Opinion: Schlupping around in a hardly Eze fixture
Ok, the wolves are howling. Jose set us up to play too defensive—we should have killed the game—this is what why Spurs won’t win the…
Author: Paul Maslin
Opinion: A Team, b team and a see you later team
It would be tempting to just call this the Giovani Lo Celso show, and let’s move on to Palace, such was the complete performance that…
Opinion: Absorb, contain, deflect and then attack
Graham Souness doesn’t care for it. Gary Neville can barely stomach it. Stewart Robson doesn’t give us a chance at the title. I’m sure Keano…
Opinion: Climb every mountain
There is so much to say about what was bad about this game, that we shouldn’t forget what was good. Spurs have advanced in one…
Opinion: Bloodied but unbowed and still top
That look by Joe Rodon said it all—bloodied lip, dirty shirt, grimace but defiance. “That all you got?” It was hardly a master class, it…
Opinion: The best player in the world right now
Let me define the terms straightaway. This isn’t the Ballon d’Or assessment over a full season. Nor is it a reputation judgement. It is simpler…
Opinion: We can be heroes
Someone call George Foreman. Only he truly knows what that goal from Giovanni Lo Celso felt like. 9th Round—Zaire heat, Ali been hanging on the…
Opinion: One moment of quality
There was so much not to like about this game. We suffered the after-effects of a 1500 mile round trip to Bulgaria. They were the…
Opinion: The Real Madrid ‘Bales’ out hot and cold Spurs
This one has too many talking points. We moved up to second. We survived another refereeing apocalypse. We didn’t play particularly well for the third…
Opinion: A woeful attack
It was the game we most could have afforded to lose—win next week in Bulgaria and then in the return fixture and this one has…