Seeing the pictures of the victorious Chelsea players (and John Terry) on Thursday morning brought to mind the 1976 Yvonne Fair classic, It Should Have Been Me. Wigan’s leg weary capitulation on Tuesday means that come Sunday evening we’re liable …
Posts Categorized: Match Previews
A look ahead to Stoke vs Spurs
“We need others to slip up” as AVB says which is true, but as he also says, we need to win our games, starting with Stoke with Stoke on Sunday.
Last season we were Chris Foy’led but we’ve had some …
Some post-match thoughts on Chelsea 2-2 Spurs
Anyone wanting an eyewitness account should look elsewhere, I had to rely on the radio and Talkshite for commentary on this one. Sam Mattaface is ok but Collymore barking about his tweets and trying to justify his description of Tom …
A look ahead to Chelsea v Spurs
One nil wins all round at the weekend for the three clubs involved in the third, fourth and fifth place tussle mean that we, with our one man team, play our one game in hand on the gooners having to …
Chelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur: Decisive Champions League Clash at the Bridge
If you’ve spoken with either a Chelsea or Tottenham supporter in the last few days, chances are the topic of conversation was similar between the two. Both sets of fans had cause for joy after the weekend, as Chelsea pulled …
MF’s Match Preview: Spurs vs Southampton
To me to you. Like the prop in an oh so hilarious Chuckle Brothers sketch the theoretical advantage in the race for the top four rarely seems to stay in anyone’s possession for long. Chelsea have the points but the …
Wigan vs Spurs Preview – The width returns
The last twenty minutes against Man City means that we approach Saturday’s game against Wigan with that rarest of Spurs-related things of late, a spring in our step. The surprising comeback had its foundations in substitutions and a formation change …
Tottenham vs Man City: Ambitious Sides Meet in Late-Season Tilt
Though fans of both sides would be quick to distance the two clubs from one another for a variety of reasons – wealth, playing style, and fan loyalty among them – Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur actually have a lot …
It’s back in our hands!
It’s back in our hands! Six wins from our remaining six games and we’re guaranteed fourth at the very least. The first of these is against an in form Manchester City, still apparently clinging to the hope that they can …
Attitude is just as important as tactics and selection
Just like most of our back four, I was caught by surprise by Basel FC last week despite my warning in my preview that they shouldn’t be underestimated. Their fans were colourful and loud, their team were slick and skilful …
A look ahead to Spurs vs Everton
I always feel nervous before games against Everton, it’s a hangover from the days before the Abu Dhabi petrodollars landed in Eastlands when it was only the Toffees and us who periodically challenged Sky’s Big Four; our games provided a …
Do not underestimate FC Basel
It’s back to Europe on Thursday night. Christian Gross is the only common denominator between Basel FC and us that I’m aware of. The tube ticket touting Swiss was “You’re hired!” by Alan Sugar in 1997 and proclaimed by the …
Swansea vs Spurs: League Cup winners await Spurs at the Liberty Stadium
For the top teams in the Barclay’s Premier League, winning a trophy can be either the hallmark of a successful season or the bright spot in a poor one. Last term, Manchester City’s Premier League title seemed a deserved conclusion …
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Fulham: Cottagers visit the Lane looking to rattle nervy Spurs
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Fulham: Cottagers visit the Lane looking to rattle nervy Spurs
Manager fields a much-changed side. Players go in with a sizeable first leg advantage and all the lax cockiness that comes with it. Their opponent actually shows up …
A look ahead to Spurs vs Fulham
Traumatised and triumphant we take on Fulham this Sunday at White Hart Lane, a game we should win, but if nothing else Thursday night was a lesson in not taking anything for granted.
Perhaps surprisingly, given how little they’ve caught …
"No regrets if we lose" – Inter Preview & Spurs Team News
Second leg away to Inter and the quarter finals beckon. All we have to do is prevent complacency from getting the better of us and remain within two goals of Inter. Three if we score an away goal. Inter had chances in the first leg, they just failed to put them away, Spurs also had more chances that we should have put away so I can definitely see goals, and can’t see past Spurs progressing. Which, not surprisingly is the overall feeling on the Inter forums…
MF’s Match Preview: Inter Milan vs Spurs
To the San Siro then on Thursday night, scene, just over two years ago, of one of our most famous recent European wins against AC Milan. But it’s the other flavour in the city we play this time of course, …
"These bunch of pansies aren’t gonna stop us." – Liverpool Preview & Team News
The game at Anfield promises to be an entertaining one. Both teams are in form and clawing their way up the table. Liverpool’s rich vein of form reflects the upbeat mood on their forums ahead of this game. Most of their fans reckon they will be able to out score us which will remove the need to concentrate on stopping the in form Bale…
“Cant wait to crush these. I want to see the lads inflict some serious pain.”
“AVB likes to play a high back line, so the stage is set for Sturridge and Suarez to take advantage of that.”
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Inter Fans Still Haunted by Bale 2010. Preview & Team News
Long time visitors to this site may remember the post match article after we beat Inter 3-1 at The Lane back in 2010. (If you aren’t or don’t, it’s here.) Lots of comments from Italian Inter fans that Bale had raped them. Well, either Inter fans are obsessed with rape, or the night Bale destroyed Maicon is still painfully fresh in their memories, because the talk of Bale based rape is occurring once more…
“Tottenham is not a huge team, but they ass raped us back in the time.”
