Christian Eriksen is nicknamed ‘Golazo’ at Tottenham for his knack of scoring brilliant goals but Mauricio Pochettino says the Dane is happy for others to take the limelight.

Tottenham 4 Watford 0: Dele Alli turns 21 tomorrow, and although Mauricio Pochettino says he loves him like a son, it is typical of the Tottenham manager’s style that he will not give special treatment to the man he believes is the best young player in Europe.

Son Heung-min hit a brace as Tottenham kept their Premier League title ambitions alive with a comprehensive win over a poor Watford side at White Hart Lane.

Swansea 1 Tottenham 3: Three goals in a remarkable final 10 minutes at the Liberty Stadium kept alive Tottenham’s faint hopes of winning the Premier League title.

Tottenham kept their Premier League title ambitions alive by staging an extraordinary late show at relegation-threatened Swansea.

Mauricio Pochettino had insisted before this game he was convinced his side could cope with the extended absence of Harry Kane.

Tottenham 6 Millwall 0: This was a throwback to both the good and the bad old days of English football. Tottenham cruised into the FA Cup semi-finals, 6-0, beating a Millwall side whose wholehearted effort on the pitch was marred by the behaviour of supporters off it.

Son Heung-min's hat-trick fired Tottenham into the FA Cup semi-finals but their 6-0 demolition of Millwall was marred by racist chants towards the South Korean from visiting supporters.

Tottenham Hotspur’s pursuit of Chelsea at the head of the Premier League table may be fuelled more by hope than expectation, but with Harry Kane in his current vein of form, Mauricio Pochettino’s side are entitled to retain belief the current leaders can be caught.

Harry Kane scored a first-half hat-trick as Tottenham battered Stoke 4-0 and climbed up to second in the Premier League table.

So I thought I’d change tactics this time. Since I started writing, these views from the away stand, Spurs haven’t won.

Tottenham Hotspur 2 Aston Villa 0: It depends on whether you see the glass half-full or half-empty, but here are two ways of looking at Tottenham’s not entirely comfortable passage through to the fourth round of the FA Cup at the expense of Aston Villa.

Monaco 2 Tottenham 1: Hugo Lloris’ penalty heroics could not rescue Tottenham’s Champions League campaign as Mauricio Pochettino’s men slipped to a 2-1 defeat against Monaco last night.

Tottenham 3 West Ham United 2: As fans filed out of White Hart Lane into the north London rain on Saturday night, as the initial surge of energy from such a dramatic victory began to subside, there was a moment in the manager’s office in the bowels of the stadium which helps tell the story of the character instilled in this Tottenham team.

Harry Kane brought Tottenham back from the dead by scoring twice in the last two minutes to snatch a thrilling 3-2 victory over West Ham.

Tottenham 0 Bayer Leverkusen 1: Dele Alli voiced his frustration as Tottenham’s Wembley curse struck again as Mauricio Pochettino’s men slipped to a 1-0 defeat in the Champions League.

Liverpool 2 Tottenham 1: There was something telling in the manner in which Daniel Sturridge celebrated the first of the goals which helped Liverpool secure safe passage to the fifth round of the EFL Cup last night.

Vincent Janssen showed there may be life after Harry Kane as the stand-in striker scored his first Tottenham goal in a 5-0 romp over Gillingham.

He may have an economics degree but chemistry has always been of interest to Arsene Wenger. 

Up to 50,000 Irish people are at risk from Hepatitis C.

UEFA U19 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP SEMI-FINAL:

Republic of Ireland 0 Netherlands 4

In one of the largest healthcare fraud settlements in US history, Johnson & Johnson will pay $2.2 billion (€1.6bn) to end civil and criminal investigations into kickbacks to pharmacists and the marketing of pharmaceuticals for off-label uses, US attorney general Eric Holder has said.

Sunday’s King and Queen of the Roads at Ballincurrig was one of sustained excellence and excitement.

At the tender age of 56, Irish actor Liam Neeson unexpectedly reinvigorated his career as a tough-taking action man in the testosterone-fuelled thriller ‘Taken’.

Famke Janssen has joined the cast of 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'.

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Harry Redknapp has kept to his word and has handed some of his fringe players starts as Tottenham chase top spot in their final Champions League Group A game at FC Twente.

THE Spurs Go Marching On”, as the song said at the end of a thrilling return to White Hart Lane of top-level European football.