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Two Spurs fans, Dave Puckridge and Rachel Cohen, provide their perspectives on our rivalry with Arsenal ahead of the North London Derby. One View: Dave At the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the long delayed match with Manchester United, the advertising screens frequently called the crowd’s attention to the Women’s North London Derby with the dramatic …
Sometimes you have to lose a lot of games to properly relish a win. And we waited for this one a long time: nine games or 136 days. Spurs’ last win – that eight-goal false-dawn at Brighton – was back on the 30th of October: Rishi Sunak had that week taken office, England had not …
Spurs lost their 9th straight game on Sunday at Liverpool. The next day the manager, Rehanne Skinner, was removed from her post. Skinner had led the team to its highest ever WSL finish (5th) last season and had done a lot behind the scenes to professionalise and resource the women’s team, but no-one’s going to …
Working out which Spurs Women players are injured has been turning the club’s fans into detectives. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Other clubs provide detailed updates. For instance, following the press conference with Liverpool manager, Matt Beard, Emma Saunders of the BBC reported that: “Leanne Kiernan is "at least 10 weeks away" …
Spurs are on a seven-game losing streak in the WSL. This is relegation form. Yet, ironically, with the addition of Mana Iwabuchi and Bethany England and with Ashleigh Neville’s return from suspension, Spurs’ are looking better and, in contrast to their pre-Christmas games, scoring goals. The problem has been that Spurs’ strengthening has coincided with …
Following a three game suspension Ashleigh Neville re-found her rhythm in the game against Manchester United (despite a frustrating 1-2 loss). With the winter break and postponed games, a three game suspension had extended for a month and a half, so it felt like it had been a long time since we had seen Ashleigh …
Spurs Women lost their last two games: 2-1, away at Aston Villa and 1-3 at home to Chelsea. The loss to Chelsea saw them exit the Conti Cup at the quarter final stage, while the loss to Aston Villa was the fifth straight loss in the WSL, where Spurs have not won since their increasingly …
Continue reading "Green shoots: Or, why Spurs Women’s last two losses give reason for optimism"
Tottenham Hotspur Women travel to Aston Villa on Saturday (14th January) in the first WSL game of 2023. By then it will have been almost a month since the team's previous game (a 1-0 away victory over Championship side Southampton in the Conti Cup). It also follows a winter break that couldn't have come soon …
Continue reading "Four things to look out for on Spurs Women’s return"
They've been with us for half a season now, enough time to evaluate what Tottenham's summer signings have brought to the squad. In an end of year review of the first half of the season I suggested that the seven signings Spurs made in summer 2022 have strengthened the squad, and bench, but have not …
Continue reading "Mid-Season Rating of Spurs’ Summer Signings"
It’s the end of the year and time to reflect on the first ‘half’ of the season. Spurs are lying eighth in the league, with nine points (three wins and six losses) from nine games. We have conceded seventeen goals. To put that in perspective last season we conceded just six more (23) across the …
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