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Cartilage Free Captain 4 hours ago
Tottenham confirms post-season friendly vs. Newcastle in Melbourne

Tottenham confirms post-season friendly vs. Newcastle in Melbourne

Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Spurs are heading Down Under to play in Big Ange’s adopted home town. Today, Tottenham Hotspur confirmed plans for the team to travel Down Under at the conclusion of this current Premier League season. Spurs will travel to Melbourne to play against Newcastle United in a friendly at the 100k-seater Melbourne Cricket Ground on May 22. We will return Down Under in May as we head to Melbourne, Australia for a post-season visit, capped off by a friendly against Newcastle United ️ Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) ️ Wednesday 22 May,...
Cartilage Free Captain 8 hours ago
Fulham 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Player ratings to the theme of getting hit by a bus

Fulham 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Player ratings to the theme of getting hit by a bus

Photo by Sebastian Frej/MB Media/ WATCH OUT Tottenham Hotspur lost 3-0 at Fulham on Saturday. It was Spurs’ worst performance under Ange Postecoglou and wasn’t very much fun. Often I rewatch matches so I can say intelligent things about the matches in these player ratings and elsewhere. I did not do that this time. Who wants to watch that again? I’d rather get hit by a bus. ...Hey. Here are your Tottenham Hotspur player ratings to the theme of getting hit by a bus. Whatever stars: Not getting hit by a bus Cuti Romero (Community — 3.0): He was ok I...
Cartilage Free Captain 20 hours ago
The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham News and Links for Monday, March 18

The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham News and Links for Monday, March 18

Photo by Alex Davidson/ It’s March. It’s Madness! good morning Now with the niceties out of the way, let me say: St John’s were robbed of a spot in the NCAA men’s tournament. What is the tournament, you ask? A collegiate basketball tournament featuring 68 universities in a single knockout format. Think of it like the Champions League. Sometimes the committee deciding which 68 teams makes a mistake. They made one by excluding Fitzie’s Johnnies. Of course, the bid-stealers didn’t help. Saturday was essentially a worst-case scenario. Anyways, enough talk about...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 17, 2024
Tottenham Hotspur Women 1 - 0 Leicester City: team goal secures all three points

Tottenham Hotspur Women 1 - 0 Leicester City: team goal secures all three points

Photo by Alex Davidson/ If you look under the dictionary definition of counterattack, there’s already a video of this goal Tottenham Hotspur Women defeated Leicester City to retain sixth place in the WSL. Matilda Vinberg finished off a glorious counterattacking team goal on her full WSL debut, and Spurs managed to hold off Leicester City for the remaining 90 minutes. Robert Vilahamn made a few changes to his typical WSL lineup, with Matilda Vinebrg coming into the side after an impressive cameo against Manchester City in the cup. Drew Spence also returned from the...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 17, 2024
Tottenham Women vs. Leicester City: game time, match thread and how to watch

Tottenham Women vs. Leicester City: game time, match thread and how to watch

Photo by Eddie Keogh - The FA/The FA via It’s a preview of the FA Cup semifinal in April! Tottenham Hotspur Women host Leicester City today in WSL league action at Brisbane Road. We’ve been talking about Leicester lately because that’s also whom Spurs will face in the semifinals of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup in April, though that match will take place at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. So if you’re curious about what Leicester City will look like in April, this is a pretty good match for you to watch! Spurs drew 1-1 against the Foxes in the teams’ only other...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 16, 2024
Fulham 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Courageous Cottagers crush substandard Spurs

Fulham 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Courageous Cottagers crush substandard Spurs

Photo by Alex Davidson/ That is not a match I ever want to watch again. They say streaks are made to be broken. That was the case for Tottenham Hotspur in their match today against Fulham. The Lilywhites had been undefeated in nine matches in the league against their London opponents, with Fulham’s last victory over Spurs a fateful one in the 2012/13 season that prevented Tottenham finishing in the top four. Expectations were high for Spurs, with a strong squad at Ange Postecoglou’s disposal. He made one enforced change from the win over Aston Villa, with Mickey van...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 16, 2024
Fulham vs. Tottenham Hotspur: game time, live blog, and how to watch online

Fulham vs. Tottenham Hotspur: game time, live blog, and how to watch online

Photo by Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/ A trip across town for Tottenham. Tottenham Hotspur now have their destiny in their own hands. After a stunning victory against London rivals Aston Villa (yes, this is a thing now, #sorrynotsorry), Spurs head to Craven Cottage to take on Fulham. The Marco Silva-led side are solidly in midtable, with a number of high-profile wins this season but unable to perform with anything resembling consistency. This therefore represents a golden chance for the Lilywhites to build some consistency of their own heading into the international...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 16, 2024
Where is Manor Solomon?

