To rub more salt into Spurs wounds, Mark Clattenburg was the same referee that didn’t give Pedro Mendes’s “goal” for Spurs at United when the ball was fumbled by then keeper Roy Carroll and ended up at least a couple of feet over the line. The most obvious non goal that has probably ever been scored.

As for the game, Spurs didn’t really do enough to win the game, which was quite disappointing. They have some good passages of play and play some good football at times but could not test the keeper as much as they should, especially as Man Utd are conceding a fair few goals recently and I hoped that they would put them under a little more pressure. But, Man Utd do what Man Utd do best, they stuck in there, got the first goal and went on from there. They are probably the best team in the league at grinding out results even when not playing at their best.

Maybe next time Spurs….?

The answer is quite simply NO! Well, in my opinion anyway, even though it might seem a little biased!

Pace, power, balance and skill all topped off with a thunderous left foot, I am struggling to think of anyone in the Premier League with all those attributes, specially who is only 21, he’s top class. Maybe somewhere in Germany, Spain or Italy there is that type of young exciting player coming through at a club but on British shores, Gareth Bale quite rightly has that crown. Maybe Adam Johnson at City has a claim, but I think even his, with all his recent hype, doesn’t match Bale. GB is the left wing KING!

As with a lot of the top sides, losing and being outplayed doesn’t go down well with Chelsea and they start to play a little dirty! What is it with John Terry?! He always losses his head when playing at the Lane and this time was no different, rightly being sent off after receiving 2 booking in the space of about 3 minutes. Silly boy!

It’s been an awesome week and the Spurs go marching on towards the Champions League!

Spurs really had to win that game, with Chelsea home and then Man Utd away in the next 2 fixtures, that could of been the end of the dream of finishing 4th. But the lads played their hearts out and got the win they deserved, even though it was edge of your seats stuff with minutes to go!

The domestic cup competitions seem to be devalued now, especially the League cup with only a hand full of teams really taking it seriously. No, it’s not the best cup competition in the world but it’s a trophy none the less and a medal for the players and surely that’s what playing professional sport is all about. When a player gets to the end of his career and looks back at what he has achieved, surely having some winners medals is better than just saying you played in a team that finished 4th best in the league.

It bugs me as a Spurs fan to hear all the talk of having a chance of finishing 4th and that is our goal. Really? Just to finish 4th is the goal, not aiming that bit higher and if that doesn’t go to plan then finishing in 4th spot is the backup. The way the league is shaping up, Spurs do have a good shout of claiming a top 4 spot if they keep up the form they have showed in the first half of the season, but there will be serious challenging from Liverpool, Man City and Aston Villa, so one of those teams will finish as low as 7th.

So now Spurs are out of the Carling Cup, I would like to see them really go out and try and win the FA Cup because that, after all, is the best cup competition in the world, offers a place in Europe and is a trip to Wembley, which it should all be about at the end of the day.

Some people might say that he has had all that money and they should be competing for the title, that may be true in some respect but to throw all those players together in such a short space of time and expect them to be challenging for the title is unrealistic. With the January transfer window coming up and half a season to go, who knows where they could end up, with the players they already have, they could easily go on a long unbeaten run and win 5-6 games in a row and that would put them right up there.

In modern day football with all the money flying around in the top flight and the trend of  foreign owners getting bigger, most managers wont have much longer than 2 years. Of course there will be exceptions, but it’s a trend that not only happens in the top flight but in the Championship to and that has happened throughout Europe for many years. So, good luck Roberto Mancini, you better get it right straight away otherwise your fate will be much the same.

To me though  Man City lacked any sort of urgency, they played the ball neatly into feet and found space now and then but never really threatened. Spurs on the other hand tried to move the ball quickly and get Aaron lennon on the ball as much as possible and like many other left backs this season, Sylvinho was given the run around big style. Niko Kranjcar had a great game to, always wanting the ball, making thing’s happen and coming up with 2 goals, the second one being a cracking solo effort from a short corner.

