Introducing My Indian Spirit Guide Dhanali [one who brings wealth] or Dave for short.

Within twenty four hours of the The Mirror breaking the news that William Gallas was joining Spurs, THFC made a public display of solidarity to the team announcing they'd signed up to Anti Bullying Week.

Darren Bent has heard of a new strategy that will allow him to score freely every week. The secret was allegedly passed to him by his old mucker Jermain Defoe. What you do is leave Tottenham. His new club come January is said to be Everton. £13 million ono.

Disagreeable Bob Keane, a one time Premiership striker turned freelance bean counter told 'a close friend' that this method was in fact 'Horsesh*t'. Maybe he's right. His league record would indicate it is and who would know more about horses than a knacker?

Speaking of Pikeys, the fire sale at West Ham looks like it could draw bigger crowds than Woolies if they were to discount off their Pick n Mix resevoir. The suggestion is that Spurs are interested in a buy one get one overpriced deal - involving Scott Parker and Robert Green. The figure being bandied about is a whopping £16 million. 

You remember Scott Parker. He was that guy who not only used to be an up and coming prospect, but also a boyhood fan of Money. He was set to join Tottenham a few moons ago when Newcastle United stepped in and awoke his childhood memories of gelt when they bumped the Spurs offer by £15,000 a week. And Robert Green you all know as a guy who was a good goalie a few seasons ago and is now just a device to unsettle Gomes.

Anyway. Watford.

Win this, my fine feathered friends and we're Carling Cup Semi Final bound.

Lose and Tottenham fans will close ranks muttering, 'we was concentrating on the league anyway' quicker than you can say, 'Don't panic, Mr Mainwaring'.

My Indian Spirit Guide Dave dropped round earlier. She was actually returning my Love Actually DVD she'd borrowed, when I pressed her on the outcome of tomorrows match she was emphatic.

"Spurs will go beserk and Pavlyunchenko will knock it in at least twice. There will be more goals from your lot but all of this is will require patience, H. All of what I see is in the second half. You still in the market for pints Wednesday?"

Iron Man

Tottingham

Highly esteemed HH contributor TMWNN called it right last night.

'Three seasons, three managers, the same old problems'.

'It's no coincidence that the team continue to play inconsistently when the heart of the midfield has largely gone unchanged in three seasons.'

'Jol's first full season had the excellent Davids and Carrick to drive the team to 5th place. His next, and last, full season had the excellent partnership between Pointy and the Vulgarian to paper over the cracks (gaping chasm) the loss of the former two left in midfield. Their guile and goals alone gained us 5th once more; expectations reached fever pitch.'
 

A p*** poor start the following season saw off Jol and a change of manager, barring a short honeymoon period and a lucky cup run, didn't bring with it any real change in league performances, which has resulted in Harry's appointment.'

'Yet another honeymoon is over, but the same old problem persists, only this time we haven't got the talent upfront to be able to overlook the fact that Huddlestone, Lennon, Jenas and Zokora - in what ever combination - just doesn't work.'

I was banging on in the Pre Match Prattle how we'd miss Modric. The absence of Jenas obviously just made things worse.

Poor old Arry could have played Everton 'til three in the morning with an in exhaustable supply of striker substitutions and we still probably wouldn't have scored.

Defoe scored yet again yesterday. Mido would convert more at MFC if he laid off the KFC, the fat Pharaoh.

We are in dire need of either addressing the supply issues with the current players or biting the bullet and buying in guys who can reliably assist. Far too frequently we're using phrases like 'went missing' when we are describing the the players who ought be the very heart of our team.

At least Arry knows this. I was totally unconvinced Jol grasped the problem at all. As for Ramos, who cares what he knew - he was hell bent on taking his secrets to his grave. The last of the great communicators.

Is Arshavin the answer? If so what was the question?

