scat1620
L'espion mal fait
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What our opponents' fans are saying about us 17/18
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montylynch
Fandabeedozee
- Jun 23, 2005
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Anything from RAWK ??......no doubt they're salivating over the prospect of Henderson > Dier, Mignolet > Lloris, Lovren and Matip > Toby and Jan etc. Rinse and repeat......
WiganSpur
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It annoys me the amount of people that confuse a more defensive display with parking the bus.
Parking the bus is having zero intention of creating any attacking opportunities. If you create 2 or more chances in the game as we did then you can't be seen to have parked the bus.
We were clearly set up to score goals the other night, but not to concede them either and against a team of that quality you have to be pragmatic.
Parking the bus is having zero intention of creating any attacking opportunities. If you create 2 or more chances in the game as we did then you can't be seen to have parked the bus.
We were clearly set up to score goals the other night, but not to concede them either and against a team of that quality you have to be pragmatic.
Geyzer Soze
Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd
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Enter Harry Winks
hellava_tough
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Well, okay, if a team was always doing it then fair enough
But teams get criticised for turning up to a tough away match from time to time and playing in a tactically defensive way to avoid a battering. Nothing wrong with that especially when they're the under-dogs
And I agree, we didn't park the bus the other night
Marty
Audere est farce
- Mar 10, 2005
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I find it funny that parking the bus wasn't a term until Mourinho coined it after our Santini side did a job on them at Stamford Bridge in José's first season and held on for 0-0. THAT was parking the bus. Madrid absolutely was not.
WalkerboyUK
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- Jun 8, 2009
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Has anyone managed to advise them who was absent from our line-up on Wednesday??
Or maybe this comment was about us...
archiewasking
Waiting for silverware..........
- Jul 5, 2004
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I'd be interested to see a heat map of the Madrid match. I'm willing to bet there would be a fair amount of Spurs activity in their half.
Romulus
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- Jun 14, 2012
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lemon dislikes that post haha
fletch82
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MWAAHAHAHAHAAA (evil spurs henchman)
Teeheehee (bit conceited)
AAaAHAHHAAAAAHAAAA (bit demented but quite ecstatic)
(smug)The decision is yours ?
NinjaTuna
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spids
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Maybe if we didn't lose to them they wouldn't think they had such a strong argument.
Marty
Audere est farce
- Mar 10, 2005
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I want this win more than I want to beat Arsenal. Seriously.
They've yet to realise how good we can be, because we've consistently stuffed it up against them. That has to end.
Coyboy
The Double of 1961 is still The Double
- Dec 3, 2004
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Literally? Tents 'n all?
dagraham
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- Sep 20, 2005
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This. Whether there's a grain of truth in it is irrelevant. It's a legitimate tactic, and one which Real themselves have used (I remember Zidane doing similar in a game away to Man City a couple of years ago).
Besides, the last two PL champions have been counter attacking teams and I'm glad we are evolving as a team and realise that there's more than one way to skin a cat. It's called tactics.
You guys...
Gb160
Well done boys. Good process
- Jun 20, 2012
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Agree with this, and you only ever hear it when its been successful, the point that we didn't actually park the bus is pretty irrelevant, just illustrates the ignorance of a lot of fans that can't differentiate between defending well and actually parking the bus.
The fact it's being thrown around now just means we've frustrated the shit out of some team, and it translates to 'you defended really well and we failed to break you down'...which is hardly an insult now is it?
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