Winning away at Blackburn is a good result as well, they had only lost once there all season and are a really strong aggressive team. But Spurs showed they were no push overs anymore, it wasn’t a pretty game but sometimes that doesn’t matter, as much as I would like Spurs to win pretty all the time, it just doesn’t happen, you need to show the other side of the game every now and then to mix it up and Spurs showed the are more than capable of doing that.

White Hart Lane was a fortress last season when Harry took over, only losing one game at home to Everton. This season already has seen 3 home loses to Man Utd, Stoke and most recently, Wolves. It’s not like this season is following the pattern of losing to the smaller teams and beating the bigger teams either, with the exception of Liverpool home on the opening day, there have been loses to Arsenal, Man Utd twice and Chelsea in league and cup competitions, most of which by convincing scorelines.

OK, as I write this, Spurs are sitting in 5th spot with a home game against Man City tomorrow night, so it’s not all doom and gloom! But, all the teams Spurs have beaten this season so far have been average at best. Liverpool is always a good scalp to get, although the way their season has gone so far, it would have been disappointing not to have beaten them at home. The recent games at Everton and Villa are prime examples, 2-0 up and cruising after 60 minutes against Everton, then throw it away. At Villa, after going behind early, coming back strong and controlling the second half was great, but it only brought a draw, if that could have been turned into a win, it would have been the best result of the season to date with how Villa are playing now.

The game against Man City will be a good test. They are a strong team home and away now and Spurs really need to beat a good side to get that confidence needed to push on. All these football people talk about what a good start Tottenham have had, but it’s faltering slightly at the moment, Villa are doing better and now Birmingham are on the same amount of points, although they have played a game more.

So, stop talking the talk Spurs and start walking the walk!

What is it with Spurs, one minute they can look great, the next they are hanging on for dear life. That seemed to be the case on Sunday when they went 2 up with about 30 minutes to go, then Everton made a change and brought on 2 strikers. Credit has to go to David Moyes and Everton for fighting their way back into the game, you just wonder why they didn’t start with the 2 upfront from the start?!

Even though Spurs had the chance to win it in injury time when they got one of the most blatant penalty’s you are ever likely to see, which Jermain Defoe decides to lose all composure with and scuff it straight into Tim Howard’s legs, that isn’t the worst part for me. It’s being in total control of the game and then when the opposition change formation and/or players, don’t adapt to the situation and stop doing all the thing’s that have made them dominant to that point.

When Saha and Yakubu came on, Everton started having more possesion in the final 3rd and pushing on more, but Spurs just stopped pressing and doing all the simple thing’s that put them in control and that is typical Spurs, have a good chance to push on and climb a place in the league and then mess it up.

Tottenham need to learn how to one, convert more of the chances they create and two, see out a game by defending properly, otherwise there is no way they will ever finish in a Champions league place.

Ground sharing in the English leagues is something that the majority of football fans would not accept, I know I wouldn’t be happy as a Spurs fan to share a stadium with Arsenal or West Ham, it would feel like you don’t have your own home and your own identity. There are county’s around the world that do share stadiums with their neighbours, Bayern Munich & 1860 Munich share the Allianz Arena, Inter & AC Milan share The San Siro and in Brazil, Flamengo & Fluminense have shared the Maracána in Rio.

Although it makes financial sense to share the cost of a ground with another team, especially for two smaller teams that don’t have a big support like Blackburn and Bolton, but for two of England’s traditional big club’s in Liverpool and Everton to co-own a Hugh stadium, that would be a massive first for English football and the traditions that come with it. What would they do, one week have blue covers on the seats and display the Everton logo around the ground for their home game, then in the mid week change all to red and Liverpool’s logo for their game?

It obviously works well in other country’s and in the USA where different sports teams share a ground or arena, but English football is a bit different, each team has their own identity and tradition, to share your home ground with another team would take away some of the home atmosphere you get when supporting your club.