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Spurs Start Season Well Shock Horror 19 Aug 2013 | 03:08 pm
This game had what football calls the makings of a potential banana skin. Strictly speaking, the ‘potential’ is redundant because the banana skin either exists or it doesn’t, unless it is Schrödinger’...
Spurs Preview 2: the Team. A Whiff Of Cautious Optimism In The Air 17 Aug 2013 | 03:54 pm
This, Tottenham On My Mind’s fifth season, begins as did all the others, with Daniel Levy as the defining character in the drama to come. The seasons ended that way too. But this one is different, wha...
With Or Without Him, Spurs On The Right Track 14 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm
While the media fixate on Gareth Bale’s transfer like a toddler staring at a lollypop in a sweetshop, Daniel Levy is getting on with business. As Spurs approach the new season, it’s remarkable that an...
In The End, Levy. 31 Jul 2013 | 09:38 pm
In recent years there has been something about Spurs that causes opinions to become polarised. Harry Redknapp is the prime example of this phenomenon. It seems you can be either a Harry lover or an ‘a...
Tom Huddlestone: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up 4 Jul 2013 | 05:37 pm
We are all Brazilian now. As Spurs fans luxuriate in the knowledge that Paulinho, one of the world’s best up and coming midfielders, will grace White Hart Lane next season, spare a thought for Tom Hud...
Bale’s Trademark Isn’t All Gold 23 Jun 2013 | 09:41 pm
Plenty of words on the net bemoaning the close season and anticipating the start of the next. Not round these parts. I enjoy it, look forward to it in a perverse fashion. It’s part of the natural orde...
Spurs Legends Put The Champions League In Its Place 20 May 2013 | 11:27 pm
The setting was quintessentially English: the sportsclub lost at the end of a narrow lane, a ground with no stands and a pitch as green as grass in a five year old’s painting. On Saturday afternoon a ...
Possession Is Nine Points of the Law 13 May 2013 | 09:34 pm
Yesterday there was a job to be done and Spurs did what they had to do. Not in a straightforward manner, of course, why break the habit of my lifetime? After conceding the most pathetic set-piece I ha...
Contradictions, Reality and Spurs: A Discourse In Promise and Frustration 10 May 2013 | 05:55 pm
Sometimes a bit of distance helps. Time to breathe. Sense of perspective, which is impossible to achieve in the midst of the white hot heat of a Chelsea derby with Champions League qualification hangi...
Bale – Reason To Believe 5 May 2013 | 05:14 pm
When he does those things, I just stand and gasp. Goal celebration bedlam feels wrong somehow, a vulgar demeaning of greatness. Several times this season, the instant adrenalin rush has propelled me f...
