The Tottenham Clique
I was going to try to go with clique-bait as a title, but I’m not sure it works and I’m not clever enough to think of something else witty. Anyway, I wanted to write a few words about last night,...
View Article“Spurs did well at the weekend”
I wrote this for Iain Macintosh’s wonderful site, The Set Pieces. “Spurs did well at the weekend,” is something my work colleagues generally used to say to me, perhaps twice a year and usually in a...
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Game plan
Just a quick one from me in light of what we have just witnessed, as I feel like I need to unburden myself. Spurs’ main strength this season has been the ability with which we have implemented and...
View ArticleThe Best Thing You’ve Ever Read About Spurs
That’s not even a clickbait title. This summary of a talk by John McDermott, our Head of Coaching & Player Development, at Pomona College in Southern California on 22nd March is the Best. Thing....
View ArticleI’m sorry, Mousa
I wanted you gone; gone to the highest bidder, probably Sunderland. I called you a 5-a-side player. I said that you were too niche to ever be a success at Spurs How wrong I was. I’m sorry for doubting...
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Eric Dier is our playmaker
He might not yet be Xabi Alonso, but Eric Dier is developing impressive deep-lying playmaker skills to go alongside his existing defensive talents. Dier’s rise this season would have been the ‘story of...
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End of Season Loanee Review
As I was collecting information for my weekly Fighting Cock Podcast youth update, I put out a call for club-specific info about our loanees. The responses were nuggets of gold, so I decided to form a...
View ArticleBattle of the Bridge – some vague thoughts
On this week’s Fighting Cock podcast we had a lengthy discussion about the Chelsea match, specifically the ‘antics’ of our players. I felt I needed to get it out of my system — I was really angry at...
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70 Points
70 points for 70 points. We’re a good team. An actual, properly good team. I’ve loved this season, despite the way it ended. In an article I contributed to last week, I said it’d be a 6/10 season if we...
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England Don’t Deserve Harry Kane
During the England vs Wales match on Thursday, my Twitter-friend Dan Rattigan tweeted ‘England don’t deserve Kane’. I chortled to myself in the pub, hit the retweet button, and carried on my day. But...
View ArticleBenchmarking
I’m not very good at predictions. I lucked out with one about Harry Kane, but last year I said that Nabil Bentaleb would be our main man and that Mousa Dembele should be sold to Sunderland (or the...
View Article25-man Squad Update – August 2016
I was asked to provide an update on our home grown players and 25-man squad, so without further ado… Once the transfer window closes in September, we will be required to notify the Premier League of...
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Know Your Role
Hey, remember when we comprehensively beat The Best Team In The Country™ last week? That was nice. What staggered me about the City game was not so much the quality or even the aggression with which we...
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Pochettino’s Plan B (And C)
It will seem strange to many Spurs fans for me to suggest that this season has illustrated Mauricio Pochettino’s growth as a manager. Strange due to a number of reasons: We seemingly signed Mousa...
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What Was Plan A Again?
After the Arsenal match I wrote about Pochettino’s new-found flexibility being a positive. I’m back again to add caveats. Yep, fickle Tottenham fan here, changing my mind within a couple of weeks....
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Clicked
In Mauricio Pochettino’s first year we lost one in six in the league in December and beat Chelsea 5-3 on New Year’s Day. In his second we lost one in six in December, and then went on a six game...
View ArticleWycombe – first half thoughts
Sometimes when you watch a game like yesterday’s in the flesh, you’re so focussed on the craziness that you don’t get to focus on what specifically went wrong. I’ve re-watched the first half of the...
View ArticleWycombe – second half thoughts
Having re-watched the first half this morning, I re-watched the second this afternoon. The substitution of Vincent Janssen for ‘GK’ Nkoudou saw Son Heung-min move a little deeper, and Josh Onomah was...
View ArticleMemory Lane
Since the club confirmed that this season will be the last at White Hart Lane (at least as it is now), there has been an outpouring of articles, videos, stories, memory-sharing and emotion about the...
View ArticleSome Post-Season Thoughts
After living most of my life with Spurs as the punchline to a joke that was only funny to my friends, it still hasn’t completely sunk in that we’re legitimately good. So good, in fact, that some...
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