Gareth Southgate is clearing his diary for February as we speak……..,,,,
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Gareth Southgate is clearing his diary for February as we speak……..,,,,
Our medical department were shit under this Scott’s watch too. We have said about that for years so maybe he should shut his mouth and look at his own performance. We’ve mismanaged injuries for as long as I can remember.
You’re supposing stuff from bits and pieces there to fit an overall narrative. The Athletic article only says:
“Sources familiar with the situation, who asked to remain anonymous to protect relationships, say that the medical staff had reservations about Van de Ven’s readiness to play.”
How many times have we seen players thrown into big games when they were not totally fit? Poch playing Kane in the CL final being the most notorious example.
Here’s Jose on his philosophy:
"In every sport – and I know because I have friends and they play at the highest level in other sports – how many times you play and you are not 100%," he said. "I have a friend that is a big tennis player, he tells me he remembers more the times he played with pain than the times he played without any pain. To compete you have to go to the limits. It’s a cultural thing for some and that’s not my culture.
And we saw in All Or Nothing how he was giving Geoff Scott a mental breakdown over injured players.
I’m sure Ange wishes he could take back pickng both for the Chelsea game. It was a bad call, no doubt about it. But sport is high pressure and it does strange things to decision making. He wasn’t the first and won’t be the last manager to do it.
...giving that waistcoat a brush for the Press Conference....
I bet that took absolutely ages.
To look at an empty calendar.
Depends if it's a 6 month job or a full time gig.
At this moment in time, I'm actually having fond memories of Dim Sherwood.
That might just be the one name in World football that makes me think sticking with Ange is the right move.
Just as hapless on a coaching/tactical level, minus the nice idea of wanting to play attacking football, and a chasm of personality so vast that it would be an insult to the delightful flavour of vanilla to label him vanilla.
I've been quite adamant that there are few people that could be doing a worse job of managing Spurs right now, but he's definitely one of the elite few.
I'd take Sherwood over Southgate without hesitation, unashamed no tictacs chaosball, that actually succeeded in beating the teams with worse players.
I'd go the other way. I was adamantly against the likes of Potter or Southgate until Ange. He's made me warm to them. That's how bad we are now. They'd be comfortable mid table managers with this squad. Maybe even get us as high us 8th.
I think lumping those two together is incredibly harsh on Potter.
Southgate has never shown at any level that he provides anything in the way of coaching/tactics.
International football suits him as it's just about picking a squad and choosing the best team, and he wasn't even good at that really. Entrust him to try and coach a bunch of players and you'd see the same clueless shit on the pitch that we're seeing now, just minus the intent to attack.
Rumour is Levy has ordered 1000 Spurs “winter” waistcoats for the clubshop.
These are going to be all the rage soon. All the cool kids will be wearing it once they see Sir Gareth rocking it.
Essential Spurs drip.
Imagine my shock!
Geoff Scott left in the summer and is very highly thought of Phsio. Also known for standing his ground when it comes to injuries you can see him in the all or nothing documentary challenging Mourinho when he wanted Son to play with a broken arm. Not perfect because Kane believed he had to get his own physio.
The fact is it was a myth that our Medical Department are incompetent even the biggest indictment was the Skipp infection and that was during an Op not our medical team.
That it’s nonsense and the only one Scott got on well with was Poch.
Keeping VDV on was stupid in hindsight. Ange prides himself on sticking to his principals and not getting emotional during games, but he clearly threw all that out the window when he decided to leave VDV on against medical advice.
And he hasn't learnt his lesson either because he did the exact same thing with Ben Davies at the weekend but got away with it!
And he hasn't learnt his lesson either because he did the exact same thing with Ben Davies at the weekend but got away with it!