The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur news and links for Monday, September 23

good morning !

It’s time to revisit the best pictures from this weekend in Premier League football, and what a time to do it after some insane matches.

Let’s not waste any more space and get right into it:

Brennan Johnson hushes the critics

The defining moment from Saturday’s game if you ask me. Brennan Johnson has gotten a lot of stick since joining Spurs, and he answered the haters with a solid week punctuated by a goal at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Nuno gets sent off vs Brighton

Photo by Sebastian Frej/MB Media/Getty Images

In a chaotic episode during Sunday’s Brighton-Forest game, one tackle resulted in three reds. First was the second yellow to Morgan Gibbs-White for a dangerous tackle on his opponent. Sure, he got the ball first but nearly broke the guy’s legs.

An enraged Nuno Espirutu Santo confronted the referee, who promptly gave him a red card. Also given a red was Brighton’s manager Fabian Hürzeler. For those of you checking, this will not affect Nuno’s return to Spurs (set for 19 April 2025).

Once bitten, then sent off

Photo by Gary Oakley/Getty Images

Okay so this isn’t the Premier League, I know (City-Arsenal pics haven’t come in the system yet). But this is a wild scene.

After Blackburn’s Owen Beck kicked out agaisnt Preston’s Milutin Osmajic, the Macedonian retaliated by allegedly biting the defender during the Lancashire Derby. Beck showed the bite mark to the referee (see above) and another official, but they weren’t interested.

Instead it was Beck who got sent off.

Fitzie’s track of the day: New Now Know How, by Charles Mingus

And now for your links:

Alasdair Gold’s talking points from Tottenham’s win vs Brentford

The Athletic ($$): James Maddison hopes his goal ‘shuts up a few people’

Cardiff City sack manager Erol Bulut

Tony Popović to become next head coach of Socceroos