Spurs, 4 Games, 12 Points.

I've only been a fan of Spurs for about 4 years now. I have knowledge of the rich history at Spurs. The 60's era, the 80's, Ossie, Greaves, Hoddle, Villa, Bill Nicholson. All legends. One of the few clubs who've never been relegated since the Premier League was founded. Lilywhite and Blue. The only heartbreak I've felt since aligning myself with Spurs was at the end of 2005/2006, and to be honest, I didn't feel much as this was my first year following them.

With that said, starting a season out with all 3 victories and being the best start in club history since 1960-61 is something of magic, even a curse. I do often say I understand the troubles and woes all Tottenham fans share being that I've grown up in Cleveland and felt the pain and misery (albiet not as long as many others have felt).

Birmingham at home. Spurs off to the best start in nearly 50 years. Haven't lost at home since November of 2008. Something has to give, right?

Overall play was iffy, at best. No goals in the first half. Ledley King would leave with a groin injury and Hutton would come on. Our defense is already bare bones, but luckily for us Woodgate is going to start training and should be ready soon.

Then in a blink of an eye, Luka Modric, our creative force gets hurt. Reports are now that he is out 6-8 weeks, with Luka saying only 4-6. Either way, that's quite a bit of time to be out. The team will have to adapt without him, something that needs to be figured out in training, soon.

Although those two injuries are a black eye for all Spurs fans this week, there cannot be enough emphasis put on the positives from Saturday. Crouch scoring his first goal. And then, there's Lennon. The lightning fast Aaron with a much needed end product. A gift of a 95th minute and Aaron's end product came to fruition at the perfect time. This is why I love soccer/football. This is Tottenham.

COYS

West Ham, London Derby

The Cup Final. Where to Hammers fans this is the match us Spurs fans look forward too all year. To us, we play it off the same exact way. If the Hammers beat us twice in a year, it makes their season, regardless of their finish in the table.

During our fine 2005/2006 campaign, we needed to win our final game in order to qualify for the Champions League. Probably the biggest game in our most recent history. That day our whole team came down with flu-like symptoms due to some bad lasagna. This game was in West Ham. We lost and the rest is history.

However, Sunday we were again at Upton Park for (one of) our London Derbies. Highlights below.

3 Games. 9 Points. Best start since 1960/61, which was one of our legendary Spurs squads that ended up with the first ever double. Birmingham at the Lane on Saturday.

Defoe v Hull

Hull Away. Hightlights Here. Write-up below.

The swagger was there for Spurs and you could tell by the opening 10 minutes of play. Spurs controlled the ball, passing was great, and we were pushing up. The Hull backline (lead by Anthony Bambi Gardner himself) had their hands full the entire game. Jermain Defoe scored just 10 minutes in with a beautiful pass from superstar quarterback Tom Huddlestone.

After the first goal Hull tried a few efforts, mostly on the back of Stephen Hunt who did give Vedran Corluka trouble (which was a recurring theme all game). However shortly after that Wilson Palacios scored his first goal of the year. Just 13 minutes in, Spurs are up 2-0. Lovely way to ease that 1 goal pressure off. Unfortunately within a minute Hull would be on the attack and send a ball in the box that Gomes would punch out, but upon coming down to the ground would have to leave the game due to landing odd. To me it seemed that his ankle was rolled pretty hard. Cudicini the Italian Stallion would come in.

Hull would get a goal in the 25th off the dead ball kick by Stephen Hunt. I honestly though Geovanni (Super Sub) got his head to the ball but the goal was awarded to Hunt. 2-1 Spurs. Cuidcini was out of place, but the marking of Hull attackers was horrible. Corluka should have covered one of the runners, while T. Hudds was racing back to try and cover someone.

After Hull's first, I got that feeling in my stomach I always do when Spurs are up by a goal. I could sense that Hull might come back, and in usual Spurs fashion, we'd let them. Fans were alive again and Hull seemed rejuvenated. However Spurs pushed up and Hutton made a great run down the right side only to be stopped by what some thought was a handball in the box, but it wasn't intentional at all.

Much like Defoe, Lennon, Huddlestone, and even Keane were giving Hull nightmares early on, Geovanni and Folan were giving Corluka nightmares. The two paired up a few times and almost capitalized on a Corluka error but Hutton came from behind to make a fantastic tackle to save what could have been an equilizer. The kill sense wasn't there for Spurs nearing the end of the half as the passing tried to be forced instead of going with what was working early on. And then right when I thought we might be sluggish, Defoe puts one in for his second before half. 3-1 Spurs.

