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Disclaimer: within this article I use various stats. I am most definitely not a statistician, and I apologise in advance if any statisticians read this and cringe at their use within my piece. I hope that I balance their use with descriptive sections about the way that I see our play (rather than just stating […]
- WindyCOYS
- 10 minute read
- 14th May 2015 at 12:31
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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 […]
- WindyCOYS
- 4 minute read
- 1st May 2015 at 10:04
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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 […]
- WindyCOYS
- 6 minute read
- 7th April 2015 at 19:17
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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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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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