Trent assignment for Spurs : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Nottingham Forest 0 Tottenham Hotspur 0 Spurs are finally on the scoreboard. That's in terms of points, though, not goals. Goals would perhaps be pushing it. The display may have looked more organised and together than in the first two games of the season - both defeats - but Roberto de Zerbi's men are still not striking too much terror in opposition defences as yet. It's now three blanks in a row. It needed a V

Time to usher in a new league season at the TH Stadium: Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Tottenham Hotspur (0) 0 Newcastle United (0) 2 Elanga 62, Wissa 72 The personnel may have altered quite a bit but the grim record for Spurs on their home patch shows no signs of immediate improvement. So much optimism has accompanied Tottenham into their new season after they splashed the cash with abandon. But once again they faded after a bright start in their first home league game

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 5 CHARLTON ATHLETIC 1 Two players at different stages of their careers helped Tottenham ease past Charlton Athletic in the Carabao Cup. Spurs eventually brushed the Addicks aside with a 5-1 victory and a performance which was a slow burn into a second half of some prime quality in north London. The sort which illustrates the gap between the Premier League and the Championship itself. A home debut goal from substitute Savio lit up the Tottenham Hotspur Stadiu

Big bus, big fuss. But it didn't translate into points on this occasion : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Brentford (2) 3 Lewis-Potter 12, Janelt 32, Kayode 50 Tottenham Hotspur (0) 0 So much for all that spending in N17. Sometimes nothing compares to ingrained well-established practices and continuity. It turns out that a team that just missed out on European qualification a few months ago still looks miles better than a team that only just beat the drop. Spurs may have

Eyes down for another tilt at glory The World Cup has barely ended but for most of football fans, the attention now turns to the real business - the return of the domestic programme. Saturday sees the start of the campaign with the Carabao Cup taking up the mantle as season curtain-raiser a week ahead of a full EFL programme in the Championship and Leagues One and two. The Premier League's stars gets a extra week on the beach before they get going the following weekend (Augus

Spain celebrate after winning the World Cup for a second time: Picture from Wikimedia Commons/The White House Has there ever been a more universally welcome outcome in a World Cup final? Has a result ever felt more just? We all feared the worst when referee Slavko Vincic failed to yellow card Liverpool's Alexis Mac Allister early on for a typically savage challenge on Dani Olmo, and it looked like the gruesome Argentinians were going to get carte blanche to go about their sor

Enzo Fernandez: Wikimedia Commons Have the bridges been burnt down completely or will it all be forgotten before we know it? Within seconds of Argentina claiming a 2-1 win over England in Wednesday's World Cup semi-final in Atlanta, Chelsea's social media had posted a picture of Enzo Fernandez, ears cupped goadingly, after his late equaliser to dash those Albion hopes. They weren't reading the room too well. The post was soon taken down. England fans had plenty of despair to

Photo by Alessandro Schiavone By Alessandro Schiavone While Spain reached the final of the FIFA World Cup courtesy of a convincing 2-0 win over France in Dallas yesterday, one particular detail may have been lost on Tottenham Hotspur fans: Pedro Porro's strike pulled their club level with Chelsea on three goals in World Cup semifinals. Up until yesterday’s clash between the neighbouring countries, the Blues were 3-2 ahead in these London charts thanks to Oscar (1) and Schurrl

Mikel Merino in the red of the national team : Picture from Wikimedia Commons The World cup's final chapters are about to be written - with London players still very much involved in the chase for sporting immortality. The tension that is about to grip the nation on Wednesday as England take on Argentina in Atlanta will be underscored by the subtext of a north London confrontation between Tottenham's Crstian Romero and soon-to-be club team-mate Marcos Senesi for the world cha

Exclusive by Alessandro Schiavone Toby Alderweireld has played more games with Jan Vertonghen than with any other player in his career. And the same goes for Super Jan. The duo shared the pitch on a staggering 366 occasions for Belgium, Ajax and Tottenham Hotspur. That amounts to 30,681 minutes, with the pair only 34 shy of the legendary Italy and AC Milan duo Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi on 400. Doesn’t that sound flabbergasting? Far and away Tottenham Hotspur’s golden er