This evening will mostly be spent seeing how many people have posted the following comment on Twitter: "Son on £192k per week to pull defenders out of position." I;ve already seen that comment 4-5 times on r/coys, so give it ten minutes...
I’d say our style of football is the primary factor though. Sit back for 80% of matches and it’s inevitable your defensive players will end up making a mistake. Doesn’t matter if it’s Eric Dier or Paulo Maldini, problems will arise. What makes it worse is we’ve got a good portion of attack minded players that could play a really good style if the manager wanted.
Also two games running where a decent attempt to block a poor cross has led to a deflection that beat the keeper
Or, to look at it another way, we have a good number of press-minded players, as reflected by our two goals So of course we basically stopped pressing once the half time whistle was blown...
Because as painful as it would be, it offers a glimmer of hope than we might one day do the same. And for me, that's a huge thing. It is a great big 'wake up' to Levy and the "we need to spend £200m every window to compete" managers he keeps appointing, and show that with careful planning, a long term vision, a progressive manager and smart recruitment - anything is possible. Anyone other than Arsenal winning the league would be a travesty for football. And I'm happy for @BrunelGunner to bookmark this post.
After about the first month where it was clear how we were playing, it was never really in reach. We just sat there for a bit because we have Harry Kane. Won’t have that luxury next season, mind. Back to midtable obscurity like the good old days!
Heung-min 'Suger Plum Fairy' Son is honestly beginning to piss me off nowadays - Needs to be benched or maybe used as a Sub now. If only Spurs had a Jack Grealish or a Saint-Maximin or even a Zaha.
No one will buy him after this season But I think Sonny’s here until we say otherwise, he loves us and doesn’t seem interested in a move. Though that could be famous last words from myself and I’ll hear about a transfer request in the morning.
I didn’t expect spurs to win tonight but at half term I really thought there was no way back for City. Spurs played much better at times today but once again, too many individual errors, mainly Perisic. Good to see the return of Bentancur. He makes a big difference but Biisouma did well too when he came in. The half time talk by Pep must have been magic as their transformation was noticeable as soon as they came back on the pitch.
I've lived through them winning the league plenty of times before. I was bloody there when they did it at WHL! I can survive them doing it again. I cannot survive football dying at the hands of cartels on financial steroids, as it essentially means the only chance I have to see Spurs achieve glory in my lifetime is if we are taken over by one of those cartels. And at that point, I lose Spurs. And that is ****ing painful. So yes, the pain of walking away from Spurs forever after 4 generations of my family supporting them, far outweighs the temporary pain of watching that twat Xhaka lifting the PL trophy.
Football isn’t dying, it’s been dead for years. Doesn’t take away the fact no sane Spurs fan would rather Arsenal win the league out of some warped moral compass view.
Yeah we just get a gloomy wet Monday topped off with a game instead against another manager who puts conte to shame!
BBC claiming Son made his 250th PL appearance this evening, which is odd as I don't remember him playing in our last 16 matches.
