 18 Englishmen on their first-team squad. A time when Chelsea had yet to buy their firs […]