So, dearest reader, here we are. The end of another season and for the second year on the spin May 19th goes down as a miserable day in the diary for those connected with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. In any other context, in any other footballing universe, apart- rather inconveniently- from the one we find [...]
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In Case You’ve Forgotten, This is a Full Strength Spurs Squad
Sometimes during the long winning streaks this season, a small minority of fans were infected by a certain amount of hubris. As soon as a negative result happened, some took the opportunity to decry the club with both hands. “We didn’t spend enough money”, “Friedel is rubbish”, “Steffen Freund isn’t shouting loud enough”. Etcetera. But […]
Deuce not yet Dropped: Stoke 1-2 Spurs Tactical Analysis
A Deuce might not have been dropped in the Tottenham Hotspur team this afternoon, but many a deuce must have been dropped by Spurs fans across the breadth of the country. Spurs left it late to score a winning goal against a Stoke side that were a man down for nearly 45 minutes. Although the […]
Mad Craachy’s Black Apalachi: Stoke v Tottenham Tactical Preview
Stoke play with a totally different nature to the rest of the Premier League, they are very aggressive and direct, they are in your face. It is a style that has brought them success so it is not up to me to condemn them. But it is easier to cope with now I have played […]
Thor’s Hammer: Chelsea 2-2 Tottenham Tactical Analysis
When I have a son, I’ll be able to tell him all about Tottenham’s history. One day, I might tell him about these two players that used to be on that White Hart Lane turf. One was this useless, lanky striker. He walked around the pitch like he was looking for a toothpick in the [...]
How high do Tottenham aim?
The 2012/2013 season has been a massive shake up, it has seen the departure of manager Harry Redknapp and key players in Ledley King, Luka Modric and Rafa Van Der Vaart for Tottenham Hotspur. So, the million dollar question: Is 5th place, the Europa league place, really that bad? This is a transitional season, new …
Spurs’ struggling strikers
Gareth Bale has scored more than both Tottenham Hotspur’s strikers combined this season. The above stat is clearly suggesting something, Spurs need strikers! Jermain Defoe started off the season well, scoring goals for fun and even grabbed goal of the month in November against West Ham, a fantastic run after being fouled, he carried on …
The good, the bad, and the mediocre dead wood
It’s nearly the end of the season, which means it is nearly Levy’s favourite time of the year, the Transfer Window. Although “Levy Day” is not until the 31st August, we all still expect some business to be done before then. In the last transfer window, Levy backed AVB with large sums of money, and …
Adebayor, Berbatov, Redknapp the Spurs faces amongst the Rich List 2013
The Sunday Times released their 25th annual rich list this month, and this week saw the publication of the sportsperson’s edition. Tottenham have three notable mentions on the list in 2013. Spurs alumni Dimitar Berbatov and Harry Redknapp made the cut, but the only current Tottenham player to be included on the list was the [...]
AVB Reads my Blog: Spurs v Man City Tactical Analysis
Even if the valiant comeback and eventual 3-1 win in yesterday’s match against Manchester City doesn’t get Tottenham into the Champions League it proved, if nothing else, that I know what I’m talking about when it comes to tactics. In my preview yesterday, I said that the only way to beat the title holders would [...]
Without a Paddle?: Tactical Analysis of Spurs With and Without Bale
“One man team” has always been a lazy criticism when it comes to football, regardless of the club. It’s not in doubt that every squad will have their triggerman, the fulcrum of the team and someone that just makes the side tick, but to reduce the tactical depth of eleven men to the performance of one [...]
Adebayor OUT
Welcome to my first post on this exciting website! I’d like to state I am a Tottenham Hotspur Football Club supporter and always will be no matter what and that supporting the club sometimes means supporting decisions to change the team. After the performance in Switzerland I feel really sorry for ten players on the …
Emmanuel Adebayor and the rejuvenation of Gylfi Sigurdsson
Tottenham Hotspur enjoyed a fine summer in the transfer market last year, with Hugo Lloris, Jan Vertonghen and Mousa Dembele quickly becoming first team staples after arriving at White Hart Lane. However for most of the season, Gylfi Sigurdsson had failed to live up to the form that led Spurs to spend just [...]
Team Sheet For Swansea | The ‘Let’s Never Fight Again’ Edition
Welcome back, web-slingers. I hope the trauma of Please Don’t Get Broken week hasn’t withered your spirits too much. In the name of fun it might be handy for Tottenham if Swansea took the same casual, post-cup-winning attitude to the rest of the season as King, Jenas & Co. did back in 2008. That is: [...]
Time for a striker to Step Up for Spurs | Defoe & Adebayor Stats
With only eight games left to go in the fight for a top four finish in the Premier League, Tottenham will be hoping that one of their strikers can find a bit of form to help them with their pursuit. There is no denying that both Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor have struggled this term [...]
Time for a striker to Step Up for Spurs | Defoe & Adebayor Stats
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How To Get A Togolese Scoring Again: An Ade Case Study
In his pre-match media call before Tottenham’s Europa League away match with Lyon, Andre Villas-Boas once again waxed lyrical about the need to get the club’s highest earner back to his best. “We’re trying to unlock the best of Adebayor. Last year shows as an example of what we’re trying to get out of him… The [...]
Adebayor back for Spurs but Defoe’s out for three weeks
ANDRE VILLAS-BOAS insists Togan is ready for Newcastle this weekend despite having only had one training session
Jermain Defoe Ruled Out For 3 Weeks
Jermain Defoe is set to be ruled out for up to 3 weeks after damaging ankle ligaments in Tottenham’s 1-0 win at West Brom on Sunday, leaving Spurs incredibly short up front. Although, it could get worse for Tottenham fans if scans reveal any further damage to Defoe’s ankle. The only good news for Tottenham [...]
