From relegation favourites to finally breaking into the top four, what a season. We did it Spurtans! Details, you ask? Well, there we were in fifth spot with six games left to go before the season came to a close and of those six, four were visits by Chelsea and Arsenal and trips to Manchester to face both United and City. Sounds like a nightmare? You bet it was. No one expected us to survive without the worlds greatest losses. After losing to Sunderland and then being dumped out of the FA semi by Pompey, we looked in serious trouble as Arsenal paid us a visit, and history wasnt on our side either with a record no win over Arsenal in 10years. They came and with Van Persie staging a comeback, things could not get worse but it was not to be, for them. We took them out, I mean we outplayed, outclassed and outscored both Arsenal and title contenders Chelsea with Gareth Bale, a demon in left wing scoring in both ties. Not to forget Danny Rose's at only 19yrs of age, 40yard goal of the season against Arsenal.
Next up, Man United, brimming in confidence after taking down Chelsea we thought we could pull a fast one on Fergies men but not this time. Sir Alex always has a way of getting one over us, better him than Wenger, right? 3-1 loss but worth to mention a Ledley header that brought the game to 1-1 upto like the 80th min, the rest is too painful to write. Now, brought back to reality by Ferguson we hosted Bolton at the Lane, tough nut to crack those boys but a Huddlestone screamer did the job. Current position, fourth place and only a point above Manchester City with two games left. The next fixture...
You guessed it, Manchester City at the City stadium where many have fallen Chelsea, Arsenal and etc few have been victorious. Having got a 3-0 win over them at White Hart lane, they were out for blood and Champions league qualification money. The atmosphere, terrifying if you are a Spurs fan, well I wasnt there but I could tell...can we get on with the story? thanks. Anyway, first half was murder on Spurs, defensive football at its best Gomes was there again being awesome, deflections, screamers the lot, he had them covered. King was on Tevez, Dawson was everywhere, Adebayor and Bellamy were terrorizing but it remained 0-0. Second half, Redknapp must have said some stuff to the boys, he always does. All of a sudden its end to end stuff, beautiful stuff if you came to be entertained, but we werent, we were there to do business. Bale, Lennon(Bentley), Modric, Crouch...the terror squad. Defoe one on one saved, Crouch heads on to the post, King goal ruled out for pushing, no matter, its an all out attack. Blood and guts spilled everywhere, screams of pain, its so close the battle is at its peak oh my God I cant watch (slap). Anyway, Crouch got an 80th minute header onto goal and its in. Oh joy! screams, shouts and yes the game was won and we had cemented fourth place.
Some say that on the final game of the season, we were so confident that we lost to Burnley 4-2. On this, I have no comment
Now that the 09/10 season is over, lets talk future plans for Tottenham and ofcourse what im talking about here is the plan for a new stadium.
