Back to winning ways

Spurs 4 Wet Spam 0

Team: Robinson, Chimbonda, Woodgate (Tainio), Dawson, Hutton, Lennon, Huddlestone, Zokora, Malbranque (Gilberto), Keane (Bent), Berbatov

Seems like ages since I've been at the Lane what with Wembley and the recent UEFA games, but it was great to be back. As usual, the Spammers fans got a roasting from our lot especially as they only seem to have one song; they might be forever blowing bubbles but they are still forever failing to win stuff!

You can usually tell what's in store by the first few minutes but thankfully the tide turned pretty quickly. Robbo spilled the ball in the fifth minute which West Ham should have buried, and that was easily their best chance of the match. Thankfully Spurs responded in an enthusiastic manner, looking to put aside the disappointment of the last two games. To everyone's delight Berba notched up two headed goals within the first ten minutes, both from Huddlestone free kicks. Joy oh joy!

All through the first half Spurs played great football, passing, moving well and making surging runs with the ball. Berbatov - well he's in a class of his own. His touch, skill, vision, and dinky little passes were so pleasing to watch. When he gets a lot of the ball, Spurs generally play much better. If a couple of his skills don't feature on Soccer AM's 'Showboat' next Saturday I'll be most surprised.

Things got better for Spurs when Boa Morte was sent packing for a second bookable offence in the 44th minute.

The second half went a bit flat despite playing against ten men. Spurs sat back a little and as the game went on, let West Ham have more possession. However, they weren't on form this afternoon and made very few chances. Our defence is looking very solid these days. Hutton and Woodgate have proved very good signings already, and Dawson was in fine form as well today having just returned from injury.

Spurs had plenty of chances to add a third but it didn't come until the 85th minute when Gilberto notched up his debut goal in only his second appearance. Despite only two minutes of added time lit up on the board, the referee allowed play to go well beyond this and the icing on the cake came on 92:50 when Darren Bent headed home a Hutton cross to make it a sensational 4-0.

A bonus was that John placed a £2 bet for that scoreline and took home £68 in cash. That paid for his ticket with £7 in change. Nice!