Spurs Are On There Way To Wembley!

Tuesday 22nd January will go down as one of the great nights of cup football at White Hart Lane. I had a pint at liverpool st station and the pub was packed with spurs fans eagerly awaiting this game,the atmosphere was already building up and it was only 5pm.
I boarded the train and arrived in Tottenham just after 6pm had something to eat and went for a pre match pint. The pub was heaving, expectation was in the air, and why not. Spurs had played great in the first leg and were very unlucky not to come away with a win at the emirates. Was this going to be our night?
The match started like all derbies at a frantic pace and the noise level of the crowd was awesome.It went up a few decibels when Jenas scored on 3 minutes!

Spurs gave Arsenal's defence no respite with their fluent and attacking football as they took a stranglehold on the match.

The Gunners were also starved of possession in attack and they rarely looked like levelling, due to a determined Tottenham side.

Nicklas Bendtner knocked one into his own net on 27 minutes. Arsenal were rattled and on the backfoot and Dimitar Berbatov should have inflicted another bodyblow to the visitors when he was clean through, only to hit the post with his shot.

Half time came and the old ground was buzzing, what would the second half bring would spurs fold and concede or could they add to their lead.

The second half started and we didn't have long to wait for the next goal, a 3 pass move found Lennon's who's delightful ball with the outside of his right foot sent Keane through to score with a shot which appeared to catch Fabianski by surprise 3-0 spurs!

It got worse for Arsenal when Lennon slotted in on the hour mark as Spurs threatened to run riot.
That signaled the start of the Arsenal fans excedous from the ground, shame on them as it appears that their loyalty dosn't extend to actualy watching their team lose. They left with the cries of "cheerio" from the loyal spurs faithful.

Adebayor's 20-yard strike was too late to give Arsenal a way back into the game and their frustration boiled over when Bendtner appeared to argue with his team-mate and goalscorer before exchanging angry words with Gallas.

Malbranque compounded Arsenal's misery by sloting home our 5th goal of the night, witnessed only by spurs fans as the gooners were long gone by now.

Wenger's post match interview was in his usual style, no credit to the spurs team who just ripped his stars apart, instead nothing went his teams way. Arsenal fans this week have taken a leaf out of wenger's book stating we only beat their kids, they overlook the fact that they had 11 full internationals on the pitch who have made 278 first team appearances this season.

At the end of the day who gives a toss what wenger and the glory boys think. Real football fans want to see their team stuff there arch rivals in a semi final. The atmosphere was electric at the lane and the country saw a great game and a noise generated by the spurs fans that some clubs can only dream of.

Spurs are on their way to Wembley!

Spurs 5 - 1 Gunners
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Lady Luck!

Man Utd and Spurs, the premier leagues so called crisis clubs met this afternoon at old trafford.

Pre match Alex Ferguson claimed that his utd team would win!

Well a minute into the match he had his first scare, Malbrangue and Berbatov combined well to set up Robbie keane who hit the bar with a curling shot. Spurs continued to dominate proceedings for the first twenty minutes, after which utd came into the game without causing us to many problems.

The second half started well for spurs and we threatened the utd goal on a number of occasions. A Bale free kick was met by the head of Ricardo Rocha, who really should have scored from six yards.

We continue to press and twice Berbatov came close in the space of a few minutes, first he slipped the ball past the keeper only for Rio Ferdinand to clear off the line. Then another effort strikes Wes Brown on the arm only for the ref Howard Web to wave away our penalty appeals. Ironic really as it was at the same end two years ago that Pedro Mendes clear cut goal was denied by equally blind officials.

To rub salt in the wounds Nani fires a shot from 20 yards and gets a fortunate deflection to beat robinson for uniteds winning goal.

Spurs still pressed on and united held on to the three points. The team played very well and Martin Jol and everyone connected with the club can see we are not far off being very good once we have a full squad to pick from.

What can i say about our travelling support, they were magnificent! The 3.000 spurs fans totally out sung their united counterparts, as Martin Jol so rightly says "the best fans in England".

The media have done their very best to unsettle us this week, BMJ lost the dressing room, fickle fans, berbatov's on his way. The whole country witnessed the complete opposite this afternoon, if only we could have a little of what the top four teams seem to get a lot off, Lady Luck.!

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White Hart Pain!

Martin Jol seems to have got himself a stay of execution after his clear the air meeting with Levy and the board today.

But what has to be one of the biggest public relations disasters in recent football history. The clubs clumsy handling of the whole Jaunde Ramos affair, has put spurs in a very poor light indeed.

BMJ is called in to meet the board like a naughty schoolboy and is told in no uncertain terms that the board expect nothing less than a top 4 finish or else!. What the hell does Levy think BMJ has been working towards these past two years.

Whatever report you read on this whole sorry saga its a different story being told. Spurs cooled on the idea of Ramos after being caught out in the Spanish hotel meeting. Ramos commits himself to seeing out the year left on his Seville contract. Or did Ramos play spurs to get himself an improved deal at Seville.

Whatever the truth is, if spurs weren't in a crisis a week ago, we are now!.

I can't believe how the board have acted in such an amature way, and shown so much disrespect to a much loved manager.

Sundays game in Manchester will see the spurs fans voice their wrath at the board of that i have no dought. The board are so out of touch with the feelings of their own fans.

Our next 3 games away to Man Utd, Fulham and home to Arsenal will now be make or break for Martin Jol and the club.

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The Week That Was!

As spurs fans we have experienced all kinds of emotions this week. Last Saturday we felt untold confidence and optimism as we kicked off against Sunderland, only to get a kick in the teeth in the dying seconds of the game.

Tuesday nights game with everton was the match we would put things right we hoped. But when kaboul limped off injured i knew we would get very little from the game, and that was indeed the case.

All week the media have been having a field day, stating that spurs are in crisis and Martin Jol would lose his job!. He even had urgent talks with our chairman Mr Levy so the papers said. The fact that he has weekly talks with the chairman seems not to be reported. I guess you can't let the truth get in the way of a good story now can you.

On to todays game, it was a must win game of course it was. We needed to give our season a kick start and today we did. Two goals from Malbranque inside 6 minutes eased the pressure on Martin Jol and us fans alike.

Jenas scorced a wonderful solo effort on 14 minutes after stealing the ball from Derby's Andy Todd and sliding it past the helpless keeper.

Wayne Routledge had the ball in the net on 32 minutes but the linesman wrongly flagged for offside.

Derby managed there first and only shot on target on the 70 minute mark, Gary Teale saw his shot saved by robbinson.

On 79 minutes Darren bent scored his first goal for spurs, McEveley's back header brought a good save out of the Derby keeper and bent raced in to nod it home.

So it finished 4-0 to spurs and in truth it was one way traffic, the return of Young-pyo lee at left back gave the back four a more solid look to it. Routledge playing on the right gave us the width we have been craving, therefore keeping their left back very busy all the game. Huddlestone's distribution was great, playing a variety of passes that was a joy to see. And jenas upped a gear after his recent poor performances.

The team had a more balanced look to it today, we still have a very long injury list but they will slowly come back and then we can push on. Tonight I'm very pleased we are above Man Utd and Arsenal. Wenger for the sack anyone!

Full match report here