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Ex-Spurs Player Dele

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nicoclaesen said:
Correct,you are a long time retired. Yes you might need to drop down levels as you get older but nothing beats playing. If you love playing the game then moving down as you get older is not a problem.
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I know somebody who plays for the over 70s England walking football team.

That’s my long time aim. Win the World Cup at 74!
Walking every day for 90mins with 25kgs + on my back building up that walking power for the next 20 years!

Move like Jan Molby in his prime!!

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I can actually start to play walking football next year. I’m considering it!!
 
WillWilliams said:
I had an old mate who would tell me “play as long as you can, because one day your legs won’t be able to. Don’t ever take it for granted”.
Advice he got off one of his coaches as a teenager. I’ve always remembered it - and it’s bloody true!!

Stuck with me throughout my thirties and early forties until that day came.

Sure it’s the same for all footballers who just love the sport. What else can you do?
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Some of these lads virtually know nothing else... It's akin to being institutionalised.
 
WillWilliams said:
I know somebody who plays for the over 70s England walking football team.

That’s my long time aim. Win the World Cup at 74!
Walking every day for 90mins with 25kgs + on my back building up that walking power for the next 20 years!

Move like Jan Molby in his prime!!

:dawsonlol:

I can actually start to play walking football next year. I’m considering it!!
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I’m at the over 35s stage just now and I’m nearly 50 but I can still get about and run and I love every minute of it.

This walking football seems so hard. How can you not run? The urge to do it must be a horrible feeling but I might not be knocking it when I’m that age🤣

A World Cup is a World Cup

And what a player Jan Molby was.
 
nicoclaesen said:
I’m at the over 35s stage just now and I’m nearly 50 but I can still get about and run and I love every minute of it.

This walking football seems so hard. How can you not run? The urge to do it must be a horrible feeling but I might not be knocking it when I’m that age🤣

A World Cup is a World Cup

And what a player Jan Molby was.
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I thought you were Scottish? How the fuck are you still running at 50 when the rest of us are either fat, ex junkies or dead? You some kind of fucking terminator thing?
 
Andy66 said:
So why the fuck ain't you leading our medical team?
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I’m old school🤣🤣

The look into data far too much🤣

On a serious note when you are playing 3 games a week you need to just tick over. I know that we don’t train much during the week when we are playing 3 games a week. I blame Ange for lots but not the training. It’s a lack of rotation that has killed us and players maybe coming back too early from injury. Our squad wasn’t fixed in the summer which has bit us on the arse too. We have been unlucky too and if you add in injuries like concussion,illness and freak injuries like Solanke’s it shows that it’s not normal.

Playing our way with injuries and a squad that’s not set up for decent rotation is suicidal. Add in the amount of young lads we have had to throw in early in their careers here highlights why we are struggling.
 
JDefoe said:
We were an amazing team under Poch, but we were only true contenders when Dele was Dele.
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Our peak team under Poch had loads of effective players, loads of physicality and energy and competitiveness but not that much spark/magic. We were really always a Modric or Bale away from winning everything I think. A player who could just change things. Conte's Chelsea were similarly robust with a really strong core, but Hazard was that magical transformative footballer.

Dele was our only guy who supplied that really - the ability to just do special things that other players don't think of. He had plenty of drawbacks but lots of gold dust.
 
Deuterz said:
Our peak team under Poch had loads of effective players, loads of physicality and energy and competitiveness but not that much spark/magic. We were really always a Modric or Bale away from winning everything I think. A player who could just change things. Conte's Chelsea were similarly robust with a really strong core, but Hazard was that magical transformative footballer.

Dele was our only guy who supplied that really - the ability to just do special things that other players don't think of. He had plenty of drawbacks but lots of gold dust.
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I hated how fans treated him - just look 500 pages people back calling him soo bad he's not a premier league talent. Also the press were eating him alive for nothing more than silly off pitch stuff.

Again I don't like revisionism in any way - I always supported him as I saw amazing things when he could deliver when I was at the stadium.

Unfortunately he wasn't able to get over the demons he was carrying since a child, which is a shame but I will always remember his contribution to Spurs & I look forward to him playing again.
 
guyt2030 said:
I hated how fans treated him - just look 500 pages people back calling him soo bad he's not a premier league talent. Also the press were eating him alive for nothing more than silly off pitch stuff.

Again I don't like revisionism in any way - I always supported him as I saw amazing things when he could deliver when I was at the stadium.

Unfortunately he wasn't able to get over the demons he was carrying since a child, which is a shame but I will always remember his contribution to Spurs & I look forward to him playing again.
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His mother didn’t help!!
 
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