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    West Ham fans caught chanting anti-semitic songs about Tottenham

    "West Ham have vowed to ban a group of supporters filmed engaging in antisemitic chants on their way to the club’s Premier League match at Manchester United. "In the latest in a recent series of incidents of racist abuse in football, the group were filmed singing an abusive song about rivals...
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    Harry Winks would be in England’s World Cup team if Southgate named his XI now

    Danny Murphy: "Name me a better English midfielder than Harry Winks. ... I believe he can become one of the finest midfielders this country has seen." Read the full article at Evening Standard
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    Ugo Ehiogu has died

    Sadly, he didn't make it through the night, after his cardiac arrest. Read the full article at OS
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    Warren Mitchell has died

    A lifelong Spurs supporter, of course. Read the full article at BBC News As well as being a Spurs supporter, Jewish and a wonderful actor, he was also a prominent member of the British Humanist Association and the Labour Party - and thus someone for whom I had a hell of a lot of respect, on a...
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    14 FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges

    This could be interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html Not sure if 14 have actually been arrested, but there are 14 names in the indictment. And some of the 14 do not work directly for FIFA.
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    So what does finishing 5th mean for the future?

    From what one reads here, finishing outside the top 4 is either an indictment of the club ownership for lack of ambition, or it's an inevitable product of economic determinism (sugar daddy syndrome - our lack of one), or it's the result of not having broken the bank to sign a new striker back in...
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    Huddlestone - he has his uses

    As others have suggested, although he is not individually our best player, Huddlestone is the most important squad member to keep our team functioning - and winning and scoring. I have just spent fifteen minutes working out how we have performed in our 18 matches so far this season, with and...
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    Luka signs new six-year contract

    Source: Official Site The Club is delighted to announce that Luka Modric has signed a new six-year contract which runs until 2016. Speaking about his new contract and future ambitions, Luka said, "Tottenham Hotspur gave me my chance in the Premier League and I want to go on to achieve great...
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    Top 4 teams - "dropped points"

    I've copied this off Spurs Odyssey, because I think it's a job worth doing and well done. And I agree with it. There's not much in it, as I would have suspected.
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    “Defence is the best form of attack”

    No, it’s not a typo and I know the cliché is supposed to be the other way around. But I think that, if there’s one thing that we can learn tactically from this season, it’s that the key to our attacking football has been our ability to defend. There has been all manner of fuss made about...
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    Small world and other clichés

    And about how it sometimes pays to use your real name on a website: My partner was fostered as a child and recently she re-established regular contact with her most important foster-parents and some of her foster-siblings. But one of her foster-brothers lives in Buenos Aires, which is a very...
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