Second half went on and nothing really of note happened (at least to me) until the 77th when Robbie "dream move" Keane scored on a header. 4-1 Spurs. Honestly to hear the words Robbie Keane and goal in the same sentence gave me chills. Yes, he scored a few when he came back last year, but that didn't seem like the same Keane. Hopefully Keane is rejuvenated and we get the Robbie of old...you know the one who scored 100 goals for us.

Shortly after Keane's goal, Crouch came on. Had a decent chance from a cross by Lennon but was right at the keeper. Modric was subbed off in the 84th for Bentley. Luka had a decent game. Gave Hull some problems but wasn't able to push into the middle as much. Not sure if Keane dropping deep had anything to do with it. Did have one decent shot from about 24 yards out, but really that's all I can remember from Modric. Actually I take that back, I remember a few of his runs where he was almost bossed off the ball but held onto it and held off defenders nearly twice his size.

Credit: Nick Potts/PA

The star of the show was Jermain Defoe for sure. Lead the team in our offensive charge all game and just gave hell to the Hull defenders, mostly Gardner. You could tell he wanted that third goal. His effort was relentless and his energy was fantastic through the whole match. And right as time was expiring, he did a nice little 1-2 layoff with Lennon and fired a rocket of a shot into the net for his third and final goal. 5-1 Spurs. MOTM.

Positives of the match:

Defoe. Hands down best player on the pitch that day.

Huddlestone. Read the game well and made some brilliant passes to set up goals.

Midfielders. Excellent passing and distribution. Set each other up well and the score showed.

Hutton. Saved Corluka quite a few times and even got up and made some nice runs. Glad to have him back.

Negatives of the match:

Gomes. I hope his injury isn't severe. Not saying Carlo Cudicini isn't a decent keeper, but he's not our number 1 and if he goes down, yikes.

Corluka. I don't know if he is just rusty or unsure of himself at CB, but he cannot play there. I hate to make that rash of a judgement, but if he errored this much against a team that had a bit more quality (sorry Hull), they'd have probably put us out of the game.

Bentley. No real negative here, but there isn't a place for the guy anymore. I hear some Red team up north is having problems with their midfield. Maybe Fergie will want the "next Beckham" in his squad.

2 games, 6 points. If we continue this pace Top 4 will surely be ours, no? No thanks, I'll settle for 6th this year. Not reaching too much and a nice building point for us.

Round 1, Spurs v Liverpool

The Football started yesterday. Not the American one either. If you've read any of my past blogs I follow soccer pretty hard and cheer for the Cleveland equivalent in soccer, Tottenham Hotspur FC.

Spurs opened the campaign with a rare home game (first one in honestly 5 years) to none other than Liverpool (a Sky Sport Top 4 Club). Going into the match I wasn't sure exactly who would start where and more importantly, who would be our starting strike pair. Would Robbie Keane be up for it, facing off his "boyhood dream" club? Why wouldn't he be up for it? Start Roman next to him? Nah, bad idea. Defoe? He's on form (netting two in a World Cup Qualifier) but it's rumored him and Keane don't exactly see eye to eye. Granted they've played together in the past and had good results (remember 2005-2006....something about lasagna...yeah I remember it real well). Or would our new signing of Frankenstein be paired up with Keane? I wanted Defoe, and we got Defoe.

A lot of people had reservations about Sebastien Bassong. Former Toon player, rated highly, but could he handle the pressure? Could he handle possibly covering for Ledley if his knee started to act up? Can he handle Torres coming at him? Corluka doesn't worry me at all (strong bias there). He's a bit slow yeah, but he doesn't play outside of his skill set and that makes up for his lack of speed. I honestly thought we'd see Bale play at left back. Instead we are treated to Benny Assou-Ekotto. I always love when BAE plays. I get frustrated because I always remember his performances of old where everything he did was surrounded by question marks. To his credit, he solidified his spot late last season with some strong showings.

Credit: Getty Images

Taking in the first 20-25 minutes, I ignored that I was watching complete garbage footy. Both teams played like garbage, but I honestly was just happy to see Spurs playing. I liked the choppy Internet feed I had that made it almost seem that our home kit was all-white. Until the zoom in's where the yellow reared it's ugly head. But in all honesty, I think the yellow isn't bad and I might get used to it. Come next year though, I hope it's gone.

