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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 […]
- WindyCOYS
- 3 minute read
- 31st May 2015 at 09:15
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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
- 40 comments