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    Team for West Ham...

    You forgot Presidents Andrew Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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    Santiago Gimenez: Tottenham’s Prime Target

    Although he was undoubtedly a superb player, he played in a variety of positions where he was either scoring or creating goals, so he wasn't an out-and-out goalscorer. I should have remembered Hasselbaink, Van Persie and Suarez. Maybe I was trying to forget them because they played for such...
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    Santiago Gimenez: Tottenham’s Prime Target

    Apart from Ruud van Nistelrooij, I can't think of any specialist strikers/centre forwards from the Dutch league who've been successful in the PL. I'd be a bit wary.
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    The NFL Thread

    Another example is Steve Tasker (officially a receiver) of the Bills. If memory serves, some other team cut him before he played a game for them, the Bills grabbed him, and the rest is history (possibly HOF-level history, in some people's opinion). Edit: Tasker played 9 games during his time...
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    Harry Kane

    I remember reading a few months ago that Bayern would be paying him 25 million euros a year, which would be about 480K euros a week. When you throw in his income from endorsements, incentive clauses and so on, he's doing quite all right, thank you very much, just like Harry with his daytime job...
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    Germany moves from Adidas to Nike...

    I thought the adidas/DFB partnership only began about 1970. Adidas have also made every ball used in World Cup tournaments from 1970 to date.
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    The England Thread

    For the last 20-odd years, Brazil's team's been living on the achievements of its predecessors. I haven't seen anyone recently to mention in the same breath as Zico, Socrates and Ronaldo, let alone Pele or Garrincha (a name I only know by his great reputation).
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    Harry Kane

    Nail on head. I've been following the game for more than 50 years, and I can't remember them having anything even remotely resembling a bad break. You could put some Arsenal officials in a big room full of 100 identical boxes. 99 boxes would be full of dust and rubble, and the 100th would be...
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    Ange set for Aussie homecoming as Spurs to play at MCG … three days after PL season ends

    The MCG has AFL games scheduled for Saturdays May 18 and 25, so the grounds crew will have plenty of time to do the necessary work before and after the Spurs/Bar-codes game. The AFL won't suffer financially, so it shouldn't be a problem.
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    Gil unhappy at Tottenham and under Postecoglou – Believes ‘he deserves’ more

    As far as I can tell, he isn't. He was born in Catalunya and raised in Andalusia, the southern-most part of mainland Spain. I don't know if the club makes allowances for players with Basque ancestry or whether Gil has any Basque ancestry.
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    The Rugby Thread

    I was fearing a battering by 30-40 points.
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    The Rugby Thread

    They'd be very unusual French if they cheered for England.
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    The Cricket Thread

    Cowdrey, Thorpe, Stewart, Stokes (he reached the landmark earlier in this series)
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    Spurs 'will not entertain Son Heung-min offers amid Saudi links'

    Which league?
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    Daniel Levy may be forced to agree £30m deal if Spurs qualify for Europe

    "Star".
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    Premier League 2023/2024

    They've been ignoring anything Liverpool do for decades, and Liverpool fans still think they're discriminated against.
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    Chelsea fan who aimed Nazi salute at Tottenham supporters punished with three-year football ban

    If he was or is that appalled by Chelscum fans' behaviour, he ought to turn in his season ticket and quit going there.
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    Chelsea fan who aimed Nazi salute at Tottenham supporters punished with three-year football ban

    The fact that he moved from one part of the stadium to another isn't going to change the behaviour within the stadium as a whole, is it?
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    In the long term, all these 'great deals' mean players who can't be shifted. The short-term thinking needs to be binned, because it's hurting the club and the team badly.
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    Harry Kane

    Maradona dragged a so-so Argentina team to the 1986 World Cup. That's part of the reason why he was undoubtedly elite. Then there's Steven Gerrard. How many of those trophies during his time would Liverpool have won without him?
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