Dean Smith becoming the first coach to take charge of successive Premier League matches against the same opponent is going to make for a sensational pub quiz question in ten years.
A really good way of attracting young people to football might be to ensure that they can afford to actually go. Maybe try knocking a few £££s off ticket prices first?
Being unable to field the team you want isn’t the same as being unable to field a team. The PL has made such a mess - and expect this to happen a lot more now.
Harry Kane will likely be the only England player who started the Euro2020 final not to feature this weekend, so holiday/rest doesn’t really cut it as a justification.
That’s what football is all about: standing around in baffled silence, waiting to find out whether a rule may or may not be correctly applied. I’ll never forget where I was!
If you pay £14.95 today, you’ll be paying more tomorrow. Like replica shirts, like tickets, like tv subscriptions, like absolutely everything else in football.
Two types of PL fans in this world: those who know that Luton will beat their team 1-0 at Kenilworth Road next season, and those who assume they’ll win 5-0.
It’s very, very sly. English football is on its knees, and a couple of the wealthiest clubs are teasing rescue cash in exchange for unimpeachable primacy at the top of the game.
If you’re not going to outspend your rivals, which Tottenham aren’t, then you can’t just waste six months of a season waiting for a disinterested coach to leave.
One of those moments which really describes how quickly professional players process the game. The feathered touch is lovely, but to "see" the chance and come up with the best option at that speed is amazing.
Understand why Chelsea sponsors will now consider jumping ship or act like they’re thinking about it, but what did they think they were aligning their brands with before?
That was so badly officiated that it’s difficult to even enjoy a win. An absolute circus - and Brighton’s non-penalty in the second half was as bad a decision as I’ve seen this season.
The impending clash between ten Hag’s attention to detail and a group of Manchester United players who think that they’re better than they really are is going to be… draining.
😳 “The way Arsenal celebrated it was like they’d won the Champions League!”
👀 “The scenes from the players, it was like they’d won the league. I think they over did the celebrations.”
Gabby Agbonlahor wasn’t happy with Arsenal’s celebrations at FT yesterday
Kane sent a group message to the Tottenham squad to say goodbye, but he’s planning on coming back in the next weeks to see players and members of staff
When Pochettino’s full-backs used to get the ball, you could feel the pace of Tottenham’s football increase. When Conte’s wing-backs receive it, they drop down a gear.
Right-back at Tottenham has arguably been among the worst recruited positions in the Premier League over the past five years. The wastage has been extraordinary.
I’m a Tottenham fan who lives in Hamburg and who is about to take a train to Dortmund. It feels like I’m about to complete some perfect triangle of footballing misery.
Antonio Conte's rescaling of achievement might be his most annoying habit at Spurs. No doubt expectation in football needs management, but he makes everything sound so difficult that it's a wonder that the team bus even makes it to away games.
Telling fans to 'get behind their manager' when they have legitimate issues with their club's ownership is like telling them to know their place. It's really, really patronising.
The “should have sold Harry Kane for X” argument only works with the assumption that Tottenham are actually good at recruitment. Otherwise it was just an opportunity to lose a prolific goal scorer and waste a lot of money on players who aren’t as talented.
There’s something unjust about the cameras panning around the Barca players and a coach who’s about to get sacked, while the real architects of that result get to cringe in private.
Daniel Levy's out of moves at Tottenham. There's just no faith or credibility left and there doesn't even seem to be any ownership of the past few years and the many, many bad decisions made.
Moussa Sissoko is one of few players who won me round. There was a real spirit to the way be fought for his career at Tottenham and that was something to admire - and rare, too.
Pancho Arena, home of Puskas Akademia and adjacent to Viktor Orban’s childhood village, might be the most decadent 3,800 capacity stadium ever conceived.
Really had some great times watching Dele Alli play for Tottenham. And even deep within his malaise, there wasn't another player at the club who could have tucked that pass around the corner for Lucas' hat-trick goal in Amsterdam.
This is probably why it's time up for the current decision-makers at Tottenham. They should be offering one of the more attractive jobs in Europe and nobody seems to want it - and that's probably not about the stadium, the PL or the playing squad.
It’s ridiculous that a Kane-less, midfield-less Tottenham knocked this City team out of the Champions League. It seems like some absurd fever dream now.
Jack Grealish has been covered by others, but I do find England’s lack of curiosity quite hard to understand. He’s continually asked to ‘prove’ himself in ways that other players aren’t.
Steve Bruce has to learn to do something else with that group of players. From the moment they took they lead, Newcastle were just waiting to lose - and against a really fragile opponent.
If Man United don’t make a coaching change now, then what are they really waiting for? This isn’t a process, just a never-ending boom and bust cycle which has reached a new low.
💥 Excl. News
#Asensio
: Understand he’s on verge to join Paris on free deal. It’s almost a DONE DEAL.
#PSG
➡️ Advanced negotiations now
➡️ He will sign a contract at least until 2027.
@SkySportDE
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Think the PL need to be a little clearer on what warrants postponement, because otherwise lobbying to have games called off when key players are injured/suspended is just going to become a semi-regular part of the weekend.
Kulusevski is a gem of a player, though. Quite similar in dynamic to the effect that Bale had on AVB’s team in the sense that his were always the most dynamic and destructive touches, and without them the football would be really bland.
Coming to the opinion that VAR can’t work in football now. The misery and boredom it has created just can’t be compensated by providing greater accuracy.