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  1. Pre-season is over, the scouting has been done and loan moves are starting to happen now. This week we’ve gone from having one player out on loan to having five: Grant Ward – Rotherham United (Championship) – January Nathan Oduwa – Rangers (Scottish Championship) – season Dominic Ball – Rangers (Scottish Championship) – season Shaq […]
    • WindyCOYS
    • 4 minute read
    • 15th August 2015 at 09:23
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  2. First thing’s first: it was a friendly, so let’s not take too much to heart. We can get an impression of a player or a style, but the intensity of friendlies is so much lower than that of a Premier League match, especially at altitude. It’s easy for players to stand out when there is […]
  3. Some people are turned off by statistics in football. Frequently I get responses when I tweet basic stats saying ‘I use my eyes’ – or words along those lines – disregarding any form of data or numbers. That’s fine – we all appreciate football in different ways. Well, I unashamedly like data. I don’t ‘do’ […]
    • WindyCOYS
    • 3 minute read
    • 18th July 2015 at 13:24
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  4. Prior to the past few seasons I have written about how our 25-man squad is shaping up in line with the ‘home grown’ rule. I have been asked to do the same again this year. To summarise the rule again, we are able to name a 25-man squad if eight of the players are ‘home […]
  5. Like many other Spurs fans, I know very little about our new signing, Kevin Wimmer. To fill us in, my good friend Paul King spoke to UK 1.FC Köln. Firstly, thank you for offering to share your thoughts and knowledge on Kevin Wimmer. What has been the general feeling from FC Köln fans during his […]