I was laying in my bed watching the game while my girlfriend had the TV on the Food Network, so when I saw Huddlestone's free kick get deflected and the goal, I was excited to go 1 up on 'pool. When I saw exactly who made that incredible shot, I almost cried laughing. Immediate texts. This goal I can almost gurantee is Benoit Assou-Ekotto's career goal. Just a minute before half, a great way to deflate a team. However, this just meant we could (and usually would) sit back and let Liverpool come at us for the whole second half.

Sure enough, 10 minutes into second half Glen Johnson earns a penalty and Mr. England Stevie Gerrard (overrated) ties it up. Not to discredit Spurs, but Liverpool didn't look up for the game at all and played the way until the final 10 or so minutes. However, Spurs looked solid. Modric seemed out of place and wasn't able to get into the game the way we are used to. However his one free kick a few minutes after Liverpool's tying goal would be the goal to win the match. Luka's kick found Sea Bass' head for his first Spurs goal in his first game with Spurs. More texts come pouring in at this point. Even though that would be the match winner, I had my doubts that we'd eventually let them equalize within the last 3 minutes. They pushed hard from the 85th or so until the final whistle but Spurs held strong.

Credit: Getty Images

Lennon didn't really do much this game as neither did Modric. Luka did get some space and was able to pass but didn't have much room to work with. Central mid was completely bossed by Palacios and Huddlestone. All of you T. Hudd naysayers from the past few seasons are going to be proved wrong. I've always said Huddlestone is going to be quality for us. Our back 4 were incredible. Torres didn't do anything except stay on the ground as Huddlestone gave him a few words. If anyone can get me a .gif of that clip, I'll paypal you $10. No joke. I want that clip. Keane had 3 chances and honestly should have put one in. Defoe I really didn't pay attention to. The other two forwards didn't have any effect in the game. Gomes was solid except on his one challenge that lead to the penalty. But that's alright.

Also, when did Liverpool become so thuggish? That was a text my buddy sent me. And after watching a few challenges from Lucas, I wondered the same thing. Dirk Kuyt was an offender I believe late in the game on Assou Ekotto. Just seemed a bit dirty, which is odd for Liverpool.

After 1 game, we've got 3 points. That's more than we had after the first 8 last season. Triffic. Here's hoping to a solid performance Wednesday away at Hull. We need at least a draw, anything less there's no excuse. I don't mean to sound like a Top 4 or broke kinda fan, but no offense, it's Hull. Luckily, I have an off day from work, so I'll be watching the match for sure.

Lennon's gonna find his end product Wednesday and bag two. I feel it.

C'mon you Spurs!

Last Minute Transfers

Today is officially the last day for Euro soccer to transfer players amongst teams.

I'll be live blogging as the events go down, mostly about Tottenham.

So far we're linked back with Robbie Keane. This is after the whole "tapping up" nonsense Rafa said we did. Spurs weren't the one tapping up Robbie, Rafa, you were a few months ago.

Also linked to Quaresma of Inter. Weird pairing. Mourinho would want Jenas if we were selling, which Jenas to Inter is about as odd as any transfer window could ever be.

Talk about selling Darren Bent. His goal scoring has been inconsistent, but when broken down over the season, the ratio of goals scored to games played is solid. Not many people are big on Bent, but he's in the wrong system at Spurs, not his fault. To me, this is reminiscent of fans not liking Defoe, even though he was decent for us behind Keane-Berbatov. Moment we sold Defoe and Keane and Berbs left, everyone was crying to get JD back at Spurs. So we did, and now look how that is turning out.

Also, Arshavin is still in the news. I'm getting really tired of the Russian.

EDIT: 2:30pm:

Robbie Keane is once again going to be wearing the Lilywhite and Blue. Unreal. Not even 6 months at the boyhood dream club and it's deemed a massive failure. Guranteed this will be an undisclosed transfer fee.

All we need now is to sign Mido from 'Boro and we'll have our lovely striking squad from 2005-2006. Man what I'd give for Edgar Davids back. Hopefully Palacios will be our new Davids, then our midfield might actually be able to perform. Although why Redknapp loves Zokora is beyond me. Wish he rated him highly when he was still at Pompey, could have sold him off for a nice few million.

