Ex Spur thread

Edwards looked really bright. Hopefully he's sorted his head out and ready to make the move up?

 

Don't think he did...

If you're talking about the wide player with the blonde hair wearing 56, then that's Keanan Bennetts.
Highlights one of my issues with the scheduling, though. These games come when our players are on international duty.

 

Yet a good opportunity for academy talent to test themselves
against opposition that may include players who are
senior league regulars for their club.

 

It's definitely a useful run out for them, but the lack of physicality at the back can be costly in English football.
Wycombe caused us so many problems last season because we had players that didn't know how to deal with direct play.
It's one reason that loans for young defenders can be so useful.

 

Lol
Shows what I know...... just saw the hair and the nifty footwork....

 

Bennetts was being played out of position at left back, yet provided the assists for Shashoua and Sterling.

Poch must be taking his full back whispering seriously.

 

Swindon Town goalkeeper Lawrence Vigouroux has been banned for four games for using "foul and abusive language" towards match officials.

Vigouroux, 23, was shown a red card after the final whistle of Swindon's 2-1 defeat by Coventry on 26 September.

He will be disciplined by Swindon and miss league games against Cheltenham, Mansfield, Lincoln and Wycombe.

Vigouroux has started all of Swindon's 11 League Two fixtures this season, keeping four clean sheets.

 

If I had one issue with our Academy, it would seem that we have a lot of physically small, skillful players. Yes, CCV is a beast but whenever I've seen us play against Chelsea's youth teams, I'm always struck by how huge their players seem against ours. Physical stature isn't everything [more's the ****ing pity] but have all the good big un's been snapped up by the time Chelsea and Citeh are done flinging their petro-dollars around?

If you take Marcus Edwards, Samuel Shashoua, Alex Pritchard, Kyle Walker-Peters and add in three others and Snow White, Pantomime season's ready for bookings........

"Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to Spurs we go"

 

The "big uns" mindset is what ensures you will never see
a Messi or Modric emerge from the England grass-roots.

I am more concerned by more fundamental matters such as
why are kids who spend ages in academy systems unable
to dribble/pass/shoot reasonably well with both feet etc.

 

Smaller players can put on muscle mass, but brick ****houses can't gain a yard of pace.

The obvious example is if you look at Harry Winks this season compared to a couple of seasons ago and he's clearly put in a lot of time at the gym to bulk up, which makes me think that's what Poch really meant when he said Edwards wasn't physically ready to be a first team regular.

There's other examples too, for example Rio Ferdinand was pretty lanky at West Scam and Leeds but was built like a tank at Man Utd, while there appears to be twice as much of the Oily Rat compared to the kid who did 1500 step-overs per match when he got started at Man Utd.

 

We used to spend hours kicking a ball against a wall left foot,right foot and dribbling around players in the park or school playground. I guess that's old fashioned today.....

 

I thought Chelsea teach their kids to kick opponents with the left foot, right foot, and to keep their mouths shut about what their youth coaches are up to...

 

Kazuyuki Toda returned to Spurs to look for tips for becoming a coach: http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/spurs-tv/features/im-still-a-big-fan---kazuyuki-toda-back-at-spurs/

Eight months ago.

*ahem*

 

One good thing about being a footballer today....they become multi lingual.Do Spurs employ language coaches,I wonder?

 

Thomas Glover had a day to forget as his Central Coast Mariners were hammered 5-1 at home by Newcastle Jets in the opening game of the Australian A League season. He had a reasonable game but was let down by a very poor defence.

 

Yeah - it really is quite something isn't it? Quite an achievement by these very young men that they can go from country to country and pick up an at least decent amount of different languages along the way. By the time they're 30 some of them may easily have lived and worked in three or four different languages! So depressing that I find it virtually unimaginable that British players would do the same.

And yeah - surely the clubs have a program in place whereby the players are taught English. Starting with words/phrases like "one-two" "man on" you'd have thought.

Luckily screaming in pretend pain is the same in all languages.

 

I wonder what Putin's favourite word is for Trump?

 

Peter Crouch has received a unique accolade: a spot in the Guinness Book

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True it's one of those records that may as well be World's Most Successful Footballer Named Peter Crouch, but still...

 

I liked Peter Crouch,except for that moment we went out of the CL helped by his early sending off in Madrid!

 

Crouchy is that rarest of beasts in modern football: a footballer who doesn't take himself so ludicrously seriously it's beyond a parody.