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This preview was written by Brian Judson

Full League Record of Spurs v Man Utd

Prem          Pl   W   D   L   For-Ag  Pts
Home           8   2   2   4   11-11    8
Away           9   0   1   8    4-18    1
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Total (Prem)  17   2   3  12   15-29    9
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Football Lge
Home (Div 1)  51  20  19  12   89 -64  63
Away (Div 1)  51   9   9  33   55 -101 28
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Total(Div 1) 102  29  28  45  144 -165 91
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Football Lge
Home (Div 2)   4   2   1   1   10 - 3   5
Away (Div 2)   4   1   2   1    3 - 3   4
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Total(Div 2)   8   3   3   2   13 - 6   9
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Total (Prem)  17   2   3  12    15-29   9
Total (Div 1) 102 29  28  45  144-165  91
Total (Div 2)  8   3   3   2   13 - 6   9
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Grand Total   127 34  34  59  172-200 109
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Thus we come to the end of yet another season. What is there left to say about a season in which Manchester United easily won their seventh title in the last nine years without truly playing as well as their high standards have set in recent years? No one who has seen them play this season will have failed to notice their lack of consistency, particularly when they needed to play well. Who among us failed to be amused by the clanger Barthez dropped to allow Di Canio to score the highly improbable winning goal of a cup tie at Old Trafford? And who among us was not amused by the sight of the Hammers seemingly in free fall towards relegation afterwards?

Whilst Manchester United have had their moments, all too often we have seen the darker side of the beast, particularly in respect of Roy Keane, whose commitment is such that one day someone is obviously going to have his career ended in such shattering fashion as Busst, the former Coventry City defender, saw his ended.

The number of occasions when Ferguson conceded that possibly a referee had made the right decision can be counted on the fingers of one hand. If Ferguson's criticisms of the game's officials were heeded, the country's opticians would have been rolling in money from a spate of requests for contact lenses. Yet many people criticised the same officials for not dealing with a player wearing a red shirt sufficiently sternly enough and levelling accusations that their team was playing Manchester United plus three officials who awarded their decisions in favour of Manchester United!

Another season has slipped by cloaked in anonymity as far as Tottenham have been concerned. The mutters of 666, the mark of the beast, have been silenced by the optimism that things can only get better (copyright Tony Blair!) now that the clubs' favourite prodigal son has returned to White Hart Lane. So far we have not been promised untold riches but plenty of blood, sweat, toil and tears before Tottenham tread the promised land of a Championship victory again.

This season, like so many before it, has resembled a cast list from Casualty with as many as 13 players huddling in the queue for the treatment room at times. There are players in the queue who are rumoured only appear fit when an England international fixture is approaching. One hopes that Hoddle will sort out the apparent malingerers in the queue who are taking money under false pretences. Hoddle may have hidden in his time as a player but, at least, he didn't skulk in the treatment room as often as one player has done so over the last five years.

With absolutely nothing at stake on Sunday (Spurs cannot finish lower than 14th), Spurs have the chance to put the kids in the shop window and see what they are capable of doing. What better way of seeing what they are made of than by playing the Champions? If Giggs and Company have their mind on sun-kissed beaches, they could be caught going through the motions yet again.

There's no point in predicting the outcome of this pointless match. But I do hope there is football somewhere during the ninety minutes that separate us from the end of the season.

And on that point I would like to wish all of you who have read thus far a very happy summer. I will be back next season previewing matches in the hope that next season there will be signs of hope of seeing "GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH! SPURS GO MARCHING ON!" being aired again .........

Cheers, Brian

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