adampowley.bsky.social
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It’ll change, and fast, if the players play in a team getting results. Nature of the game. But yes that’s an added pressure on the new bloke.
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And it shows. All about him.
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The new football season and Fulham v Wolves, Saturday 12.30 can’t come soon enough.
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Frankie goes to bother. Good.
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You've seen the script?
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Good call.
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‘Now now then, me young fella me lad. Come quietly or it’s the bracelets and irons for you.’ How was that, darling?
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Me neither, and didn’t think you were. Just replying, that’s all.
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Which is what? Spurs are London based, big fanbase, bags of tradition and have been one of the most commercially focused clubs since 1982. 'Financially stable' ain't much of an achievement. Property development is only amazing when it brings achievement on the field.
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what the? 'Elees 17'?
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Is it ‘overrated’?
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Hah, spot on.
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Preferable to Junior.
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It’s three hours long?
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Hah, we are legion.
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You rang?
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Excellent demonstration of how to use sausages as a breakwater.
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The owners sign off. They are in charge. They can't - or should not be able to - hide behind delegation anymore.
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quicker and cheaper - you got that dead right. Add in easier and expedient.
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Agreed. But what do Enic actually stand for? Three trophies in 24 years. As @jwsidders.bsky.social says, the 9th 'richest' club in the world and having to tighten its belt while freezing out OAPs. Always jam tomorrow.
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I'm not convinced. The manager is so key - why else are they the ones who are sacked? - to implementing a style of play. Successive managers have been almost polar opposites.
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And so therefore it's on those who employ and appoint them.
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When the ninth richest football club in the world says it cannot afford to compete for major honours you know something has gone seriously wrong with the way it is run.
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Yep. Though less of the 'we' 😉
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And neither of them were first choices. That should tell us something.
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I think they've been given quite enough of supporter understanding tbh.
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It might (that's debatable IMO: having the bravery to stick to a plan has merits) but in which case it's still a failure and still their fault. They can't 'delegate' their way out of this one.
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This is on them. If it is a failure - and if sacking your Operation Project Painful Rebuild after two years for yet another reset is not a failure, then I don't know what is - it's their failure.
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You make some good points in explaining the decision, but with respect, that's not the concern. The issue is why such a decision needs to be made (for the 14th time). However a club is sliced and diced, the people responsible are those who are in charge. >>
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Can't ignore the league form. Or the background changes. Or what might happen in the summer re: spending (we'll see). If AP had finished 6th in the PL and not won anything would he still be in post? Probably.
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Important but more to it than that IMO.