This is worth a read from Jonathon Wilson in the Guardian, who brings a good historical lens to football writing
Threads weaving Puskas with Postecoglou make coach perfect for Tottenham
Interesting article by Jonathon Wilson on the tactical frameworks that hecreckons led to Liverpool's title and the outlook for next season's rivalry at the top.
In The Guardian
We don't feature, other than probably fitting a category that might be summed up as:
"Even by 2010, it had become...
Desperate negativity of his approach to playing Liverpool at home is José Mourinho’s management style in microcosm.
“If we tried to play the way we did in the last 20 minutes from the beginning,” he said, “I think we would collapse. Because the players are not used to playing in this style and...
From Barney Ronay at The Guardian
A lovely wander down memory lane from a mad Champions League week in early May. So great to be involved in the year's "jaw dropping moments in sport".
Mauricio Pochettino has insisted he has no regrets over how he and Tottenham handled Kieran Trippier’s departure to Atlético Madrid in the summer and that there is no bad blood between him and the player.
Source: The Guardian
Spurs must kick their habit of letting in goals when seemingly in control, starting against Liverpool, at a time when every bad result threatens to undermine their project
Source: The Guardian
Some nice coverage of Dembele's role in today's derby and recent games; unspectacular stats (goals & assists) masks his importance to the team and dominance of midfield.
Read the full article at Barney Ronay, The Guardian
Levy & Spurs have a new pragmatism whereby finishing 4th isn't imperative. Our transfer activity reflects this new reality. Poch is ideally suited as manager during this period of lowered expectations
Read the full article at The Guardian (Hytner)
Hytner's review of our transfer window. He suggests, fairly convincingly, that last minute bids were predictably likely to fail and that Poch will be unhappy with the outcome.
Read the full article at Guardian (David Hytner)
I'd say he's right about there being a bit of extra pressure now. We...
Trippier's move to Spurs appears to be well advanced according to Sean Dyche. And apparently there's some interest in Jonjo Shelvey from Poch and Mitchell.
Read the full article at Hytner at the Guardian
“The Europa League is not an easy competition, it’s a very tough competition because it affects your domestic league,” Pochettino said.
Read the full article at The Guardian
There are plenty who agree with Potch on this. I'm not one of them. And it seems especially counter-productive to come...
This article suggests Lloris has been making the case to Levy that he wants to move on. But there's not much insight here and most of the context we could have written ourselves.
Read the full article at Hytner at The Guardian
Hytner got in early on the Modric and Bale moves, so this may have...
The club has agreed a 6 million euro deal with FC Koln for the transfer of Kevin Wimmer, a 22-year-old center-half, after a "break-through" year in the Bundesliga.
Read the full article at Guardian
Five clubs have a realistic chance of filling the Champions League qualification spots....
Read the full article at The Guardian
With a big round of PL games starting tonight, there's a need to get back to winning ways and generally threaten the opponent's goal a bit more than we have been in...
He might as well have a go at talking himself up because nobody else will. I agree with the article that a 17 game sample is a little thin, but he's not wrong.
Read the full article at The Guardian
I'm assuming Sherwood won't be given the reigns after this May. I don't think the general...
In an international break when footy news is slow, if you have an hour, do yourself a favour - great football man and greatest winner of our lifetime.
There's been news on this back in the UK, but I haven't seen it posted on here...feel free to pull this down if it's already been up. Also...
Source: Hytner at the Guardian
Sam Allardyce once speculated that he might be taken more seriously as a tactician and, therefore, considered for the very top jobs, if he had a European-sounding surname. At White Hart Lane on Sunday, the West Ham United manager contented himself with aping...
Source: Football 365 (in a club-by-club series of who to keep or ditch in the existing squad)
Inspired by what we're now billing as a feature on squad plans for the summer, Tottenham fan Richard Horsted gives us his player-by-player appraisal of who should go in the expected cull at White...
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