Finally, a league win in January! But then, you can usually rely on Fulham yielding all the points at the Lane. So, for once, this match went according to the form book. Spurs welcomed Tom Huddlestone to the central midfield after injury and included David Bentley in light of Aaron Lennon’s continued absence and Niko Kranjcar’s illness.

Apart from the opening 20 minutes, Spurs never really got into top gear. Both goals may be attributed to individual errors on the part of Bjorn Helge Riise. The first, prodded home by Peter Crouch after good work by Modric dispossessing the doddling Riise. The second, the unfortunate Riise changing the flight of Bentley’s free kick beyond Mark Schwarzer.

In truth, Fulham was poor, and never seriously threathened the Spurs goal. All told, a rather routine victory for Spurs, which keeps us in 4th place, for now anyways, until Man City and Aston Villa play their respective games in hand.

One notable statistic though, Gareth Bale, after 23 attempts, finally started in a Spurs team in a league match which ended in a victory! Been a long time coming but I’m glad that Bale can now put that horredous record behind him.

A sterner test awaits on Saturday with the away game against in-form surprise package, Birmingham City.