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Toby: title assault is built on there being 'no heroes'

mawspurs

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Tottenham's stealthy rise into the top three is built on a philosophy without heroes, according to Toby Alderweireld.

Read the full article at Daily Mail
 

zinzanzee

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OMG quotes in a DM article. This is the sort of stuff that makes you really want to believe. We are a team, we play like a team, we celebrate success like a team and we have done it without having wankers. Everyone has a role and they have bought in to the philosophy of MP. Week on week we are going forwards. COYS.
 

Bilko

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Actually the player I would least like to lose for the rest of the season is him-touching wood at the moment
 

Flitwick

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OMG quotes in a DM article. This is the sort of stuff that makes you really want to believe. We are a team, we play like a team, we celebrate success like a team and we have done it without having wankers. Everyone has a role and they have bought in to the philosophy of MP. Week on week we are going forwards. COYS.
Didi Hamann, in the Huff Post, makes the point that the obscene amounts of money in the English game is damaging, dangerously, the quality......anyone who can walk straight becomes an overnight star.....the antithesis of how Spurs are run. He says it's a bubble about to burst for many teams unless they change their ways. Need to invest in youth not pay inflated prices for second date players to get instant success without solid foundations. Compare Manure and Mansour with us
 

deluded-yid

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I would agree with @Gassin's finest no egos but some definitive hero performances (Hugo/Toby/Dier/Dembele/ Alli and Kane).
That's not to say that the rest of the team isn't pulling it's weight, if anything this squad is the best I can remember for a looong time.
As Toby says 'When one makes a mistake, the other one picks it up. We have togetherness.'
This is a great time to be a former 'Spursy' fan
Coys
 

deluded-yid

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Another set of heroes has to be the away fans. I've watched every game (via tv) this season and I have trouble hearing the home fans in almost all of them.
Well done lads (y)
 

doom

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interesting title - where did that come from? Toby never once mentions going for the title.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Is there a non retard version of the daily mail?
One that's not littered with pictures and captions that just quote their own text over and over and over?
 

18Klinsmann

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interesting title - where did that come from? Toby never once mentions going for the title.

Spot on. Taking one game at the time is part of the team's current successful approach. I'm not saying we can't win the league this season, but let's forget about the title for now and concentrate on the next game. If we're within three points of the title in late April we can begin to talk about winning the title. For now there's no need to put more pressure on ourselves when we're doing incredibly well.
 

db1

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I was reading something recently in which Oxford philosopher RG Collingwood called the Daily Mail ' the first English newspaper for which the word "news" lost its old meaning of facts which a reader ought to know...and acquired the new meaning of facts, or fictions, which it might amuse him to read'. I thought he summed it up perfectly. Edit he died in around the 1940's I think, so shows they've been that way for some time!
 

guiltyparty

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interesting title - where did that come from? Toby never once mentions going for the title.

That's why the only bit in quotes is the end. That is the Mail's doing, but we clearly a) would like to win the league and b) have an unexpected but very good chance to do so due to a strong season, while the usual suspects have faltered. So it's not *total* horseshit to call the situation that
 

Chris_D

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I really like the work ethic in this current side. Credit has to go to Poch, it was brave to cut so many at once like Adebayor, Paulinho and Kaboul but it seems to be working. If we'd started badly the pressure on him would have been immense.
 
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