I suggest we stop fannying around and nip out and get ourselves someone who plays in this league, can get stuck in, deliver the ball to the business end of our £30 odd million strikeforce ...and preferably do Malbranque impressions.

We've sat through some rubbish so far this season.  All the Flat Football Fairy can say in her defence is she has waved her wand liberally. As the table shows...

The last particularly cr*p game came courtsey of our prospective visitors this weekend and Wigan. The 0-0 scoreline was flattering. The game wasn't that exciting. And from what I heard this afternoon the fog spared many fans equally iffy outings from a number of teams.

Anyway, Everton. Osman, Arteta & Co all looked every bit shadows of their former selves.

This is my way of suggesting we ought not brace ourselves for the Toffeemen, but rather for another game as riveting as the Blackburn one. 

Defensively we're good enough. King will continue making more returns than 'The Mac', add him to Woodgate and Corluka and that provides us with a be it irregular, but a sound enough combination. 

Where the game will hinge for us is painfully obvious. Their names are Bentley, Jenas and Huddlestone. Will they turn up? Will the pitch be level enough? Will the Xtra Hold Moulding Clay do the trick? Who knows?

Luca Modric romanced us in a whirlwind. One minute we didn't notice the old girl and now we struggle to understand how we'll ever cope without her. He's not playing and he'll be hugely missed.

Pav and Bent are in dire need of service and this is the same malaise that drove away Defoe and endlessly frustrated the rat faced Bulgarian.

Determined to have a punt this Sunday? My tip is put on a very big coat and head for Cambridge.

I've just got back from A&E. Normally the nurses are quite sympathetic towards self harmers but when I let slip my motivation was us being linked with Stuart Downing again the good will dried up quicker than you can say Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus.

Anyway, welcome a man who (to the best of my knowledge) has not been branded a timewaster by the NHS, guest columnist, Phillip Oliver...

The dust has settled on Harry's appointment and it is time to look ahead to the January transfer window. Redknapp has been called many things, but the tag he is most well known by is Wheeler dealer?

With the Tottenham transfer policy in his sole control, what sort of signings can we expect to arrive at the Lane?

Redknapp's reputation in the transfer market has undergone something of a transformation. He was known as a chancer in his West Ham days, with the infamous £1m signing of Dutch caravan enthusiast Marco Boogers offset by the more successful purchases of Paolo di Canio and John Hartson, the two players who did most to secure Harry's legacy at Upton Park.

This scattergun approach at West Ham he oversaw 134 transfers in seven years at a net cost of £6m seemingly justified his reputation as a manager who was as likely to sign a dud as he was a star, but he has since been rehabilitated as the boss with the most transfer market savvy.

 Redknapp was just as busy in his first spell at Portsmouth, bringing in 44 players in two and a half years in charge, but he importantly lost his reputation for transfer howlers. Hammers fans remember the costly purchases of Florin Raducioiu, Paolo Futre and Joey Beauchamp, but Pompey followers credit Harry's promotion and subsequent survival in 2002 on the recruitment of Paul Merson, Eyal Berkovic and Lomana Lua Lua.

These signings reflect the key change in Redknapp's transfer policy ?the move towards buying established Premier League players who fell out of favour at their clubs. We only have to look at the recent Spurs players who packed their bags for the south coast. Pedro Mendes, Sean Davis, Noel Pamarot, Jermain Defoe and Younes Kaboul had varying degrees of good Tottenham service still in them, but found the allure of first team football too hard to resist. Redknapp specialised in is this regeneration of outcasts, guaranteeing his reputation as a manager who could work on a budget.

Sol Campbell, Nwankwo Kanu, David James, Glen Johnson, Sylvain Distin, Peter Crouch and Lassana Diarra - quality players recruited at good prices. It might appear that we should be worried that Harry will pursue a similar policy of big club leftovers, but a look down this list of transfer hits should appease us. Defoe, Diarra, Crouch and Sulley Muntari would not have headed for Portsmouth if it wasn't for Redknapp and his expert handling of big names suggests he can buy big.

