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Mr Pink

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Aug 25, 2010
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Ian Wright has just about the perfect balance for the present-day audience: He absolutely loves his club team, but he loves the game and his country even more. I think that’s where so many pundits (as do fans in general - including myself) go wrong.

Club first for me, always. Respect Wright, real nice touch from him, but that tweet is always going to be controversial given his Arsenal connections. So it's sort of inevitable that he's going to receive stick.

Nothing wrong with him acknowledging our performance, fair play etc, but sometimes wording things a little differently wouldn't attract as much attention.

And speaking for myself only, I get a far bigger buzz from Spurs winning, than enjoying a general entertaining football moment that any team could provide.

In fact there's no comparison, not even close.
 

walworthyid

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Oct 25, 2004
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I can’t say I fully agree with that. There’s not much in it at all IMO, Zaha is a really good player.
I'm a big Zaha fan and while they are different players, son is on a different level to Zaha. Not in terms of talent but in terms of end product. Zaha has amazing skill and natural ability but he doesn't produce anything like the way that son does.
 

lis spur

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Dec 7, 2006
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Wright,Dixon ,Keown are all to be fair pretty balanced towards us,the Scouse brigade ,I think are letting their bias blind them though .
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Aug 31, 2012
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Me too. Always have, since he retired at least!

Really like Lee Dixon as well. Talks sense and is very balanced his comments. Even keown is growing on me.

Shame about Smith and Nicholas.
And all the ex Lolerpools. Souness is ok sometimes I guess, but the rest must be able to smell their own shit 24/7 as their heads are so far up their own arses.
 

easley91

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Jan 27, 2011
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One Eric Bischoff had a book titled "Controversy Creates Cash". That can pretty much sum up the world of the media and punditry, not only in football but in other industries too especially in this day and age of Social Media. The weird, sensationalised headline or quote will generate far higher views/reads/clicks etc. than one that just tells the obvious story.
 

ziggy

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Dec 23, 2003
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Shame about Smith and Nicholas.
And all the ex Lolerpools. Souness is ok sometimes I guess, but the rest must be able to smell their own shit 24/7 as their heads are so far up their own arses.

Alaways hated Nicholas since he always seemed to score against us at the Lane, standing on the shelf that horrible muffled dead sound around the ground except from the away end as he celebrated
 

Dundalk_Spur

The only Spur in the village
Jul 17, 2008
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What I want to know is when did all of you ****s become pundits??

Oh and if you consider yourself pundits then calling you ****s is justified.
 

Marty

Audere est farce
Mar 10, 2005
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Nice article from Michael Cox (tactics-focused journalist) on Son:

http://www.espn.in/football/blog/th...njured-harry-kane-has-saved-tottenhams-season

He says he thinks Son will end his career as the greatest Asian footballer of all time.

Also, interesting insight:

"...he's among the most ambidextrous footballers around. Only Pedro, Sadio Mane and Raheem Sterling are more "balanced" in terms of their attempts at goal this season, and they tend to pull the trigger from closer range, where it's more about composure than technique, where solid contact rather than technical perfection is required. Son is a serious long-range threat with both feet, a rare quality "
I might be showing some historical cluelessness here, but has any Asian footballer ever been as good as Son is now? I can think of players like Kagawa, Nakata, Honda, Park Ji-Sung, but I can't remember any of them having the sort of impact Son's had in the last three seasons.
 

michaelden

Knight of the Fat Fanny
Aug 13, 2004
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I might be showing some historical cluelessness here, but has any Asian footballer ever been as good as Son is now? I can think of players like Kagawa, Nakata, Honda, Park Ji-Sung, but I can't remember any of them having the sort of impact Son's had in the last three seasons.

Dude! I can't believe you forgot Lee Young-Pyo , the shame of it!
 

Ron Burgundy

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Jun 19, 2008
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Not that Andy Cole can really claim to be a pundit, but seriously, I hope they didn't pay him for this:

Cole said on Sky Sports about Son: “I think he is a quality player. He has proved it.”
The former striker added: “He is the unsung hero.”
"If he gets injured, there’s a problem,” added Cole.

I mean, FFS.

Son is an unsung hero: Check
If a key player at Spurs gets injured, it's a problem: Check

The only difference is the narrative has moved from Kane, to Alli and now to Son.

One day, someone will say - actually, Spurs have shown they can deal with injuries fairly well, and they are no different to pretty much any other side: take key players out and they won't be as good.

Until then we are subjected to nonsensical white noise from former players/sh*t pundits
 

BringBack_leGin

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Jul 28, 2004
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Not that Andy Cole can really claim to be a pundit, but seriously, I hope they didn't pay him for this:

Cole said on Sky Sports about Son: “I think he is a quality player. He has proved it.”
The former striker added: “He is the unsung hero.”
"If he gets injured, there’s a problem,” added Cole.

I mean, FFS.

Son is an unsung hero: Check
If a key player at Spurs gets injured, it's a problem: Check

The only difference is the narrative has moved from Kane, to Alli and now to Son.

One day, someone will say - actually, Spurs have shown they can deal with injuries fairly well, and they are no different to pretty much any other side: take key players out and they won't be as good.

Until then we are subjected to nonsensical white noise from former players/sh*t pundits
It’s pretty remarkable that the mass media has yet to realise that we have so many good players and so much quality depth in those attacking areas, all of whom are so I tune with both each other and Pochettino’s demands, that we can actually manage with even 2 or 3 of the first choice 4 out at the same time.

A front three of Lamela, Lucas and Llorente, apart from being amazingly alliterative, would be the sixth best attack in this league.
 

Stevospurs18

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The worst pundit out there with the biggest anti-spurs bias has to be Jamie Redknapp, he always has to get a dig in any chance he gets. I attributed his agenda to Spurs sacking his dad (rightfully after he took his eye of the ball for the England job).

Now that Harry has been speaking very positively about Spurs and Pochettino in recent weeks, it will be interesting to see if his little mini-me changes his opinion also!
 

Gassin's finest

C'est diabolique
May 12, 2010
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I don't know if fans and pundits should be mentioned in the same sentence, though. For me, I actually don't enjoy the game and there is no national team I feel affinity to. I'm just a Tottenham supporter, not a football fan.
Sorry, and absolutely no offence or disparagement to you whatsoever, I have never been able to square this. Surely the reason you support a football team is because you enjoy the sport of football? Wouldn't this be like listening to, or to going to a concert, of a certain type of music or band, when you didn't really like it; say Metallica or something when you're a Jazz man?

Honest question.
 

Gassin's finest

C'est diabolique
May 12, 2010
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I might be showing some historical cluelessness here, but has any Asian footballer ever been as good as Son is now? I can think of players like Kagawa, Nakata, Honda, Park Ji-Sung, but I can't remember any of them having the sort of impact Son's had in the last three seasons.
Son is an undisputed superstar now, and will continue to improve. But the importance and status of Nakata in Japan and east Asia cannot be understated. He was the first of a generation of Japanese footballers to break into Europe in a major way.

Worth a read: https://www.football365.com/news/portrait-of-an-icon-hidetoshi-nakata
 

Everlasting Seconds

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Jan 9, 2014
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Sorry, and absolutely no offence or disparagement to you whatsoever, I have never been able to square this. Surely the reason you support a football team is because you enjoy the sport of football? Wouldn't this be like listening to, or to going to a concert, of a certain type of music or band, when you didn't really like it; say Metallica or something when you're a Jazz man?

Honest question.
Football is broken. The sport is a barren wasteland of criminals and self serving thugs. It's a stupid sport.
But Tottenham is Tottenham, you know.
 
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