Humbled by Tottenham’s thrashing at Leicester, Antonio Conte faces an uncertain future as he leads his spluttering team into Tuesday’s Champions League clash against AC Milan. Conte is back in Italy for the round of 16 first leg match just two weeks after undergoing gallbladder surgery in his homeland and his return is likely to be […]
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Spurs boss Conte ponders future after death of three friends
Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte said Wednesday that the death of three close friends in a matter of months had left him questioning his future in soccer. Gian Piero Ventrone, the club’s fitness coach, died in October, before in December he witnessed the passing of Conte’s friend and former Lazio defender Sinisa Mihajlovic. And earlier […]
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By the Numbers: Liverpool vs. Tottenham (UCL final)
2. Consecutive finals Tottenham has lost — 2009 and 2015 League Cups. 4.Consecutive finals Liverpool has lost — 2014 FA Cup, 2016 League Cup and Europa League, 2018 Champions League. 9. EuropeanCup/Champions League finals Liverpool will have played, most of any English team. 17. Goals conceded by Tottenham in 2018-19 ChampionsLeague, most of any team. […]
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U.S. women are off to the Lodge to bunker down north of London
Its three-game send-off series behind it, theU.S. women’s national team will spend 10 days training at the Lodge — Tottenham’s training center — in Enfield, England, before heading to France on June 7 ahead of its Women’s World Cup opener fourdays later against Thailand in Reims. The USA finished its 10-game warm-up series with a […]
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What They're Saying: Christian Eriksen
“I think I must be one of the luckiest guys on the planet today. With the last one they scored, I thought it was over. Thank God the ref gave offside. The whole game was a roller-coaster. It wasgoals, goals, goals, goals and drama everywhere.” — Tottenham star Christian Eriksen, who gave the ball away […]
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What They're Saying: Mauricio Pochettino
“It is like you are with your wife and you are holding hands, walking down the street. But because you are so handsome, another woman is looking at you. But your wife is so proud and, rather thanworrying, she is so happy to be with you and falls more in love with you.” — Tottenham […]
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Luka Modric is eager to fulfill 'great expectations' placed on Croatia
A penalty kick that star midfielder Luka Modric failed to convert could have shattered Croatia’s World Cup campaign in the round of 16. As the players lined up for apenalty-kick tiebreaker with Denmark, only a few minutes had elapsed since keeper Kasper Schmeichel snuffed Modric’s weak effort to push Croatia in front. Instead, overtime ended,1-1, […]
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After stellar club season, Captain Kane fuels England hopes
As the weeks and months count down to a World Cup, anxiety of fans andfollowers of the national teams head to the tournament grow and grow. They worry mostly about injuries, of course, but they also wonder if their players will be among those too tired, toobanged up, or just too burned out once the […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo plays down talk of Real Madrid crisis
After Real Madrid lost 3-1 to Tottenham in its first trip to Wembley Stadium, Cristiano Ronaldo insisted Spurs didn’t deserve to win and Real Madrid will turn itself around after a terriblestart to the season.
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Guardiola: 'Harry Kane team' will be EPL title challenger
How highly does Pep Guardiola, manager of EPL leader Manchester City, regard Harry Kane? He referred to third-place Tottenham as “the Harry Kane team” in his rundown of EPL titlechallengers. Kane scored his 12th and 13th goals of September as Spurs crushed Huddersfield Town, 4-0.