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Tottenham fans are in wonderland, and no surprise. Sunday’s Carling Cup victory was their first trophy since 1999, won deliciously by beating London rivals Chelsea, and now Spurs fans are dreaming about a prolongued assault on silverware.

They’re dreaming of it because Juande Ramos has told them this could be the start of an exciting new era. And when Ramos speaks, Spurs fans most definitely listen – because the Spanish coach has barely put a foot wrong since he took over from Martin Jol earlier in the season.

Ramos isn’t scared of making decisions, and makes big ones without batting an eyelid. He unceremoniously dumped No.1 goalkeeper Paul Robinson earlier in the season, replacing him with Radek Cerny, before re-introducing Robinson, grateful …

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Carl Lewis, ex-athlete and sometime crystal collector, managed to win four gold medals at the 1984 Olympics. It was a feat that contributed to him being voted ‘Sportsman of the Century’ by the International Olympic Committee and ‘Olympian of the Century’ by Sports Illustrated.

Twenty-four years on, it’s a new century and there is a mounting campaign for poker to become an Olympic event. If the brains trust at the IOC ever fire the starting pistol for such a development, Lithuanian Andrius Grigaliunas has a great chance to attract the attention of excitable sub-editors after his recent exploits at the Olympic Hold’em Series in Vilnius. He won the €750 main event, a €220 ‘Terminator’ and placed second in a €165 No …

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So Angelina Jolie’s got her sproggs-to-be on show huh? Well since J-Lo has dropped her boy and girl off at the pool - it allows us to cast our beady little eye over the whole show. And we duly note that there are a hell of a lot of twins knocking around in the tinseltown creche. Julia Roberts had them, so did Marcia Cross, Patrick Dempsey’s missus and Dennis Quaid’s bird too.

After our recent foray into medical research we have noted that multiple births are often linked to the IVF generation and that means only one thing - the celeb is no longer the virile specimen we once thought it to be. For years we have cursed Brad Pitt …

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So someone other than one of the big four has won a trophy. Excuse me while I do a little jig of excitement. With Tottenham 1-0 down at half-time despite showing the most incisive and positive football by far, it didn’t look good. Chelsea had been negative, unusually error-prone and unimaginative, and yet they still went in 1-0 up at the break. And they don’t tend to lose once they have their necks out in front.

But Spurs stuck to their game-plan, and were more than worthy of their first trophy under Juande Ramos. Apart from the last 15 minutes of extra time, Chelsea did nothing to show that they were world beaters. And Avram Grant did nothing to show himself …

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Tim Vance, a 46 year-old construction company worker from St Louis, Missouri has become the latest online qualifier to enter the poker hall of fame by winning the EPT Copenhagen at the weekend. As he didn’t pay anything to enter the tournament, it was not surprising he was a little overwhelmed by the large cardboard cheque for DKK 6,220,488 (€834,964)  

An extrovert with a tendency to stroll around the casino, singing Beatles’ numbers during the action, he had played the tournament with aggression, skill and a photo of his only daughter Nanzi pasted on the inside of his baseball cap. He defeated Dane Soren Jensen in an endurance-sapping, four hour heads up marathon, a record for the EPT and trial …

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It looks like everything and everyone is for sale these days in the world of sport (aye Dickie Davis wouldn’t just be sporting a grey forelock!). That’s nothing new as sponsorship and marketing are part and parcel - but it looks like the beast is evolving yet again.

So what’s new? You heard about the global Premier League plans that thankfully have been scuppered by FIFA. And also that Bernie Ecclestone with his skillful and wily knife-twisting suggested that he could pull it off. The great and the good (or rather the money bags) of the sporting world are chewing it over. The franchise culture has even spread to basketball with the NBA wanting to get in on the action, in …

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Well only if you have a dodgy ticker that is. And now there’s proof because the Germans are still harping on about the World Cup - no not that one! The 2006 World Cup in Germany is the hotbed of the debate for doctors at the Ludwig Maximilian University in the Bavarian capital.

They have been studying hospital admissions for heart complaints during the competition - and shock horror they found a sharp increase in cases. For the stattos out there that means a three-fold increase in heart attacks or heart rhythm problems in 2003 or 2005 for the same time period. The results covered the host games rather than all general games played during the comp.

The findings (extremely riveting …

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Most blokes I know are rubbish at guessing peoples ages. Especially when they´ve had a few beers and are on the pull in a dimly lit nightclub. Take the first time I met my "outlaws", it was over a long and sedate lunch that involved several bottles of vino.

As I was eating my prawn cocktail I had my bird´s mum down for about 55, by the time the steak arrived she was a tidy 46 and as I was dripping ice cream down my front like some oafish eejit I swear she could not have been a day over 37.

A MILF of the highest persuasion, some might say.

On the subject of ages Everton boss David Moyes has walked right …

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