All Action, No Plot

1. Our Defending for the First Goal Odd to say now, or course – hindsight and all that – but for a third or so of the game (the first of them, in case you were wondering) I thought our lot lo...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/04/14/newcastle-4-0-spurs-five-tottenham-talking-points/

1. A Pretty Discombobulating Plot If your route home from N17 yesterday evening was one of those ruminative ones then I can pop a comforting arm around your shoulders, remove the arm to pop a han...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/04/08/spurs-3-1-forest-four-tottenham-talking-points/

1. Winger to Winger It only took eight months, but with Our Glorious Leader reasoning that right-footed chaps on the right and left-footed chaps on the left might be a ruse with something about i...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/04/03/west-ham-1-1-spurs-two-tottenham-talking-points/

1. Kulusevski On The Right… That AANP reacts to Kulusevski’s deployment on the left by burying his head in his hands and noiselessly weeping is a well-known truth, and just to hammer home its...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/03/31/spurs-2-1-luton-three-tottenham-talking-points/

1. Bissouma Before spitting on one’s hands and getting into the meat of the thing one probably ought to clear the throat and make one of those frightfully dull public service announcements, alo...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/03/17/fulham-3-0-spurs-three-tottenham-talking-points/

1. Kulusevski: The Bad AANP pens a spot of fiction, don’t you know, and a key piece of advice that the experts like to hammer home in that area is to make sure the characters have a bit about t...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/03/10/villa-0-4-spurs-four-tottenham-talking-points/

1. Vicario’s Error A chiding is due of young Signor Vicario. This is quite the rarity, as the loveable imp tends to do far more right than wrong in the cause, but I fancy he dropped a rather la...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/03/03/spurs-3-1-palace-four-tottenham-talking-points/

1. Emerson One did not have to be one of those medieval soothsayer types, who apparently were pretty sharp in matters of spotting what was about to happen, to feel a bit of the old dread creeping...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/02/18/spurs-1-2-wolves-four-tottenham-talking-points/

1. Maddison as Vicario’s Bodyguard Easy to forget amidst all the joyous bedlam of full-time, but one of the burning questions going into this one was around the thorny issue of Vicario receivin...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/02/11/spurs-2-1-brighton-four-tottenham-talking-points-2/

1. That Late Equaliser Nothing quite wrenches the gut like conceding an added-time equaliser, what? If you don’t mind a remarkably early tangent, one of the oddities of such things is the chang...

http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2024/02/04/everton-2-2-spurs-five-tottenham-talking-points-2/