A quick start by Rushden and Diamonds rocked the Tottenham XI, but they responded well to come back and take a 4-2 victory in this friendly at Nene Park.

The home side had already missed an acceptable chance when Dean McDonald fluffed getting a decent contact on Lee Phillips' low cross in the second minute, before the provider hit the opening goal in the third minute when the ball fell to him from Ben Alnwick's punch dropped to him near the penalty spot.

Andy Burgess made it 2-0 to R&D two minutes later, when McDonald's low cross fell to the striker and he curved his shot around Alnwick.  However, in the sixth minute, Adel Taarabt turned his marker, Phil Gulliver and picked out a pass to put Tomas Pekhart in, hitting a low shot across keeper Martyn Margason into the corner of the net to pull a goal back.

In an open game, Hutchins smacked a 20 yarder just wide and then Rushden could have gone further ahead when Alnwick did well to keep out a Wooleaston effort, then Ricardo Rocha blocked a Justyn Roberts shot, although the ball dropped kindly to Gulliver, who blasted over the top.  On the half hour, there was another chance for Diamonds, when Alnwick again mis-punched and this time Michael Rankine knocked it wide.

Spurs were forced to re-arrange their defence when Rocha had to leave the play with injury and shortly after, the home crowd howled for a penalty when they felt that Cian Hughton had held McDonald back as he burst into the area, but no award was given.

Hutchins was a bit too aggressive in a two footed challenge on McDonald, which might have seen him pulled up by the referee in a competitive game, but the game continued in a good spirit, with McDonald having a shot deflected wide when it looked as though it might be going in and then Burgess chipped the ball over Alnwick, but also the bar.  With 37 minutes on the clock, Pekhart drew Tottenham level, when Kieran McKenna and Taarabt worked the ball wide to Hutton and crossed for the unmarked Czech striker to head a simple finish.   It was Hutton again a minute later, who, at the end of his run down the left wing, put in a speedy low ball for defender Gareth Jelleyman to fire a volley high past his own keeper to give Spurs the lead.

Tottenham were indebted to goalkeeper Ben Alnwick, who stopped Burgess' shot with his legs after good play with McDonald and before the half-time whistle, Spurs owed gratitude to the bar when Rankine got around Hughton and hit a drive across Alnwick, but was foiled by the bar.  At the other end, Gulliver had to make a last-ditch tackle to stop Hutchins getting his shot away.

Spurs made three changes at the break and following Clive Allen's team-talk came out looking more compact.  Six minutes into the half, Tottenham established a 4-2 lead, with Pekhart completing his hat-trick.  Taarabt passed wide to Olsen on the right wing and his cross found Tomas bursting between two defenders to make sure his determination took him to the bal first and taking the ball into the roof of the net from ten yards out.

In the 55th minute, Rushden had a chance to get back into the game and this time a penalty was awarded when Archibald-Henville was adjudged to have jumped over Rankine's back.  It looked a harsh decision, but it mattered for little when Phillips stepped up to shoot wide from the spot.  Just a minute later, the crowd were calling for another spot-kick, but this time Hutchins' challenge on Rankine was deemed to be outside the box.

Round the hour mark, Taarabt had a good chance, but tried one more step-over and Osano robbed him of the opening and the young Frenchman was on the receiving end of a number of "heavy" challenges, as the non-leaguers tried to stop his skilful runs.  Curtis Osano broke forward into the area to hit a shot wide in the 69th minute, while ten minutes later, Tottenham's sub Alex Olsen ran onto Dorian Dervite's pass and hit a shot wide from a narrow angle.  With changes made on both sides, the game settled down towards the end and the last opportunity came with seven minutes to go, Dervite's header out of defence allowed Hutton to get away from Jamie McGuiness and only a good stop from Margarson denied the midfielder a well-deserved goal.

A well deserved 3-1 win saw the Spurs XI back on track at the expense of Aldershot Town, who were newly promoted to the Football League.

Seven minutes in, Shots keeper Bull stopped Tomas Pekhart with a block, but a minute later Danny Rose fed the ball wide right to Pekhart and his low ball was pulled back into the path of the on-running Alan Hutton, who fired his shot past the keeper to make it 1-0 to Tottenham.

Twenty minutes into the game, John Bostock moved well to get into a shooting position and Bull beat out his shot, but the ball ran loose and Pekhart showed a striker's instinct to poach the second Tottenham goal from close range.  Ten minutes later, Andy Barcham stood up a cross to the far post and Bull failed to hold it, dropping the ball that nearly went into the goal off defender Straker.  It was Barcham who, on 35 minutes, drilled a shot past Bull from inside the box.  0-3 down, the home side almost got one back when Hylton took the ball through and around David Button, but could not put the ball into the net from a tight angle.

A similar chance presented itself to Soares just after the hour, but his shot was straight at Button, although his opposite number, the Aldershot substitute keeper Jaimez-Ruiz messed up a Howell back-pass and was luckily judged to have kicked the ball away from in front of the goal-line, but it seemed as though it might have crossed it.  The ball fell to David Hutton, but he slashed the ball wide of the target.

New signing John Bostock showed his asset of pace, by sprinting through the Shots defence and missed the target by inches.  Two minutes after, with 76 minutes gone, Button fumbled a high cross to Hylton, who took the ball down and knocked the ball home form close range to pull a goal back.  The same player almost hit another, but struck his effort into the side-netting, while Soares lashed a late shot wide from inside the penalty area with four minutes left.

