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Right then. 1882 have been given the East terrace for the U21 Premier League game between Tottenham and Arsenal on 22 April 2013 at Barnet’s Underhill stadium. Kick off is 7pm. We’ve been asked to use The Old Red Lion pub as traditionally it’s the one used by away teams. The turnstiles will open at […]
OH MY WORD WE’RE GOING TO FINISH LAST AND EVERYONE’S GOING TO LEAVE. The above seems to be the general consensus amongst Spurs fans after 3 losses on the bounce. Or so my survey says. As much as I’m disappointed with our current form, I think it’s going to take a few more losses before […]
I’m going cold turkey. My football team are playing right now and I’m not taking the slightest bit of interest. I’m not at the ground. I’m not watching on the TV. I’m not listening on the radio. I’m not even following it on the internet. I couldn’t care less. (That last one’s a lie.) I […]
For Spurs fans the international break has never been such a welcome respite. Key individuals Aaron Lennon and Michael Dawson can enjoy two weeks of recuperation and hopefully, England’s performance or possible lack of one, will allow us to forget anything to do with blips and capitulations. With quite a number of our players off […]
As I walked out of White Hart Lane the temptation to walk over to the Ladbroke’s booth and place a bet that the end of the world is close nearly overcame me. If I hadn’t of spent my last £3.50 on a lukewarm sausage roll, I would have done. Surely 35,000 downcast people trudging down […]
There are very few things in football as painful as watching your team concede a goal. When Spurs score it’s over in a split second, a swish of a boot, a glancing header, a deflection and then bang, pure euphoria. When Clint Dempsey scored the late equaliser against Man U, I saw his boot move […]
There are very few things in football upset a Spurs fan more than a gloating Gooner, but on Sunday millions of Liverpool fans celebrating like it was the 1980’s came very close. A game which had been slipping out of their control from the moment Luis Suarez toe poked them in front, was handed to […]
The feel good factor that has been building around White Hart Lane over the past few months exploded in a glorious footballing display. Italian giants and 2010 Champions League winners FC Internazionale Milano were swatted aside as Tottenham cruised to a 3-0 win. From the moment I stepped off the train at Northumberland Park, the […]
In 2004, the book We Are Tottenham was published. It was the first book Adam Powley and I had been commissioned to write, and it was an idea we’d had for some time. We’d both been going to see Spurs since we grew up in North London in the 1970s. For Adam, it was in […]