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Fergus

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I think we all have to be a little bit odd to support Spurs. A bit of oddness is a valuable trait in a journalist - compare JL's match reports to the blow-by-blow accounts from his colleague Barney Ronay.
 
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Cochise

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I just cannot understand how Roy Keane was ever a Spurs fan. We could win the league and he'd still focus on how every other club fucked up. The man cannot bring himself to openly praise us.
 
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Cambridge Spur

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Cochise said:
I just cannot understand how Roy Keane was ever a Spurs fan. We could win the league and he'd still focus on how every other club fucked up. The man cannot bring himself to openly praise us.
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I’ve never been more sure that he’s a spurs fan. He sounds just like everyone in here, myself included 🤣
 
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Neville seems to be unable to comment on or understand how Ange has our fullbacks positioned. During games he seems to only be able to comment on where he would have stood, under instruction from Fergie. It's really tiring to listen to. Sometimes we get exposed, but it's not the full backs fault. Other times we leave space backing our centre backs to deal with it
 
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allatsea

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thekneaf said:
Neville seems to be unable to comment on or understand how Ange has our fullbacks positioned. During games he seems to only be able to comment on where he would have stood, under instruction from Fergie. It's really tiring to listen to. Sometimes we get exposed, but it's not the full backs fault. Other times we leave space backing our centre backs to deal with it
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Neville failed as a Manager so I have never understood why people care what he says or thinks.
 
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I don't care what he thinks. It bothers me I need to listen to it during a match, and the there are millions of people getting their football education from an idiot
 
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allatsea said:
Neville failed as a Manager so I have never understood why people care what he says or thinks.
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People get bothered by it because he has been appointed as the leading pundit by the biggest sports broadcaster in the country.
 
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thekneaf said:
Neville seems to be unable to comment on or understand how Ange has our fullbacks positioned. During games he seems to only be able to comment on where he would have stood, under instruction from Fergie. It's really tiring to listen to. Sometimes we get exposed, but it's not the full backs fault. Other times we leave space backing our centre backs to deal with it
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He is poor in that sense, but he did pick up on the fact we still have/had a style and a fluidity to our play with several missing. As with all pundits, he has good moments and bad. He does pick up on things others don't at times.
 
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PaulM

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thekneaf said:
Neville seems to be unable to comment on or understand how Ange has our fullbacks positioned. During games he seems to only be able to comment on where he would have stood, under instruction from Fergie. It's really tiring to listen to. Sometimes we get exposed, but it's not the full backs fault. Other times we leave space backing our centre backs to deal with it
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What Ange does with the full backs is very high risk. I think it's fair of Neville to comment on that. Many times particularly in our last 3 games, we've been exposed defensively in wide areas because our full backs have pushed on too far or are too far in-field. It's a fair criticism. However, the other side of that is that we dominated midfield (and consequently the game) yesterday partly because our full backs came in to support the midfield 3 and helped outnumber Man U.

Ange said after the game yesterday that there is no perfect football system. Every system has strengths and weaknesses and the weakness of his is how exposed we become defensively because of how we use full backs. It's risky but there is significant reward when it works.
 
Japhet

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PaulM said:
What Ange does with the full backs is very high risk. I think it's fair of Neville to comment on that. Many times particularly in our last 3 games, we've been exposed defensively in wide areas because our full backs have pushed on too far or are too far in-field. It's a fair criticism. However, the other side of that is that we dominated midfield (and consequently the game) yesterday partly because our full backs came in to support the midfield 3 and helped outnumber Man U.

Ange said after the game yesterday that there is no perfect football system. Every system has strengths and weaknesses and the weakness of his is how exposed we become defensively because of how we use full backs. It's risky but there is significant reward when it works.
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Was very obvious to me yesterday that several instances of sloppy passing further up the pitch led to us being under loads of pressure at the back. I'm confident that improves when we have a better choice of players at our disposal. On several occasions Utd. didn't have to win the ball, we just gave it straight to them.
 
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PaulM

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Japhet said:
Was very obvious to me yesterday that several instances of sloppy passing further up the pitch led to us being under loads of pressure at the back. I'm confident that improves when we have a better choice of players at our disposal. On several occasions Utd. didn't have to win the ball, we just gave it straight to them.
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I think that’s a fair point and we’ve been missing a lot of players recently. I guess the real test though of the risk is when we’re playing in a high pressure game. That’s when mistakes are more likely even from the best players.
 
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