Category Archives: Match Reports

Liverpool 4 Spurs 0 – Sherwood out?

Liverpool Spurs Own Goal

 

Sherwood out.

The last Spurs manager who suffered such a demoralising defeat to Liverpool, didn’t last another 24 hours. With the season’s finale only six matches away, Tottenham will surely wait to relieve the present incumbent of his duties; with Levy you’re never quite sure.

This thrashing was half expected – prior to the game fans were Continue reading

Benfica 2 Spurs 2 – It’s not the despair that hurts, it’s the hope

Tim Sherwood in stands against Benfica

So near and yet so far.

For 78 minutes it felt like this tie was already over as a contest, a feeling strengthened by Garay’s 34th minute goal. This didn’t make a lot of difference to Spurs’ task – they still needed three – but psychologically it seemed to Continue reading

Spurs 0 Arsenal 1 – Painful Defeat but not Embarrassment

Spurs Arsenal

Defeat at home to our fiercest rivals – it hurts. But out of the pain comes a glimmer of hope. We may have lost, but only by a single, solitary goal and we had the chances to have taken a point.

I was at the match, seated extremely Continue reading

Spurs 1 Benfica 3 – Sherwood’s rant fails to invigorate woeful Spurs

Spurs Benfica

Beforehand, this fixture conjured up memories of 1962, Blanchflower, Greaves and Spurs’ high watermark in European competition. It didn’t live up to the billing.

The big story after the depressing defeat to Chelsea was Continue reading

Chelsea 4 Spurs 0 – punch drunk and on the canvas

Eto'o scores

Here we are again after yet another debacle. West Ham, Man City, Liverpool, Man City again and now Chelsea. Like a punch drunk fighter, we stagger from one knockout to the next, resigned to the beatings.

The first shock yesterday came with Continue reading