Quaresma ends up at Chelsea. This will be a fun end run for Chelsea. A moody player is all they need, especially one who is very much off and on. I'd gladly bet this turns into a Sheva type outcome, but with attitude.




More to come!

Football Champions Checklists

I'm going to try and put every single checklist for Football Champions on here. This includes the Premier League Set (2001-2002), English Subbuteo Set (2002-2003), French Set (2001-2002), and Italian Sets (2001-2005). I'm going to also try and put out the list of every single promotional card ever produced for the game also. Unfortunately, I don't think I have a list of every single promotional card, I'd guess I have about 90% of the ones ever produced.

If any of these lists are flawed, please let me know, as I'd appreciate any help with setting up these checklists. Thanks.

KEY:
Bold= Foil

Football Champions Card Checklist

2001-2002 English Premier League Base Set
001 David Seaman
002 Tony Adams
003 Ashley Cole
004 Lee Dixon
005 Martin Keewn
006 Gilles Grimaldi
007 Frederick Ljunberg
008 Ray Parlour
009 Robert Pires
010 Patrick Viera
011 Dennis Bergkamp
012 Thierry Henry
013 Sylvain Wiltord
014 Peter Schmeichel
015 Gareth Barry
016 Mark Delaney
017 Alpay Ozalan
018 Alan Wright
019 George Boateng
020 David Ginola
021 Moustapha Hadji
022 Lee Hendrie
023 Hassan Kachloud
024 Juan Pablo Angel
025 Paul Merson
026 Brad Friedal
027 Henning Berg
028 Stig-Inge Bjorenebye
029 John Curtis
030 Craig Short
031 Martin Taylor
032 Gary Flitcroft
033 Tugay Kerimoglu
034 David Dunn
035 Damien Dunn
036 Corrado Grabbi
037 Craig Hignett
038 Matt Jensen
039 Jussi Jaaskelainen
040 Anthony Barness
041 Gudni Bergsson
042 Simon Charlton
043 Colin Hendry
044 Gareth Farrelly
045 Per Frandsen
046 Ricardo Gardner
047 Bo Hansen
048 Ian Marshall
049 Michael Ricketts
050 Dean Kiely
051 Steve Brown
052 Mark Fish
053 Radostin Kishishev
054 Chris Powell
055 Richard Rufus
056 Claus Jansen
057 Mark Kinsella
058 John Robinson
059 Graham Stuart
060 Shaun Bartlett
061 Jonatan Johansonn
062 Mathias Svensson
063 Mark Bosnich
064 Celestine Babayaro
065 Marcel Desailly
066 William Gallas
067 Graeme LaSaux
068 Mario Melchiot
069 Slavisa Jokanovic
070 Frank Lampard
071 Jody Morris
072 Mario Stanic
073 Eidur Gudjohnsen
074 Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink
075 Gianfranco Zola
076 Andy Oakes
077 Bjorn Otto Bragstad
078 Horacio Carbonari
079 Danny Higginbotham
080 Chris Riggott
081 Craig Burley
082 Seth Johnson
083 Darry Powell
084 Malcolm Christie
085 Georgi Kinkladze
086 Fabrizio Ravanelli
087 Paul Gerrard
088 David Unsworth
089 Steve Watson
090 David Weir
091 Paul Gascoigne
092 Scot Gemmill
093 Thomas Gravesen
094 Gary Naysmith
095 Mark Pembridge
096 Idan Tal
097 Danny Cadamarteri
098 Kevin Campbell
099 Joe-Max Moore
100 Edwin Van Der Sar
101 Rufus Brevett
102 Steve Finnan
103 Jon Harley
104 Andy Melville
105 Kit Symons
106 John Collins
107 Sean Davis
108 Bjarne Goldbaek
109 Steed Malbranque
110 Barry Hayles
111 Louis Saha
112 Keith Branagan
113 Jamie Clapham
114 Herman Hreidarsson
115 Chris Makin
116 John McGreal
117 Fabian Wilnis
118 Matt Holland
119 Tommy Miller
110 Jermain Wright
121 Alun Armstrong
122 Martijn Reuser
123 Marcus Stewart
124 Nigel Martyn
125 Paul Robinson
126 Rio Ferdinand
127 Gary Kelly
128 Dominic Matteo
129 Danny Mills
130 Luca Radebe
131 Eirik Bakke
132 David Batty
133 Oliver Dacourt
134 Harry Kewell
135 Alan Smith
136 Mark Viduka
137
138 Callum Davidson
139
140 Frank Sinclair
141 Matt Elliot
142
143 Matthew Jones
144 Robbie Savage
145
146
147 Arnar Gunniaugsson
148 Dean Sturridge
149 Sander Westervel
150 Markus Babbel
151 Stephane Henchoz
152 Sami Hyypia
153 Nick Barmby
154 Jamie Carragher
155 Dietmar Hamann
156 Gary McAllister
157 Danny Murphy
158 Vladimir Smicer
159 Emile Heskey
160 Jari Litmanen
161 Michael Owen
162 Fabien Barthez
163 Wes Brown
164 Ronny Johnsen
165 Gary Neville
166 Phillip Neville
167 Michaël Silvestre
168 David Beckham
169 Nicky Butt
170 Luke Chadwick
171 Ryan Giggs
172 Roy Keane
173 Andy Cole
174 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
175 Ruud Van Nistelrooy
176 Mark Schwarzer
177 Colin Cooper
178 Ugo Ehiogu
179 Curtis Fleming
180 Steve Vickers
181 Paul Ince
182 Paul Okon
183 Dean Windass
184 Alen Boksic
185 Brian Deane
186 Joseph-Desire Job
187 Noel Whelan
188 Shay Given
189 Warren Barton
190 Stephen Caldwell
191 Robbie Elliot
192 Aaron Hughes
193 Andy O'Brien
194 Christian Bassedas
195 Nolberto Solano
196 Gary Speed
197 Craig Bellamy
198 Carl Cort
199 Lomano Tresor Lua Lua
200 Paul Jones
201 Francis Benali
202 Claus Lundekvam
203 Dean Richards
204 Wayne Bridge
205 Mark Draper
206 Matt Le Tissier
207 Chris Marsden
208 Paul Murray
209 Matthew Oakley
210 Kevin Davies
211 Marian Pahars
212 Jo Tessem
213 Thomas Sorensen
214 Jody Craddock
215 Michael Gray
216 Emerson Thome
217/250 Stanislav Varga
218 Darren Williams
219 Julio Arca
220 Kevin Kilbane
221 Gavin McCann
222 Alex Rae
223 Stefan Schwarz
224 David Bellion
225 Kevin Phillips
226 Niall Quinn
227 Neil Sullivan
228 Goran Bunjevcevic
229 Gary Doherty
230 Ledley King
231 Chris Perry
232 Darren Anderton
233 Stephen Clarence
234 Oyvind Leonhardsen
235 Gustavo Poyet
236 Tim Sherwood
237 Les Ferdinand
238 Sergei Rebrov
239 Teddy Sheringham
240 David James
241 Hayden Foxe
242 Scott Minto
243 Sebastien Schemmel
244 Nigel Winterburn
245 Michael Carrick
246 John Moncur
247 Trevor Sinclair
248 Paolo Di Canio
249 Frédéric Kanouté
250 Svetoslav Todorov

