The Spurs Blog

New Tottenham Stadium preview

I wanted to stroll the streets around where the Lane once stood and take the chance to close the chapter on the old, and get my head around the new, writes our Spurs blogger.

The new reality

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the football season passes. So intense and all consuming whilst it is present, and yet we now enter a 12-week abyss filled only with commercial tours to far flung money pots and tedious transfer speculation. Those 12 weeks feel like an age.

Somewhere over the rainbow

I owe Danny Caro and the JC a debt of gratitude. To have been given the opportunity to write this blog, in this season of all seasons, has been a privilege. I now have a very personal chronicle of both a superb season on the pitch and a seminal season off it. My own personal story of the Lane, the finale.

The Jews who give a green light to antisemitism in football

On Friday evening on a packed Jubilee Line tube between Stratford and West Ham I was subjected to sustained and vile antisemitic abuse.

Can't smile without you

A few weeks ago I suggested that Spurs weren't Spursy anymore. In the weeks that have followed, the team collected league win after league win and then lost an FA Cup semi-final, despite playing well. Old Spurs would surely have then suffered a mental and physical collapse in the aftermath. Dropping points like confetti. But not new Spurs. Not Pochettino's Spurs.

Crossing the Rubicon

In sport, the hardest steps to take are the final ones, the ones which take you to glory. For Spurs this season there have been so many steps forward, so much promise but, for now, those final steps remain elusive.

Spursy

Something curious is happening in London N17. True, it's a bit disconcerting. But I'll admit, it's quite enjoyable.

It's all about the context

Spurs social media has been a fascinating place over the past eight weeks. The ups and downs of Tottenham's January and February have been the subject of quite bi-polar reactions of both the press (to be expected) and sadly even more extreme on social media - a format not exclusively but predominantly dominated by younger, often less sanguine fans.

Premier title would be one of the greatest achievements in the history of Spurs

One of the challenges of having a job which consistently involves lengthy and often deep consideration of documents is a gradual erosion over my adult life of reading books for pleasure or personal knowledge. Terrible admission, but true.

The Old Lady and the Spaniel

Football spawns the most curious of superstitions. Left sock before right, right boot before left, shirt put on in the tunnel not the dressing room ... as for the fans, the same parking spot, the lucky pants or in the case of Spurs season 2016/17: a pre-match slug of whiskey and the petting of a bomb sniffing spaniel!

Tottenham vs West Ham: Why does this keep happening?

The morning after the noon before!