Having been knocked around like a woozy sot in a very one-sided bar fight- stumbling over chairs and smashing into the wall-mounted jukebox- Spurs have somehow made it into a Europa League quarter-final with FC Basel. How about that? The saloon doors are still swinging; trousers still bloodied and torn at the knee- and Tottenham [...]
Posts Categorized: Redknapp
QPR 0-0 Spurs: Player Ratings
Here’s TheSpursBlog player ratings for the entire Tottenham team in their performance this weekend, where they played out a frustrating goalless draw against Queens Park Rangers. STARTING XI Lloris – 6 – Had absolutely nothing to do for most of the game, as QPR failed to pose any attacking threat other than a singular Wright-Phillips [...]
No Hard Feelings, Harry | QPR-Spurs Preview
All eyes on self-anointed fackin’ football manager, Henry James Redknapp this weekend, as his oft abysmal QPR side are tasked with the responsibility of avenging their boss’s summer dismissal against the club who did a good deal of the dismissing. Well, all of the dismissing if we’re being honest. There’s almost certainly some people who’d [...]
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…
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…
AVB Makes it a Game of Two Halves | Stats Analysis
Boos rang round White Hart Lane at half time on Sunday afternoon – a sound that has sadly become all too familiar in recent weeks. Tottenham had just been played off the park by a very lively QPR team that Spurs had made look like Barcelona. It w…
Can Friedel Survive Villas-Boas at Tottenham? Compared to Petr Cech
Brad Friedel is a survivor. The American international has started every Premier League match for his club side since the start of the 2004-05 season with Blackburn Rovers and holds the EPL record for most consecutive appearances – a run [...]Wri…
Did A Lack Of Rotation Cost Redknapp His Job? | Opta Stats Analysis
When Vedran Corluka claimed that Spurs poor end of season form was down to Harry Redknapp’s reluctance to rotate his team he was quickly shot down by the Spurs manager, but did the Croatian have a point? Tottenham had six [...]Written by James AmeyDi…
What would an Andre Villas Boas Tottenham Hotspur look like?
With the high probability of Andre Villas Boas becoming the new Tottenham Hotspur manager in the near future, TPiMBW has taken an objective step back from his recent Chelsea venture to analyse just how Andre Villas Boas proposes that his teams play […
Harry Redknapp | Farewell or Good Riddance? Analysis by a Spurs supporter
How quickly things can change in football. Just 5 months ago Harry Redknapp was lapping up the applause as his Tottenham side thrashed Newcastle 5-0. A chorus of ‘We want you to stay’ was reverberating around White Hart Lane. This [...]Written by M…
Redknapp Loses His Value To Spurs
So Harry Redknapp departs with my sincere gratitude but no tears. Tottenham Hotspur goes on, first, last and everything, as ever it will be. Those good players are still Spurs players. Daniel Levy is in charge, and he always was. As news of Harry’s dismissal leaked out last night, the social media debate raged over the rights and wrongs. [...]
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
First up, I suppose it’s only fair we dive head first, straight into the day’s big talking point; news, I think it’s fair to say, that has shaken the online community to its very core. I talk, of course, about rumours of one Jack Wilshere pulling the virtual plug on his Twitter account (why, Jack, [...]
The End of The World But Nothing’s Changed
The dread anticipation of the Doomsday Scenario was hideous, elongated as it was over several weeks as first the semi-final and then the season’s final day played out. Goals and sendings-off that weren’t, the bitter tease of a former Spurs keeper throwing three goals into his net, yet another rearguard action, all of this involving not just any [...]
We Eat Lasagne For Breakfast | End of Season Showdown
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I trust you’ve fastened your seatbelts and your tray-tables are in their upright and locked position. If you need me, I’ll be the one hammering on the door of the cock-pit demanding to speak to the pilot. Come on, open up, you peasant! I know you’ve got a parachute in [...]
Disco Benny and Vertonghen Talk
Morning, campers. Before certain corners of the internet are caught in seismic blasts of despair/joy/uncertainty- and before our collective brains deep-fry themselves in the unending catalogue of complicated algorithms and permutations that could unfold this Sunday- I thought I’d look back on the week’s most eye-catching snippets of news and ask the simple question: wasitallabaat? [...]
