There is this rumour doing the rounds, you might have seen it at some point. In case you have been lucky enough to miss it, or you have opted to spend the summer in a lead lined fridge avoiding the nuclear fallout from limited live football, here it is: Gareth Bale may depart for mainland Europe. According to many sources teams that have been bankrolled by the black stuff are stuffing multiple suitcases with cash. It’s hardly the most surprising [...]
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Memories of White Hart Lane
The off season. For most of us it’s a time of fervent transfer speculation and endless fretting about losing our star players. For others, like myself, it’s a time to reflect on the season gone by and to re-evaluate whether our crazy, destructive relationship with this club we love is worth the money, the time and the severe heart palpitations. When I heard on their recent podcast episode that the good men of The Fighting Cock team were looking for [...]
The TRUTH behind Spurs and Liverpool Scouts
It’s long been suspected in the red half of Merseyside that Spurs scouts have been watching Liverpool scouts for years, but the truth runs far far deeper than anyone has previously thought. A former Tottenham scout has revealed the truth that will SHOCK Liverpool fans and no doubt have them tweet ‘Get your own Scouts’ more than ever before. “It started when we were at a Fulham match” our inside source told us. “I was sat next to a scout [...]
Franco Baldini: Do We Need Him?
When it was announced that Franco Baldini had agreed to terminate his contract at AS Roma, optimism washed over Spurs supporters on Twitter and other social media platforms. He may not have been a striker, but at least we were about to sign someone, ev…
Memory Lane
My father first took me to White Hart Lane, the world famous home of the Spurs, when I was four. I spent most of the game curled up asleep in his lap, so remember little about it. The loud, aggressive, sometimes frightening atmosphere of English football in the early ‘80s isn’t an ideal place for a child to nap but, from my first game, The Lane had become a second home. I belonged there. As I grew, I fell in [...]
Windy answers your questions on Tottenham Hotspur’s youth
Youth supremo Windy answers some questions fired at him by members of our forum. For more information on Spurs youth, you can check Windy’s blog (windycoys.com) or follow him on Twitter @WindyCOYS. Tucker: Where would you ideally like to see youngsters like Pritchard, Ceballos etc. get loan time. Windy: As we’ve seen over the past few seasons, getting the right loan club is vital. An experience like Ryan Mason’s had at FC Lorient this season can set a player back, [...]
Out the Tout
There has been much controversy recently about the club’s newfound partnership with online ticket marketplace StubHub. The site, which allows fans to sell tickets for whatever price they like, has widely been labelled ‘legalised ticket touting’. There are the ethical issues of encouraging fans to exploit each other, and to take advantage of a fellow supporter’s desire to watch their club; indeed these would be articles in themselves. But the reasons I hate this StubHub deal go beyond… I feel, [...]
The Spurs Code: How to Survive the Summer
There was a time, a great time when the world was internet free. It was an age when innocence reigned and you could quite happily exist without knowing what an acquaintance had for dinner or how bad their commute to work was. It was a period of history where agents had no global voice, ex-con midfielders didn’t quote Morrissey and journalists couldn’t earn their money on sheer speculation. The internet of course isn’t all bad. It has helped billions get [...]
Wishing in an Amstrad Wonderland
I didn’t even need to look to know who was making all the noise. The two full kit Arsenal fans I had spotted boarding the plane had obviously just got reception on their phone. My Easyjet flight from Porto to Gatwick had just landed, I had missed the last game of the season. Not wanting to bring the plane crashing down into France, I had refrained from turning my phone on and seeing if 3G worked a mile in the [...]
Landing on Our Collective Feet
Amid the various ifs, buts, maybes and “get your chequebook out Levy” tweets, thoughts and conversations occurring via social media, in pubs, houses and going home from games, one man propped up a bar and reflected upon the season past – but importantly not to comment too much on what has gone before. There are obvious statistics that will set the final standings apart from all others to-date. Spurs’ highest-ever Premier League points tally and the most points posted by [...]
The Charles Blondin Conundrum
The 2013-14 season is already the most important season for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club since the last most important season. As a football club, we are on the threshold of joining the cream of Europe. We have delivered a world class training facil…
Spurs: Close But Not Quite Ready
One thing we as Spurs fans have learnt over the years is that the league table doesn’t lie. After 38 games we find ourselves the 5th best team in the country. Is this a catastrophic disaster? Is it the end of the world? Of course not, we are where we are because that is where after ten months of football, we deserve to be. The summer will be painful, but think back, we have endured worse hours than finishing a [...]
Failure will have in it an echo of glory
So here we have it, the end of the season. We set our own personal best but at the end of the day our best fell agonisingly short. We took it to the wire and to finish on 72 points and to miss out on Champions League football goes to show how strong [...]
Failure ? What Failure ?
How more ‘Spursy’ could it get ? An entire 38 game campaign hinges on two results on the final day of the season. Win and hope that Arsenal don’t and we finish fourth, AVB is a hero, and the press dig into a slice of humble pie. Fail to win, or indeed win, and see Dial Square beat Newcastle and we finish fifth, AVB is crap, and the media sharpen their knives for an all together much different reason. Its [...]
Me, Myself and 1882
The Under 21′s Semi Final of the U21′s against Everton, offered me the perfect chance to experience 1882 for the first time. As an East Stand lower regular, who is used to getting looks for singing at games, I was looking forward immensely to getting involved in the singing aspect of 1882. My mood was dampened though by the fact that my 15 year old son had to stay at home due to his first GCSE exam the following morning. [...]
1882 Makes My Grandad Pogo
After attending and enjoying the 1882 experience at the NextGen series game against Barcelona last year, I vowed to return. When it was announced that our Under 21 Semi Final against Everton, was to be an 1882 event, I immediately contacted my 70 year …
Feeling the Love for the Lane
The die has been cast, the season has arrived at a climactic showdown and what better place to have it settled than at White Hart Lane? The grand old stadium has played host to some of the greats of English football, and still stands as a beacon to day…
What This Season Has Not Been Missing
After 37 league games last season I wrote an article called ‘What This Season Has Been Missing’. Now, due to a technical hitch somewhere along the line the article never saw the light of day, but I’ll briefly summarise: incredible as it was in many ways, the 2011/12 season seemed to be lacking something. Statistically, little or no new ground was broken. Whereas previous years had seen Spurs break hoodoos, break into the top 4 and break the spirits of [...]
A United Front
More than anything else, I will remember the 2012/13 season for the biggest divide amongst supporters of Tottenham Hotspur I can recall in all my 25+ years of following the club. Whilst a large proportion of the fanbase have been won over by AVB’s passion and modern thinking, despite a sceptical start, there is still a prominent voice of resentment towards him following the removal of Harry Redknapp. Perhaps though Tottenham fans have always been this divided, and the growing [...]
The Return of the Striker
Tottenham’s draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge keeps the Lillywhites firmly in the race for Champions League football. Despite being dominated at points, Tottenham kept believing and as the game wore on looked the more likely to claim the three points. Credit must go to Andre Villas-Boas for another crucial substitution, but surely there is more than just on the spot sharpness to AVB? What exactly goes on at that multimillion pound state-of-the-art training centre? How are Spurs trying to [...]