Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City

Not many team will go to Tottenham and go back with something the way they are playing at home.They are very comfortable at home.

 

It's our last season @ WHL. Next season Wembley and the new stadium the year after. I expect our home form to be top notch this season

 

I would like to see Pochettino rotate Vorm in the GK position this season
for some PL games. Primarily to keep Lloris on his game, also because in pre/early
season Vorm has looked like the #2 keeper we desire so should keep him sharp.

 

I mentioned it during the match, but seriously, what's with all the nutmegs?
Is there some sort of points scoring thing during training, as even Pochettino did one on Winks on one of the videos?
Rose mentioned Lamela doing five or six per day on Townsend when he was still at the club and there seem to be several in each game.

 

Plus this:

 

That is superb!

 

Definite WUMmery going on between those two.

 

Have to say I am pretty much putting next season down as a write off.

 

I was wondering a while ago how long it'll be before opposition managers specifically work on it in training. If my team were playing Spurs I think I'd at the very least mention to players that if Alli (in particular) is on the ball then it's very likely that he'll try to nutmeg you. And hence you might want to think about your body position in a different way as you approach him and try to close him down.

It'll be interesting to see if that happens and if so how Alli will respond to it and take advantage of players doing something which lessens the chance of a nutmeg but as a result opens up other weaknesses.

But maybe there's actually very little you can do about it.

 

Will this be the Alli shuffle Mk2?

 

Alli shuffle?

 

Nutmeg belongs on top of a custard tart

 

How did it get be called a nutmeg?

 

Good question. Random use of a spice, I think. Cinnamon, saffron, cardamom anyone?

 

I think it's because it makes the other player look like he's been on the herb.

(Sorry)

 

Someone will know. PNP? HBIC? OS?

 

In the absence of our usual resident ubergeeks and scholars;

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2005/sep/07/theknowledge.sport

"As he points out, the verb nutmegged is listed by the Oxford English Dictionary as "arising in the 1870s which in Victorian slang came to mean 'to be tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish'."

The word arose because of a sharp practice used in nutmeg exports between America and England. "Nutmegs were such a valuable commodity that unscrupulous exporters were wont to pull a fast one by mixing a helping of wooden replicas into the sacks being shipped to England," writes Seddon. "Being nutmegged soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the duped victim and cleverness on the part of the trickster."

 

Thank you CK

 

Nutmegs were such a valuable commodity that you would only find them in a Delli.