DESK-LLLC
Spurs are potentially about to have a very welcome selection dilemma. With Son Heung-min poised to return from his suspension, Lucas Moura coming off the bench to secure a point in the last game, Dele...
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Infinite content
What you find with football club content is that when things are not going well, the amount of content related to that club increases. This week I have fallen into the trap myself! Let me assure you...
View ArticlePost-Watford
In a week of contradictions from Mauricio Pochettino, his team served up a performance which epitomised the lack of clarity coming from their leader as they failed to beat bottom-of-the-table Watford...
View ArticleGuest Blog: Youth Special
A special guest blog from @CarlItAsISeeIt who you may know from podcasts about our youth team that we’ve recorded together in the past. Carl has encyclopaedic knowledge of our youth teams and big...
View ArticleHokey Cokey
I feel like each time I root myself in #PochIn, I’m wrestled back towards #PochOut the following week. That I’m even having this conversation in my head is sad; I love the man dearly. Or rather, I...
View ArticleOn Mourinho And Tactics
We are only a few games into the Jose Mourinho era and it’s not a time to draw conclusions about his approach or his tactics, particularly as he is new to working with the squad and has not had ample...
View ArticleThe Blame Game
My thesis is that Mauricio Pochettino is more to blame for the state of our current first team squad* than Daniel Levy. Hear me out. I find myself getting irritated reading every thread on Twitter or...
View ArticleGreen Shoots
Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham appear to be moving in the right direction, and the introduction of three players over the past month has helped with the upturn, though the general poor-quality finishing is...
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Transfer Round-Up
It’s been an uncharacteristically busy January for Spurs, with José Mourinho attempting to clear up some of the mess that was left for him, whilst attempting to do some forward-planning. He’s not done...
View ArticleWhere We Go From Here
Chelsea I convinced myself that we would beat Chelsea, that we would move into fourth and that the absence of our two star strikers, two best players would be less keenly felt than anticipated. I’m an...
View ArticleHow I Feel
I’ve called this ‘How I Feel’ because, for me, football and the conversations around it impact on my feelings. What a snowflake. When Spurs were playing well and it felt like the club and its fan-base...
View ArticleProject Restart: Effing Absurd
It’s been a while – too long – I hope you’re well. I hope your family and friends are well. I hope you’re coping okay with lockdown. This has been a pretty difficult period for everyone. I consider...
View ArticleDesire
Football’s intangibles will be forever debated because it’s almost impossible to come to a resolution or sometimes even a compromise when the arguments are so antithetical. ‘Desire’ is definitely one...
View ArticleHomegrown
I tend to write each year about the 25-man squad and the implications of the homegrown players rule. This year I’m writing about it a little earlier than usual because it will impact on Spurs’...
View ArticlePre-Season Anticipation
Things feel okay again. I didn’t like last season. I didn’t like the way things quickly went south under my beloved Mauricio Pochettino. I didn’t even like much of the football post-restart (I...
View Article‘Fixture Chaos’
The early season schedule has led to a sense of panic amongst some Spurs fans, but I just wanted to briefly attempt to allay some of that panic by illustrating how we could manage the congestion. The...
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One Hundred Imaginary Trophies
I wasn’t sure whether to do this or not but, after the week I’ve just had, it’s good to get it off my chest. Plus, I have a platform, and occasionally I ought to use it to raise awareness of the...
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Getting It Done
I’ve been openly quite skeptical of José Mourinho’s approach to managing us so far, partly because I don’t like him as a person (I’m doing my best to put that to one side, honest) but mostly because...
View ArticleHome Grown Players (HGP) Quota – January 2021 Transfer Window
I tend to write each year about the 25-man squad and the implications of the home grown players rule and how it will impact on Spurs’ transfer strategy. The home grown player numbers could impact on...
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Dele
I remember arriving for work on a Monday and one of my colleagues — a lady in her fifties, not a football fan — did the Dele hand/eye goal celebration at me. Such an iconic footballer. In my eyes, one...
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