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Jack Grealish

AJW

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Jan 7, 2007
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Once again I think the Hotspur Related account has manipulated an article which has a caption next to a picture saying he is our only likely signing. I used to like the account but it is pure click bait summaries these days

He has now deleted his click bait tweet and kept the one saying Grealish is our only signing which looks close
 

SwedishSpurs

Heja Tottenham friskt humör!
Nov 27, 2016
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Seems like Hotspur Related said a deal was imminent (or something like that) according to Daily Mail but he has deleted that tweet now.
 

THFCSPURS19

The Speaker of the Transfer Rumours Forum
Jan 6, 2013
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This is Ricky Sacks again making a lot out based on a single irrelevant line in a general article.
 

freeeki

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Aug 5, 2008
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I've searched back on Twitter, the article does not exist and appears to have originated in a tweet from Ricky Sacks.
 

wrd

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Aug 22, 2014
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My bad guys, I thought he was pretty solid didn't realise he was baiting articles. I tried to find a link but alas.
 

dtxspurs

Welcome to the Good Life
Dec 28, 2017
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This is Ricky Sacks again making a lot out based on a single irrelevant line in a general article.
Different twitter accounts, this was Hotspur Related that is run by some guy named Ross. They are both just aggregator accounts. I don't know why every gets there panties in a wad over them. They don't try to break news, they just relay everything in the papers for the fans so we don't have to follow 20 different accounts that tweet out 100's of things per day.
 

tiger666

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SpartanSpur

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Jan 27, 2011
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I see no reason to go against @Trix on this one. There is the possibility that we could go back and pay big money, but they'd probably hear that first anyway.
 

George94

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Feb 1, 2015
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HotspurRelated is largely nonsense nowadays, to be honest.

A victim of its own success.
Ricky Sacks is definitely the worst bloke on twitter

Think you're both being a little harsh on them to be fair - both are literally just regurgitating the news they find and I personally think it makes it a lot easier for us Spurs fans when trying to find the latest news...

Obviously a fair chunk of the stuff they report will be bullshit, but that's because there's a shit load of articles out there which are bullshit.
 

Univarn

Lost. Probably Not Worth Finding.
Jul 20, 2017
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Think you're both being a little harsh on them to be fair - both are literally just regurgitating the news they find and I personally think it makes it a lot easier for us Spurs fans when trying to find the latest news...

Obviously a fair chunk of the stuff they report will be bullshit, but that's because there's a shit load of articles out there which are bullshit.
I don't have a problem with them conceptually. I do have a problem when they don't double check and just post what others on Twitter have posted. That's when you end up with the Grealish stuff today. No actual source article to go with it, just piggy backing on someone else's very generous interpretation of a throwaway line in an unrelated article.
 

George94

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Feb 1, 2015
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I don't have a problem with them conceptually. I do have a problem when they don't double check and just post what others on Twitter have posted. That's when you end up with the Grealish stuff today. No actual source article to go with it, just piggy backing on someone else's very generous interpretation of a throwaway line in an unrelated article.

Yep I do agree with that - as Uncle Ben once said..

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The Villa fans were rather dismissive of the Mail's original take on the Grealish story, deeming them to be typical of the 'London-centric media' who would always favour Tottenham's side in an article over 'little old Aston Villa'.

Or as one poster rather superbly summarised it:

"Daily Mail - 'Hurrah for the Whiteshirts'."
 

freeeki

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Aug 5, 2008
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Think you're both being a little harsh on them to be fair - both are literally just regurgitating the news they find and I personally think it makes it a lot easier for us Spurs fans when trying to find the latest news...

Obviously a fair chunk of the stuff they report will be bullshit, but that's because there's a shit load of articles out there which are bullshit.

Or in this case, they're regurgitating made-up bollocks from a well-known WUM and citing an actual news outlet as their source.

Not the first time recently they've been caught out with this nonsense.
 
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