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During the England vs Wales match on Thursday, my Twitter-friend Dan Rattigan tweeted ‘England don’t deserve Kane’. I chortled to myself in the pub, hit the retweet button, and carried on my day. But then I came back to it later that night and realised how much it had resonated with me. England don't deserve […]
- WindyCOYS
- 3 minute read
- 18th June 2016 at 11:22
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70 points for 70 points. We’re a good team. An actual, properly good team. I’ve loved this season, despite the way it ended. In an article I contributed to last week, I said it’d be a 6/10 season if we finished below Arsenal. In hindsight, I can’t hold us to that. 7/10 minimum; so much […]
- WindyCOYS
- 12 minute read
- 20th May 2016 at 11:08
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On this week’s Fighting Cock podcast we had a lengthy discussion about the Chelsea match, specifically the ‘antics’ of our players. I felt I needed to get it out of my system — I was really angry at their behaviour, and I used some strong language — ‘ashamed’ being one such word. I stand by […]
- WindyCOYS
- 6 minute read
- 7th May 2016 at 14:35
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As I was collecting information for my weekly Fighting Cock Podcast youth update, I put out a call for club-specific info about our loanees. The responses were nuggets of gold, so I decided to form a blog from the bulk of them. And so, without further ado… DeAndre Yedlin – Sunderland (Premier League) @WindyCOYS Good player. […]
- WindyCOYS
- 3 minute read
- 3rd May 2016 at 22:21
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He might not yet be Xabi Alonso, but Eric Dier is developing impressive deep-lying playmaker skills to go alongside his existing defensive talents. Dier’s rise this season would have been the ‘story of Spurs’ season’ in most other campaigns. But, much like how the Premier League has three or four huge stories going on at […]
- WindyCOYS
- 5 minute read
- 14th April 2016 at 09:32
- 11 comments