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It's results mate. Most fans are more excited by winning football than cavalier football that has your club under achieving and languishing in mid table.
Just enjoy life is a good resolution.
No I take the point and agree, and we actually issued a fair few thrashings during that run-in, most memorably Woolwich. Conte's a hell of a coach.
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In fairness we played some great stuff during this time. All fell apart CL qualification and we never looked the same again I thought.
I wish they still did Celebrity Deathmatch.Ange Postecoglou hits back after Jamie Carragher criticism
Tottenham Hotspur head coach Ange Postecoglou says he welcomes scrutiny but claims some comments about him are “offensive” after Jamie Carragher’s criticism
Ange Postecoglou has said he finds some of the criticism towards him “offensive” and vowed to carry on ignoring Jamie Carragher after the former Liverpool defender urged the Tottenham Hotspur players to go against their head coach’s instructions.
Postecoglou’s side came through a chaotic Carabao Cup quarter-final against Manchester United on Thursday, eventually winning 4-3 after letting a 3-0 lead slip to 3-2 after two errors caused by back-passes to the goalkeeper Fraser Forster.
Carragher, the Sky Sports pundit, suggested that the 59-year-old’s approach was to blame and that his players should have rejected his instructions. “The manager has told you to play a certain way but someone has to get a grip and say, ‘No, we are changing for the next five or ten minutes,’ ” he said.
“It frustrates me when players can’t see how the game state changes and recognise they have to change their approach to suit it.”
On Friday Postecoglou responded by saying: “There is some stuff out there I find just offensive towards me. I’m up here with a silly accent and maybe I don’t take things as seriously as people want me to and I’m fairly dismissive of them, but that’s all right. I love my life and I’ll keep doing what I’m doing.
“I don’t need validation from anybody to do what I do. I love the fact people are talking about and analysing our games. I’d rather that than us be anonymous and no one talk about us, or we’re just grinding out an existence.
“You have to be prepared for scrutiny, you have to be prepared for criticism, but it won’t change what I believe, because what I believe is born from a lifetime of experiences and values that I won’t let anyone tamper with from the outside.
“Because if you’re going to jump every time, it tells me you don’t really have a lot of belief in this building about what we’re doing, if we’re always going to worry about what he is saying.
“Someone like Jamie is there to give his opinion and will not stand there and say, ‘I’ve got nothing to say.’ Some of the other stuff I don’t understand, because it’s just about getting headlines, but again if you react to that [then] it kind of says more about you than anything else.”
Postecoglou believes Aston Villa manager Unai Emery had been treated unfairly when he was at Woolwich, and Nottingham Forest’s Nuno Espirito Santo in a brief spell at Spurs.
“You kind of feel that 26 years of hard graft should get you a little more respect and I’m not the only one,” he said. “I have seen it happen to Unai and Nuno when he was here.
“I get that not everyone will be a fan of the way I do things and even the way I play people will have different opinions. That’s normal, that’s healthy but some of it has been pretty dismissive.”
Slot is such a fan of Angeball that he declared he hoped Spurs win a trophy under him because it would be “good for football”.
Postecoglou did not see himself as a Messiah figure or a showman, though.
“I don’t think I’m an evangelist for the whole game,” he said. “To quote Monty Python, I’m just a naughty little boy.
“It’s what I love about football. There has got to be differences, people who are prepared to do thing a little bit differently.
“That allows opinion, that allows emotion. I hate to think people think I am some sort of showman — I want to win. That is still the core of my being.”
Postecoglou also insisted Joshua Zirkzee’s goal for United, which made it 3-1 would have been ruled out by VAR had it been in operation.
The Australian also revealed he had told the EFL, who consulted all the clubs involved in the last-eight ties before deciding to do without VAR until the semi-finals, that he did not want it on the night.
“Zirkzee was actually in the box pressing when he should have been — what he did was illegal,” he said. “But anyway we’ll let that run because there was no VAR last night. That was my decision so I’m happy with that.”
Tottenham’s win set up a Carabao Cup quarter-final meeting with Carragher’s former side Liverpool, who they also face at home in the Premier League on Sunday.
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Russell Crowe is from New Zealand. He also talks philosophy (there's another name for it).
hope not.
ok, so you're impressed. Good on ya sport (little cliche thrown in for the aussie forum guys) . Lucky against Glasgow Rangers, Galatasaray were all over Spurs, Roma at home, Ferensomeone and the other one. It may improve. But but my post is garbage. Ok wise man.
Russell Crowe moved to Australia at the age of 4. Maybe ask him if he thinks he’s Australian
