The fact remains that this is a club with a default setting of one step forward followed by two back, writes Brendan O’Brien.

After all the months hearing about them, reading about them and buying them, finally, over the last few days, we’re guessing you got round to actually reading some sports books.

Tottenham Hotspur 2 Norwich City 0

Michael Lyster, the Jarvis Cocker of RTÉ, likes nothing better than getting down with the common people, it seems.

Daniel Levy has been responsible for many things in 10 years as Tottenham’s chairman, but he probably never expected to have inverted Karl Marx’s famous phrase about history repeating itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

They tell me that Kaiser Chiefs had been set to share the billing with Aslan at Shamrock Rovers’ ground later this month.

IT WAS Spurs legend Danny Blanchflower who coined the phrase “the glory game”, the title later used — somewhat ironically — for Hunter Davies’ groundbreaking book about a season at White Hart Lane in the early 1970s.

HARRY REDKNAPP is backing his Croatian connection to land another famous double for Tottenham.

TOTTENHAM boss Harry Redknapp insists his side have the belief to challenge the Barclays Premier League top four after victory over West Ham yesterday ensured their best start to a season since winning the double 1961.

Plans for a £240m (€313m) multi-sports stadium project at the site of the former Maze prison is unlikely to get government go ahead, it emerged today.

It's Euro 2008 International Week and the Irish Examiner's football correspondent Liam Mackey is doing his Man in a Suitcase impersonation around Eastern Europe.

IT’S the one that we want! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Eh, sorry about that. You just caught me doing my John Travolta impression.

IT WAS two o’clock in the afternoon just off Fenchurch Street in the heart of the City of London and George Best was once more attracting a crowd.

Thierry Henry has created yet more history by becoming the first player to win the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year award for the second year running.