A Brazilian athletic Goallie, 2 Central Defenders who are England-noticed, Young midfield line-up and pacey strikers. A winning formula? Sadly, no...
BPL London-based side Tottenham Hotspur bought loads of talented players last summer. Somehow Spanish manager Juande Ramos didn't like England #2 Goallie Paul Robinson that much he decided to sell him to Blackburn and replaced him with an athletic goallie from PSV Eindhoven, Gomes Heurelho. They were already strong at the back with captain Ledley King & Jonathan Woodgate with Michael Dawson as the 3rd choice centreback, and great pacy talented wingbacks to add to the strong defence.
When you see their midfield, they have an average age of 23 years of age. All are young and talented. When you already have future England materials like Tom Huddlestone & Aaron Lennon, and an England call-up regular in Jermaine Jenas, you add in new additions in David Bentley & EURO2008 star Luka Modric.
Then you have 4 main strikers. Russian hero Roman Pavlyuchenko, England's Darren Bent, Mexican Barca-trained Giovanni Dos Santos & ManUtd wonderkid Fraizer Campbell. Not a bad line-up actually, but somehow it doesnt work. Their main strikers last season, Dimitar Berbatov & Robbie Keane, both went to bigger clubs. Berbatov to ManUtd & Keane to Liverpool which now they have better performances. Suddenly without them they can't find the net to much even with great potential in pre-season. They even won against AS Roma 5-0. Yet they did not have the form to play in the BPL.
9 games into the BPL season, no wins, 2 draws & lost the rest of them. Something had to change, right? YES.
Manager Juande Ramos & Assistant Manager Gustavo Poyet all sacked from their job and quickly they replaced them with Portsmouth Manager Harry Redknapp. Quickly the results paid just less than 24 hours Redknapp moved to White Hart Lane with a 2-0 win against Bolton.
3 days later came Harry Redknapp's first North London derby against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. They were 4-2 down with 8 minutes left until the Redknapp magic happened for the first time this season. Jermain Jenas scored one beautiful goal in the 82nd minute & Aaron Lennon scoring on a rebound of Luka Modric's shot that hit the post in injury time to somehow, dramatically level the game 4-4 until fulltime.
They only scored 2 points in 9 games, yet know they scored twice the points in 2 games! 6 points for Spurs yet their next hurdle is league leaders Liverpool who hasnt lost a game yet. Somehow i scented that that was about to change...
Maybe i scented something wrong though when Liverpool Dutch striker Dirk Kuyt scored as early as in the 3rd minute of the game and Liverpool lead 1-0. Nothing changed though until the second half as Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher's luck wasn't on his side as he scored an own goal as the game is tied 1-1.
Both team were knocking on each-others door, but Redknapp's magic started to play again as in injury time as Russian Roman Pavlyuchenko scored the winner, 2-1 to Spurs and Liverpool's 1st loss of the season.
Everything suddenly has now changed and who knows what will come next...
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