2001-2002 English Premier League Base Set Tactic Cards:
01 Breakaway
02 Clean set Of Heels
03 Coming Forward
04 Desperate Shot
05 Extra Effort
06 Fast Footwork
07 Goalbound
08 Killer instinct
09 Nutmeg
10 Potshot
11 Push forward
12 Ride a tackle
13 Shoulder barge
14 Smart move
15 Straightforward attack
16 Swift attack
17 Tap Past
18 Fingers
19 Block
20 Crowd the middle
21 Final tackle
22 Keep it simple
23 Read the game
24 Sliding tackle
25 Strong defence
26 Well-positioned
27 Accelerated
28 Bad bounced
29 Change of pace
30 Charge in
31 Clean tackle
32 Fancy Footwork
33 Flair
34 Go in hard
35 Hard tackle
36 Heads up
37 In the clear
38 Measured pass
39 Motion
40 On form
41 Options
42 Out of defence
43 Pressing game
44 Quick off the mark
45 Speed burst
46 Speed it up
47 Step in
48 Tough tackle
49 Unstoppable
50 Watch the clock
51 Corner ball
52 Head home
53 High cross
54 Long pass
55 Long Shot
56 Marked out
57 Penetrating pass
58 Pop up
59 Rebound
60 Slip Up
61 Tough stuff
62 Anticipation
63 Clear the lines
64 Cut the angle
65 Distraction
66 Double up
67 Keeper's Ball
68 Packed box
69 Saving scramble
70 Tight defending
71 Tight marking
72 Timed tackle
73 High bounce
74 On a yellow
75 Pressure on the bench
76 Slide in
77 Smooth move
78 Tackle time
79 Take advantage
80 Test Of Skill



