profspur.bsky.social
Alt account: Amateur footballer and professor, not necessarily in that order. Split time in US / UK. Tottenham Hotspur forever #COYS
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We drink our tea in suits btw
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I did a double take
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I made you a lukewarm herbal tea in a pint glass. Don't be ungrateful.
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I do need them to sponsor my visa so đ¤
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Damn it!
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But if I wanted it to be hotter then yes, straight in the microwave.
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No no this is hot tea because I used the hot water faucet.
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Thinking of making a cup of tea (filling a cup with hot water directly from the faucet then dropping the tea bag in before stirring it around a bit with a coffee spoon).
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Not really expecting you to, because you're 100% assertion, o% rationale.
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Against LC in particular, they played a tired scratch squad
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If you get down to analytic details of eg why we lost to Everton playing a back 3 and why we switched then you can *explain* the result as a personnel problem, not a manager problem.
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People will always say âwell you *should* do better with xyz,â but thatâs actually the *emotional* case for Ange out. Itâs based on pure wishfulness.
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The rational case is rooted in explanation of results, particularly the dramatically different effects of different personnel availability in results against all levels of competition while holding the manager constant.
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Yep
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Wrong
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Nobody said it was bad luck. Itâs what happens when your squad is built for 40 games but you play that by mid-season because youâre actually winning in Europe and the cups.
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Yeah, itâs not even descriptively true that weâre outliers in muscle injuries. The glut of them at the same time created that false impression. I actually counted every injury type in the league. profspur.substack.com/p/is-ange-po...
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Iâm hopeful I can just get one through the club process but if not yeah, I do want one.
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If you attribute the visible craters in the moonâs surface to it being made of cheese, we could feed the worldâs hungry.
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You donât play attention to Spurs, thatâs fine, but we can get TalkSport lines from anyone. That aside from your misunderstanding of the comment youâre replying to.
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If you have the power to decide then you have the power to decide.
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For this fan, he reconnected me with what the game means, what the club can mean, what belief is, what elite achievement means. I love the man, am eternally grateful for that, and what he stands for.
But this decision by levy and the board today, it really has deadened something in me.
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Yes, ups and downs, but, in the context of a total rebuild, in the absence of solid sustained recruitment, with the aftershocks of Kane leaving, and within the always mad constraints of THFC, getting to 5th was good.
At the Fan Forum, I asked Ange a question about values. Hereâs what he said:
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It wasnât inevitable, itâs was a very stupid decision.
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Never
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Thatâs optimistic
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If I were Frank I wouldnât even take the job. Itâs a minefield now.
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What do you do with your hope now? We donât have a fucking manager and our supposed rivals are signing players. Whereâs the direction now? Whereâs the leadership? Will our best players still be there in August? Whatâs the plan? We had good answers to all of those before today. Now we donât.
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I think distant has always been his MO, for strategic reasons. I canât imagine this was really an issue for players.
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Certain members of the team âfeltâ is exactly the right language.
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Also we rarely threw away leads all season. This is not rational, this is emotional.
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But are they joining for the right reasons, the ones we need, like Ange did: to rebuild the reputation of the club and to win silverware? Or are we just a career move?
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They donât, by choice.
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Not less, more.