Match Threads Spurs vs Man City - Match Thread - Day 9

[Shadydan]

This is seriously impressive defending

 

[rez9000]

It's always intrigued me why people think good players will be good managers. The game is littered with quality ex-players who have been abysmal as managers and others like Ferguson, Clough, Mourinho who didn't set the world alight on the pitch but had a great understanding of the game, tactics and man management.

Think I need to pull you up on Clough, Japhy me old son - he scored 251 goals in 274 games (albeit in the Second Division). Of players in the 200+ goals club he has the highest goal to games ratio of any player in English football history. If he hadn't been scythed down by a goalkeeper at the age of 27 and had his cruciate ligaments mangled he would have likely scored a lot more. It's true he may not have been famous as a player, but he was still a very, very good one.

Unless you're talking about Nigel Clough...

In which case neither applies!

 

[Japhet]

Think I need to pull you up on Clough, Japhy me old son - he scored 251 goals in 274 games (albeit in the Second Division). Of players in the 200+ goals club he has the highest goal to games ratio of any player in English football history. If he hadn't been scythed down by a goalkeeper at the age of 27 and had his cruciate ligaments mangled he would have likely scored a lot more. It's true he may not have been famous as a player, but he was still a very, very good one.

Unless you're talking about Nigel Clough...

In which case neither applies!

Good player but only 2nd division. The Teemu Pukki of his day.

 

[rez9000]

Good player but only 2nd division. The Teemu Pukki of his day.

That's a bit harsh on Clough!

 

[shelfboy68]

We must be doing something right because all I have had since Saturday evening is "you won't last long at the top", "we are lucky and or boring".
Personally I'm enjoying being hard to beat and a ruthless streak in scoring goals, all this abuse I've got has come from west ham fans would you believe. ?

 

[UbeAstard]

Testament to how well we defended, Mahrez couldn't get a kick last week, he's took it out on Burnley today.