Where is Manor Solomon?

Photo by Marc Atkins/ Hanging out with Kate Middleton, apparently. The public absence of Manor Solomon, Tottenham Hotspur winger, has grown from a niche football fan concern to an international punchline in a matter of months. While Lilywhite House said a meniscus injury was to blame, with planned surgery the cure and an indication that he would be out of the public eye for some time; several unusual details — rumblings of an altered image, vague medical information, irregular updates from the club, and tawdry rumors of a new winger on the scene — have kept the...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 15, 2024
TEAM NEWS: Van de Ven out vs. Fulham, Richarlison could return

TEAM NEWS: Van de Ven out vs. Fulham, Richarlison could return

Photo by Sebastian Frej/MB Media/ Tottenham Hotspur travel across town to Craven Cottage to play Fulham on Saturday in their final match before the international break. Asked for an update on his squad’s injury situation ahead of the match, Ange Postecoglou stated that while defender Micky van de Ven will miss the trip to Fulham, but is optimistic that he’ll be back shortly after the end of the break. And there’s more good news — Richarlison was back in training today, which means there’s a chance that we could see him on the bench as a potential second half...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 15, 2024
Spurs Women FA Cup semifinal vs. Leicester to be played at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Spurs Women FA Cup semifinal vs. Leicester to be played at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Photo by Jacques Feeney/Offside/Offside via A big venue for a very big game! Tottenham Hotspur Women are playing in one of the biggest games in the club’s history — hosting Leicester City in the semifinals of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup. And they’ll do it in style. The club announced today that the match will take place in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 14. We are delighted to announce that our @AdobeWFACup semi-final clash against Leicester City will take place at @SpursStadium ️ pic.twitter.com/OVIBkjWhTL— Tottenham Hotspur Women (@SpursWomen)...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 15, 2024
REPORTS: Saudi clubs could target Richarlison, Son this summer

REPORTS: Saudi clubs could target Richarlison, Son this summer

Photo by Andrew Kearns - CameraSport via Both players were approached last summer. Saudi clubs could try again. Saudi Arabian league football clubs have been throwing their considerable financial weight around over the past couple of seasons in order to attract the best players in world football to play in the middle east. According to reports, those attempts to woo prominent footballers by offering them The Bag™ won’t stop anytime soon. Two reports — one from Mike McGrath in the Telegraph and the other from Ben Jacobs in GIVEMESPORT — suggest that Tottenham...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 15, 2024
Fulham vs. Tottenham Preview: The vision is here

Fulham vs. Tottenham Preview: The vision is here

Photo by Marc Atkins/ Last week’s domination at Villa puts Spurs in the driver’s seat for fourth. In the most important match yet of the young Ange Postecoglou era, Tottenham Hotspur logged its best performance to date in a 0-4 thrashing of Aston Villa. Not only does this give Spurs the inside track to fourth place in terms of the table, but the nature of how the contest played out left no doubt as to which is the better side. Tottenham must now carry this positivity forward into a visit to Craven Cottage on Saturday. Following next weekend’s international break,...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 15, 2024
The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham News and Links for Friday, March 15

The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham News and Links for Friday, March 15

Photo by Clive Brunskill/ Bees! good morning! today is definitely friday — There was one heck of a commotion during Carlos Alcaraz’s match against Alexander Zverev at the Indian Wells Masters tournament yesterday. They were less than three games into the match when a swarm of bees descended on Stadium Court 1. With the umpire announcing a “bee invasion” had begun, play was forced to be suspended. Meanwhile, poor Carlitos was doing everything possible to protect himself. That’s A LOT of bees: The Carlos Alcaraz-Alexander Zverev Indian Wells quarterfinal has...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 14, 2024
Report: Sevilla manager “doesn’t give a damn” about Alejo Veliz