2001-2002 English Premier League Title Race Set
001 Richard Wright
002 Sol Campbell
003 Junichi Inamoto
004 Lauren
005 Giovanni Van Bronckhorst
006 Francis Jeffers
007 Nwankwu Kanu
008 Bosko Balaban
009 Olof Mellberg
010 Steve Stone
011 (Don't Know)
012 Darius Vassel
013 Alan Mahon
014 Lucas Neill
015 Mark Hughes
016 Damien Johnson
017 Keith Gillespie
018 Djibril Diawara
019 Paul Warhurst
020 Mike Whitlow
021 Kevin Nolan
022 Dean Holdsworth
023 Akinori Nishizawa
024 Henrik Pedersen
025 Rod Wallace
026 Paul Konchesky
027 Luke Young
028 Scott Parker
029 Gavin peacock
030 Jason Euell
031 Kevin Lisbie
032 Ed De Goy
033 Winston Bogarde
034 John Terry
035 Emmanuel Petit
036 Boudewijn Zenden
037 Jasper Gronkjaer
038 Mart Poom
039 Paul Boertien
040 Daniele Daino
041 Youl Mawene
042 Deon Burton
043 Alan Stubbs
044 Abel Xavier
045 Duncan Ferguson
046 Tomasz Radzinski
047 Alain Goma
048 Zat Knight
049 Lee Clark
050 Sylvain Legwinski
051 Luis Boa Morte
052 Steve Marlet
053 Matteo Sereni
054 Titus Bramble
055 Mark Venus
056 Jim Magilton
057 Richard Naylor
058 Pablo Couñago
059 Marcus Bent
060 Finidi George
061 Ian Harte
062 Lee Bowyer
063 Michael Bridges
064 Robbie Fowler
065
066
067
068
069
070
071
072 Pegguy Arphexad
073 Jerzy Dudek
074 Grégory Vignal
075 Igor Biscan
076 Steven Gerrard
077 Jamie Redknapp
078 John Arne Riise
079 Laurent Blanc
080/125 Dennis Irwin
081/125 David May
082/125 Quinton Fortune
083 Paul Scholes
084 Juan Sebastian Veron
085 Dwight Yorke
086 Jason Gavin
087 Gareth Southgate
088 Robbie Stockdale
089 Jonathan Greening
090 Carlos Marinelli
091 Robbie Mustoe
092 Allan Johnston
093 Hamilton Ricard
094 Nikos Dabizas
095 Sylvain Distin
096 Andy Griffin
097 Clarence Acuna
098 Robert Lee
099 Shola Ameobi
100/125 Laurent Robert
101 Alan Shearer
102 Tahar El-Khalej
103 Rory Delap
104 Dan Petrescu
105 Anders Svensson
106 James Beattie
111 Stephen Carr
112 Dean Richards
113 Mauricio Taricco
114 Steffen Freund
115 Christian Ziege
116 Simon Davies
117 Steffen Iversen
118 Shaka Hislop
119 Christian Dailly
120 Tomas Repka
121 Rigobert Song
122 Joe Cole
123 Laurent Courtois
124 Don Hutchinson
125 Jermaine Defoe

2001-2002 English Premier League Title Race Tactic Set:
01
02 From behind
03 Square ball
04
05 Back off
06
07 Out of your depht
08 Choices
09 Conditioning
10 Exploited
11 Fifty-fifty ball
12 Inspired burst
13 Jump for it
14 Outclassed
15 Pinball
16
17 Sidestep
18
19 Skilful play
20 Spanner in the works
21 Strong numbers
22 Thunderhead
23 Turn it on
24 Well-timed challenge
25 Counterattack
26 Cutting pass
27
28
29
30 Force the play
31
32 Bluff
33
34 Corner pressure
35 Collision!
36
037
38 On the wrong foot
039
40

English Football Champions Promos:
NOTE: All Promo Cards have a circular Logo Stamp on them. I also have no idea how many there exactly are.

