The view from Spurs

How are Spurs fans feeling about Liverpool's visit?

A bit more confident now than before last weekend. That win at Wolves was crucial after back-to-back shoeings from the Manchester pair. Normally a draw at Wolves wouldn't have been a bad result, but we'd have been heading nervously towards two-points-from-eight-games territory had we not won at Molineux, at which point Harry Redknapp would presumably have to slap himself hard in the face for managing such a meagre return. Now though, it's hopefully onwards and upwards with a fixture that's been kind to us in recent years and could have a significant bearing on the shape of the table come May.

What do you think of your gaffer?

I'm certainly not representative of all Spurs fans on this one, but neither do I think I'm a lone voice in losing patience with his nonsense and his transparent desire to take the England job the second the tabloids have hounded Fab out of it. He's a Quite Good Football Manager, but I'm not exactly sure how and why. He freely and proudly admits to having no interest in tactics while his fabled man-management skills extend only to his favourites, and even then not always. He got us out of a relegation scrap and then incredibly and entirely unexpectedly got us into the Champions League, for which I am extremely and eternally grateful. Doesn't mean I have to like the bloke, though.

Best thing about being a Spurs fan?

The sure, certain and unshakeable belief that for some indefinable and unarguable reason that has something to do with push and run, the 60s, Glory, Glory and Glenn Hoddle's shorts, we are just quite simply better fans and a better club than almost all others.

And the worst?

The sure, certain and unshakeable belief that for some indefinable and unarguable reason that has something to do with push and run, the 60s, Glory, Glory and Glenn Hoddle's shorts, we are just quite simply better fans and a better club than almost all others.

If you could sign three Liverpool players, who would you take and why?

Luis Suarez because he is, alongside Sergio Aguero, the most exciting Premier League import of the last 12 months and I'm slightly obsessed with him. Plus, unlike just about everyone else in the world it seems, I rather liked his infamous World Cup handball and unashamed, unembarrassed celebration of something literally every other professional footballer would've done in that situation.

Pepe Reina for obvious sometimes-brilliant-but-unreliable-Brazilian-and-ancient-but-worthy-American based reasons.

And Stewart Downing because we've been linked with him for so long and so hard it would actually seem a bit of a shame if he never actually played for us. Especially now we've finally snaffled Scott Parker after about eight years of mild flirting.

Which of your players will we need to keep an eye on?

Emmanuel Adebayor is still firmly in the giving a toss phase of his lifecycle at a new football club, and therefore extremely dangerous.

Happy with your transfer business over the summer?

Reasonably. I think we did the bare minimum required for the window to be considered Not A Failure. The most pressing need was to bring in a striker who can play up front on his own and a defensive-minded midfielder. Both were required to free up Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart to operate where they're most dangerous. The retention of that pair and Gareth Bale was also mandatory and, thanks to our stubborn cue-ball of a chairman, that was also achieved. We could've done with getting another centre-back in, something that with hindsight looks even more of a concern now Michael Dawson's gone down with Achilles twang. Not for the first time, Spurs fans find themselves praying to the footballing gods for a miracle regarding Ledley King's knees.

Weak links in your team?

With Dawson and Gallas out and King so distressingly unavailable for much of the time, there's a clear winner here. We're not badly off anywhere else really.

How will Redknapp approach it?

He'll tell them to just run around a bit cos they're all triffic players, like he always does. After picking a central midfield pair of Modric and Kranjcar against Man City - with predictably disastrous consequences - literally anything is possible. His big decisions will be whether Ledley's knees are up to another game (they might have to be) and whether VDV's hamstring is sufficiently recovered for him to play and, if so, whether he should therefore replace Jermain Defoe - whose first outing with Adebayor in a good old-fashioned vanilla 4-4-2 was actually rather encouraging. I think he'll stick with Defoe.

Prediction?

The last three Spurs-Liverpool Premier League games at the Lane have ended 2-1. Who am I to argue with history?