We have always succeeded in attracting big names and with Harry in charge that task becomes even easier. He has the opportunity to have his post-Boogers buying policy defined by a major transfer coup ?given Harry's predilection for resigning players, let's just hope it isn't the unveiling of Sol Campbell!

Written by Philip Oliver, a Tottenham Hotspur supporter and sports writer who blogs about football betting at Betfair.

My advice to readers make a concerted effort to consume booze whilst watching this match was in hindsight a masterplan.

That was one of those niggly, nothingy sort of games that never really threatened to spark and ultimately didn't.

I have also reached the conclusion for the umpteenth time that our sky blue kit is a thin, cheap looking polyester nasty and whoever sanctioned it is needs a change of career path. Word from the Megastore is sales have been abysmal - so not just me.

On a positive note, the one player that did catch my eye was their bloke in the Edgar David's wig. He was tip top. And yes, I do know who he is. Cheers.

Gomes 7 Confidence boosting game.

Gunter 6 Coped well at that level.

Woodgate 7 Marshalled things nicely. Halls Soother.

Dawson 6 Disaster / insane outburst free appearance.

Bale 6  Unconvinced he's match fit. Get him on the Centrums.

Bentley 6 Dwelt on the ball. He urgently needs a plan.

Zokora 5.5 Another Zokora shift. He's making me increasingly tetchy. Pass the Gaviscon.

Huddlestone 6 Struck down with Narrowpitchitis and Badpassing's Disease.

O'Hara 7 On the Fishermen's Friends. Arguably our most notable player.

Campbell 6 Could have done with some Tunes to help him shoot more easily or better service.

Bent 5 Worse than the Blackburn game. He is probably suffering from mild depression.

Lennon 5 Did well enough but didn't change the game. Disappointing.

A rose by any other name ...and this is the pre match prattle for NEC Nijmegen away.

The occasionally tired eyes of Tottenham fans will be eager to see that the UEFA campaign has been downscaled in favour of the more pressing issues ahead aka advancing away from danger and derision in the Premiership.

"We have to be honest, the league is what is most important to us," said 'Arry.

And so Ledders is rested. So combine that with injuries and a three man cavalcade of cup tied players and downscaled is where we is at.

'Arry has consequently loaded the minibus up with Dairylea Lunchables and Toothkind Ribenas to accomodate the inclusion of messers Adam Smith, John Bostock, Yaser Kasim, John Obika and Ryan Mason.

Almost all of you reading this will not be there. I am told our allocation is only around 600. The bulk of you will have displayed magnificent ingenuity in the workplace and be seated avec une cold one before you come the witching hour of six o'clock. This lot's stadiam only only holds 12,500 and the TV won't add to the atmosphere.

May I humbly suggest getting mein host to turn the bloody thing up, forget it's a school night and have a proper slurp.

NEC's match preparations were allegedly been hit by heater failure at the stadium and training ground, meaning snow had to be removed manually.

"The whole team cleaned it so now we are a bit tired," their manager Mario Been told Sportinglife. He's a card.

A 0-3 win with Bostock to score at anytime double will yield at around 12/1. Why not?

BIOYC!

The Blackburn wall or our lot planning a wonderstrike? Difficult to tell.... 

So Tottenham catapult themselves from bottom to 15th. Waheeey.

Boy did we miss Modric. We lacked his guile and we lacked his inventive bursts at the enemy. And that's my beef. Even against a gormless ten man gang of herberts like Blackburn we really lacked imagination.

Bentley's long corner's weren't so bad. But the short ones and the spot kicks were substandard. And then it struck me. I don't think he's all that bright. Harsh, but better we grasp these nettles sooner than later. The short corners were a response to our own inability to cash in on the actually half decent long ones.

The free kicks were rotten. 