Two first half goals from David Hutton and Alex Olsen saw Tottenham overcome some early pressure by the Saints, but Kyle Fraser-Allen's long ball deceived home keeper Paul Bastock, leaving Hutton the opportunity to lob home from the edge of the penalty area in the sixth minute.

Olsen made it 2-0 on 24 minutes, when Hutton played the ball to Danny Hutchins on the left wing and the cross found the Norwegian striker at the far post.

Chances to extend the lead fell to Fraser-Allen and Kevin Prince Boateng, but the half time score was 2-1, as Hassan Sulaiman beat Yuri Berchiche on the right wing, crossing for St. Albans City forward Simon Martin to bundle the ball across the line at the far post just before the interval.

The second half started with several Spurs players replaced and they took the game to the home side and Andy Barcham, Saulo Asajile and David Hutton all went close.  The late pressure came from the City side, with the Tottenham crossbar being rattled 15 minutes from time by a header from Rod Hicks.

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A Spurs XI scored a big win over non-League Dartford at their new Princes Park ground, by turning around at half-time 6-0 up.

Adel Taarabt was set up by a good run by Phil Ifil and he buried his 25 yard shot to give Tottenham an 11th minute lead and then the French midfielder turned provider when he put a corner onto Leigh Mills' head to ram home the second just seven minutes later.  It was another seven minutes until the lead became 3-0, with Lee Barnard looping his header in from Jamie O'Hara's cross.  Before that goal, Ryan Hayes dipped a shot over Tommy Forecast, but it bounced off the underside of the bar and Jay May's follow up header was tipped over by the Spurs keeper.  From the corner, Brendan Cass flicked a header past Forecast, but Ifil was on the post to head off the goal-line.

On the half hour, O'Hara was once more behind the fourth Tottenham goal, as he pulled a low cross back for Jake Livermore to slam home from just inside the penalty area.  Cass hit the woodwork once more with another header against the post, but a minute later, O'Hara and Daniels linked on the left to provide Andy Barcham the chance to knock home the 33rd minute goal from inside the six yard box to make it 5-0.

Barcham produced a classy finish, when O'Hara and Taarabt made space for O'Hara to roll a pass into the path of the diminutive striker, who curled it out of Kebbell's reach from 20 yards.  This was four minutes before the break, but the goalie had produced good stops to keep out Taarabt, Jacques Maghoma and Troy Archibald-Henville.  Just before the interval, Jamie O'Hara nearly scored the goal of the season, when his 60 yard shot caught Kebbell out of his goal and the ball bounced back out off the crossbar, with Barnard's effort pushed over the bar.

A brisk start after the break saw Ifil strike a far post volley which McClements cleared off the line and then Livermore and David Hutton forced more good stops from second half keeper James Tedder.  At the other end, the Spurs goalie tipped Cass' effort over the top and then May reduced the deficit when he did well to net McClements' cross on 67 minutes.  However, just two minutes later, Taarabt opened up the home defence with an astute pass to Livermore and the tall midfielder cut the ball back from the dead ball line for Charlie Daniels drove home to make it 7-1.  The game was all but won, but Dartford kept plugging away and got a further goal in the 81st minute, as Osbourne played McClements in and he barged through to hit the back of the net from 16 yards.

There was still time for Taarabt to give O'Hara the chance to add to the total, but he curled it off target and then the young Londoner forced Tedder into a save from a quick free-kick.

A Spurs  Lodge friendly saw Spurs ease past their Vietnamese visitors 5-0 in foggy conditions.

The Hoang Anh Gia Lai side was at full strength and became the first team from their country to play in England.  While they were champions in their homeland for two seasons running, they were no match for the Spurs second string.  Goals from Kyle Fraser-Allen, Reto Ziegler, Danny Hutchins and two from Kieran McKenna sealed the win.

Spurs: Burch, Ifil, Ziegler, Mills, Dervite, McKenna, Fraser-Allen, O'Hara (Martin 46), Daniels, Hutton (Hughton 71), Dawkins (Hutchins 61)
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Scorer : -  Barcham (-)
Brentford: Masters, Tillen, O'Connor, Hayward, Frampton, Rhodes, Moussinho, Cox, Brooker, Moore, Wyjnard
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Lens showed their experience by setting the tempo of the match and scored early on, making it tough for Spurs to get a foothold in the match.  However, the team settled well and started to pass the ball well, using the pace in the side to good effect.  Simon Dawkins and Andy Barcham scored breakaway goals and then Tomas Pekhart struck a third after the interval, leaving Lens battling to get back into the match.  They got one goal back, but Tottenham defended their lead well enough to keep the winning score-line until the end.

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Malcolm Christie tested the Spurs defence early on and could have grabbed a goal from the chances he had, but it was James Bunn who put Tottenham ahead, when he finished off Ross Darcy's cross a minute before the break.

Home side's Ian Muir almost equalised, but his effort was stopped in front of goal, but early into the second half, Tottenham extended the lead with a strike from Australian Carlos Gonzales.

Nuneaton were awarded a penalty with eight minutes remaining, but Anton Thomas' shot was kept out by keeper Andy Marriott.

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