Spurs Are A’Coming! Circle The Wagons!
Tottenham Hotspur’s spring tour of the lower regions of the Premier League finished in the Midlands on a frustrating note as we hammered away at Villa’s massed ranks for 90 minutes without scoring from open play. Going down to ten men early in the second made only a momentary difference to the pattern of a [...]
It’s Alive!
Well this is getting interesting. Just when the season looked to be shuffling off its mortal coil, to quote the Bard, Tottenham have ploughed the infertile landscape and miraculously found new life. Thrill-seekers or, indeed, masochist will no doubt be enjoying themselves in the current winds. Me, I’m still on the hunt for a quiet [...]
‘I’m Just So Lucky’ | Harry, Roy and the Rovers
I’d be a liar if I said I wasn’t the popular choice, I know I am, it’s been everywhere, in every paper every day…” Harry Redknapp, there, on the burdens of being popular. A very good morning to you. First up, if I can be so bold, talk of the weekend’s football. It’s been a [...]
It’s All Been an Elaborate Hoax
Good morning. Well, not exactly good as such, but at least you’ve made it past ten o ‘clock without bursting into tears. That’s something, right? Huh, big guy? Heavens above. I think SSG called it right: Chelsea are going to bloody win this thing, aren’t they? Are they? The inevitability seems almost organic; a spirit-crushing [...]
Redknapp for England!
“We want you to stay, we want you to stay – Harry Redknapp, we want you to stay”. It seems like a long time ago that song echoed round White Hart Lane. Redknapp had just got off his tax evasion [...]Written by Matt SwanRedknapp for England!
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Sad Spurs Are The Ghosts Of Their Former Selves
Plenty of Spurs places on the web where you can find anger as we slip down the table. I’m fond of describing the significance not of individual matches but sequences that crop up as the season plays out. A combination of computer predetermination and evolving circumstances throws up intriguing little sets of fixtures. Take our [...]
Rookie Redknapp Wilts. Plus Win Exclusive T-shirt!
Unlike other games where the implications take time to sink in, losing at Wembley has its particular horrors. As the infernal shuffle towards Wembley Park tube grinds on, there’s nowhere to go. Nothing to do except look at the back of the head of the person who will be in front of you for the [...]
Spurs and Wembley. Nice Day, Shame About The Football
I’ve known worse times as a Spurs fan. Forgive me if for the moment I can’t quite name them. An afternoon so utterly dispiriting, the fans, the decisions, the outcome, that heart and soul are thoroughly drained. Not anger, though there’s just cause – the referee, the way we just slipped away without enough of [...]
Two Games, One Cup: Spurs Have a Semi
Good morning, thrill-seekers and high-rollers. I hope yesterday’s National made grotesquely rich swines of the lot of you. Not a vintage seven days in the history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, then. And that’s breaking it to you gently. A miserable stalemate at the Stadium of Light (far too much light for my bloody liking- [...]
Tottenham Taken Apart by the Canaries | Stats Report
Tottenham played two of the promoted teams at White Hart Lane in quick succession. Much like Swansea who had left empty handed in Tottenham’s previous home game, Paul Lambert and his Norwich team have rightly earned a number of plaudits [...]Written …
Modric Vs Mata | Professional Performance as Spurs go Back to Basics
After a disappointing draw at home to Stoke, It was important that Tottenham did not lose at Stamford Bridge Saturday lunchtime. Chelsea were in need of a win if they were to close the gap on Tottenham in the battle [...]Written by Matt SwanModric Vs M…
Back to Basics | Bale on Left, Modric in Middle | Opta Stats
Football should be a simple game. Play your best players in their best positions and you will be in with a chance. To that end, it is frustrating to see Harry Redknapp keep playing players out of position. After the [...]Written by Matt SwanBack to Bas…
Spurs Out-played & Out-fought by AFC
The two fixtures that all Spurs fans look out for at the start of the season are both games against Arsenal. These are the games that they want to win more than anything. On Sunday, Tottenham fans headed to the [...]Written by Matt SwanSpurs Out-played…