Recent content by cjj

I'm not sure it's trolling - just excessive doubling-down on a totally fruitless idea. I've supported spurs for 30+ years, and whilst there was a patch under Poch where it was as good as it has ever been in the PL, it went slowly downhill after he started thinking he was as good as his PR...

Exactly. It was a tight offside call away from being 2-2.

Arsenal and Liverpool leading the table in xWN (expected wet knickers)

They are technically "established" as soon as they get a ton of money spent on them with an 8 year contract. If a club spends £115m on you, for example, you're going to walk into a club feeling like you've already made it

The usual Pochettino line will be to blame the recruitment, then he'll be given it, and he'll make it even worse. Much like Lampard, he's only really a decent coach when he's forced to actually coach, being that young unproven (but coachable) players respond totally differently to expensive...

Pretty much a perfect long range goal. From his own half, into what look like pinpoint middle of the goal, and to a height/power that might have still gone in if the keeper was in his own box.

Only Amadaeus, really - who is chairman of the Caff Pochettino Society

I'd expect that Dorrington and Phillips have just as much of a shout; apparently they are highly rated by the first team staff and better suited to the playing style. I'd also expect to see Davies sooner, even though Dier is on the bench often.

One of those where playing it in slow-motion actually made it look better for Ayew. It was really obvious in real time, but they didn't seem to watch it that way

Because, despite what people have always thought, we were often better without Kane in the team. Not the only case of "high performing individual makes it look like he carries the team, when he actually holds it back". CL final was reached without him, and that summer he wanted to go to City...

It helps distract from the fact that they lost because they self-destructed (incl. booting it into their own net). Their own fans have been "celebrating" the Bissouma red today as if what happened in that other game was even remotely the fault of spurs, too. Liverpool have such a toxic fanbase

"a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result." For example, people wanting to abolish VAR when it would in fact make the 'offside' decision even more offside, considering it wasn't VAR that disallowed the goal. Not...

Isn't there a massive irony in rising sea levels from scouser tears because VAR didn't get involved? The reaction is as if VAR incorrectly disallowed a Liverpool goal - but that isn't what happened. The linesman made a call he'd make as a human almost every time in the 30-or-so seasons that...

VAR is being used as a barefaced vehicle for referees to manipulate results. I think we all thought they would have the brass to do it, but it's basically like putting up CCTV for the thief to just put two fingers up at it without a mask on

The biggest difference between Postecoglu and Pochettino is the big aussie man saying "Listen mate, we can totally win the lot - each game is winnable", whereas Pochettino was always talking down the chances and saying the team "wasn't ready" and "was just a small team punching about their...