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Another fine victory
Posted Oct 28, 2001
Safely embedded in the top half of the table now - but where was Rebrov? Losing one of our best players is unfortunate - two would surely seem careless?
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The relentless march to glory
Posted Oct 23, 2001
Now that's much more like it. Seven days, six points, five goals in the opponents' net.
You may laugh, you may cry, you WILL see Spurs take the throne under Hoddle. And remember - you heard it here first.
Audere est facere.
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Unbelievable....
Posted Sep 30, 2001
Well - it is, as they say, a game of two halves.
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16 hours left....
Posted Sep 28, 2001
Until United stand with their heads bowed. They DON'T pick up points at White Hart Lane....
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An attempt to resume normal service
Posted Sep 16, 2001
Right. I know we're talking categorically different scales here, but Brits, Spaniards, citizens of the former Yugoslavia and many others on every continent - we've had to deal with terrorists, conflict, and the loss of loved ones for years.
Allowing our lives to be ruined, changing the way we live from day to day, the things we choose to do - that hands them victory. The only way to beat them is to stare them down and shout as loud as you can - "do what you will, it will never be enough to make me run and hide."
I used to use this space to follow the fortunes of a team close to my heart. People have come together, shared moments of disappointment and unbridled joy through sport, and it saddens me to see lingering doubt as to whether continuing the sporting calendar is appropriate. Fifty years ago, Britain had a wartime league where teams shared the professional players according to who was stationed where and when. Rivalries were set aside, the results were irrelevant, but the games gave people a sense of normality, that however bad things were, life should still have its moments of passion and cheer.
I won't talk about today's result - but I will say that I stood in silence with 34,000 other Londoners and collected my thoughts. And then for the next two hours we sang together, cheered together and when the right net bulged - we forgot what the next few weeks and months might hold in store for us, and we danced.
Surrender to fear is true defeat. Carpe diem.
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