I've seen Building Society safes with shorter time delays. The ceremony of the ball placement. The painfully predictable roll pass to Huddlestone. The straight faces. Nobody looks a serious as a tailor's dummy.

Bentley is a talent, that's not being debated, but I don't know if he was trying to show his former team mates he was now playing at an entirely different level, but all he succeded in doing was annoying me.

Lennon skipped and scrambled past a pretty clueless Blackburn. Paul Ince might not actually be the world's worst manager. But no one's ever going to find out whilst he's in charge of this lot. Ooijer-Bored and Olsson more resembled pipe fitters or mechanics than footballers. In fact what we're looking at are Mick McCarthy's Sunderland the season they last went down. Brutish and brain free.

The blazing comet that was Santa Cruz has not so much gone off the boil as developed pneumonia. And was it really only a season or two back that Pederson was scoring for fun and the subject of megabid speculation?

I view Blackburn without any emotional attachment, but they look every bit like a team going through the motions. And Spurs will have to drastically raise their game to stay out of the Zone Of Shame.

Everton next - then West Ham. Neither of which would sit patiently for the remaining 81 minutes of a game waiting for our second goal.

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Gomes 5.5 Awful drop in the opening minutes and little wrong afterwards. I'm unconvinced the 'rye' cheers at his every touch will spur him on, but on balance I prefer them to booing.

Corluka 7 Looks every bit the part. Dare I say, reliable.

King 6.6 Largely untroubled. Solid.

Woodgate 7 What he has done has been sound. Especially that bit when he denied them a goal.

Ekotto 5 Beginning to annoy me, in a Chimbonda kindda way.

Huddlestone 6.6 A good game but looked hemmed in compared to recent outings.

Jenas 6.3 Heroic one minute duff the next.

Lennon 7.2 Man Of The Match from the kick off onwards. Electric.

Bentley 5.1 Booked for simulation. Also ought to have been done for being 'a bit of softie' and 'taking crap short corners.'

Pavlyuchencko7.1 Champions League grade finish. Spritely break and Lennon's assist was perfecto.

Bent 6 Another day another abysmal lack of service.

Joe Jordan 11 Don't kow what he was screaming but loved that he did. Rock on.

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A funny week. Funny peculiar, rather than funny haha. Not only did we beat the Hun soundly in his own front yard, but we returned from this forray 'sausage side' to revelations that there is trouble in paradise - or the Arse's dressing room anyway. Cashback.

William Gallas' identity crisis hit tilt as he decided to he couldn't save his William Wallace impression for the Emptycrates Multidedominational Non race Specific Party (formerly the Pagan Blood Sacrifice Chrimbo Bash).

Big Bad Bill told the Associated Press in Paris, "...there are things that can't be said and can't be tolerated.''

The only two things he was referring to there were obviously Van Pervert's first and last names... 

My guess is his words will turn out to be prophetic.

Wenger will be reminding him who the actual manager of the team is and that Billiam should have kept his trap shut. Running off to the press and revealing that your team's dressing room has imploded is indeed ...intolerable."

"We are not brave enough in battle. I think we need to be soldiers. We have to be warriors," continued Billiam Wallace. "I have to win something this year. I have to win something, Arsenal has to win something...''

Somebody buy this imbecile some face paints and a Kinder Egg. 

Or point another microphone at him. Funny hahahahahaha, after all.

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 Here's more speculation over Sunday's fixture with me in conversation with one of BRFC.com's  top contributors, Phillip L. 

HH: A game of two goal keepers. How happy have you been Robinson?

PL: Happier than you have been with Gomes recently I suspect. There have been a couple of clangers as he still is not brilliant at judging the "go, stay, oops" crosses into the box. However, his shot stopping has been superb and Scolari rightly singled him out as the difference between 0-2 and 0-7 when Chelsea came calling recently.

We were initially immensely impressed by the length and accuracy of his kicking but when you've got Jason Roberts trying to trap them, it all became it bit pointless and repetitive really.

