As someone on one of the pods said, if you were used to playing higher up the pitch, where you excel, & where the team can compensate for lack of ball retention with high pressing, & then you’re forced to play deep, defend the box, & “respect” opponents, that’s going to end badly. #COYS
But if we slide, or if we escape but they don‘t trust the hierarchy, it‘s moot. #COYS
Really? Maybe the doom loop has got to him a bit (he’s 23 and a de facto “senior player”), but if we escape this crisis, get a manager/head coach who fits us well, & there’s actual backing & strategy in the summer, this could all be consigned to history. People are too quick to judge…
Danny Kelly’s latest assertion: that Cuti and VDV are regarded by the fanbase “with disdain”… #COYS
#Corinthians fans try to imagine what their chants would be if they were English. Predictably brilliant (especially the Hugo Souza penalty one). If #THFC were Brazilian - we could adapt the Poropopó for Pedro… #COYS
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Man with Spurs microphone does call to prayer at WHL. Proud Lilywhites flag in background
Prayers at WHL. Man leads with Spurs microphone, people sitting in rows of seats behind
People sitting at long rows of tables somewhere in interior of stadium, about to break their Ramadan fast. Big screen showing Spurs celebrating a goal in the background. Smaller screens with Ramadan greetings.
People gathered in the stadium blown for iftar event.
So proud of Spurs!
Really pleased the club hosted this free iftar meal and event in the ground at White Hart Lane to mark Ramadan.
ah yes - fulham!
the club has been punching the men’s team in the unmentionables year on year for a decade now, and this was another needless punch. HUBRIS…
he was there under ange… then he was the only coach who stayed on, i think, and then i think he just got sick of the negative football and got a job in the US… and his first interview was about how amazing Ange is…
The Likes on Matt Wells’ post… 👀 And his subtweet of TF… #COYS (Odds on Matt being our manager in the Championship…?)
@theguardian.com says that “Van de Ven’s suspension will in fact be one match rather than three.” That’s OK, right? #COYS
Extremely niche complaint but the only reason I ever began supporting Spurs is because I moved to Australia and it became too difficult to support my true love, Port Vale, from afar because we kept getting relegated. Now I face a season where BOTH teams could be demoted. What is the point.
Yesterday was my second-best day ever for readership since joining Substack, thanks to this piece on the world's left-wing football clubs ✊
#Politics #ultras
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“And of course, the problem here is not the interim manager, it’s the ad hoc interim ownership, the interim sense of identity, the interim suits in the interim director’s box, the interim sense of care for anything but the commercial project.”
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There was a guy further back who seemed to stand up every so often and bellow “FUCK OFF”…
Apparently at the Fulham game the #THFC fans were fighting each other.
Augean stables.
There were three kids (7-8 yrs?) in my section. They started out - when a player made a mistake or timid pass - calling them “silly-billy”. By half-time one of them was shouting “WANKER!”
Spurs does crazy things to people, as some guy once said.
#COYS
#THFC - Trump Has F***ed our Club
That’s the one - and given that our CEO is one of them, I don‘t think one bus driver‘s going to tip us over…
THFC Shuttle 101
A defibrillator in Wood Green…
The mood on the shuttle home is not even funereal, it is shellshock. The bus number feels Orwellian.
That game was like skidding on ice, getting control of the car, and then one of the passengers (VDV, obvs) intentionally slashing a tyre.
Too late for a defibrillator?
#COYS
The failure to reinforce in January was bad at the time - catastrophic self-sabotage now.
The indignity of ole at 45 mins and 60 mins at home to Palace should bring it home to everyone that this is a collective failure.
A season with Donley, LWB, Byfield, Hall, etc all getting time..? #COYS
I know people place different dates when the rot set in definitively, but for me the coup de grâce was the sacking of Ange (belief & trust destroyed) & then of Levy (no one to fear), with a badly judged, hubristic sense of “now the proper adults are in charge”. It may be Schumpeter time. #COYS
im guessing the urgency will kick in for injury time, as is traditional.
#coys
#LevyIn ?
wtf
whether he gets the job permanently or not he should do all pressconferences henceforth
