Also amazing what a difference a clean shave makes
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She's the biggest racist in football.
I think her crowning glory was when she basically said when white people are over represented (in a particular field) it was because of racism but when ethnic people were over represented it was down to talent. Staggering.
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Karen Carney…..joke?
I'll take her over professional victim Aluko.
The middle 2 are presenters rather than punditsErm there are 8 people listed and 8 pictured... but they don't tie up. Where's Ange? And surely there are 3 women in the picture, but only 2 listed... Weird decision to include a picture with the same number of people as the list, but them not be the same people.
I guess in the context of a popular and political culture that believes vehemently (and rightly IMO) that females should have segregated sport due to inherent biological differences, I have a bias towards regarding those who have actually played the male game at elite level, as more likely to be experts in the field.
How unreasonable!
'Pundits' should always be put in inverted commas.
How the fuck is Aluko still getting work. One of the most stupid people I’ve ever seen on tv.
An old wooden ship?
Premier league stories on sky this week is an hour on Ange. Worth a watch. Bloody hell hes had a weird career. How he’s got here is actually mad.
See now, when I look at this I see a team who keeps five men back to protect against the counter (in a 3-2 shape), whereas we look more like a 2-1-7; we have BOTH fullbacks inverted, not just the one, and often they're both right up alongside the 10s, not just in the double pivot like here.
If ours was a genuine 2-3-5 it would still be riskier than the Maresca/Pep/Arteta 3-2-5 but it would make a lot more sense than what we currently do. And from memory it was more like that in the early part of the season, as opposed to the chaos-ball structure we see now. No idea why Agnes changed it.
I'm also not sure it's something that can be fixed with recruitment (unless Superman's available for transfer?) or player rotations with the #8s filling in. I honestly think it's structural/tactical. And it worries me that Ange hasn't adapted thus far. There's a reason why every manager in football copies Pep's inversions but nobody copies Agnes.
I would guess it's situation-dependent as well.
We are definitely 2-3-5 a lot of the time when I'm watching but even see Romero rampaging forwards at times as well and then it's about the rotations which clearly need to improve. especially down our left. If you are seeing 2-1-7 at times then probably something has gone wrong or it's a specific situation where they want to be so aggressive. Maybe it's about how the other team's shape is as well?
Didn't you put me on ignore because I disgree that Ange is the right man to take us forward?
Wasn't she actually saying that this is what goes on at most clubs?
And that wasn't really what she was saying anyway.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/Woolwich-declan-rice-eni-aluko-30349133
I don't know why so many people can't count.
82% of the United Kingdom is white based on the last census. I would be surprised if there is less than 18% of non-white representation among players. In fact, given there is potentially a genetic advantage in some sports, you may find a higher representation of black players.
The sad thing, is that the only person who has the balls to say this is Joey fucking Barton ffs.
Even when he says something that's right he's still a megacunt.
This isn't true though.
There are plenty of people on here who label the entire forum disabled, discriminate against it, and tell it to go on holiday. I'm not sure who is supposed to be handing out these holidays but ok I'll take one. Ange also thinks about half of Spurs fans need counselling for caring about rivalry. Again I'm not sure where this magic counselling is that will make me as successful as Richarlison etc. but I'll take it.
Some Spurs fans would rather their manager did less media until he is actually successful. It's not an unbalanced view. It's not an unhinged view. Nobody is throwing their toys out of the pram and yet plenty of people are being told to calm down for having that opinion, which is a projection. There is also an irony in going on a forum to tell people to go off a forum for having an opinion on the manager.
It's a valid opinion to be concerned about the way the media label Ange a winner, the way he portrays himself in the football media, and the way Spurs fans are seen as the reason Spurs are unsuccessful. I assume similar fans would have similar feelings about Poch's book, or Levy's documentary, or Rose's articles in the rags.
Also, do you think the likes of Rashford gets away with doing what he wants when he isn't scoring goals? I suspect zero Spurs fans would really care what Ange does in the media if he was actually more successful than the past 15 seasons he brought up.
Would love to see a nice spat between him and Keane