The Premiership: When will Tottenham win?

When will Tottenham Hotspurs win their first game in the Football Premiership? Lord, if I know. This has officially been the worst start to a season for 34 years and that is certainly longer than I can remember.

Spurs scraped an unconvincing win in Europe this week, courtesy of an own goal against Wisla Krakow. They go through to the next round 3-2 on aggregate, but they were lucky and it was hardly a performance to spark any great confidence.

What is going on?

Spurs are the only Premiership Football team yet to win a game. Their seventh match is at home against Hull City. Hull were promoted last season and have had a great start to this year's campaign. They lie 6th in the table just 3 points off the League leaders, Chelsea.

Hull so far have performed greater than anyone had expected, but surely they are going to suffer a drop in form sooner or later. Hopefully it will be this Sunday, Tottenham will finally make Home Advantage count and seriously start to make inroads to getting out the Relegation zone!

It is still early days in the season, but with just 2 points from 6 games played, it's the potential start to something that doesn't end at all well.

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BBC Strictly Come Dancing is underway !

And so, the competition has finally begun! Saturday night saw the opener of the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing on the BBC with the male contestants performing their first dance in front of the cameras.

Understandably some looked pretty awkward, but this is only week 1 after all and the name of the game surely must be survival in order to get more time to train and feel at ease with the whole process.

John Sargeant, the 80-1 shot and perhaps favourite to go out first before the start pulled out an accomplished performance to defy the bookies odds. Judge Craig Revel Horwood commented, "Very warm and Honest performance."

Maybe most shocking, later, Judge Craig scored celebrity chef, Gary Rhodes, a measly 1 out of 10. This is the lowest score it is possible to give. If Mr Rhodes had stormed out without his dance partner, set Bruce Forsyth on fire, rolled across the dance floor then spurted out Nazi propaganda, he still would have had to get a 1. 1, I felt, a little harsh... but then again, here is the footage,

This score, puts Gary at the bottom of the table as we look to add the viewers votes announced later today. If he gets through, he can only improve.

The scores after the Judges vote are,

Austin & Erin 32
Tom & Camilla 28
Andrew & Ola 23
Mark & Hayley 22
John & Kristina 22
Phil & Flavia 20
Don & Lilia 19
Gary & Karen 17

The bottom two in the table after the viewers vote is added will face the dreaded dance off and be at the Judges mercy for competition survival. With his popularity with the public, surely John Sargeant is safe this opening week. Don Warrington of Rising Damp fame looks vulnerable. In the past, viewers have tended to vote big for the celebrity in last place so it could make it awkward for Quadromphenia and Eastenders star, Phil Daniels.

Be sure to watch the results show on BBC1 this Sunday.

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