01 Mark Kinsella
02 Gianfranco Zola
03 Les Ferdinand
04 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Italian Football Champions:
2002-2003 YOGA Promotional Cards:
01 Alessandro Del Piero (Italy)
02 Filipo Inzaghi (Italy)
03 Gennaro Ivan Gattuso (Italy)
04 Mark Iuliano (Italy)
05 Christian Pannucci (Italy)
06 Massimo Carrera (Atalanta)
07 Luciano Zauri (Atalanta)
08 Leonardo Colluci (Bologna)
09 Giuseppe Signori (Bologna)
10 Lorenzo D'Anna (Chievo)
11 Nicola Legrottaglie (Chievo)
12 Oliviera (Como)
13 Stephane Dalmat (Inter)
14 Mohammed Kallon (Inter)
15 Domenico Morfeo (Inter)
16 Matteo Brighi (Juventus)
17 Antonio Chimenti (Juventus)
18 Ciro Ferrara (Juventus)
19 Massimo Ambrosini (AC Milan)
20 Jon Dahl Tomasson (AC Milan)
21 Aimo Diana (Parma)
22 Sebastian Frey (Parma)
23 Alberto Gilardino (Parma)
24 Luca Mezzano (Torino)


EDIT:
Finished Sets:
English Premier League Base Set (01-02): FINISHED
English Premier League Title Race (01-02): FINISHED
English Promos (01-02): NONE
Subbuteo English League Base Set (02-03): NONE
French League Base Set (01-02): NONE
French League Pour Le Titre (01-02): NONE
French Promos (01-02): NONE
Italian League Base Set (01-02): NONE
Italian Calciomercato Set (01-02): NONE
Italian Promos (01-02): NONE
Italian League Base Set (02-03): NONE
Italian Calciomercato Set (02-03): NONE
Italian Promos (02-03): YOGA Finished. MORE TO COME.
Italian League Base Set (03-04): NONE
Italian Calciomercato Set (03-04): NONE
Italian Promos (03-04): NONE
Italian League Base Set (04-05): NONE
Italian Calciomercato Set (04-05): NONE
Italian Promos (04-05): NONE

Wigan Away 01/11/2009

Spurs currently sit in 16th just shy of relegation zone, on goal difference alone. That's scary enough to think about. It's January 10th and we are not even a point out of relegation zone. Yikes.

Wigan usually aren't that great, but they aren't bad either. Their form over the last few games have been solid, with 3 wins in a row, and 5 in the last 6.

Spurs have been horrid in league form as of late (LWDLDL). In the Cups we've been solid, having recently beating giant killers (....) Burnley in the semi-final first round leg in the Carling Cup.

Last time Spurs have faced Wigan was last Friday when we defeated them 3-1 in the FA Cup third round.

Alan "Long Term Injury" Hutton is out, most likely forever as Vedran Corluka has shown that right back is his forte. Benoit Assou-Ekotto is also out, but with a 2 game match ban, due to a red card he picked up in the last game. Usually I'm all for Benoit not seeing the pitch, but as of late he's been very good, and with Gareth Bale not having any confidence or form, I'm a bit skeptical at left-back tomorrow.

In Midfield, we'll be lead by pint size Croatian Luka Modric. Jermaine Jenas will most likely see the pitch as well after serving his suspension. Great. Huddlestone along with David Bentley most likely will not start but might see action tomorrow if we go down early.

Spurs also signed our first DM since the days of Edgar Davids, Stephen Appiah. You may remember him from the 2006 World Cup where he was a force to be reckoned with. I highly doubt he will see any action tomorrow.

As for our attack. With Pavy finally finding his wings in the Premier League, I am optimistic he can put a bunch more goals in for us. Oh, and an old friend is back at the Lane this week after a year long "loan".

Welcome home Defoe, you're a Yiddo!



You found your form at Pompey and I'm glad you excelled there. It was a shame how you left last year. It's very understandable being the back-up to arguably the best strike duo in the league last year with Keane and Berbatov, but to play behind Darren Bent, that's ridiculous. Glad to see you in the lilywhite shirt and simply cannot wait to see you bag a shitton of goals for us, because we all know we need it.

Predicted XI:

-----------------------Gomes-----------------------

Corluka---------Woodgate---------King----------Bale

Lennon-------------------O'Hara----------Jenas-----

-------------------------Modric--------------------

--------------Pavlyuchenko---------Defoe-----------

Subs:
Dawson
F. Campbell
Huddlestone
Bentley
Gunter

My Score:
Spurs 2-1

Goals:
Modric
Defoe

C'mon You Spurs!