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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    Bigoted: unreasonably prejudiced and intolerant. OED. He references "the players". The definition justifies the description. His words justify the description. Blaming a group of people, most of whom he has had no contact with, and doesn't even know, over a period of twenty years, for...
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    He's prejudiced against the players he has worked with in the last eighteen months or so and those at the club previously in the last twenty years. He specified twenty years. He's prejudiced against Tottenham players he has never worked with and possibly in some cases never even seen. All of...
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    We did have a discernible strategy when Poch left. It was to get an elite coach in, Jose Mourinho, who was saying that the squad was wonderful, and leave him to prove it. The strategy was wrong because it did not take the ethos of the club into account, but took the fact that he had been a...
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    I've explained my reasoning. What's yours?
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    The problem with that is that he is talking about twenty years. How many players who were in the team twenty years ago are still playing for Tottenham now? Ten years? Even five years ago. There are very few left. That's the problem with talking about "the players". It's like talking about "the...
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    He's protecting his self-image.
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    Harry Kane

    False premise. Do you think he would prefer cereal for breakfast or steak for lunch?
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    That is not how I understood it. There was £150 million made available in the summer of 2022 by ENIC (almost definitely funded by them through loans, which are likely to be have also been drawn down in tranches too by ENIC themselves) to be drawn down for shares to be issued by the club. Of...
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    Which doesn't exist, because the idea was dropped before the stadium opened.
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    Match Threads Spurs Vs Nottingham Forest

    Not necessarily. Have you asked her opinion?
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    It stinks of acting like a fan.
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    Dog in a manger?
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    "I'm ready to die for this club (until the end of the season), but I'm not going to kill myself." If that is not a plea to be put out of his misery I don't know what is.
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    What's your name again? ;)
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    Tottenham Takeover Talk

    No, because only Tottenham had such a large debt to service because of the stadium cost.
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