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James Richardson

Football Weekly Extra: Crouch helps Spurs into Champions League

It's Thursday, and that means it's time for Football Weekly Extra. James Richardson is joined by Tom Lutz, Jacob Steinberg and the one and only Barry Glendenning to chew over the week's events at home and abroad.

What awaits Spurs after Peter Crouch's hat-trick saw off Young Boys and took them through to the Champions League? After after scraping past Oxford in the Carling Cup, just how bad are West Ham? Who's heading out of Anfield? And who's heading in?

Plus AC Jimbo looks ahead with relish to the start of Serie A, while Sid Lowe in Spain assesses whether anyone can get anywhere close to Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.

Last and, in all fairness, least, we look forward (if that's the right word) to the uninspiring fixtures that lie ahead this weekend.

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