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It’s hard to know where to start really there were so many talking points. A balls up from the ref of extraordinary proportions was the main influence in this game though so let’s begin there. Everything that happened after that second ‘goal’ was as a result of the change in attitude we were forced to adopt. We were the better side in the first...

Spurs are going to Wembley! Crack the champagne, call the engraver, and put us down for an open-top bus around the middle of May. If we achieve FA Cup glory this year—something we have a very real chance of doing—May 5, 2012 will be a date that Spurs fans remember for the rest of our lives. But what about May 13, 2012? What will we be celebrating on that day? Fourth...

6pm on a Sunday? That’s no time for an FA Cup semi-final. Wembley? That’s no place for an FA Cup semi final. Three days before an important Moneybags League game? That’s no… etc etc. Filthy lucre has certainly played its part in the staging of Sunday’s game; it’s still a cup semi final though and retains its own magic in spite of the...

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...