Suffice to say we miss the reassuring sight of big Brad in goal but judging by Brad's Villa form I suspect we now have the better keeper and Robo being 100 years younger is a bit of a bonus as well.

HH: And can you see him getting his England shirt back anytime soon?

PL: Last man standing isn't it with the England keepers at present? I think it is inevitable he will get his chance on current form compared with the others and so he will have to make the most of it when it comes and watch those dodgy back passes. From what I have seen so far, I think he is England's number one again.

HH: What's your take on our latest media darling, the boy Gomes?

PL: Football is short of entertainers. I hear from inside your camp he is not the total car crash write off the rest of us believe so he might come good. I hope he gets another outing on Sunday.  
 
HH: What's the deal wth Paul Ince. Is he a flailing, out of his depth, idiot? 

PL: Yes.

Not impressed- he has divided the support between those going to Ewood to boo and those who have given up. We are grateful for Spurs/Ramos and now City/Hughes for keeping the Rovers off the back pages.

Joking apart, I am very seriously worried. Nothing would please me more than a stirring victory at the Lane heralding a long unbeaten run and a trip to Wembley with Ince the blue and white hero- but we live in the real world.

HH: If Ince were to go, who would be a 'sound' choice in the eyes of your average Blackburn fan?
 
PL: That's a good one. The fans have grown accustomed to top half finishes (three on the trot) and regular trips to humiliating exits in Europe. So in the summer we expected a bit of glamour and pizazz about the next appointment and knowing there had been contact with Advocaat (who hankers after having a go in the Prem) and Michael Laudrup describing our Chairman as the most knowledgeable and impressive raised hopes and expectations. Which to be honest didn't help Ince with the fans when we came down to earth with a bump.

Now it is all about making sure we are not the only debt-free club in the Championship next season so getting someone who looks to be a safe bet for avoiding relegation has got to be number one priority as we will be deeper in the mire by the time any change is made.  

Despite the (in)famous Facebook campaign against Big Fat Sam which undoubtedly weighed in the Chairman's deliberations; I suspect this time there would be a majority of fans who would welcome Allardyce now. It also pains us to admit but our hated neighbours and the inbred relatives of Sam Dingle have a cracking good manager in Owen Coyle but think of Arsenal/Spurs and add the bleakness of the moors and you will get an idea of how well hiring the Burnley manager would go down in both towns.

Quite a few fans are watching the goings on at City with interest- most would be elated to see Sparky back and certainly there was an extremely warm and productive working relationship between John Williams (Chairman) and Mark Hughes.

But the real answer is that Roberto Mancinni is in London learning English because it is his lifelong dream to manage the Rovers... 

HH: Some Spurs fans, me included,say we are crying out for a proper DM. Any glaringly obvious pieces missing from your own jigsaw puzzle?

PL: Jigsaw puzzle is an apt metaphor as the boss hasn't got the hang of the sky going at the top and ground at the bottom judging by the way he is forever playing people out of position.

Taking Bentley from us has wrecked us to be honest. Last season he had the highest number of crosses in the League and I think he was credited with 20 assists. Quite why Ince thinks Roque Santa Cruz can thrive in a team playing without proper wingers is beyond me but we are doing a nice little line in signing league 1 and 2 players. 

HH: Where are your goals going to come from on Sunday?
PL: Gomes

HH: Between us we've kept only four clean sheets so far this season. What's the basketball score going to be?

PL: 0-0 if Robinson has a blinder. 4-1 to you wouldn't be a surprise. 
 
HH: THFC are blush resistant. Shameless marketing ploys and money spinners seem to be their forte. Do you release DVDs of games you draw?

PL: What's a DVD?
 
HH: The last transfer window was painful for us. Do you have anyone special 'earmarked' for January? 

PL: Macclesfield's centre forward and MK Dons' keeper. Much as I wish I were, I am not joking.
 