Report: Sevilla manager “doesn’t give a damn” about Alejo Veliz

Photo by Federico Titone/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Seems bad! Tottenham Hotspur sent 20-year old Argentinian striker Alejo Veliz out on loan to Sevilla in the hopes that he would get some good experience playing first team football. It’s not going well. Despite playing for a team that both features Erik Lamela and also is in danger of being relegated, Veliz has only managed 52 minutes of action since joining the club in January. Now, Spanish daily ABC Sevilla has a report out that details how manager Quiquie Sanchez Flores “doesn’t give a damn” about Veliz,...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 14, 2024
Ten Tottenham players called up for international duty

Ten Tottenham players called up for international duty

Photo by Richard Sellers/Sportsphoto/Allstar via And there could be more in the coming days. Five Tottenham Hotspur players (at the time of this article’s posting) have been called up to represent their countries in the upcoming international break, which will begin after this weekend’s round of Premier League matches. James Maddison is the only Spurs player to be called up to represent England — he will be in the squad in two friendly matches against Brazil and Belgium Here we go then.Your #ThreeLions for March camp! — England (@England) March 14,...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 13, 2024
Postecoglou: Van de Ven “unlikely” for Spurs match at Fulham this weekend

Postecoglou: Van de Ven “unlikely” for Spurs match at Fulham this weekend

Photo by Catherine Ivill/ This is actually good news, kinda! There’s news about Tottenham Hotspur’s injured central defender Micky van de Ven, and it’s good news, kinda sorta! We told you yesterday that Tottenham were waiting on the results of an assessment Micky underwent at the training ground to determine the extent of his hamstring injury he picked up against Aston Villa. Speaking to the Guardian today, Big Ange gave a brief update — van de Ven will be out of action for the Fulham match, but will hopefully be back soon after the international break. "He's...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 13, 2024
Dispatches from Bat Country: March 2024 - Edition 2, Electric Boogaloo

Dispatches from Bat Country: March 2024 - Edition 2, Electric Boogaloo

Photo by Chloe Knott - Danehouse/ Bat Country waits for no-one. "'What's wrong?' I yelled. 'We can't stop here. This is bat country!'" - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Welcome back to Bat Country, the eternal place where dreams are free but hope will cost you. Here there be dragons. Here be also where we are covering all those rumors on which we normally wouldn’t report. The fringe cases. The names that spring up from untold lands, off the beaten path. We’ll discuss mostly incomings, but outgoings too, and try and focus on names we haven’t...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 13, 2024
The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham News and Links for Wednesday, March 13

The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham News and Links for Wednesday, March 13

Photo by Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Building character, pt. 2 good morning good morning It’s pretty late here. The hoddle I had planned on doing is going to take too long to write. So let’s do a bit of a “throwback here” with a few ramblings. Those of you who are old enough to remember the Pardeep Era may remember your “Ramble of the Day”, where the previous hoddler-in-chief provided you all with a daily ramble. So let’s do that. But let’s do a few rambles in one: I was listening to the TOTD playlist on the Metro today. Dancing Queen came on. I tried...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 12, 2024
Tottenham could determine extent of Van de Ven injury today

Tottenham could determine extent of Van de Ven injury today

Photo by James Gill - Danehouse/ But we (as in, the fans) may not know for a while. If there was a shroud over Tottenham Hotspur’s 4-0 win over Aston Villa at Villa Park on Sunday, it was the injury-related substitution of Micky van de Ven. The young Dutchman was subbed off early in the second half after picking up what looked like a mild injury to his hamstring. It resulted in the first significant Premier League match minutes for Radu Dragusin, and the game state of the second half meant that Spurs didn’t miss Micky’s presence nearly as much as they might have...
Cartilage Free Captain Mar 12, 2024
Tottenham drawn home to Leicester in FA Women’s Cup semifinal

Tottenham drawn home to Leicester in FA Women’s Cup semifinal

Photo by Nigel French/PA Images via It’s Spurs’ best chance to reach a top-flight cup final. On Sunday, Tottenham Hotspur Women made history by defeating Manchester City in penalties to make it to the semifinals of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup. Today, the semifinal draw was held and Spurs now have the best possible chance to make the final. Spurs were drawn at home against Leicester City, with the match to take place at Brisbane Road the weekend of April 13/14. Manchester United was drawn at home against Chelsea in the other semifinal. The draw was broadcast on BBC...

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