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About Jon @ AnythingButPenalties

Spurs Blogger, supporter and member.

QPR 1 Spurs 2 – Kane revives Tottenham’s Champions League hopes

Kane QPR

 

Two wins in four days and Spurs’ top four hopes are back on track. Now just four points off third place it’s a real possibility, even if the form of Liverpool and Arsenal make those two favourites.

Mirroring the midweek victory against Continue reading

Chelsea 2 Spurs 0 – the dream is over but there’s lots to look forward to

The League Cup final begins

 

The defeat didn’t hurt quite as much as I’d anticipated. Maybe I was half expecting it. Maybe it had been such a good day out, the result couldn’t spoil it. The frustrating thing was we started well, hitting the woodwork from Eriksen’s freekick. If that had gone in everything could have been so different.

Sunday had began full of Continue reading

Spurs Chelsea Cup Final Preview – “The game is about glory”

Spurs league cup final

 

The excitement is building for Spurs first cup final in five years. The chance to take some silverware back to White Hart Lane.

The midweek capitulation in Florence was disappointing but all that’s forgotten, the focus is on Wembley and Chelsea. As Danny Blanchflower famously said, Continue reading

Pochettino’s impossible conundrum

Pochettino has a hard choice to make

 

Today marks the start of four days that will define Spurs’ season and Mauricio Pochettino’s first year in charge. With a finely balanced Europa league tie tonight and the League Cup final just days later, picking the team is not going to be an easy task.

If Pochettino selects Continue reading

Spurs 2 West Ham 2 – it’s happened again

Kane scores against West Ham

 

“It’s happening again” sang the West Ham fans as their team went 2-0 up at White Hart Lane, a ground where they were victorious twice last season. In a way they were right, as for the second time this campaign, Tottenham scored an injury time goal to break Hammers’ hearts.

As I took my seat, the teams were being announced and there was one big surprise. Continue reading