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Every so often, your team makes an absolutely inexplicable signing. United may never provide an explanation for the purchase of Bebe last year and the Gunners likewise with Amaury Bischoff in 2008, so who are Tottenham’s most baffling signings since the Premier League began? It is important to distinguish between Spurs worst signings and their most inexplicable. Jason Dozzell [...]

Tottenham Hotspur is a well-run football club. The solidity of their finances is a source of pride for the supporters. They hold a position at the business end of the Premiership and have done so without racking up mountains of debt. However, they may have reached a fork in the road. In order to continue progressing, [...]

Tottenham’s latest move in the Olympic Stadium saga is a sign of the increasing bitterness of proceedings. They have demanded that West Ham can never remove the running track around the pitch. The reasoning is simple enough but not admirable. They believe that West Ham’s promise to keep the running track was a defining selling point [...]

First there was Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy’s hard stance on Luka Modric’s potential move to Chelsea this summer, now Roberto Mancini has stated that Carlos Tevez will never play for Manchester City again. Are these the first instances of a power shift back towards the clubs? No, they are not. Luka Modric was told he will [...]

Everybody loves a cheeky backheel and the finest examples stay long in the memory. There was Zola’s magical flick against Norwich in 2002 and Kanu’s delightful finish against Middlesboro in 1999. Now Daniel Sturridge’s gem of a backheel against Sunderland on Saturday has joined these classics. There are a surprising variety of ways to score a [...]

The rumour mill is a viscious and tireless beast, but it does provide excellent opportunities to consider other futures that may never come to pass. One new murmur cropping up nowadays is Carlo Ancelotti to Tottenham. This is not a mean, Martin Jol-Juande Ramos, behind-the-back job but a consequence of Redknapp’s constant lip-licking and eyeballing of the [...]

Dr Richard Steadman is a very lucky man. Working from his Vail Clinic high up in the mountains of Colorado, he has somehow managed to attract the distant but extremely lucrative trade of the Premier League. Dr Steadman has acquired a global reputation as the finest knee surgeon that money can buy for his work with [...]

Every so often, your team makes an absolutely inexplicable signing. United may never provide an explanation for the purchase of Bebe last year and the Gunners likewise with Amaury Bischoff in 2008, so who are Tottenham’s most baffling signings since the Premier League began? It is important to distinguish between Spurs worst signings and their most [...]

There are many myths in football. Some of them have sprung up from taking a lazy look at half the facts and leaping to an uninformed conclusion, such as the persistent belief that Italian football is boring. A surprising amount of myths seem to have come from commentators just saying the first thing that comes into [...]

Over the last 20 years Sky have brought numerous fantastic self-promoted innovations to the football viewer, all in the name of making football bigger and better than ever before, but none are more timeless and successful than Super Sunday. Perhaps I’m just a sucker for the endless hyping of the Premier League, but when I see [...]

Here is a list of the ten greatest footballers that God ever managed to make. He was having a fantastic day by his standards because these guys are just so good. It is a list of by far the best players who’ve ever graced the completely unworthy Premier League. The turf should be sealed off after [...]

Steve Bruce is struggling. His Sunderland side are without a win so far this season and have already suffered losses against arch-enemies Newcastle and Championship Brighton during their miserable start to the campaign. A month ago it all seemed so promising. Bruce was one of the most active Premier League managers over the summer, bringing 12 [...]

Confidence, what an elusive beast it is. Fernando Torres can’t find it anywhere and Manchester United can’t stop oozing it. Perhaps Torres should sneak into Carrington undercover and see if some of it rubs off on him. At the moment United are playing with so much confidence it seems they are the only people on the [...]

Emmanuel Adebayor is not the first controversial signing Harry Redknapp has introduced to the Tottenham faithful but he is certainly the most unpopular to date. Nonetheless Redknapp stays true to his belief that if the frontman plays well, all will at least be temporarily forgotten even if it is never entirely forgiven. It took Adebayor just [...]

Football chairmen hold a position of great power and therefore great responsibility yet it is amazing how often they abuse this power and ignore their responsibility. If you think Mike Ashley is a bad chairman, he’s not a patch on some of the spectacular meddlers to grace the boardrooms (and changing rooms) of Britain. A quick [...]

Perception of FIFA is at an all time low right now. People see football’s international governing body as a corrupt and pompous old boys dictatorship. They are not wrong. After the success of Qatar’s World Cup bid, the accusations of corruption and bribery have further tarnished an already unpopular organisation, prompting talk of smaller federations (such [...]

Uefa’s financial fair play legislation has arrived. The limit on spending will come into effect for the 2013/14 campaign but the monitoring of teams has begun. Over the next two seasons clubs will not be allowed a total loss greater than €45 million and UEFA reserve the right to ban them from European club competitions [...]

On Monday it struck me that Harry Redknapp was stockpiling midfielders. I was concerned that without anyone noticing Redknapp was indulging in some bizarre fetish of his where he attempts to hoard any midfielder that he can possibly buy. The squad was bulging with them and he was still pursuing Lassana Diarra and Scott Parker. It [...]

Last week a friend suggested that Tottenham Hotspur would not progress as a team until they got rid of Rafael Van der Vaart. It seemed a radical and harsh view considering the Dutchman’s outstanding contribution last year, but having mulled it over, there is certainly a case to be made. The most important thing is to [...]

When a professional footballer hangs up his boots, he is faced with three choices. He can take the easy life, opting to spend the rest of his days mooching around golf courses in Hertfordshire. He can take the hard life and attempt the move into management or he can don his sharpest suit, make the largest [...]