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Last night it felt like we got back on track a little. The team, the fans, the fans on social media… it all felt a bit more ‘together’. The opposition wasn’t great, of course, but I’m sure there were many Spurs fans who, like me, half expected an upset. Starting off with the performance: it […]
- WindyCOYS
- 5 minute read
- 30th October 2014 at 11:33
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Our expectations are – or should be – lower this season. But not significantly low as to shrug off a 1-0 home defeat to one of the league’s poorer sides, a side that had not beaten us at White Hart Lane since 1984, the year of my birth. And especially when the performance was also so […]
- WindyCOYS
- 5 minute read
- 22nd September 2014 at 15:57
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Ins: Davies Vorm Dier Fazio Stambouli Yedlin (to join next year) Outs: Sandro Dawson Sigurdsson Livermore Fryers Falque Obika Coulibaly Released professionals: Gomes, Gallifuoco, Lancaster, Michael-Percil, Miles, Stewart, McQueen, Dombaxe and Vigouroux. Firstly, I’m glad that’s over – I don’t enjoy the way the transfer window works, and how loopy it can send people. But […]
- WindyCOYS
- 4 minute read
- 2nd September 2014 at 09:23
- 21 comments
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At the beginning of August I wrote about how our 25-man squad is shaping up. After the sale of one ‘home grown’ player (Dawson), the loan of two others (Fredericks and Carroll) and the signing on a non-home grown player (Fazio), I thought I’d follow it up. To summarise the rule again, we are able […]
- WindyCOYS
- 2 minute read
- 30th August 2014 at 11:42
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Michael Dawson is a throwback. Not just in terms of his on-pitch style – courageous and uncompromising – but also his off-pitch demeanour. Even his haircut – a short back and sides, generally swept across his forehead – is reminiscent of the era in which footballers like Dawson came from; an era when money didn’t […]
- WindyCOYS
- 3 minute read
- 26th August 2014 at 18:59
- 26 comments