With only eight or nine weeks left to go until the end of the league season, Spurs sit at something of a crossroads. The run-in is beginning to look tricky, with Spurs in the main facing teams with plenty to fight for, either at the foot or at the head of the table.

April is particularly daunting, with successive games against Arsenal, Chelsea and Man. Utd. Once those are out of the way, Spurs then take on Bolton and Burnley, who both could still be trying to avoid the drop as the campaign draws to a close.

While Spurs still sit in fourth, the challenges presented by the fixture list are compounded by the games in hand held by Aston Villa and Man. City. Harry Redknapp may well, therefore, be looking back to the trophy he won while manager of Portsmouth two seasons ago as the best chance of making this a year to remember at White Hart Lane.

The FA Cup draw has been kind, offering a semi-final against Portsmouth and avoiding Chelsea and Villa - but only, of course, if Fulham can be overcome in the sixth round replay.

The 0-0 draw at Craven Cottage was mostly a dull affair, with the two sides cancelling each other out. The high point for Spurs was probably the performance of Wilson Palacios, with his manager noting that "he was outstanding for us, really strong".

Palacios is still one booking away from suspension and his combative, purposeful style means that that tenth yellow card will eventually come. Hopefully by that point other players will have returned from injury, one of the reasons why Spurs had such a fresh-faced bench against Fulham.

There are other factors which would suggest that a place in the semi-final should be well within the team's grasp. Spurs are already accustomed to taking their cup opponents to a replay, as they did against Leeds and Bolton in the fourth and fifth rounds respectively. Spurs are the team with the FA Cup tradition, having won the competition on eight previous occasions.

Fulham are a much better side at home than they are away, as the league table shows. And once again the fixture list comes into play. Before taking on Spurs at White Hart Lane, Fulham face Juventus - twice - along with both Manchester United and Manchester City. Hopefully that will be enough to produce some tired legs and shaken confidence.

Lastly, a word about a player who has become such a model of consistency that he rarely gets a mention. It was very different for Heurelho Gomes when he made such a bad blunder at Craven Cottage in November 2008 that Harry Redknapp was reputedly on the lookout for another keeper. Against Fulham on this occasion, he acquitted himself well, making one particularly fine save from a Zoltan Gera header. He has had a lot more to do in other games and the team's position in the top four owes as much - and perhaps more - to him as it does to any other Spurs player. Gomes still produces the odd scary moment just to keep everyone on their toes but, in the main, it his spectacular saves that has caught the eye. Let's look forward to him making a few at Wembley.