http://www.spurspies.tv/2008/05/the_spurs_pies_season_review_j.html#more Tuesday 1st January Premier League - Aston Villa 2 Spurs 1 2008 began in inauspicious style for Juande Ramos' merry men. A visit to Villa Park for an 5:15pm kick-off on New Year's Day wouldn't be many teams' first choice for ways to start the season, and so it proved. Having fallen behind to a header from a corner, Jermain Defoe levelled with a spectacular finish, before we fell behind to a header from a corner. Can anyone spot the glaringly obvious problem? Friday 5th January Reports suggest Hutton deal dead Five days into the year, and the January transfer merry-go-round was very much up and running, with rumours aplenty. Reports at this point suggested that Alan Hutton had decided to stay at Rangers, and that the deal had fallen through. As it turned out, all our Alan needed was a little persuading. Saturday 5th January FA Cup 3rd Round - Spurs 2 Reading 2 Rather than a game of two halves, this was more a game of two players, as Dimitar Berbatov Stephen Hunt scored all four goals between them. On the back of the previous month's ten-goal thriller, the 'neutrals' would have been hoping for more of the same, though most Spurs fans would have settled for a dour one-nil win. In the end, we were forced to take the game back to the Madejski, which served only to further clog up or already congested fixture list. Wednesday 9th January Carling Cup Semi Final - Arsenal 1 Spurs 1 I've covered this game in rather detailed fashion previously, and it's probably worth reading that article, written in the build-up to the final against Chelsea. But to summarise, though at the time the 1-1 seemed like an opportunity squandered, in reality, it was merely the calm before the storm, as Arsenal began to truly believe they needed merely to turn up to triumph in such games. Friday 11th January Ghaly completes Derby loan move Another tedious transfer saga came to an inevitable conclusion, as Egyptian misfit Hossam Ghaly finally bid us farewell. Ghaly's loan move to rock-bottom Derby County was quite fitting, but he is now stuck in limbo yet again, after returning to Spurs at the end of the season. Saturday 12th January Premier League - Chelsea 2 Spurs 0 With so many irons in the fire, it was understandable that a trip to Stamford Bridge fell fairly low on Ramos' list of priorities. Thus, a marginally weakened Spurs eleven were swept aside by a determined Chelsea side, with a fantastic Juliano Belletti strike opening the scoring before Shaun Wright-Phillips sealed victory late on. Tuesday 15th January FA Cup 3rd Round Replay - Reading 0 Spurs 1 Ramos' maintained his magnificent unbeaten cup streak with this victory over a makeshift Reading side with far more pressing matters to contend with. Robbie Keane's goal was enough to ensure progress, though it could and should have been a far more emphatic victory. Saturday 19th January Premier League - Spurs 2 Sunderland 0 A second routine victory over a struggling Premier League outfit followed four days later, as we avenged our opening day defeat to Roy Keane's men. Aaron Lennon scored just two minutes in, and our Keane sealed defeat for their Keane in injury time, but this was a fairly one-sided encounter which underlined the uphill battle the Wearsiders seemingly faced to stay in the league. Tuesday 22nd January Carling Cup Semi Final - Spurs 5 Arsenal 1 Again, I have written numerous reflections on this game, and none of them have managed to fully encapsulate what this result meant. It doesn't matter what anyone says about reserves or priorities or anything else. The fact is, Arsenal got beat 5-1 by their North London rivals, and for all their dominance over us in recent years, they never embarrassed us this much. Sunday 27th January FA Cup 4th Round - Manchester United 3 Spurs 1 A lot of people looking back may assume this was a perfect example of the morning after the night before, with Spurs distracted by thoughts of Wembley, but that was certainly not the case. We led after 24 minutes through Keane, and could even have had another before Carlos Tevez equalised. Even after that the game remained even, and it was only when Michael Dawson conceded a penalty and was sent off that the game swung irreversibly in United's favour. In the context of what came thereafter, a win over United may have presented us with a real chance of a domestic cup double, but that would also have meant having to face Arsenal once more, and perhaps it's just as well that we are able to drag those bragging rights out all the way until August at least. Monday 28th January Woodgate signs in ￡7m deal No one has been more criticial of Damien Comolli than myself, but there is no doubting the quality of this acquisition. Woodgate's ability was never up for discussion, but there were huge question marks regarding his history with injuries. Nonetheless, Woodgate improved the team in the position where we were most vulnerable, and he has, thus far, been relatively injury-free, touch wood of course. Wednesday 30th January Premier League - Everton 0 Spurs 0 Hutton signs, Routledge joins Villa As dull a game as anyone is ever likely to witness, though the result itself was rather a decent one for Spurs. A clean sheet in itself is always an achievement where Spurs are concerned, and with Everton gunning for a top four finish, there was even more reason to be proud. The wheeling and dealing was now in full swing prior to the transfer window slamming shut, and contrary to previous reports, Alan Hutton did eventually put pen to paper. Meanwhile, Wayne Routledge ended his unsuccessful stint in the Spurs reserves by leaving to joining Aston Villa reserves. Thursday 31st January Defoe joins Portsmouth, Gilberto signs, Stalteri and Gardner loaned out There may have been rumours for long periods of time, but Jermain Defoe's departure for Portsmouth still left me somewhat taken aback. With a Wembley cup final just around the corner, I was sure that Defoe would stick around for the final few months of the season, but alas, the lure of first-team football was too much to resist, and so it was that Spurs said goodbye to one of the most prodigious talents in English football. Defoe went some way towards proving his point by scoring eight goals in his first seven Portsmouth games. The signing of Brazilian full-back Gilberto did not particularly move me to be perfectly frank, and his debut performance against PSV will go down as one of the least impressive in Spurs history, but his showings towards the end of the season suggested there was still hope. The loaning out of Paul Stalteri to Fulham made perfect sense for both clubs, Anthony Gardner to Everton less so. Gardner did not make a single appearance for the Toffees, whilst Stalteri contributed to Fulham's great escape. Both players have since returned to White Hart Lane, though one would assume that is only a temporary homecoming.. -- 一月很刺激 對熱刺球迷是最棒的一個月 所有的心情這的桌面完全能解釋 http://tinyurl.com/6djrq9 轉會方面也很刺激 Hutton的轉會死而復活無數次幾乎每天都有新消息 Woody歷經風波後加入我們 在最後一天我們放出四位球員 其中三位是用租借的方式離開 -- Ｔo Dare is to do! --

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