Jermain Defoe Ruled Out For 3 Weeks
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Tottenham v Man Utd | Statistical Match Preview | Can Spurs do the Double?
Two out of the EPL’s top three in-form sides face each other on Sunday, as Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester United at White Hart Lane. Spurs will be looking for a remarkable “double” over United – something that hasn’t happened since the 1989-1990 season – after their gritty 3-2 win back in September at Old Trafford. [...]
Tottenham v Man Utd | Statistical Match Preview | Can Spurs do the Double?
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Squad Shake-Up: Who Is Leaving WHL?
Its been a refreshingly different transfer window for Tottenham Hotspur so far. Two players already secured by Daniel Levy in typically sneaky deals, and before transfer deadline day for a change! There’s still some work to be done before AVB gets the perfect Spurs team he envisions, but the progress is there for all to [...]
Not Ade’nough Yet- Why Ditching Our Number 10 Now Would Be A Big Mistake
Seeing as how I didn’t manage to make it to the Lane yesterday, I can’t make any comments here based directly on the performance of Emmanuel Adebayor during our cup tie with Coventry. According to an ever-cool headed and reasonable Twitter jury of his peers, he was absolutely garbage, further fuelling rumours that that he’s …
Who should be starting out of Defoe, Adebayor, Sigurdsson and Dempsey?
A fine run of form throughout the festive period has seen Spurs move into the Champions League places, and this has been achieved generally playing a 4-4-2 system with Emmanuel Adebayor and Jermain Defoe up front. However the two don’t seem to have struck up a natural partnership in these matches, and the form of [...]
New Year, I’m Happy
Domination so complete, I have a crick in my neck from facing in the same direction for too long. Then, finally, Lloris’s bank holiday stroll around his green and pleasant area is rudely interrupted. He saves well, low to his right, two hands. Being alert after long periods of inactivity is another of his many [...]
Sunderland 1-2 Tottenham: Player Ratings
Here are TheSpursBlog’s player ratings for the entire Tottenham team in relation to their 2-1 victory over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light yesterday afternoon. STARTING XI Lloris: 8 – Pulled off a few good saves, and couldn’t have done any more than he did to stop Sunderland’s goal. Walker: 5 – At fault for [...]
Adebayor and Defoe – Should Spurs stick with both strikers?
After an excellent performance against Panathanaikos in the Europa League last Thursday the pair were hailed as amongst the deadliest in the league, before a blunt display at Everton cooled the enthusiasm for a two striker system at Spurs. Given that the two have never had a real run in the side together at White [...]
Tomorrow’s Wishlist- Everton Away
Fellaini being kept in check. Dear God, please tell me AVB has a plan to keep Fellaini in check. Much like our own Mousa Dembele, the be-fro’d Belgian is in the enviable position of being at the centre of a side that has been assembled around him. With Darron Gibson and Leon Osman winning the …
Greek is the Word | Spurs XI to Face Panathinaikos
Adebayor to play on his lonesome up front. Injuries, suspension and the remarkable (and, admit it, surprising) form of J-Dizzly aside, it’s maybe time the smiling Togolese hitman stopped fannying about and got on with the business of doing professional kickball.
Adebayor- Give Him The Ball And Someone Will Score
The news that Gareth Bale will spend around two weeks out after suffering a pulled hamstring away at Fulham last Saturday has prompted a degree of existential soul-searching for me today. Even as the dust settled after a few hours of panic after Bale limped off that afternoon and once it had become clear that …
Deadly Defoe at the Double | Premier League Striker Stats Comparison
On Saturday afternoon at Craven Cottage, a brace for Defoe took him to four goals in a week and his tally for the season up to 9. Aside from the goals, Defoe had a relatively quiet game, making just 14 passes in the entire 90 minutes. Defoe is a player…
Villas-Boas and Spurs – Sit Back, Deep Breath, How’s It Going?
Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas has been charged with many failings during his relatively short career. These include being aloof and uncommunicative, out of his depth, obsessed with tactics and worst of all, not being Jose Mourinho or Harry Redknapp. Over the weekend came the ultimate condemnation – AVB, you were seen in possession of a notebook. J’accuse! [...]
Villas Boas displays adaptability – earning plaudits in defeat
Andre Villas Boas has taken a lot of stick from some Tottenham fans over recent weeks, despite the challenges he has faced in his short time at the helm at White Hart Lane. Some have questioned his ‘negative’ tactics and him not playing ‘the Tott…
The Devil’s Notebook
A seven-goal North London derby it was, then. Regrettably five of those goals went to our fiendish neighbours and just two…well, I’m sure you can do the numbers. There’s much that can be learned in defeat, of course, if you’re an open-minded sort: first, this kind of nonsense would’ve never happened under Harold James Redknapp’s [...]
North London Derby: There Will Be Goals
Morning, campers. The news we’ve no choice but to file under Definitely Not Helpful is that of Moussa Dembele’s impending and continued absence. Now, we’ve only seen Germinal Beerschot’s finest export on a handful of occasions this season; it’s perhaps a rather worrying indictment of our situation that for every game that passes in which [...]
A look at AVB after 10 games in charge at Spurs
White Hart Lane has been home to a poisonous atmosphere this season. Boos were heard at half time in the very first home game of the season, when Spurs were unable to take the lead against West Brom. These boos were heard again against Norwich, and wer…
What did AVB learn from Spurs v Wigan?
Tottenham produced a shambolic display of football to succumb 1-0 at home to an average-at-best Wigan side. Whilst Wigan did play well, Spurs truly brought defeat upon themselves and, as such, have only themselves to blame. These are the lessons that