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    Poll: Pritchard or Townsend?

    I like Townsend and want him to stay. I haven't seen enough (anything) of Pritchard, though I know he's doing well at Brentford in the Championship.
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    Ex Spurs midfielder Mackay dies

    A legend in the true sense of the word. RIP Dave Mackay.
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    Why we need a defensive coach.

    In open play we do not have real ball winning centre mids, and they both bomb on, but I prefer this as it gives us more going forward. As our full backs bomb on a long ball in to space down the flanks is an achilles heel but no system is perfect and the central defensive pairing is not without...
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    Why we need a defensive coach.

    We may need a defensive coach, though most likely someone with strong coaching credentials and international and now domestic experience at the back at the very top of the game is there already. Pochettino? The first goal yesterday wasn't due to zonal marking but rank individual errors. We had...
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    Mourinho's right

    They had so few fans left (though they used to take 5,000 fascists and other dregs to wreck places like Shrewsbury market in the old Div 2, which they hark back to show they were a big club which they were til they got shit in the mid to late 70s) before Harding and Bates started living the...
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    Player Watch: Nabil Bentaleb

    I hope Bentaleb wasn't aware of the ridiculous brickbats going his way from a lot of Spurs fans when Sherwood was playing (albeit a tad overplaying) him. He oozes class and will be one we are fighting off big bids from the new elite for in the near future.
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    Tottenham Vs Chelsea: Capital One Final Match Thread

    Good effort, but the first goal left us with no margin for error thereafter. The first goal today was as weak, maybe worse, from us as the two in Florence. Absolutely unbelievable. 4 or 5 defenders in a line with a free header with no Chelsea player anywhere near them and they manage to mess it...
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    Is This The First Time Top 4 Doesn't Matter That Much?

    Lloris, Eriksen and Vertonghen may go whether we get CL or not. When Real Madrid and Barcelona come knocking ... The difference is that it looks like we are much less susceptible to losing them to Man Utd, Arsenal or Chelsea. Arsenal have lost their best players consistently for a decade...
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    Bit worried for Soldado

    I agree With our wide forwards playing against their natural foot they come inside 9 times out of 10 and crowd the central area around Soldado. Even then they don't look to play him in but shoot or are forced to lay it back to a midfielder or full back. If they come inside this could free up...
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    Defending a lead

    While there will always be an issue for me, like many others, in Spurs playing expansive attacking football, I'm increasingly realistic. So I'm not against trying to sit on a lead per se, only we are not very good at it, so it is proving counterproductive. Maybe it's the players we have or the...
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    Spurs fans in hospital after Lazio attack

    Yes that's a fair point, we aren't dealing with the most rational or decent of people. I did add a similar point to the post. I must admit I wasn't aware that we were so well known as a "Jewish" Club, which of course we aren't really, outside of Britain. Though that would still suggest that it's...
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    Spurs fans in hospital after Lazio attack

    I think 100 might be an exaggeration. 30-40 seems to be the official view at least. Though many in helmets and very tooled up, which isn't usual for a night out in Campo dei Fiori, so it appears very much to have been planned and organised. It's worth pointing out that the ultra groups are...
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    Spurs fans in hospital after Lazio attack

    Lotito, the Lazio president, is trying to distance the club from the attack stating that such events should be condemned but he says that Lazio fans had nothing to do with the attack. He believes that people should take a step back until those responsable are identified. I don't know if he knew...
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    Spurs after Alexis Sanchez

    He's a much better player wide as at Udinese than through the centre. We are strong in terms of wide players, but will still require a centre forward. Maybe we should just sign Falcao:).
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    Di Matteo and Chav hypocrites

    It's highly unlikely, I think.
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