The Last Time That Manchester City Made A Cup Semi-Final…
History, it has been said many times, is written by the victors. It's a thought that may pass through the heads of some older Manchester City supporters during their League...
Posts Tagged: "Tottenham Hotspur"
Match Of The Week: Spurs 9-1 Wigan Athletic
Spurs have scored nine goals before in front of the "Match Of The Day" cameras, against Bristol Rovers in the Second Divison in 1977. This, however, was a different kettle...
The Acquittal Of The Tottenham Two
Two Spurs supporters have been acquitted of abusive and offensive chanting aimed at Sol Campbell, but this doesn't mean that the club's supporters shouldn't reappraise their poisonous attitude towards him....
Match Of The Week: Spurs 1-3 Manchester United
Winter is coming. The evenings are starting to feel a little fresher and the sun no longer affords the heat that it did. After a break for the international matches,...
Transfer Deadline Day – The Last Day Of The Sales
It’s transfer deadline day, that strange combination of inertia and BIG BIG news, as clubs seek to fine tune their squads before the curtain draws and the window stays shut...
Be Prepared For The Worst Football Kit Designs Ever
Criticism of Newcastle United has long since passed from being some form of sport into being a sadistic ritual, but their new change kit for next season is surely worthy...
Six FA Cup Semi-Finals
It seems almost difficult to believe in this day and age, but there was a time that FA Cup semi-finals mattered. Getting to Wembley was an end to itself. The...
The Spurs Time Capsule
Curious news from White Hart Lane, where Tottenham Hotspur have finally gotten around to confirming that the golden cockerel which overlooks their stadium actually is, as has long been rumoured,...
Spurs, Aston Villa & The UEFA Cup
Much as it was unsurprising, it was still a fairly depressing spectacle. On Thursday night, Aston Villa and Spurs put out reserve teams for their UEFA Cup matches against CSKA...
How Did It Go So Wrong For Robbie Keane?
As he looked out of the window of his car this afternoon as it sped towards White Hart Lane, a successful medical and a return to Tottenham Hotspur, Robbie Keane...
Another Three Years Of “Match Of The Day”
The news that the BBC has secured a further three years of Premier League highlights makes for a potentially intriguing situation. In August 2014, a year after their next contract...
A Terrible Early Christmas Present
Ho ho ho. Twohundredpercent is off on its Christmas holidays tomorrow. The high excitement of waking up in the morning and seeing the back garden covered in snow, considerable amounts...
Match Of The (Mid)Week: Arsenal 4-4 Tottenham Hotspur
What a difference a week makes. This time last week, Tottenham Hotspur looked down and out in the Premier League – slipping adrift at the foot of the Premier League...
Tottenham Hotspur, A Bassett Hound & An Unlikely Escape Plan
It has been a busy few days at White Hart Lane, as one might expect from a club having its worst ever start to a season. On Thursday night, they...
What On Earth’s Going Wrong At Tottenham?
One of the reasons why we like league football is that it is relatively meritocratic. From only a few games in the season, the league table doesn’t lie. Setting aside...
Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 West Ham United
We emerge from the bowels of London’s expansive underground system at Seven Sisters tube station into pouring rain. Where the hell did this come from? It wasn’t doing it in...
It’s Lucky For Spurs When The Year Ends In, Umm, Eight
So, congratulations then to Spurs, who beat Chelsea 2-1 in yesterday’s League Cup final at Wembley. I’ve noted on here before that Spurs have had more false dawns than more...
Another Fabulous FA Fudge
You wouldn’t have expected an outright condemnation straight away, would you? I mean, it would surely be asking too much for the FA to take one look at Scudamore’s Insane...
One Night In Heaven
It will probably prove to be a false dawn. It was when they did the same to Chelsea at the same stage of the League Cup in 1999 (they didn’t...
Tottenham Hotspur’s Psychological Block
So, I got in from work last night at about 9.00 and switched on the television to watch some of the League Cup semi-final. Spurs were winning 1-0 and were...