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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Agreed. This idea of Tottenham being overly reliant on data (seemingly thinking that if we could be a richer Brentford that we will challenge for titles) has been under discussed in the media but I think it is getting more purchase finally. Makes me excited to read everything that’s gonna come...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What Has Been The Worst Reffing/VAR Decision This Season?

    Agreed. I was never so anti VAR as others, but I think its application now has been shambolic. Scrap it if you can’t use it right. Although it’s not even VAR that’s our issue this season really. It’s simply human beings not treating us fairly or consistently.
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What Has Been The Worst Reffing/VAR Decision This Season?

    I saw an ex ref do a video on the athletic. Basically saying that we want consistency but also want the refs to use common sense, and how we can’t have both. I think that’s just nonsense and rooted in an old school approach that suggests nothing can get better. Once a bar is established for...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    This article would probably also suit the ‘what triggered our downfall’ thread. But thought this was excellent: https://www.reddit.com/r/coys/s/UOjmdjOwe3 Very clear that we have been blinded by data. Using data the wrong ways, to confirm existing biases. And I think Lange is the big culprit...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What Has Been The Worst Reffing/VAR Decision This Season?

    Bentancur one for me too. Genuinely couldn’t believe it when it was given. Absolutely stunned. I don’t think there’s a conspiracy, but I think there’s some subconscious need for refs to present authority and be ‘right’, and because we’re having a tough season it feels like the ‘right thing’ is...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Cristian Romero

    There’s six games and we’re never going to have a 4th or 5th choice centre back be anywhere near as good as 1-3. I’ve got more than enough confidence in Danso and don’t think Dragusin is half as bad as is being made out. He’s an international who played with an 18 year old midfielder as his...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The *WHEN* we go down thread

    I will say, as a fan of the NBA as well as football, relegation doesn’t scare me as much. Obviously they don’t have relegation so those teams are protected, but these teams regularly trade away star players for draft picks and start rebuilding phases. We would just be going through an extreme...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    My saying tough was that it’s ’tough’ to criticise those tears. But I see the underlying point Deano is making.
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Yeah I get you. I remember when we beat Chelsea away, with the Dier long pass onto Dele, it must have been 2018. And it was like the entire bench and staff made a concerted effort NOT to react to the result. They may have even talked about it straight after. But I loved that. It showed we...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Agreed, also I think it was Ben Foster that said tears from a captain just aren’t great. He needed to be getting around the players boosting them up if he was going off. It might be harsh, but I agree with that. Tears in that moment is another sense of inevitability being against us.
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    +++ OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland 12th April 2026 +++

    Agreed. I don’t think Frank has any redeeming quality at all and looking back was an abomination of an appointment. It’s like it’s been some weird conspiracy by the club, the media, and everyone else that has glossed over just how bad he was and how bad the performances were. Everything De...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Agreed with everything you’re saying. I think it’s interesting that RDZ is talking about bringing back a style of football like Ange. Not because his style is going to be exactly like his, but I think he has correctly read the dynamics of the squad, in that they were comfortable with that...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Not that I'm bitter...

    Christ, I had not seen that but that is dreadful. It’s almost instant, like they want to be right before anyone else.
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Not that I'm bitter...

    What annoys me is that people would rag on Sissoko for the heinous act of pointing when all of their anger should have been dedicated to the nonsense rule and the idiotic officials who enforced it.
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Thought this was the most interesting part of the article as it relates to our struggles this season, haven’t seen it mentioned really in the press until today: “Though there is research to show that managers make negligible difference to performance – the key metrics of success are how much...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Indeed. Does sound promising and I also think it shows up the brick show of a season so far where the decision makers have ignored what the players might respond to and forced their own will on to them. They should know when hiring Frank and Tudor whether the players are likely to respond well.
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Isn’t it a pretty common journalistic device? You see it in politics reporting all the time? ‘Allies of so and so say…’ Either a player has told an agent who has told Gold. Or it’s a player directly and this is the way deniability is kept.
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    It’s an interesting point on Lange. He probably gets a lot of stick for having to work under a football strategy that goes from one extreme to the other. And then the squad is currently looking worse because there’s nothing unifying them. And he gets blamed for the quality, which I think is...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    I actually thought it was interesting insight! The calm on ball from defenders is an obvious one that we would likely expect knowing about De Zerbi, but the locking rather than moving point with the striker is not something I would have necessarily thought about had I not seen it highlighted.
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    It is also really interesting that he didn’t want to speak too much about his philosophy in his first interview. He made a point of saying there wasn’t enough time. So what does a De Zerbi team look like when it’s tasked with getting immediate results? I assume there will still be some ideas in...
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