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The Game Is About Glory Podcast
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thfcsteff
Sonny Walters
The truth is we will have more information by the weekend. And (as ever) you'll find us making the case from the middle. We have our own personal views, and there is also the reality that he is the manager of the football club we support, so somewhere there has to be a reconciliation.
milo
Jack L. Jones
Spurs 5 Biggest Mistakes Since The Europa League Final
Season 6 - Episode 42
Steff, Milo and Gareth try to identify the five biggest mistakes the club has made since winning in Bilbao and packing the streets of N17 celebrating that Europa League win. We also discuss the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi, the club's finances and share some memories of Victor Wanyama.
Season 6 - Episode 42
Steff, Milo and Gareth try to identify the five biggest mistakes the club has made since winning in Bilbao and packing the streets of N17 celebrating that Europa League win. We also discuss the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi, the club's finances and share some memories of Victor Wanyama.
thfcsteff
Sonny Walters
Spurs 5 Biggest Mistakes Since The Europa League Final
Season 6 - Episode 42
Steff, Milo and Gareth try to identify the five biggest mistakes the club has made since winning in Bilbao and packing the streets of N17 celebrating that Europa League win. We also discuss the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi, the club's finances and share some memories of Victor Wanyama.
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What a photo.
milo
Jack L. Jones
Spurs 5 Biggest Mistakes Since The Europa League Final
Season 6 - Episode 42
Steff, Milo and Gareth try to identify the five biggest mistakes the club has made since winning in Bilbao and packing the streets of N17 celebrating that Europa League win. We also discuss the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi, the club's finances and share some memories of Victor Wanyama.
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What do you think are the 5 biggest mistakes that Spurs have made since the Europa League final?
Muttley
Dean Austin
Haven't caught up with the pod yet, but my thoughts would be
1) Signing a manager who wasn't a stylistic fit. No probs with moving Ange on though. We probably should have canned Frank earlier and gone straight into a permanent replacement like De Zerbi.
2) Not listening to Scott Munn's recommendations in the medical strategic review. We needed to staff up. We didn't. Another season of injury misery.
3) Not having a fit enough squad. That has impacted us in so many ways in the game situation. We've often been out-competed.
4) Over playing flair players e.g. Kudus and ultimately missing Madds and Kulu for an entire season. The attacking area in the squad has been too light. Under utilising someone like Tel fits into this area as well.
5) This one sits in the grey space, but clearly there is a cultural and competence issue at the club. Losing clearly doesn't hurt as much as it should in a Spurs culture. That may even permeate from the board level where there seems a lack of true football DNA. Nothing to do with Levy leaving as I'm not sure he had so much anyway.
1) Signing a manager who wasn't a stylistic fit. No probs with moving Ange on though. We probably should have canned Frank earlier and gone straight into a permanent replacement like De Zerbi.
2) Not listening to Scott Munn's recommendations in the medical strategic review. We needed to staff up. We didn't. Another season of injury misery.
3) Not having a fit enough squad. That has impacted us in so many ways in the game situation. We've often been out-competed.
4) Over playing flair players e.g. Kudus and ultimately missing Madds and Kulu for an entire season. The attacking area in the squad has been too light. Under utilising someone like Tel fits into this area as well.
5) This one sits in the grey space, but clearly there is a cultural and competence issue at the club. Losing clearly doesn't hurt as much as it should in a Spurs culture. That may even permeate from the board level where there seems a lack of true football DNA. Nothing to do with Levy leaving as I'm not sure he had so much anyway.
richie_spur
Michael Brown
Good pod chaps and can't fault the list. The issue for me hasn't necessarily been the individual items, as we are never going to get everything right, but the compounding effect of the issues. Taken in isolation, they are unfortunate, all together though, disastrous.
thfcsteff
Sonny Walters
thfcsteff
Sonny Walters
I think that's a great summary.
glasgowspur
Paul Stewart
If, as ange has suggested, we knew ange was getting sacked in the summer we should have been able to come up with better than Frank.
I was fine with sacking or keeping ange, didn't know how either would work out, both were gambles, but when levy did the interview and said that the reason he was sacked was because we wanted to challenging on multiple fronts and produces Frank, well tbh I was flabbergasted.
Frank was never, ever that guy.
I was fine with sacking or keeping ange, didn't know how either would work out, both were gambles, but when levy did the interview and said that the reason he was sacked was because we wanted to challenging on multiple fronts and produces Frank, well tbh I was flabbergasted.
Frank was never, ever that guy.
Muttley
Dean Austin
Interesting...you've likely hit three more there which could've left us with 8 total
lol - I bet there is more than 8
Muttley
Dean Austin
It's always a good conversation whether top drawer managers would join Spurs. It's also a good conversation whether some of them are even top drawer. Frank clearly was gettable. I reckon some others weren't.
thfcsteff
Sonny Walters
lol - I bet there is more than 8
Indeed you're right. If we open it up beyond this season, well, we'd best all settle in for a long night hahahaha
glasgowspur
Paul Stewart
I'm not sure there is a manager out there who can have us challenging on multiple fronts, not with a realistic chance of winning the bigger prizes.
Certainly not under the constraints of ENIC.
That is one of the fundamental problems we face, it's not just an identity we lack, it's a proper sense of where we are in the grand scheme of things.
I'm 57,fast approaching 58, I do not believe I will ever see us be champions of England.
I'm cool with that, what you've never had you never miss, what I'm not happy about is that the club and the fan base are in and contribute to a negative aura around the club.
We can strive to be better, we should aim for glory, but it should not be fudging chore while doing it.
Let's get soon life and fun back into our club and our lives.
Let's get a SM team with a sense of humour, stop taking everything as life and death, get some life about the place, get some smiles on faces, lift people, it will, imho pay dividends.
Muttley
Dean Austin
Such a great post. Getting that fun back is so, so important.
glasgowspur
Paul Stewart
For a club that prides it's self for flair on the pitch, having mavericks wearing our colours, doing it differently, we aren't half a bunch of po faced, stick up the arse, miserable fudgers.
Whatever we do, can we not at least try and make it enjoyable.
We are Tottenham, we are different, we want to do it our way, let's embrace it, celebrate and enjoy the ride.
As a young man once said, "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring".
parklane1
Teddy Sheringham
To dare is too do.
robp135
Peter Taylor
I think the critique of the owners for not having a contingency in place for Levy an his allies is a bit unfair. If your the Lewis family, why would you give Levy the benefit of the doubt that he would remain in place and transition authority to new leadership when he has shown such an unwillingness to do so in the past?
Levy made public commitments in year end messages to bring in more expertise. He employed Munn, Paratici and many other management level execs based on LinkedIn and they were always gone before they could get their feet wet. This was a trend that was in place throughout his 20+ years. It also be widely reported that Levy wanted to remain at the club and in charge even in the event of the Lewis family selling their stake.
Agree on everything else though.
Levy made public commitments in year end messages to bring in more expertise. He employed Munn, Paratici and many other management level execs based on LinkedIn and they were always gone before they could get their feet wet. This was a trend that was in place throughout his 20+ years. It also be widely reported that Levy wanted to remain at the club and in charge even in the event of the Lewis family selling their stake.
Agree on everything else though.
Ace Face
Øyvind Leonhardsen
The one “mistake” I would have added to the list would be the lack of a single Academy player in our 1st team squad this season being given any meaningful playing time, and what effect that has had on the team and club’s culture. Too many went out on loan and none came back in Jan when we could have used them.