Led by the outstanding Wilson Palacios, Spurs earned a deserved draw at Craven Cottage and so for the third round in a row will need to rely on success in a replay to progress in this year’s FA Cup. In theory a Premier League team needs to only play (and win) six games before they’re bouncing up and down on the Wembley pitch behind a large piece of cardboard advertising...

Two early goals, one each from Pavlyuchenko and Modric, put Spurs on top quickly in this game but a half time tactical switch by David Moyes and a serious looking injury to Tom Huddlestone meant that Everton nearly repeated their December trick of coming from behind to take something from the match. Indeed, if Landon Donovan had directed his shot inside instead of outside...

Spurs didn’t have to play very well to win this one, and we didn’t particularly. The 4-0 scoreline hides what was at times a careless performance in which our passing game stuttered as much as it flowed. Bolton overall had more shots and Gomes was forced into action more than Harry would have liked. Still, Owen Coyle came bearing gifts in the shape of a weakened team...

Ah yes…the warm glow of victory. The Spurs supporters had been summoning Roman Pavlyuchenko vocally from the bench long before Harry finally did, but there was sweet redemption for the Russian striker – the best natural finisher at the club, for me – as his two smartly taken goals sealed a handsome away win in the DW quagmire. No doubt about it, Jermain Defoe’s...

When viewed from a distance the inward sloping floodlights of the Reebok Stadium make it look like some sort of half depressed bouncy castle. Maybe the modern day pylons interactively stand prouder & more erect the more people there are in the ground? If so then the Terriers faithful should be thankful to the packed stand of Spurs fans that turned up, without them...

A cautious Aston Villa came to White Hart Lane determined to avoid defeat and in holding out for a nil-nil draw they achieved their goal. This is a result that Liverpool will be most pleased about of all the clubs chasing fourth place. Spurs were the better team for the majority of this game but yet again we came up against some Horatio at the bridge of Rome type defending...

Well, this shouldn’t take long. We were half way back to out post-match pub along the High Road when my mate summed it perfectly: “Watching Villa is like watching Middlesboro. You go along thinking there’s going to be a game, and then…..nothing.” It really is quite amazing how Martin O’Neill has taken raw material like Ashley Young, Agbonlahor, Downing,...

Row G right behind the goal isn’t the best place in the world to watch a football game from but it was exactly the right spot from which to watch Jermain Defoe ultimately come out on top in what, over the two games, had turned into an almost personal battle between himself and Casper Ankergren, the Leeds keeper. Defoe completed his third hat-trick of the season in the...

For the second successive Saturday Spurs were denied by an injury time equaliser. After a brief rally following Jermain Defoe’s opener after 69 minutes Birmingham had posed no threat whatsoever but then just as the fourth official was packing away his hi-tech numbers board (which must have still been stuck on ‘5’ after David Bentley was replaced; surely no injuries...

Nothing in the walk to White Hart Lane, the noise of the crowd round the ground nor the atmosphere inside suggested we were expecting anything special tonight, and we didn’t get anything. Well that’s not quite true. There was the rare sight of David Bentley in a Spurs shirt plus another impressive display of attacking full back play from an increasingly confident...