Daily Archives: Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Wednesday Champions League open thread A little late, sorry! Have at it.

With Spurs not having played a game since the already picked-apart display against Everton and with little other news to analyze, I’m turning for this piece to an issue which, while not all that immediately relevant, is still a matter of interest for anyone out there’s who’s as interested in stats and player roles as… Read more »

As we have mentioned before on this site, Tom Huddlestone is growing out his hair. In a bid to raise awareness of his cause to raise money for Cancer Research UK, Huddlestone isn’t cutting his hair until he scores his next goal. Huddlestone recently had season-ending ankle surgery, so he won’t be doing that for… Read more »

Did you ever doubt that Tottenham Hotspur were amazingly and horribly attacking? If you did, the managers of the Premier League say you need a new set of eyes. A poll of Premier League managers turned up Spurs as the league’s most attacking side and it wasn’t particularly close. The team took 75% of the… Read more »

Happy Wednesday, Spursland! Spring has officially sprung and that, my friends, can only mean one thing — a massive movement of gambling that’s legality is “questionable.” For our English friends, I am talking about the NCAA basketball tournament. Now, I can only assume that people in your country are, like in mine, degenerate gamblers since… Read more »

“Players lose you games, not tactics. There’s so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.” – Brian Clough, on England’s exit from Euro 2000 Brian Clough is almost as famous for his aversion to tactical analysis as he is for being a damn good football manager, which… Read more »