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Harry’s team today smacked of giving players a game or a rest, as the case may be, because he felt they were due one. In doing so he underestimated Norwich who in the end, fairly comfortably won a game of mediocre quality. At Chelsea we discovered a formation that appeared to be the way forward, here we started with the system that struggled at Stevenage and has...

Sunderland’s attritional and unambitious attitude set the tone for this game. Martin O’Neill’s rope-a-dope tactics relied for success on us becoming so desperate for the three points that we’d leave holes at the back big enough for Mclean and Bendtner to take advantage of. This never happened as the latter was firmly tucked into Kaboul’s back pocket and the former...

Seven games left. Two of these take place over the Easter hols but it’s unlikely that both feature in Harry’s mental list of where we’re going to get the five wins from that he says we need to guarantee a CL place. Monday’s visit to WHL by Norwich will be in there, somewhere near the top probably, Saturday’s visit to Sunderland surely won’t....

A mostly entertaining game made enthralling more by Swansea’s tactics than their ambition. We were the better team but had to work damn hard for the points. The visitor’s high pressing, backwards and sideways passing and constant niggling and petty fouling – almost always in our half, and almost always when they had a player out of position – brought...

Home to Swansea. Not a fixture that should cause the heart of any Champions League qualifying round place (as long as Chelsea don’t win the whole shebang) chasing team to skip a beat, but we’re not just any Champions League qualifying etc etc team. Short of goals and without a win in our last 5 league games we enter this one needing victory to bring back a bit...

An unambitious Bolton side were ultimately cast aside, but not without the traditional Spurs jitters. Well before half time, we should’ve been far enough ahead to start thinking about ticket arrangements for Wembley, this is Spurs though so it was only when Saha’s piledriver whizzed past Bogdan in injury time that we knew we were safe. Even if we still lack...

A collective sigh of relief has been the general reaction to the performance and draw on Saturday but we’ll find out more about how close we are to being able to raise our heads fully above the parapet after Tuesday evening when Bolton come to town for another attempt at our FA Cup quarter final. We will hopefully be in for a less emotionally fraught evening than our...

Given that we’re in desperate need of a win, is Chelsea away really the next fixture we’d all choose? No, I didn’t think so. Saturday lunchtime, that’s what we head though. Bemoaning our luck or the fixture computer won’t do any good whereas dusting ourselves down, girding our loins, manning up and heading once more unto the breach dear friends...

Walking down Tottenham High Road last night, it wasn’t hard to feel optimistic. The signs are there that the area is slowly rebuilding itself after the summer damage, even if it’s just the addition of colourful hoardings and I Heart Tottenham posters. When you get to the ground the cleared space to the north is a pointer to hopes for a better and bigger future....

Home to Stoke on Wednesday evening and hopefully we’re set for less drama than was witnessed last time out. The encouraging news from the London Chest Hospital means that any doubts as to whether the game should go ahead have largely been dispelled, all that remains to be established is the extent to which our players have been able to put the traumatic events behind...