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Spurs players in the World Cup

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by audrey.s.thackeray, Jun 19, 2014.

  1. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Current Spurs: Lloris, Vertonghen, Dembele, Chadli, Bentaleb, Paulinho, BAE
    Former Spurs: Modric, Corluka, Pletikosa, GDS, Luongo, Palacios, Postiga, Ziegler, Dempsey, Zokora (Kranjcar and VDV were in their respective squads, but missed out due to injury)
     
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  2. redwhiteandermblue

    redwhiteandermblue Well-Known Member

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    Very impressive. But I'm an American, and will not let provable facts change my stated opinion.
     
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  3. redwhiteandermblue

    redwhiteandermblue Well-Known Member

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    Strange no one other than Belgium realized that nothing would affect their World Cup chances other than how Spurrish the team was...except France, who made a Spur their captain and imitate Spurs' appearance slavishly. Credit that Algerian manager though. Only had one Spur to choose from, and has yet to play a minute without him. Why would we prefer a 20 year old we already have who's a fixture on a team that made it to the KO stages when we could pay 30 million for a 25 year old not good enough to start for a team that's not good enough to win a game in the round robin phase?
     
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  4. The RDBD

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    Poor old Chile and Colombia. They could play a belter today, but with no token Spurs player, they are doomed.
     
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  5. The RDBD

    The RDBD Well-Known Member

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    And so it came to pass. Note to big Phil (and other WC managers) :

    If you don't want repeated 120 mins of anguish like that, you have to PLAY the tokens
    in the starting XI. <ok>
     
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  6. The RDBD

    The RDBD Well-Known Member

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    Token former players obviously not as talismanic as the current ones.
     
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  7. redwhiteandermblue

    redwhiteandermblue Well-Known Member

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    The odd streak does keep going, slightly tweaked.

    "Active" Spurs on the field when their teams advanced to the next round: 6: Lloris 2x, Vertonghen 2X, Chadli, Bentaleb.

    "Active" Spurs on the field when their teams were eliminated: 0 (the "active" is meant to eliminate anyone who didn't play for Spurs last year, i.e., Beni)
     
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  8. humanbeingincroydon

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    Benny wins the World Cup of arm-folding

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