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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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This weekend saw Tottenham Hotspur Under-18s lose their final league game of the season – 3-2 to Aston Villa. This means that, despite doing well in the group stage of the competition (finishing second in the South Group behind Chelsea, and going into Group 1 for the Final Stage), we will finish seventh or eighth […]
- WindyCOYS
- 5 minute read
- 12th May 2015 at 20:23
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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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Our U18s are participating in ‘Torneo Internazionale U18 Bellinzona’ in Switzerland over the next few days. It’s a competition we’re familiar with – we actually won it in 2009. There were some familiar faces in the team that won the final against Sporting: Jansson, Smith, Nicholson (Ekim, 55), Cox, Butcher, Caulker, Byrne, Parrett, Oyenuga, Mason, […]
- WindyCOYS
- 2 minute read
- 1st April 2015 at 17:28
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