So what are my predictions for the upcoming season….?

With the postponement of the opening fixture, it has given me time to sort out my predictions for Spurs and the 2011/12 season.

Like everyone else I have waited all summer to see if there was any movement in the transfer market, and keep my fingers crossed that we may bag a new striker or central defender before the window shuts. I have also been keen to see if we could shift some of our driftwood off to other clubs to make space & money for a new arrival, but apart from Woodgate to Stoke & now Robbie Keane to the MLS, (Beckham the other way..?), we appear to be no further forward. We must be the only one of the top clubs not to have been seen to strengthen the team during the summer….!

So this means that we start the season with the best of the players we finished last season with…. Looking back, last season we finished 5^th in the Premier League & got much further in the Champions League than any of our rivals thought we would. I think we would all agree that there were a few key moments in last season where we were unable to step up when it was required, and Modric’s leg break early on, and the inconsistency of our strikers, were key reasons for this. If we had just beaten a few of those lower placed teams, turned a few draws into wins, we surely would have re-gained 4^th, if not 3^rd place, and be laughing all the way down Tottenham High Road…

Will a new striker or a central defender be the key to Tottenham success this season…?. No… I don’t think so…. We have some great strikers on our current roster, players that had been regularly banging in goals left, right, and centre in seasons past, strikers with a rich tradition of goal scoring for both club & country.  If you subscribe to the notion that a player can go through a bad patch, surely you must also subscribe to the reverse being true…? We need a few key players to step up and face the challenge head on, and we could once again be glory bound.

So here are my predictions for Spurs this season:

·         Top 4 finish

·         Modric to stay run the team

·         Average of 3 goals a game

·         Defoe to regain his top striker status, in partnership with Crouchy

·         Good FA Cup run, (quarterfinals at least)

·         Early exit to the Europa Cup

I guess we will have to wait & see….