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    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    Lambs and slaughter. Though I get where you’re coming from…
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    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    It’s a pre-Ange habit, tbf…
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    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    Will Finnish us off
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    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    P.E.H. An unfortunate, but for some, apposite, acronym.
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    Chelsea vs Spurs team news

    Think it’s more the defence getting better at zonal marking.
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Cristian Romero

    I think the point about ‘idiot’ v ‘idiotic opinion comment/opinion’ is key. (I am guilty of this thinking myself. When I remember or realise I beat myself up in the nearest dark alley I can find. Then do it all over again.😀… sorry, I digress…)
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    Ange Postecoglou admits he has been hard on his players

    I wonder how he is hard on the players.. irons their faces flat on an ironing board, calls them names?
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    Tottenham in pole position to sign Thomas Waddingham

    (As in, I wonder why we signed them)
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    Injury update | Destiny Udogie

    Sad news, but an opportunity for someone else to impress. I like Davies immensely.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    We built it because it is pretty and makes us feel good!😉
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I suppose the heart surgeon analogy, a tempting one to use, is perhaps not quite right. Jose and Conte were the equivalents, and really their experience told for comparatively little. You can then bring in context (eg they didn’t have the players they wanted) but that same context should be...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Yep. Sooner or later you take a chance. Whether it’s a fledgling leaving a nest, a child being ‘let go of’ when swimming or riding a bike, it’s just life. Spurs have taken a chance with Ange, that’s fine. When I was younger you couldn’t get to work behind a bar until you’d worked behind a bar...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    An alternative to pragmatism would be to have one or two players who can dribble through/ round. Suspect they are being looked at?
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    And besides, different players will inevitably (organically) change the ‘system’.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    High intensity/pressing will wear out players over a season, which is what happened with Poch. Even with just one game a week. Stating the obvious, but a higher quality squad is probably the answer. Ange will know this. I think this is the most likely reason for the success of our first ten...
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