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outweighing his clownish errors of judgement over the course of the season) and bags of experience from Carlo Cudicini. With defenders of the quality of Jonathan Woodgate, Michael Dawson, Pascal Chimbonda, Alan Hutton and especially Ledley King(dodgy knee injury depending) With Aaron Lennon and Luka Modric pulling the creative strings in midfield, alongside Wilson Palacios doing the hard graft as the defensive midefielder that Spurs have been craving for a long time. Upfront returning fans favourites Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe when settled back at the club will provide the goals that are all important for Tottenham Hotspur breaking into the top four. Tottenham Hotspur are normally big spenders in the transfer market and money will surely be earmarked for a couple of suitable strikers to help Keane and Defoe bang in the goals, and also a central defender to provide cover for Ledley King's recurrent knee injury.

As well as proving themselves up to the task of breaking into the top four, it is the nature of the Premier League that Tottenham Hotpur will be reliant on at least one of the top four slipping up and allowing Tottenham Hotspur to take their place. After all Tottenham Hotspur will be challenging teams who have become conditioned to doing the necessary work to obtain a top for finish and thus Champions League place for the following season, so it will be no walk in the park for Tottenham Hotspur or indeed any other team to break this top four monopoly. Despite this the top four clubs are not invincible, and while it would be fair to say that Manchester United are pretty much unobtainable at the moment, clubs like Arsenal because of their losing key, experienced players and their current reliance on young players, as well as Liverpool, due to previous seasons endeavours in the Champions League have been touted as potentially catachable teams, whose top for position might be up for grabs. Unfortunately for Tottenham Hotspur so far Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United have been able to retain their top four position, but with a quality Tottenham Hotspur team and one of the top four teams faltering season 2009/2010 may be the season Tottenham Hotspur finally give their fans the top four finish and Champions League soccer they have been craving for so long.

Whatever is the case Tottenham Hotspur will be put forward as the favourites once again to break into the top four, and there is a strong chance that they once again will fail in this endeavour, but with the aforementioned conditions and one other very important ingredient, luck and plenty of it Tottenham Hotpur may yet be the team to shake up the old guard of the Premier League top four.

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