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spursfan77

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I thought about bumping this after watching Danny Murphy on the Debate last nigh. Spoke really well on us actually. Worth watching if you can catch it.
 

yiddopaul

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I find it amusing that when Mourinho went to United/every other club, he's world class. Joins us, and I hear "Is Jose still relevant". We're just not allowed to have good things are we - according to some.
 

Shadydan

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I find it amusing that when Mourinho went to United/every other club, he's world class. Joins us, and I hear "Is Jose still relevant". We're just not allowed to have good things are we - according to some.

He's been getting a lot of good press as well.
 

SugarRay

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I find it amusing that when Mourinho went to United/every other club, he's world class. Joins us, and I hear "Is Jose still relevant". We're just not allowed to have good things are we - according to some.

The fact Sky and BT have practically ran with a Jose story as the headline for all their coverage since he come back suggests that he’s at the very least, still relevant. He’s the biggest story in the game in this country right now. It takes something big to leapfrog the Liverpool love in on them two channels but Jose to us, seemingly has.
 

dontcallme

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I find it amusing that when Mourinho went to United/every other club, he's world class. Joins us, and I hear "Is Jose still relevant". We're just not allowed to have good things are we - according to some.
TBF after getting sacked at Chelsea and how he left Utd he already had detractors. This isn't an anti-Spurs thing.
 

Thenewcat

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Dillspur

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I like Stafford Bloor a lot but I think writing off Dier is premature. He had a nightmare last year with illness but he’s still only 25. If he can get back to 2016-17 form he’d be a real asset

I disagree, he needs to be better than 16/17. He had a good season, but I always felt if he wanted to stay as a CM he needed to improve, TBF he didn't get the chance what with injuries but we need more than a 16/17 Dier
 
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United fans (especially journos) seem to be very salty about him/us.

They've spent the last few years sniffing after Poch and claiming they're big enough to poach him, and then whining about how Mourinho was/is crap, and how Woodward would back Poch more than we would.

Reality is now, it seems that Woodward has admitted to blocking a lot of Mourinho's transfers, we've now got Mourinho and he seems fresh as a daisy, and it seems that they're in complete denial that they hounded out the best/most successful manager they've had since Ferguson, and are bent out of shape with the whole scenario.

A bit like an ex-girlfriend that the ex-boyfriend says he hates, but it destroys him inside to see her happy with someone new.
 

dagraham

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Sep 20, 2005
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I disagree, he needs to be better than 16/17. He had a good season, but I always felt if he wanted to stay as a CM he needed to improve, TBF he didn't get the chance what with injuries but we need more than a 16/17 Dier

What we really need is a 16/17 Wanyama.
 

Gb160

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Jun 20, 2012
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The fact Sky and BT have practically ran with a Jose story as the headline for all their coverage since he come back suggests that he’s at the very least, still relevant. He’s the biggest story in the game in this country right now. It takes something big to leapfrog the Liverpool love in on them two channels but Jose to us, seemingly has.
Interestingly, NBCSN have decided to show our 3pm game on Saturday.
You might think thats not anything to note but Liverpool are also playing at 3pm....I cannot for the life of me remember them choosing to show a Spurs match over a Liverpool match, they fucking love the scousers.
It's Jose, he's box office.
 

doctor stefan Freud

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Sep 2, 2013
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Interestingly, NBCSN have decided to show our 3pm game on Saturday.
You might think thats not anything to note but Liverpool are also playing at 3pm....I cannot for the life of me remember them choosing to show a Spurs match over a Liverpool match, they fucking love the scousers.
It's Jose, he's box office.
Levy got to start charging tenners pay per view for Mourinho’s post match interviews
 

Thenewcat

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I disagree, he needs to be better than 16/17. He had a good season, but I always felt if he wanted to stay as a CM he needed to improve, TBF he didn't get the chance what with injuries but we need more than a 16/17 Dier

Dier was critical to the success of the early Poch side. It was his ability to drop between Jan and Toby when the full backs went forward that gave us the tactical flexibility to play 4 at the back without the call and 3 with it. He was also a simple but effective passer.
 

Dillspur

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Dier was critical to the success of the early Poch side. It was his ability to drop between Jan and Toby when the full backs went forward that gave us the tactical flexibility to play 4 at the back without the call and 3 with it. He was also a simple but effective passer.

Don't get me wrong, he was very good but he needed to improve, I remember a number of times he dilly dallied on the ball getting pressed and us conceding (a game against pool immediately springs to mind), i felt he was also guilty of trying the long pass way too often thinking he was Pirlo
he was always better playing it simple.

I want him to be better than he was, he has a great attitude but I'm not sure he can be.
 

Spurslove

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Jul 6, 2012
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I wonder how many Spurs fans are like me, in a bit of a state of confusion right now. I've hated Mourinho for years and everything he stood for. The very worst thing for me was that he seemed to be Chelsea through and through. I hated him. I could barely stand to look at him, the little scrote, let alone listen to him, with all the press hanging on his every word. Every time he opened his big gob he made back page headlines and created controversy. I hated the football his teams played and I hated the way he always seemed to fall out with his own players, and when Poch got sacked, I was very sceptical about him coming in to replace him.

But his arrival has brought out the raving hypocrite in me and in the short space of time he's been with us, I'm afraid I've grown to quite like him. He has said all the right things and we've won two out of two, beating the pikey scum in the process, and away...!

I'm not sure I know how to live with myself right now. He said last night, the first thing he did at half time yesterday, was to go over to Eric Dier and apologise to him for taking him off after a half hour, because he thought he (Eric) was very upset about it, (as any player would be) and he explained to him that the substitution was purely tactical, and nothing to do with him personally.

Mourinho has been so respectful to us, our squad of players, the academy, the fans and the incredible facilities he has to work with. Not one whinge (well, not yet anyway...)

Sorry to say it guys and gals, but his charm offensive is working on me and I'm deeply ashamed of myself. I can barely stand to look at myself in the mirror, but fuck it. I like what he's doing. There, I've said it Goddamit.

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glacierSpurs

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Interestingly, NBCSN have decided to show our 3pm game on Saturday.
You might think thats not anything to note but Liverpool are also playing at 3pm....I cannot for the life of me remember them choosing to show a Spurs match over a Liverpool match, they fucking love the scousers.
It's Jose, he's box office.
I love watching NBCSN coverage of the league. Exciting and neutral IMO. And they really love us; always showing our match.
 

Danners9

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In the mailbox today, Steve from Los Angeles (5 down) is calling out F365 for their coverage of Spurs since Mourinho took over.


He cites 3 articles, including the one you posted.

I had noticed a bit of an odd slant on their pieces, even if Sarah Winterburn's turns into a positive by the end. She says about Dier: off the pitch and under a bus, the first bloody victim of this Mourinho era at Tottenham.

There are others who also seem intent on finding a negative angle to a positive story. Spurs win, Mourinho makes an early sub and the game turns around but Tom Williams for ESPN says 'the mask begins to slip' - because he made a sub and was angry at being 0-2 down.
 

dudu

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I love watching NBCSN coverage of the league. Exciting and neutral IMO. And they really love us; always showing our match.

Me too, I often watch it over Sky or BT. I have really started disliking Gary Neville and his punditry over the last year or so and BT is a shit show half the time. That being said I did watch the west ham game on UK TV as I wanted to hear what they had to say about Jose and everything surrounding the previous week's drama.
 
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