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Paul Bracewell is someone else who has potential to be a real asset considering he's spent a lot of his coaching career in the lower tiers and has a few useful contacts there, most obviously Sunderland - and it has to be said player development is what he's staking his professional reputation on

 

Those pre-season games are official:
https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/ne...tspur-stadium-see-all-the-action-on-n17-live/

Ridiculous streaming prices. They should put them out for nothing.
At least season-ticket holders don't have to pay. I don't have much hope for the quality and stability of the streams, though.

 

At the risk of creating a Narrative, it is hard to not see that there was a pipeline when Ugo Ehiogu was U23s coach (most obviously with Harry Winks), but the pipeline got clogged up once Wayne Burnett took over

 

Tenner to stream a pre season friendly? Robbing ****s.

 

We've got to pay for your players somehow...

 

And Mourinho's upcoming pay off

 

We're not Watford, FFS!

 

It's a stupid format.
They have the fixtures during international breaks, so the players you'd want to play in them aren't there.
It totally defeats the point in the whole change from it being a piece of lower league silverware, which made perfect sense.

 

Considering they're scrapping FA Cup replays - which guarantees a National League club will get a home draw with Man Utd, get tonked 8-0, then have to fork over half the gate - why not come to the realisation that nobody would complain if the Season Killer Cup was scrapped, especially considering it bloats fixture lists in December-January and having a two-legged semi final is ****ing stupid

 

I think they've scrapped the two-legged semi-final. Most teams field weakened sides in it for most of the games, anyway.

 

The French scrapped the Coupe de la Ligue last season, which was met with...no response at all, not even the most nonchalant of Gallic shrugs

 

They've also essentially scrapped the league too, though...

 

This is not the season killer cup.
It is the cup where PL teams enter their U23 team against the football league first teams.

 

I know it isn't - and I know the reason we're pulling out of the EFL Cup is entirely because we have to play Season Killer Cup games 48 hours after Europa league ones

 

It would only have been for our academy players, but I guess they may now have to play in the League Cup.

 

Levy speaks...
This **** is going to be everywhere in the next few weeks. ****'s sake.

 

Spoilers: It's "nothing"

 

https://www.leytonorient.com/2020/08/14/pre-season-orient-to-host-spurs-u23s-in-the-je3-cup/

Nice to see.

 

I still can’t believe he is no longer with us. He was in the fan zone in Madrid at the same time as me and although I didn’t see him, those I was with did and assure me to this day he looked as fit as a fiddle and was full of life. Dreadful shock to hear only days later he had passed away. Fantastic to see the good relationship between us and Orient continues to evolve.