Gareth Bale. He’s very good you know. He’s so good that one of the richest clubs in the world want to buy him for a world record fee. It’s funny that for the longest time, football fans across England scoffed at the illustration of Bale as a superstar with charges of him being overrated […]
Dogma. A settled or established opinion, belief, or principle. I had a dogmatic belief that Harry Redknapp was bad news for Tottenham. I told you in October 2008, January 2009 and had a good go him and our flops after the embarrassment of a 2-3 League Cup defeat to Burnley. By April 2009 I offered him a smidgen of credit but it […]
Performance Analysis I’m not going to bore you with some sort of unnecessary preamble. I will simply say that Spurs have had an ok season and here’s what I think of each player’s individual performance. The scale I’ve rated all the players based on their performances through the season. In a percentage of cases I […]
There’s been no pretence on my part to like Harry Redknapp. For me his tenure at Spurs is like giving a market trader a job at ‘Arrods. In an earlier blog I lamented his appointment with observation such as “he’s crass, rarely takes a defeat on the chin without having a go at a referee […]
You’ll hear several different stories about what really happened on Saturday. Some say that Dimitar Berbatov considered himself mentally unfit to play; others say that it was the manager who dropped him from the match day squad due to his attitude and state-of-mind. One thing is for sure, if Berbatov’s move to Manchester United does […]
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