How our England boys did last week-end
Unsurprisingly, Harry Kane was voted the Spurs Odyssey man of the match against Leicester, and was the one shining light in a team performance where defence was almost an alien concept to the Spurs players.
On Saturday, Harry became the Premier League's top goal scorer, but Diego Costa's 19th league goal of the season for Chelsea at Hull on Sunday put him back on top, but only level with our Harry.
I can reveal that Kane is the Spurs player of the month for the second consecutive month. He must be in line for a first senior start tomorrow night in England's Euro 2016 qualifier against Lithuania.
I wrote after our 3-0 defeat at Old Trafford on March 15th that I would be amazed if Kyle Walker and Andros Townsend were selected by Roy Hodgson for International duty. Well, they were, and I remain somewhat astounded, because they have been voted two of our worst performers in our last two games, in which we have conceded 6 goals. Indeed, Walker has scored lowest, with 2.9 against United, and almost bottom of the pile with only 4 out of 10 against Leicester.
Only Nacer Chadli was marked less than Walker on Saturday, and a big factor must have been his dive in the penalty area which earnt him a booking.
Danny Rose, who sadly has had to pull out of the England squad, having been called up as a late replacement for Luke Shaw, has been viewed as our best defender (apart from Lloris) is his last five appearances. Rose was second, only to Kane, over the course of March, of our outfield players.
Ryan Mason, who was also a late call-up, this time for Lallana, has been graded moderately in our last two performances, but, like Kane, he has had an impactive season, and deserves great credit for his recogition at senior International level. 6 years ago, Kane and Mason were playing and scoring together for Spurs Under-18's side. It would be great to see them both wearing the England shirt tomorrow!
Jeffrey Schlupp's own goal was the first scored for spurs this season. We had five own goals in our favour in last season's Premier League programme.
Spurs loanee Aaron Lennon scored his first goal since December 2013, but this time for Everton in their 2-1 win at Loftus Road. Spurs never lost when Lennon scored, and so far the same can be said of Everton!
· Last week-end's spursometer in full.
Results 21-22.03.15
Man City 3-0 West Brom
A. Villa 0-1 Swansea
Newcastle 1-2 Arsenal
S'hampton 2-0 Burnley
Stoke 1-2 C. Palace
Spurs 4-3 Leicester
West Ham 1-0 S'derland
Liverpool 1-2 Man Utd
Hull 2-3 Chelsea
QPR 1-2 Everton
Barclays Premier League
P W D L F-A GD Pts
1. Chelsea 29 20 7 2 61-25 36 67
2. Man City 30 18 7 5 62-28 34 61
3. Arsenal 30 18 6 6 58-31 27 60
4. Man Utd 30 17 8 5 52-27 25 59
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5. Liverpool 30 16 6 8 44-32 12 54
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6. S'hampton 30 16 5 9 42-21 21 53
7. Spurs 30 16 5 9 50-45 5 53
8. Swansea 30 12 7 11 34-38 -4 43
9. West Ham 30 11 9 10 40-37 3 42
10. Stoke 30 12 6 11 34-37 -3 42
11. C. Palace 30 9 9 12 36-41 -5 36
12. Newcastle 30 9 8 13 33-48 -15 35
13. Everton 30 8 10 12 38-42 -4 34
14. West Brom 30 8 9 13 27-39 -12 33
15. Hull 30 6 10 14 28-40 -12 28
16. A. Villa 30 7 7 16 19-39 -20 28
17. S'derland 30 4 14 12 23-44 -21 26
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18. Burnley 30 5 10 15 26-49 -23 25
19. QPR 30 6 4 20 31-54 -23 22
20. Leicester 29 4 7 18 27-48 -21 19