MF’s Match Preview: Spurs vs Inter Milan
Such is the intensity of the league campaign Thursday’s game against Inter comes as almost light relief when compared to both last weekend’s fixture and this Sunday’s visit to Anfield. The temptation to rest Dembélé, Parker or any number of …
Spurs are "Overrated, every single one of them." – Match Preview & Team News
Arsenal have been a strange creature in recent months. Putting five goals away against West Ham and Reading, seven goals against Newcastle, but then struggling to beat Villa, Stoke and Southampton. Not to mention getting beat 1-0 by Blackburn in the cup and being pretty much knocked out of the Champions League by Bayern.
Of course it’s the bad results that stick in the mind and the mood on the Arsenal forums reflects that. Sulking, depression, moaning about us relying on Bale, and then praying that their players actually put the effort in on Sunday before coming to the conclusion that they’d take a draw now if it was offered to them…
MF’s Match Preview: Spurs vs Arsenal
No matter what happens on Sunday afternoon we’ll still be in the top four on Monday morning and whether we stay there or not will depend on our remaining ten results; what consequences that has for next season depends on …
Tottenham vs Arsenal: Season defining NLD at the Lane
Tottenham vs. Arsenal: Season Defining NLD at the Lane
It’s come down to this. Tottenham. Arsenal. The North London Derby. Earlier this season, the former were humbled away from home. This Sunday, they’re looking to make amends. The prize? The usual …
It’s Monday night and it’s Hammer Time
Chelsea’s result against City means that we know what the reward for three points at Upton Park is – third place – and we’re favourites to get the win and the points. Our last visit to West Ham was when …
MF’s Match Preview: Lyon vs Tottenham Hotspur
We have reached that stage in the league season where it appears that someone’s ratcheted up the tension and intensity dials without asking you. The game that’s just happened appears to be the most important of the campaign, … until …
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Lyon: Soaring Spurs entertain Lyon at the Lane
When French international goalkeeper Hugo Lloris swapped Lyon for Tottenham in the summer, I’m sure he wasn’t counting on meeting his old club again so soon. Yet France’s number one will be reunited with France’s number two on Thursday as …
MF’s Match Preview: Spurs vs Lyon – Europa League
Lyon at home on Thursday is the first of many tough games in this competition between now and May 15 if we’re going to get anywhere near Amsterdam. In a wider context it’s the first of many tough games between …
MF’s Match Preview: Spurs vs Newcastle
A confident sounding Newcastle come to WHL on Saturday for the early kick-off. Having had a pretty miserable and injury-hit first half to the season things hit a nadir when Chelsea pulled the trigger on goal machine Demba Ba. Some …
West Brom vs Tottenham: Stuttering Spurs Face “Must Win” at Hawthorns
The closing of the January transfer window this past Thursday will have been a welcome sight for Tottenham fans. It seems the club is consistently linked with top talent each window, only to come up just short on deadline day. …
MF’s Match Preview: West Brom vs Spurs
The highlight of our 3-1 win at West Brom last season was Jermain Defoe’s confident run and explosion of a finish that gave us the lead for the first time in the match. Oh what we would give for more …
Spurs Unbeaten in 7, Norwich Winless in 6 – It’s Going to be One of Those Games…
Fresh after the defeat to Leeds on the weekend, Tottenham travel to Carrow Road to face a Norwich side that have also just sustained a cup “shock” getting knocked out by non league Luton. At least we have some good league form to fall back on. Spurs unbeaten in seven, Norwich winless in six, it’s a foregone conclusion isn’t it?!
Let’s see what the Norwich fans think…
Some thoughts ahead of Norwich City vs Spurs
The words “consistent” and “Spurs” don’t often fall in the same sentence. Perennial underachievers Spurs have struggled for solidity in recent seasons. Yet under the tutelage of the ambitious, astute Andre Villas-Boas, that fact may just be changing.
A look at …
MF’s Preview: Leeds United vs Spurs
Leeds. Almost exactly three years after Jermain Defoe’s replay hat-trick (his third of the season from what I remember) saw off the same opponents in the same round we travel once more to West Yorkshire attempting to further our progress …
MF’s Match Preview: Spurs vs Manchester United
It’s Man United at WHL on Sunday afternoon. The league leaders are in form and are currently majestically sweeping all before them. Panic on the streets of Tottenham? Nah, I can’t see AVB as a Smiths fan.
Who needs a …
Redknapp Rangers v AVB Hotspur
Right, extended Christmas blogging break over, lets get back into this. QPR v Spurs then. Or Redknapp Rangers v AVB Hotspur as the media are billing it.
I don’t buy into all this “Redknapp knows our weaknesses” hype the media are pushing. Any manager with half a brain can pick out a team’s weaknesses and strengths, it’s having the players to be able to exploit the weaknesses whilst containing the strengths that matter. Browsing the QPR forums, some of them have got caught up in the Redknapp media hype…
“tough one…really tough…just based on the fact that the players finally stuck to a gameplan, worked as a unit and got a result at Chelscum AND Harry knows Tottenham too well…I’m going to say 2-1 QPR”
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