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  1. Pochettino’s five-year project
    Football is obsessed with an immediate return on investment. New signings are expected to hit the ground running. Managers (or Head Coaches) who don’t bring about an instantaneous ‘bounce’ are viewed suspiciously. Changes in tactics are seen as failed experiments if they don’t positively impact results straight away. In 2014, sports scientists at Sheffield Hallam University published a study titled ‘You […]
  2. Plan B or not Plan B…
    Before Mauricio Pochettino joined Tottenham Hotspur there were warnings from those who had watched him closely at Southampton that his one big failing was his inflexibility. It was so pleasing, then, to see him suspend his renowned pressing system for our match against Arsenal in September, so early in his reign. It demonstrated that, when […]
  3. Finding Yedlin
    I’m getting asked a few times a week (normally when the U21s are about to play!) where DeAdre Yedlin is, so I thought I’d post this so I’ve got something to refer to when I’m telling people I don’t know where he is! DeAndre made his debut for Spurs U21s in the 3-1 win against […]
    • WindyCOYS
    • 2 minute read
    • 10th March 2015 at 13:35
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  4. That Was the Week That Was
    Wembley Woes or an Arch of Ambition? As Field Marshal Pochettino sent his troops off to the front line on Sunday (apologies, I couldn’t resist continuing my military analogy that I began on this week’s Fighting Cock podcast!) my optimism concealed a fear that we would be up against a wounded José Mourinho who would […]
    • WindyCOYS
    • 7 minute read
    • 3rd March 2015 at 13:52
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  5. Contracts up in 2015
    I thought this was worth documenting as it’s something that comes up regularly. We have several first-team players with contracts expiring this summer: Brad Friedel Jordan Archer Benoît Assou-Ekotto Bongani Khumalo We then have youngsters with unknown contract lengths who I suspect might be released if their deals are expiring: Cristian Ceballos Tomislav Gomelt Rúben […]

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