By the numbers then, Spurs signed five players of arguably proven quality and saw the return of one loanee on a permanent basis. We also saw the going of the three Croatians, Giovani dos Santos, Rafael van der Vaart, [the irreplaceable] Ledley King and six other senior players besides. Notwithstanding the nature of ‘undisclosed fees’, […]
Can’t quite believe it happened? Doesn’t make sense? Chances are it was the CIA, Illuminati, or Daniel Levy. “What? you’re an idiot! Daniel Levy wasn’t responsible for the JFK assassination, or faking footage of the man on the moon?” But if you have lurked on Twitter or any forums for the last few days you […]
First game back at the lane for me on Saturday. I was on muddy Clapham Common last week, having a whale of a time watching Chase and Status. I usually go to the Spurs with my old man. We always talk through the game before, during and afterwards. I do the same with my my […]
Back in May, when Harry was still manager and the season was coming to a close, I made some polls on The Fighting Cock forum, based on a 4-4-2 formation as to who we wanted to keep and who we wanted to sell. After the votes were counted, our desired first XI looked a little […]
Young-Pyo Lee, Vedran Corluka, Kevin Prince Boateng, Niko Kranjcar, and Rafael van der Vaart are examples of big name signings on transfer deadline day for Spurs in recent years. While on the other hand, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Jermaine Defoe, and most notably Dimitar Berbatov have all left with only hours to go in the window, and […]
I’ve never written an article before, and don’t plan to write another one; especially about Tottenham Hotspur. However, my love for a certain football player has driven me to put some words together about the man himself – Rafael van der Vaart. Talk of a possible exit for the Dutchman has fluttered about the chambers […]
Marquee signings are what we we’re renowned for. Tottenham signed Jimmy Greaves for £99,999 when Bill Nicholson bought him from AC Milan in 1961. We were making double swoops for Argentine heroes when Tevez and Mascherano were nothing more than a glint in their fathers’ eyes. Klinsmann was making the leap from AS Monaco in […]
Morecambe and Wise, Del Boy and Rodney, Sooty and Sweep and to a lesser extent Ant and Dec, these are names of some great British double acts over the years, but none of the above will live in lilywhite memory like Ledley King and Michael Dawson. Although Dawson may never be remembered with quite the […]
To me, White Hart Lane is my church and unfortunately no matter how nice and shiny the new stadium is it will never be quite the same. I’m sure I’m not the only Tottenham fan out there that views the impending Northumberland Development Project with a considerable degree of trepidation. Don’t get me wrong the […]