Posted by Guardian 101 days ago
Venue White Hart Lane, today 5.30pm ESPN Ref A Marriner Odds Tottenham 9-20 Newcastle 29-5 Draw 16-5The question to Harry Redknapp was almost an apologetic after-thought. Any injuries? Everyone laughed. How could the Tottenham manager be asked anything so trivial as to which players might be available when he was living in the eye of a storm? It rather summed up the problem facing his club. As Redknapp is pushed as the England manager-in-waiting, following the end of his crown court dramas, he and Tottenham must battle to retain their focus. Newcastle will prove a stern test. There was a cruel reaction in some quarters to Alan Pardew ruling himself out of the England jobbut he was only responding to a question and the work he has done at N...
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