Regular readers will know that my predictions so far have been less than successful. So when I predicted a 2-1 win for Spurs over Liverpool this weekend, it should have guaranteed a Reds win. And when Dirk Kuyt put Liverpool ahead in the third minute, it looked even more likely. But Spurs under Harry Redknapp = [. Click to continue reading...

The scenes of jubilation this evening were incredible to watch as Tottenham Hotspur's Roman Pavlyuchenko scored a last minute winner to beat Liverpool 2-1 at White Hart Lane. In just one week, Harry Redknapp's reinvigorated Tottenham side have beaten Liverpool and Bolton, and staged an incredible comeback against arch-rivals Arsenal. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you score an insane goal from distance......... A look at the Bundesliga's transfer fees by club. (Bundesliga Offside) Things aren't exactly looking up for Bremen. (Guardian Unlimited) Scottish blogging imitating life. (Celtic Offside) Roman Pavlyuchenko didn't want to leave Mother Russia, says mother from Russia. Click to continue reading...

Congratulations are due to Spurs' Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, who's been elected to the regional council in his home town of Stavropol. Vladimir Putin's United Russia party won 63% of the vote with Pavlyuchenko on the ticket and so now the big forward is officially a deputy. Pretty impressive for someone who has no apparent interest [. Click to continue reading...

Spurs striker dabbles in politics Roman Pavlyuchenko might not be the first name of the Tottenham Hotspur teamsheet at the moment but he is at Stavropol council. The newly-elected member will be sending his apologies to a lot of meetings! Residents of the Russian town of Stavropol obviously do not mind if their local councillors do not [. Click to continue reading...

Good day for Roman Pavlyuchenko yesterday. Scored his first Spurs goal against Newcastle, after thieving the ball in the midfield which wound up in the back of the net via his head. Safe to say he prefers gamedays too, because training for him is just a wee bit difficult. "But when there is a week's gap [. Click to continue reading...

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Newcastle United, it just did. In the battle of the two bottom teams of the Premier League, Newcastle lost 2-1 at home tonight to fellow underachievers Tottenham Hotspur in the Carling Cup in front of their lowest attendance in years. The performance by Newcastle was utterly [. Click to continue reading...

New Spurs striker Roman Pavlyuchenko may face punishment from Tottenham because he's not learning English quickly enough according to the Russian newspaper, Tvoi Den. If the newspaper report is true, it's a bit unfair on Pavlyuchenko. He's only been with Spurs since September 1st and, in that time, he also played in Moscow for Russia aganst [. Click to continue reading...

Nobody has ever claimed that footballers, in general, are smart. That old saying "his feet aren't connected to his brain" sums it up quite nicely. So when a footballer says something stupid, it shouldn't really come as a surprise. Unless, of course, it's incredibly stupid. Ladies & gentleman, enter Sergei Rebrov. Click to continue reading...

I got up this morning expecting another tense, dull day to be spattered with the occasional factual transfer as the transfer window creaked shut getting excited about nothing much in particular. A day spent scouring the BBC and Sky Sports transfer vidi-printers and tutting at bored 14 year old's just texting and e-mailing rubbish to [. Click to continue reading...

Stay updated on the latest transfers in the Premier League today on deadline day, which marks the end of the August transfer window (extended one day because the last day of August was a Sunday): Vedran Corluka (Croatia) joins Tottenham Hotspur from Manchester City, Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia) joins Tottenham Hotspur from Spartak Moscow, Xisco (Spain) joins Newcastle United [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham Hotspur has announced that the club has reached an agreement with Spartak Moscow to sign Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko for a transfer fee believed to be £14 million. The star striker who made a huge impression in Euro 2008 won't be ready to play against Chelsea in the London derby today. Click to continue reading...

Everton look to have replaced Andy Johnson by making an offer for Manchester United striker Louis Saha. With United seemingly accepting the offer, Saha will move to Everton on a 2 year contract, subject to passing a medical This move will no doubt put more pressure on United to bring in a striker to the [. Click to continue reading...

Looks like Spurs are going to splash some of that incoming Berbatov cash on a certain Russian who impressed at Euro 2008. But it's not Andrei Arshavin. It's the slightly harder to type Roman Pavlyuchenko. Latest rumours have Pavlyuchenko all but transferred from Spartak Moscow to Spurs for £12 million, and pulling out of Spartak's squad [. Click to continue reading...

Aside from all the reasons Dimitar Berbatov has been benched for the first two fixtures this season i would try to read Juande Ramos's quiet calm and wonder why is he so relaxed? As someone who picked Berbatov in my Guardian online football pool i would rather he played.

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Now that Rafael van der Vaart has been sold to Real Madrid, Hamburger SV is shopping for an attacking player to fill the gap. Both the Hamburg press and Kicker report that the two main candidates are Spartak Moscow striker Roman Pavlyuchenko and Heerenveen's attacking midfielder Michael Bradley (currently in China playing for the US Olympic team). Click to continue reading...

Though Paris St Germain were in a relegation battle last season, they did manage to win the French League Cup, which qualifies them for the UEFA Cup competition. In preparing for their season, PSG has made some bold moves in the transfer market. Their first signing of the summer was Ludovic Giuly from AS Roma. Click to continue reading...

It looks like the floodgates in the transfer window have opened. So far this summer, it seems that the majority of major transfer deals have started and ended at Tottenham's White Hart Lane. The spark was Robbie Keane's move from Tottenham to Liverpool for 20.3 million pounds. That allowed Spurs to finalize the deal with Blackburn [. Click to continue reading...

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New Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari knows that owner Roman Abramovich holds the key to massive funds this summer, so it would be in the Brazilian's best interest to make sure his new man gets what he wants. And what he wants apparently is a bit of local flair. Russian tabloid Tvoi Den is [...] Click to continue reading...

Watching Russia beat Holland 3-1 tonight in Basel to qualify for the semi-finals of Euro 2008, we may have seen the future champions of Europe. Their performance, at times, was simply breathtaking. Over the entire 120 minutes, the best team deservedly won the match. Holland had plenty of chances to score but they were, for once, [. Click to continue reading...