I wrote a piece last week explaining the significance of Yid to Spurs fans and defending their right to chant it during games. It is a neutral term for Jew, originating from Yiddish. Tottenham are the only club linked with Judaism because of their relatively large proportion of...

My earliest football-related memory takes me back to Stamford Bridge somewhere in the mid-nineties. Yet the action on the pitch remains to me as hazy as the date, score or any other facts arising from the game. All I can really gather in my mind is an interminable whistling from...

Spurs are one of the few clubs that seem to be in an infinite loop of false hope followed by despair - and the man who has kept this nightmarish sequence in motion over the past 11 years is Daniel Levy.

Recently, the chairman has acquired the status of...

London 2012 was an enormous success and the athletes behaved impeccably for the most part. There was that badminton game and the usual drug speculation as well as accusatory glances at the Chinese and bold claims from the French about the roundness of British cycling wheels. But on the whole,...

When Rio Ferdinand was left behind, Roy Hodgson said: "He is not a player you pick to be on standby." The England manager was paying Ferdinand a respectful compliment, suggesting the centre back was too good to sit on the bench. Fair enough. So what on earth was Stuart Pearce...

It was different this time. Expectations were at an all time low and we were left scratching our heads in bemusement as to how a pub team like England qualified for this tournament to stand shoulder to shoulder with giants Sweden, Ukraine and France (ranked 17th, 52nd and 14th respectively)....

As Martin Atkinson inexplicably gifted Chelsea a second goal in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, the ensuing thrashing was as inevitable as the galvanized clamour for goal-line technology that would follow. Recent history indicates there is no greater enemy to Spurs than their own sense of injustice. It is...

It's the 24th minute at Old Trafford and Tottenham have just taken the lead through Les Ferdinand. The fans around the stadium voice their condemnation - the Spurs fans, that is. This is the final game of their season and they have inexplicably travelled four hours up the M1 in...