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    **** Tottenham Hotspur FC vs Fulham FC ****

    As I said, my understanding of Postecoglou's tactics is that it demands a lot of stamina and movement off the ball. What I did like in the first part of the season was the fact that the player with the ball often had two or three partners calling for the ball. Since December, I get the feeling...
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    **** Tottenham Hotspur FC vs Fulham FC ****

    Maybe another way to look at it is that 'dominating' doesn't really mean much in football. It's just something we use in our conversations to support a claim but we can't even agree on what it means. At the end of the day, football is about results: if you 'dominate' 38 games in a season and end...
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    Classic Signings - Robbie Keane

    He's the reason why my childhood friend became an Everton fan. We've been lucky enough to have Kane and Son more recently but Berbatov and Keane formed an absolutely brilliant partnership. So much so that, despite all their talent, they never were quite the same after they broke up!
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    The owners - where do you sit?

    Fans are fickle by nature. If you'd asked the same question when we didn't sign a player for a full year, the result would have been very different. Alternatively, when we came that close to winning the league, who would have said no? A week after sacking Pochettino, the split would have been...
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    LOSSES IN MUSIC

    My teenage years were spent listening mostly to the Pogues and the Clash. I was lucky enough to go see the Pogues live on a few occasions, as my parents had a friend who used to tour with them (even got me a signed card from the whole band!). I met MacGowan on two different occasions and while...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Wolves OMT***

    The collective performance was poor, as expected but a few players did fairly well. I think Royal gave a good account of himself and so did Davies. Of course, they're not very well suited to Postecoglou's system but I don't think you can blame their performance. Kulusevski and Porro make for a...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Wolves OMT***

    On the plus side, Postecoglou got some good performances from squad players during pre-season. It would have been nice to have Sanchez for this one but it is what it is. Whatever happens, we're on a learning curve so it won't be the end of the world.
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Chelsea OMT***

    I wouldn't go that far but his tactics on Monday do seem like a statement. He's explained many times that he wanted his players to know that he'd shoulder the blame if something went wrong on the pitch because of his set-up. Monday could be seen as a case where he put his money where his mouth...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Chelsea OMT***

    The VAR ruined the game for me but the injuries concern me a lot more than the result or the game itself. If someone had offered me 8 wins in the first 11 games three months ago, I'd have bitten their hand off. The most important thing was to start the season well in order to avoid questions...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    "You'll never whine alone": it's been three days and you don't even get that many posts when a decision goes against us (think Dier's handball against Saudi Sportswashing Machine a couple of years ago)! I take back my earlier statement: at this rate, we'll still be discussing it in 2027...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    Of course they are! They're not going to sabotage a product they paid a fortune to broadcast. As far as I can remember, there've always been people angry with the referees, claiming they favoured this or that team. Hell, I remember Ferguson's reign of terror when almost every decision went for...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    It's just speculation but I think the ref initially gave Jones a yellow card, didn't he?
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    That was a tongue-in-cheek comment (just to be on the safe side), although I do think most people know more about football (and specifically Liverpool fans) than I do. Twenty years ago, I'd watch games almost non-stop during the week-end. Now, I'm happy when I don't miss Spurs...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    We'll see. I've never had any interest in their club (always had a soft spot for Everton instead) so I can't claim to be an expert on their supporters but I'm not even sure I will remember any of it six months from now. Which makes my first sentence more like wishful thinking than anything else...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    Six months is a long time in football. How many people will remember what happened last Saturday by then? There will be plenty of controversy and drama in-between and even if some people do remember it, they won't feel the same about it. That's human nature. When you lose someone close to you...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    They still had the second-best attack in the Premier League last season. Right or wrong, they consider themselves title contenders and I'd expect a team challenging at that level to be able to make the most of such chances but I take your point that numbers say otherwise!
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    I did write that in all fairness but sometimes, when you write in a language that isn't your own, your words come out stronger than you thought they would! I think we agree on the scenario of the game but I'm in the 'everyone' camp. On more than one occasion in the first half, they nicked the...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    Apparently, he asked for a check on the penalty - although I'm not 100% sure. That's a different scenario. I disagree with the idea that football fans would know more than the average ref. There were very few Spurs fans where I grew up and throughout the 90s, I've had to watch games in pubs with...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    Quite frankly, I felt Jorginho was a major downgrade on Rice, if only because it seemed like he had a tough time getting into the rythm of the game. Let's be fair: they had a game mid-week and it was always likely they couldn't maintain that intensity throughout the 90 minutes. A very...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    They won a lot of duels and put us under a lot of pressure in the first half, particularly in the 10 minutes or so after Udogie's booking. They were lucky with their goal but Vicario made a great save on Jesus' shot; so did Raya to be fair but, for me, in the first half they were playing on the...
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