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I genuinely don't know how many times it needs to be said, and how there are stkl spurs fans who don't realise this.
Interestingly this match reminded me of games under Poch.
Calm. Take your time. Take and extra touch. Wait for the right moment, there is no rush. Keep the ball at all costs; go backwards if you need.
A frustrating watch, but it was clear to see that Jose did not want them playing explosive; quick football. We weren't looking for 3,4,5 goals here; it was about getting the 3 points in a controlled manor without taking risk.
Calm. Take your time. Take and extra touch. Wait for the right moment, there is no rush. Keep the ball at all costs; go backwards if you need.
A frustrating watch, but it was clear to see that Jose did not want them playing explosive; quick football. We weren't looking for 3,4,5 goals here; it was about getting the 3 points in a controlled manor without taking risk.
Lucas is not fit to lace Bale’s boots. But lets send him back to Madrid and keep playing Moura
One year on from Pochettino getting sacked for playing tedious, midfield-less crap, we're still churning out midfield-less, tempo-less, humpball like that.
Kane's responsible for setting up or scoring about 75% of all our goals through outstanding individual moments. Tonight he saved us from being a goal down before we'd scored with our first shot on target on the 76th minute. We are more the Harry Kane team than we've ever been.
And we are still watching a midfield pair containing that lobotomised rhino Sissoko bunting the ball backwards to whoever just hot potato'd it to him, that's when he actually gets forced to receive the fucking thing. Dier humping the ball out of touch every 10 minutes. The Brazilian Lennon aimlessly bouncing around like a peptic pinball. fucking Doherty makes Trippier look like Carvahal.
Our attacking players look like they haven't been coached for months, they all just stand around when we have the ball waiting for a miracle of immaculate conception, apart from Son who gets a PCP enema whenever Kane gets the ball on the halfway line.
Just because football's gone a bit bonkers, Utd, Woolwich and Chelsea are all stupid enough to let the kit boy manage their teams, City are running on fumes from 3 years of Pep and we might somehow Kane-grind our way to a top four place, doesn't make what we are doing great. It really fucking isn't.
Tonight's victory was the footballing equivalent of getting a hand job from a tranny whilst they simultaneously scrape the other hand down a fucking blackboard.
Kane's responsible for setting up or scoring about 75% of all our goals through outstanding individual moments. Tonight he saved us from being a goal down before we'd scored with our first shot on target on the 76th minute. We are more the Harry Kane team than we've ever been.
And we are still watching a midfield pair containing that lobotomised rhino Sissoko bunting the ball backwards to whoever just hot potato'd it to him, that's when he actually gets forced to receive the fucking thing. Dier humping the ball out of touch every 10 minutes. The Brazilian Lennon aimlessly bouncing around like a peptic pinball. fucking Doherty makes Trippier look like Carvahal.
Our attacking players look like they haven't been coached for months, they all just stand around when we have the ball waiting for a miracle of immaculate conception, apart from Son who gets a PCP enema whenever Kane gets the ball on the halfway line.
Just because football's gone a bit bonkers, Utd, Woolwich and Chelsea are all stupid enough to let the kit boy manage their teams, City are running on fumes from 3 years of Pep and we might somehow Kane-grind our way to a top four place, doesn't make what we are doing great. It really fucking isn't.
Tonight's victory was the footballing equivalent of getting a hand job from a tranny whilst they simultaneously scrape the other hand down a fucking blackboard.
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Was just trawling through some of the absurd in-game comments as always amusing and this one amazed me at 1-0. I really can't relate to some fans on hereEven while being controversial as fuck, you manage to make it funny.
(Also I have extreme reservations around the sustainability of this style and run of form as well. It's not just dependent on brilliance from Kane, it's also dependent on Son finishing better than any other player in the world, at a level that probably can't continue for long. That's a lot of moving parts.)
this is the content we come here for right?
Bet you're no fun at parties ....
"Our attacking players look like they haven't been coached for months" - that would be the attacking players who just set new records for goals and assists in the first six EPL games in any EPL season? those un-coached attacking players right?
Come on Blakey you can produce a weekly moan better than this, even the Sissoko abuse was limp ..... D-
Love reading your posts .....
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Heh - yeah, I think that's what xG and xGA are supposed to catch, that regression towards the mean as the season goes on. We're overperforming xG thanks to Sonny and Kane's clinical masterclass, but our xGA and xPoints are actually near-neutral. And what's interesting is that Burnley have the lowest xGA in the league (only Everton are even close), which goes to show they are NOT easy to score against at all despite their poor points haul so far. This 1-0 at Turf Moor is a better result than it sounds.
Having rewatched Newcastle lately, probably our longest stretch of "comfortable" football besides 10man Utd, I have a feeling GLC is maybe more important than we think (since we've been scoring so much it's kind of overshadowed the performances if that's possible
). We need technical, clever passers in this side to actually control and build things through midfield; and imo a bright, possession-oriented attacker on the right would be nice too (not a knock on Coco who I love in certain situations like today, just his decision-making sometimes drives me up the wall). I'll give it some more games in the league and preferably with Gio in the side before I really muse about performances though, because I think we've faced harder opponents than it sounds on paper: Everton, West Ham, Southampton all pretty damn strong this season. Enough that I think the diff between 1st and even 8th will be unusually tight, and not just because apparently no one wants the title 
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= a miserable sod on occasion for sure, but also a witty fucker with a great turn of phrase and an enduring, cult-like appreciation of Sissoko (lobotomised rhino} which is truly admirable in its effusion and only matched, arguably, by his poetic plaudits of Moura - our Brazilian Lennon who aimlessly bounces around like a peptic pinball. Great stuff.
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Hopefully youve only got winks in there to clean the boots
Winks is definitely good enough for Europa League. He is low on confidence at the moment, and hopefully playing Europa can help that.
Son is the league's top scorer...
I think Jose is worried about Ndombele getting tired and Gio getting injured; so he's decided to rotate them as the attacking mid spot alongside 2 holding mids.
If it means they both stay injury free, and therefore in some big games we can play them together, Jose will feel vindicated.
However, I'm personally not convinced by Sissoko starting in the PL. He's definitely lost a lot of his athletic ability since his injury last season, and he was never talented with the ball at his feet. Should be dropped.
Woodward couldn't even cope with a bit of poker from Dortmund... imagine what would Levy would do to him.
Not only would he not get Son or Kane, he'd leave the negotiations so distraught that he'll be praying for Man United fans to burn his house down (as they've nearly done before), just to end the misery.
