Tottenham Soccer News

British clubs Rangers, Newcastle, Tottenham and Blackburn advanced to the third round of the UEFA Cup on Thursday with a game to spare. Rangers became the first club to advance with a 2-2 draw against Auxerre in Group A. Newcastle beat Celta Vigo 2-1 in Group H, Blackburn drew 0-0 with Feyenoord in Group H and Tottenham beat Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 in Group B. The first three clubs in the ...

British clubs are thriving in the UEFA Cup. Four of the eight group leaders are British _ Rangers, Blackburn, Tottenham and Newcastle. All four have won their first two group games, and a victory Thursday would put all of them into the knockout round. The UEFA Cup has been a relief for Rangers manager Paul LeGuen, whose club has slipped a whopping 15 points behind rival Celtic in the Scottish ...

Blackburn and Tottenham both appealed against the red cards given by referee Phil Dowd in Sunday's 1-1 draw in the English Premier League. Blackburn appealed Monday against the dismissal of midfielder Tugay Kerimoglu for a professional foul on Tottenham midfielder Hossam Ghaly. Tottenham has challenged the red card shown to Ghaly for a high tackle on Michael Gray in injury time. Tugay scored for Blackburn in the 23rd minute, but ...

Premier League clubs Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham all won Wednesday to reach the quarter-finals of England's League Cup. Chelsea defeated Aston Villa 4-0, advancing behind Frank Lampard's first-half goal and second-half tallies by Andriy Shevchenko, Michael Essien and Didier Drogba. Liverpool edged Birmingham City 1-0 with Daniel Agger scoring from close range late in the first half. Emmanuel Adebayor's 85th-minute goal gave Arsenal a 1-0 victory at Everton. The ...

Tottenham defender Calum Davenport had a red card rescinded by the Football Association on Wednesday. Davenport was sent off in Tottenham's 1-1 draw with Aston Villa in the English Premier League on Saturday for fouling Gabriel Agbonlahor in the box in the 73rd minute. The FA's disciplinary committee accepted Davenport's claim for wrongful dismissal and rescinded Davenport's one-match ban. Davenport is now eligible to play for Tottenham against West Ham on Sunday.

Tottenham is after its first away points of the season at Aston Villa on Saturday, with visiting goalkeeper Paul Robinson under close scrutiny. Robinson will be making his first appearance since his high-profile mistake contributed to England's 2-0 European Championship qualifying loss at Croatia. He missed Gary Neville's gentle back pass when the ball hit a clod of earth and rolled into the net for the second goal. ``He'll expect ...

Tottenham winger Aaron Lennon will undergo knee surgery to fix a cartilage injury and is expected to be sidelined for six weeks. The England international was hurt in training on Sept. 8 and missed the following day's 1-0 loss at Manchester United. He travelled with Tottenham to the Czech Republic for its UEFA Cup first-round match against Slavia Prague on Thursday, but didn't play after feeling pain in training one ...

Tottenham's new signing Steed Malbranque has had hernia surgery and will out for two months. The midfielder moved on a two-million-pound transfer last week from crosstown rival Fulham. Tottenham coach Martin Jol said at the time he knew the operation would be performed. Tottenham will also be without striker Dimitar Berbatov for its game Saturday at Manchester United. He picked up a groin injury playing for Bulgaria in an international ...

Tottenham agreed to sign Wigan fullback Pascal Chimbonda on Thursday for a fee reported to be six million pounds ($12.6 million Cdn). Chimbonda handed in a transfer request at Wigan on the final day of last season. He was named in the French World Cup squad but didn't make an appearance in the tournament. He's played once for France, in a friendly against Denmark in May. ``I think we have been strong enough to hold out for ...

Tottenham signed midfielder Steed Malbranque from Fulham on Thursday for an undisclosed fee. Tottenham announced the transfer on its website without stating the length of the contract. The 26-year-old, who joined Fulham in 2001 from Lyon, fell out with Fulham manager Chris Coleman after refusing to sign a new contract and was not even given a squad number for this season. ``Steed is a skilful, versatile midfielder of real quality,'' ...