Hi Spurs Fans, Glenn Hoddle here.

Well it's been a tough old campaign so far, but, seeing as last night's crowd had 7,000 empty seats, I thought it about time I contacted as many Spurs fans as possible to rally around the club at this vital stage of the season.

I said at the start of the season that this club needed European football, and, to be honest, we are still one of the biggest five clubs in the country. My chairman Mr David Buchler has even gone on record as saying we are probably one of the biggest teams in Europe. You may ask yourself on what do we base this self-gratifying belief... well let me explain.

You can only be viewed as biggest five if you have concrete results to back it up. Okay, so we may not have finished in the top six of the Premiership since it started ten or eleven years ago and you may also point out that as far as crowd figures are concerned, we are nowhere near worthy (oooh I hate that word) of Big Five recognition. But nobody can take away the fact that we have lost LESS Champions League games than Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal etc. so we have every right to be considered up there among the best.

I also want to quash another rumour circulating at present - that is people thinking we have changed the club name to Tottenham Hotspur Nil. This is untrue and is, in fact, just the scoreline we tend to favour at this very difficult stage of the season. Mr Buchler has gone to press just recently saying I am the Fergie of the South, so just have confidence in my ability to snatch defeat from certain victory and we will do okay together.

I still think we have a chance in Europe next season, so I've asked all the players to come up with a good song and we will definitely be entering the Eurovision Song Contest. Maybe we'll get those loveable Cockneys Chas 'n' Dave along to help us out. We need to be in Europe even if it is one of the lesser competitions.

The lasting memory I have of this season, apart from losing the Worthy to those table-toppers from Blackburn, getting smashed in the FA Cup by Chelsea and having a losing sequence of 4 games, no goals scored and 13 against is the fact we have so much to look forward to with our young squad of players. Teddy, Gus, Darren, Les, etc. are going to be around for months and months yet, so the future here at the Lane looks rosy.

Keep the faith brothers - and if anyone needs a ticket for a forthcoming game, don't book in advance, there are likely to be loads of empty spaces on the day.

Come on you Spurs...

Glenn. X X X

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002

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very good :-D

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002

What a surprise to see him first start blaming Dean Richards (the man he insisted was worth 8mil+ at centre back) for their calamities and today turn on Ledley King (who he previously continuously touted as an Ingerlund certainty). Still, religous loonies only see things as absolutes, perhaps they are both too young for his long-term plans.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002

The soccernet report of their match against Charlton contained the lines "Defeat, however, still leaves Spurs a few points short of mathematical safety in a season which promised so much but now looks certain to produce so little."

A bit of wishful thinking as an 8 pt cushion with 8 games left requires more than a few points to be mathematically safe. About 17 points if fact.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002