GLORY GLORY TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR!!!!!

Now I'm no Nostradamus, but I predict that you struggled through your hangover and have gone to work today grinning from ear to ear! What a brilliant day Sunday 24th of February turned out to be. My nerves have been shot to pieces, much like Zokora I couldn't bear to watch the penalty, and I never thought it possible to a "lucky piss" 4 times in 10 minutes - but lucky they were God damn it, lucky they were! Even the pub landlord got carried away and promptly dished up free sambuka to the entire pub!

Nobody expected Spurs to win but on the day they were magnificent. We dominated Chelsea's expensive collection of egos for much of the game and played some terrific football. You know that against Chelsea you are going to need your back line to be solid and the partnership of King and Woodgate delivered everything it promised to on paper. King proves time and time again that even if we only get one game a month out of him he'd be worth his salary. Was it me or did anyone else notice that he was limping slightly as he went to collect the trophy? Ah well, looks like he recovered in time for a tear up at infamous Essex nightspot Faces later that night! Get in there Ledders!

A winners medal meant more to Robbie Keane than most. His emotional outburst at the final whistle even brought a lump to my throat. That man is Tottenham through and through. He picked up what looked like a slight hamstring strain toward the end and had to come off, he looked disappointed but I'm sure the winners medal made up for it.

The only sore point in an otherwise perfect afternoon was the way Chimbonda managed to let himself down again. He clearly couldn't believe it when his number flashed up on the subs board and after staring at it in disbelief for a moment, proceeded to trudge off at a snails pace and head straight down the tunnel. I can understand the disappointment of being subbed in a cup final, but when you consider that we were still 1-0 down at the time then that kind of behaviour becomes more than just disrespectful. I hope he gets a bollocking and I suspect that he won't be wearing the shirt next season, which in my mind is no great loss.

In addition to bragging rights, silverware and a guaranteed European jaunt next year the Tottenham boys have also managed to relive themselves of a huge amount of pressure for the rest of the season. Our finishing league position is now largely irrelevant and we can go out and start to enjoy our football a bit more without worrying about the results of those above us.

So there we have it, Ramos is the messiah after all. Martin Who? Levy must be chuckling away to himself harder than most this morning! Ramos has installed a winning mentality in the team incredibly quickly and has proven himself yet again to be a cup specialist. Him and Tottenham look a match made in heaven. Hopefully the players can push on and shoot for a historic cup double this season, and on yesterday's performance I don't see why not. This winning feeling is long overdue, to go on and experience it twice in the same season would put us all firmly in a Wonderland that seemed beyond our wildest dreams only 6 months ago...

Robinson Affair Can Prove Ramos Genius

When Tottenham signed Paul Robinson in 2004 there cannot be a Spurs fan out there who was not chuckling into his beer. For a paltry £1.5m we had bagged a keeper who was already an England international, had Champions League experience and was in red hot form. In fact Robinson made an excellent impression at Spurs and performed well for... hmm I'll be generous and say 2 seasons.

Adored by the fans, the stopper built a splendid rapport with the Park Lane end in particular. Holding onto the England jersey was a foregone conclusion and even the emergence of young pretenders such as Kirkland, Green and Foster failed to dislodge him. But the cracks soon started to appear. Actually, I rather suspect that the cracks were there all along, but that infamous night against Croatia proved to be a catalyst for implosion. In all fairness, I don't even that mistake was Robbo's fault. Neville should have known better than to back-pass directly toward the goal, and you can clearly see that the ball bobbles up about six inches just as Robinson's boot swings through it - but the media went into frenzy.

Since then every fumbled cross, every deflected shot that squeezes in where perhaps it shouldn't and every 30 yard screamer that leaves the blundering oaf rooted to the spot is treated as further evidence that he is "having a crisis of confidence". Well, maybe he is - in fact maybe he has been for some time now, or maybe he just wasn't as good as we thought he was. Whichever way you look at it this situation is exactly why clubs like to have 2 decent keepers at their disposal.

Under Martin Jol, Robinson could be fairly safe in the knowledge that his would be amongst the first names on the teamsheet, regardless of his form. Perhaps this led to a little complacency, but Ramos proved to us seven weeks ago that he will not tolerate mediocre performances - whoever they are from. A string of poor performances finally saw the Spaniard hand Cerny the shirt full time, and who could disagree with that decision?

The Czech custodian has been an incredible servant to the club. He has quietly gone about his business without word of complaint, despite clearly being good enough for regular Premiership football elsewhere, and whenever he has been called upon to step up he has rarely let us down.

However, Mr. Robinson didn't quite see it that way. His toys came flying out of him pram so fast that some quarters could swear they saw a transfer request amongst them. He was still sulking by the time the rest of the team were warming up against Arsenal and refused to partisipate, much to the understandable annoyance of his boss. It is the opinion of this writer that this behaviour was nothing short of disgraceful. It shows unbelievable disrespect for his team-mates, the fans and the club. Perhaps Robbo himself didn't agree that his performances warranted his relegation to the bench, but ultimately it's not his opinion that counts. Ramos had quite reasonably decided to try Cerny and surely the right thing for Robbo to do was to buckle down and give a bit of extra effort in training, not have a hissy fit and engineer a transfer at the first sign of trouble.

The dust has now settled and it transpires that Cerny isn't really all that after all. An absolute howler against his home town team has left Ramos with a big decision to make: Is it time to reinstate Robinson? It is widely believed that he will, and that could be a masterstroke.

Juande Ramos is proving himself to be a man of his word. He clearly doesn't stick with favourites. Robbo makes mistakes and bang - he's out. Cerny makes mistakes and bang - Robbo is back in. What clearer a message can he possibly send to his squad: Nobody is safe, I will pick whoever is performing and drop whoever is not.

It's strange to think it, but maybe that blunder by Cerny has done more to enhance our chances of lifting some silverware on Sunday than people might realise. Hopefully Robinson will come out tonight with plenty to prove. If he has the right attitude he will want to show the fans, the boss and the media that he should never have been dropped in the first place. Ramos will publically show that he doesn't hold grudges and perhaps this could be the motivation for our new number one to put in a string of top class performances.

I'll tell you this, if we are to stand any chance on Sunday we need a keeper on top of his game. By dropping Robinson Ramos proved himself to be a great manager, by recalling him at such a crucial stage of the season he could prove himself to be a genius.