[Update 22] POTL on Cole
who Phantom of the Lane
date 25/05/10
site COYS

Not putting a downer on this, but following on from my thread last week, where I stated we have made contact with the player and his representatives, but Chelsea have also made an offer to the player- theirs is financially superior. Depends on how much he wants to play. Talks will continue post WC.

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1984/85 Our tilt at the title (Part 3)
Part 1 is here
Part 2 is here

We start part three on 29th December 1984, Spurs were top of the league and entertained Sunderland in front of

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1984/85 Our tilt at the title (Part 2)
Part one can be read here

Three days after losing 2-1 away to Bruges in the UEFA Cup we played Stoke City at WHL, strolling to an easy 4-0 win with Graham Roberts, John Cheidozie and Clive Allen (2) scoring the goals. This put us back up to third in the table, three points behind Arsenal who were top and a point behind Everton. Four days later, on Halloween, we beat Liverpool in the League

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Remembering Bill Nicholson
Source: Official Site

Today we remember Bill Nicholson OBE who passed away five years ago. Bill, the most successful manager in our history and our Club President, died on October 23, 2004, at the age of 85.

Bill's influence on this club can be seen by a look back at our history. Prior to his playing debut in 1938 we had never won the League title and had lifted the FA Cup on two occasions.

As a player he helped us win the Championship for the first

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1984/85 Our tilt at the title (Part 1)
A season with Spurs 1984/85 (Part 1)

This is the story, as I remember it, of our title challenge of 84/85, i've included some of the things that I saw on our travels, some were funny, others would have earned you a spell in the pokey. I guess the term is 'warts and all'. I hope you'll forgive me the odd inaccuracy, this all happened over 25 years ago. Back then the league season was 42 games so I'll split this into 4 parts or so in order not to have something akin to War

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