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Mon 11 Nov 2009Tottenham are dressed to the nines for Defoe's five-star party
Tottenham 9 Wigan 1:THERE IS simply no containing Tottenham Hotspur on occasions such as these. To gawp at the sight of this team shredding Wigan was to acknowledge that, where Manchester City have the money and Liverpool the expectation, Spurs boast the firepower to keep them in the top four this term. At their slick best, this side is utterly irrepressible.
Jermain Defoe’s seven minute hat-trick, and a five-goal haul all plundered after half-time, took the breath but this was a remarkable show of team attacking. Aaron Lennon, recovered from an ankle injury, and Niko Kranjcar offered contrasting if equally stunning play on either flank.
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