comeonyouspurs

Hi Guys, Spurs fan in peace – I write for a website spursforlife and just wanted to give a bit of opposition insight for the weekend ahead.

If the fixture was played last weekend, I’d be a lot more confident but now that you’ve got three new midfielders to call upon, that confidence has dissipated slightly and I think it will be a much closer encounter than when we met at the tail end of last season.

I think its fair to say both managers have had their “bedding in period” and now it is time to show what both Mourinho and Ancelotti can really do as the captains of their respective ships – with that said are their ultimate ambitions slightly different.

There’s always been an interesting link between the two clubs, as we’ve both been in the shadows of crosstown rivals and when you look at the league positions across the Premier League there is a relative amount of symmetry.

With that said, Tottenham have found an ascendency that Everton have been striving for over the past couple of seasons (albeit with our own element of regression to boot) and once again, it comes down to trying to break the glass ceiling as it were.

For Tottenham there is a sense that top four is the minimum but I don’t think that will be easy when you consider the business that the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United have carried out over the off-season.

While if you look at Everton, the first step will be a return to European football and who knows even a first trophy in more than 25 years (although I should not pontificate too much about trophies, as we’re not all that better in terms of drought).

It should make for an interesting encounter on Sunday, I must admit I am going to have to show my bias and opt for a home win. Will be keen to see how both clubs fare and what kind of opening weekend marker they can lay down.