Bad punny headlines aside, the arrival of the recent England
World Cup qualifiers proved to be a major distraction from the weekly race for
Premier League achievement.
Of course the issue now is one of a race to the finish, and
FA Cup semi finals an European competition (for Spurs, Newcastle
and Chelsea
fans alone) the only distraction, this weekend could prove to be a vital one in
the last leg of the 2012/2013 season.
For Spurs, the challenge is on to bounce back from three
straight defeats and capture Jermaine Defoe's goal scoring form for club.
Admittedly Swansea are rather better than San Marino, but the way I see it - a
goal is a goal, and if confidence is the problem for our misfiring marksman,
then this may be the spark that he needed.
I don't like to predict (mainly because I predicted we would
beat both Liverpool and Fulham) but with only the unpredictable trio of Manchester City, Everton and Chelsea to come among
some 'winnable' games, the run in SHOULD be not too challenging for Spurs.
However having watched Spurs for more than 25 years and with
memories still fresh from last season's end, something had better go right this
time.
Ok so we don't have a manager whose head is being turned by
a possible international job, but we also don't have the talismanic midfielders
in the shape of Modric and Van Der Vaart, and the likes of Dempsey, Sigurdsson
and Parker really do have step up and drag is through the next eight games.
Because we cannot end up reliant on other results like last year.
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