The highly esteemed Blackburn Rovers Football Club Supporter's forum got in touch and here's what transpired.

The first chunk is their man Phillip's 'pre match prattle' so to speak - and if you click on the link beneath that you get the relevant page on their forum and so their responses. 

I thought the 'who needs Eurostar when you have Tottenham Hotspurs - our portal into Europe. Bring 'em on' was good...

"When the Premier League fixtures for 2008/9 were announced in mid-June I wonder how long the odds were against the Spurs v Rovers fixture on 22 November being a relegation 6 pointer pitching 19th against 18th? Something pretty astronomic I would imagine.

Spurs at the time had done a lot of early shopping including snaffling the destroyer of England's Euro08 chances, Luka Modric, one of the hottest properties in Europe. There was disquiet surrounding Berbatov but Spurs seemed to be in reasonable control of the situation and the club was more famous for its embarassment of having an excess of £10m+ strikers than being in danger of having no target men at all.

Equally, Rovers were being linked with calibre of Manager targets befitting a club regularly qualifying for Europe from the world's richest league- Advocaat, Ten Cate, Laudrup et al as well as the most recent England boss and the guy many had tipped to have been an English England boss although the fans were totally disdainful of both McClaren and Allerdyce (me included!). And the transfer fund of £10m whilst nothing to disturb the Premier rich boys league was significantly more than Hughes had spent net during the whole of his time at Ewood. There seemed every prospect of it being boosted by the £5m compo yanked out of City before they could talk to Hughes and another £3m donation from the Walker Trust. Bentley was being a drunken fool in front of the Sky cameras on the Costa Lampard but surely a new Manager of sufficient gravitas would be appointed to sort that idiot out?

In the event, both Bentley and Berbatov departed and Robbie Kean jumped ship as well leaving both clubs looking at how Villa had managed to ride the Barry storm (and pinch Friedel which prompted the other Spurs/Rovers trade bringing Robinson to Ewood). More poignantly, when the dust had settled at midnight on 1 Setember, Rovers and Spurs stood alone in the transfer league table having made substantial and surely wholly unintentional profits from the previous two months' window of trading activity/inactivity.

Those of an economic bent would argue that both clubs' disinvestments in footballers alone would qualify them for tumbling from Euro tyros to relegation sweaters but as we all know, there is much more to the story than that.

Harry Hotspur (http://www.oleole.com/blogs/harryhotspur), a doyen of the football club blogerati and at times total pain in the side (and other parts of the anatomy) of Tottenham's owners and management and other Spurs' fans has kindly agreed to help enlighten us following on from Rovers' abject surrender and Gomes' special at Craven Cottage last week-end (and despite of, or perhaps inspired by, a bad chest infection):

1) Does 'arry walk on water?

HH:  No, but he does occasionally skim across the surface like a well propelled flat shiny thing.

2) How could Ramos be so fantastically good in Spain and a complete dud at White Hart Lane?

HH:  Despite a decent CV, that guy had too many things not going for him. He was as about as interesting to listen to as Stephen Hawking and his people skills were non-existent. Motivationally he had the midas touch in reverse. Never undervalue the fact that where he came from they didn't put the kettle on.

3) It must be so frustrating to be the best financially managed club in the Premier League yet you famously buy rubbish players every transfer window

HH:  Untrue. In the main, we historically buy good players and fail to get much out of them.

4) How is David Bentley?

HH:  He's stuck on level 6 of Dragon Quest SwordsThe Masked Queen And The Tower Of Mirrors.
OK - He's happy Ramos is gone.
My guess is he's looking forward to settling in, assisting more, scoring more and establishing himself as an England player.

5) You are the archetypal marzipan layer club- you wrecked Rovers' team by buying our best player but Man U and Liverpool do the same to you. Are you going to join the cake mix or the icing?

HH:  First of all I want to make it quite clear I hate Jane Asher and when she was voted out of Maestro that was a happy day in our house.

