cretinousgoat
Why are you disagreeing? We almost certainly had 13 players available…. Whether they should flex the rules given the circumstances is another matter-
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cretinousgoat
Why are you disagreeing? We almost certainly had 13 players available…. Whether they should flex the rules given the circumstances is another matter
Yeah, the squad list can't be changed until the knockouts.
The 13 would have included Sess and Lo Celso and Romero. Assuming they don't have covid they'd have missed the game through injury and suspension.
How does it work with younger players? They don’t have to be on the list of 22 no?
Yes, but in modern football it was us. Preston and Villa did it when there were only 12 professional clubs with the former in 1880s, and still mainly just the north of England for the latter in the 1890s.
Squad of 25. Romero, GLC injured. Royal and Gil ill. Sessegnon suspended. Leaves 20.
Further edit: Uefa's rules state that if clubs have 13 fit players on their A list, including a goalkeeper, they must play.
So my original post means that a further 8 of the 20 needs to be unfit to be within the rules.
But IMO the rule is not designed to deal with this unique situation.
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I fucking hope not. I won't lose sleep if we get kicked out, but the shit we'll cop won't be worth it.
It would be the most Spurs thing ever
'Modern football', what's that? When did it start?
Aston Villa done the double in 1897, when there was 16 teams in the First Division, four years before Spurs won their first FA Cup.
My original reply was to the statement that Spurs were the 'First team to do the double'., which is wrong. There was no mention of 'modern football', what ever that is.
It is Christmas after all.
For me, modern football I'd say post war, 1950 onwards; about when England thought they would contest a world cup. A bit before English teams participated in Europe. A long time after you could draw Royal Engineers in the cup; more than few years before the second Boer War
Yes, the original statement was inaccurate. As was every commentator who said that spurs were the first to do the double. Most knew what they meant.
For me, Preston, Villa, It's not comparing like with like with our achievement, with all the professional clubs around.
So, I draw my line.
Spurs were the first team to do the double - post war.
Most people use that as the indictor for what defines modern football.
Before then it was a bit random and a bit of a shit show. Rules would change regularly, there were less teams etc.
We’ve already practically kicked ourselves out by getting beaten by a non league opponent, who gives a toss
Sad but true
Meanwhile, at The Guardian, David Hytner is probably working on a piece on how we dare to give expired food to the poor or something like that.
(this food is obviously not expired but don't let that get in the way of a good Guardian narrative).