2009 and all that...

All in all it's been an okay 2009. Very Tottenham. Some good, some bad, and some just downright
ugly! We seem to be showing some signs of progress, and it was nice to hear H very upbeat after
the Wham match. The Ammers were dire, they will certainly lose a couple of players this January,
and most probably not be in a position to buy. Scott Parker to Sunderland I had heard...might just
be enough to tempt H, you know how he loves a bargain...I'm interested to see how much we will miss
A&E as I think that he has been one of our most improved players in the past year. Bale might just
finish on the winning side in January? Anyhow lets watch us go out to Peterborough on Saturday!COYS

Judgement Day

H said something along the lines of, we would be pretty happy with 6 points from those 3 fixtures.
That's Tottenham thinking for you...Yeah I know I'm never happy, but I doubt Sir Alex is very happy
at the moment.
The Mirror Mirror reckons that H will 'throw the book' at the 16 'golfers', who could be fined upwards
of 1.3 million in total. Hey Harry how about starting up a fund to help old players who have fallen on
hard times with the cash? Or maybe just donate it to The Double Celebration Pot...Just a thought?
I'm keen (geddit?) to know who the 16 were?

That's more like it!

My one question to H today would be have you learnt
anything from last Saturday. Keane (Version 09) and
Defoe starting does not work. If you bring Crouch on
chasing a goal then all we tend to do is hoof the thing

...Last night was different, it seemed that everyone knew
what they were doing, and some of them looked like they
were enjoying themselves! Niko is a lovely player to watch,
though I'm not sure how Modders and him will fit in the
same side?

That's one for H to ponder...Thanks for last night Spurs!

Happy days.

Smithy

Off to talk to Bobby Smith today regarding the book. He was the guy
on the end of many of the crosses and passes from the Ghost. By all
accounts a bit of a character.

Interesting noises coming from H at the Lane today, I'm reading between
the lines at letting us all down softly. 'He hasn't got where he is today' without
a long list of excuses and people to blame...

"One of those days..."

Said H. I thought that we had moved on from that fatalistic thinking at the Lane.
Looking at the press coverage from Anfield yesterday, it sadly looks like one
Premiership manager may have earned his corn at half time. I can't imagine AW
sitting in the dressing room at half time and saying things like, "Keep doing what
your doing and it'll happen. Or it might just be one of those days!"
In a strange twist the result on Saturday could have damaged us a lot more with
only Villa making any real gains...
City goal feast on Wednesday, 4-4? Football being football my money is on 0-0,
although we have only kept two clean sheets in the league all season.
COYS

Les & Tony

Had a brilliant day yesterday interviewing Les Allen and then Tony Marchi for the book.
True gentlemen who have lived the life, made the film, written history and still remain
humble. These guys should be giving life lessons to the new, tattoo clad, silly haired
polyester wearing millionaires!

The Ghost

Off to interview Les Allen tomorrow morning and Toni Marchi in
the afternoon. Ghostly fun in Essex! Really looking forward to it.
Sort of putting the final bits in the jigsaw puzzle. Wish we had a
picture on the front of the box!!

Groundhog day...

Due to a number of factors I could not watch the match live yesterday. It meant
that I was reduced to watching it being 'typed' about on The Guardian site. When
it got to 2-0 and coasting, I left it, went downstairs and relayed the good tidings.
However I did add that this was Spurs and anything could happen...Well it went
and did. Part of me sort of expects The Famous Tottenham to always let you down,
although I had hoped that H had got us past that...Oh well it's only football.

Carling Cup

Today makes me feel much better. Good old Robbo.
Sarkosy must love Wenger, who makes him look like a
rational Frenchman. Somebody should strap Wenger in a
padded room playing Kipling's 'IF'( he does write exceedingly
good poetry!) to him at volume 11 for about 24 hours...

Apart from that I was quite pleased that H seemed so
pissed off yeaterday, and looking at who got through he
must now think that we could have gone all the way...