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Match Thread – Will Spurs Give Fans Something To Ole About Or Will It Be Another Dis-United Showing

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Tottenham Hotspur fans can be forgiven for moving quickly on from the embarrassment that was the Newcastle United clash last weekend and with a point doing absolutely nothing for our hopes for a strong end to the 2020/21 Premier League campaign, many are again simply looking for a more Spurs like performance when we face Manchester United this coming Sunday.

Welcoming Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Red Devil’s to White Hart Lane, we all know this isn’t going to be an easy game at all as they will be hoping to chase local neighbours City down at the top of the table and cement their own second place finish this year. We still hanker on hopes of another Champions League adventure ourselves, but whether our ‘pragmatism’ under manager Jose Mourinho will see us get there is an entirely different story.

In terms of team news, Spurs will again be without Ben Davies and Matt Doherty, but the jury remains out on the returns of Toby Alderweireld and Serge Aurier as we see if there’s another chapter to the story of the ‘curious case of the Covid tests’.

Smoke, mirrors, behind the scenes shenanigans – we just have to hope the real Spurs show up, or this could get ugly. Or is that uglier?

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  • Danny Winter says:

    My twopenneth having caught up.

    Clearly a foul.

    Not worth more than a yellow card, if even that as I don’t buy deliberate in a violent sense, but it was definitely clumsy – but clumsy is usually punished with a foul.

    Even if Son was caught more sharply than it looked, a nail scratch – the reaction is everything that’s wrong with the current game but it’s been encouraged over the last decade or more, so I might hate it, but we aren’t alone, we aren’t the worst and neither are we the most obvious with that crap.

    Ole should look in a mirror at his players antics if he wants to save some money by not feeding people (how often has Penandez been shot multiple times for penalties when he was the one committing the foul?) – Son might have been up there with them in that game, but he wasn’t the one saying ‘please referee…more’.

    Ole’s tiny little childish tantrum to take the spotlight of his own fakers actually makes Mourinho more credible – which is frightening.

    The wiser amongst us on this forum probably wouldn’t have even gone down with a slap like that (even assuming it came sharper than it looked), having a few years of youth on some of the more esteemed members of Vital Spurs, I’ve had similar and gone down, but then bounced straight back up to ask if I’ve been cut and I’m bleeding. If I’d have rolled around like modern players, even at school, my backside would’ve been rather painful from the stud imprints encouraging me to get up and get on with it.

  • BelgianSpur says:

    I guess the real question for me is “what is the ceiling of this squad with a different manager at the helm?”.

    If we come to the conclusion that even with a different manager, we’d still be looking at question marks in a number of different positions (GK, CB, RB, AM to name a few), and that the “best-case scenario” with a new manager is merely being in the conversation for top 4, then I fail to see the point.

    If we are convinced that there is a manager out there who can fix a number of our players, get the team performing for him, and is willing to take the job, then fine. But I just can’t see who that man might be, let alone whether he’d even be remotely interested in the job.

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