There's a food chain alright. And it's built on the desires and appetites of the players.

I haven't got any time for the idiots that say a Chairmen shouldn't have sold Player X or Player Y.  Contracts or not you can't MAKE someone play for you.
At the end of the day clubs are at the mercy of the whim of their players.

6) Paul Ince- should Rovers keep him or fire him?

Fire him out of a cannon.

Ever heard of the Peter Principle?
Your problem is who you would lure if he went?
I mean, we're frequently as rubbish as you, but we're never linked with the Ian Dowies of the world.


7) Who is going to get relegated this season?

HH:  West Brom are gone. West Ham would be nice and I always wish it on Fulham.
The mathematicians will start drawing up their shortlist at Christmas.
Newscastle would be hilarious and if their home form collapses they're gone.


8) Any special memories of playing against Rovers in the past? (I can think of one in Cardiff)

HH:  Would you be very deeply offended if I said, "None." ?


9) How many are you going to beat us by?

HH:  That's a generous question but I think a messy 2-2 draw is on the cards.
A game of two goalkeepers, perhaps?

Ah well, that's me told re my persistent criticising of Ince for selling Bentley or perhaps Harry is toeing the WHL party line.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

My recollections of Rovers at WHL include some cracking wins for Rovers not least the 3-2 at WHL which I think was the last appearance of the SAS together (albeit only for the 5 mins Sutton appeared as a late sub but enough to set up Shearer for a fulminating late winner), the 4-0 season ticket confetti game and Samba's wonderful late strike last season. But I can remember two very honourable 3-2 defeats in which Rovers played the Spurs off the park and still lost; 1965/6 and 2005/6 (the Bellamy/FSP double act where we maintained 85% posession for 20 minutes).

I also remember the 4-0 thrashing we took in the old second division in Jim Smith's wonderful season at Ewood and fear that is the precedent for Sunday as surely Gomes will be dropped.

In truth I can scarcely see an honourable defeat let alone a Rovers win this coming week-end. But if we do win, it will feel like Cardiff all over again.

Finally I asked Harry what prompted him to start the blog?

HH:  I wanted a wall for the wise and the witty and the winos to write on.


The pleasures and pitfalls?


HH:  The pleasures are endless.
The mob that contribute and make the blog what it is and are exactly the the sort of degenerate superstars you would want to talk to in the pub about your club.

The pitfalls are as in real life.
Dull people.

What does the club think of your blog?


HH:  I'm sure senior personnel at The Lane couldn't care less about me. I'd like to maintain that relationship.


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'Arry has come out and said he wants fans who throw coins banned for life. After this game against Fulham it would be interesting to know what action he might propose against players who throw matches.

This isn't a cue for Gomes haters to form an orderly queue.

I want to push the boundaries of Blogging. Work with me. Let me see if this works. I'm going to type this really slowly. I'm telling you - Gomes is a great, great goalie. Supporting a man when he's down isn't easy. The easy route is to shout ' he's rubbish!' and demand the search for the replacement.

I try not to do blind faith. Well, beyond our badge and Eddie Rocket's Buffalo Wings anyway. The good that Gomes has done since putting on our shirt has been extraordinary. The bad has been sad but not a lamentable as some might make out.

"He's a top keeper, he's a brave keeper," Redknapp told reporters. "He doesn't hide on his line and let people head balls at his goal.

"If he thinks he can come out and deal with the situation he will do it. Everybody who has watched him over the years in Holland thinks he's a world class keeper.

"I like him, he's a character," added Redknapp. "He can go on to become a top goalkeeper in the Premier League."

Is it a trade secret that Andy Johnson is two bob? Then someone should tell Woodgate. 

And is it that Gareth Bale is so determined not to move to Manchester United that his tactic is to play like a man who's attentions are more on his naffing hair than the ball - so no functional alchoholic in their right mind would court his services?