The Fighting Cock’s Raj Bain’s looks at how we’ve done so far this season… What’s going right? The transition from Redknapp to Villas-Boas and steadily silencing the critics. The attacking football has been sublime at times and the signings all look to be finding their feet after shaky starts. It was a difficult summer full […]
This article was first published by our friends over at Football Scores – please click here to see what they’re all about Harry Redknapp was a good manager for Tottenham Hotspur. At times during his three year tenure we played some of the best football I’ve ever seen from a Spurs side. We had Bale […]
Sweden is a country that loves football and we’ve seen some truly amazing talents spring forth from this icy land. The most well known being the trio Gre-No-Li consisting of Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm who all played for AC Milan in the 1950s and wreaked havoc in the Serie A. They also […]
This article was originally published over at http://www.footballscores.com/ At the beginning of the season I wrote an article on how the modern game of football has passed Jermain Defoe by. My argument was that a player of his style and stature just isn’t cut out to lead the forward line as a lone striker. To […]
On the morning of Thursday 22nd November, I woke up to the news (along with many other Spurs fans) that our fans had been attacked in Rome, resulting in many getting injured and one even being stabbed, putting him in hospital meaning he would miss the game he paid hundreds of pounds to see. I […]
When one of history’s most famous football managers uttered one of history’s most famous football quotes, some accused him of hyperbole. Some still do. I don’t think they get it. Football is not just a matter of life and death: it’s much more important than that. Spurs fans may know this more than most. Like […]
The Fighting Cock has worked with acclaimed animator October Jones and CALM to produce a video called Call CALM. Please watch. Please share. CALM was set up to reduce the high suicide rate amongst men under 35, currently the biggest killer of young men in London, and the UK. It is a campaign and charity […]
The stench left behind by a collection of disagreeable results lingers in our nostrils, and the sound of the January transfer window rumour mill slowly churning back into life is already humming in our ears. For many, this smoggy atmosphere seems to have inspired a bit of soul-searching – or squad searching, if you will. […]
It is fair to say ever since Mousa Dembele’s recurring hip injury came to the surface Spurs have not been the same team. Our summer signing from Fulham appeared to be proving to the White Hart Lane faithful that he could indeed replace Luka Modric in our side, and be just as effective if not […]
