Went to Brighton v Wolves today with friends and pretty sure Wolves away broke into a ‘Tottenham get battered’ chant. Why?

Found this cool graphical representation of executive decision-making at Tottenham Hotspur. Amazing what we can do these days with dataviz.

I guess part of my question here is how much conceptual space is there in English football culture for a neutral fan experience? So even if I'm on my best behavior, is it wrong to be there in that seat?

I get that rival fans said this kind of thing about Kane, though Kane plays much of a game with his back to goal, and I think that's qualitatively different from a CB with the game in front of him who's always looking for cheap leverage on set plays and stuff.

Serious question: My friends (Forest fans) bought me a ticket to Forest v Newcastle this Sunday (at Forest). I'd like to spend the time with them but am feeling a little apprehensive about being there in the home section as a nominal neutral with a major conflict of interest. Thoughts?

By the by, the league needs to investigate CTE rates for ex-pros.

My view remains that ‘form’ is bullshit and home vs away ‘form’ is a basic statistical novelty that signals nothing but variance as seasons come in 38-game samples. Bad teams will have more losses, sometimes unevenly distributed home / away. But ‘home form’ etc. doesn’t relegate teams.

US comms calling them aTHleti is making me become the joker.

Gabriel is the most talented flopper in world football.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen Griezmann have a bad game but he’s had a bad game today.

If you’re getting US comms you have to realize Arsenal are one of the major US casual bandwagon teams and so this is actually a fancast.

Whiniest team in world football

I hate when Arsenal get a corner, not because they might score but because I like watching football and dislike watching people stand around or do hijinks for 6 minutes instead of playing football.

Crazy

Spurs got a lot of shit for slipping at Atleti, curious if anyone will notice how badly City have struggled to stay on their feet here.

Like that right there, Doku grabbed from behind, and it’s a foul. But in the PL now this is totally normalized. Just makes the game less fun to watch.

City still slipping all over and it cost them there

Every tackle is a rugby tackle.

Guehi is a lucky man

Lee Dixon rooting for Everton from the comms chair is unprofessional.

when Jeremy Doku gets shots off

Nico O’Reilly Picks up the ball on the edge of the box where the CB has been Lives in a dream Waits at the touchline Seeking the pass from Doku that he keeps in his mind in advance Was it a chance? …

Everton grounds crew must have done a weekend workshop at Atleti

Strong correlation between waiting for R code to run on large corpora and posting on COYSky

I've said in different ways, with varying delicacy, that I think some of our players get a pass from fans for being charismatic, young, English, and white, while others called 'useless,' 'doesn't care,' etc., are typically black and African players. I'll leave it there.

All the outrage over yesterday you’d think we were the first side to ever play against a weakened team. I mean West Ham themselves played against a half cut Palace without Sarr, Mateta, Wharton… just a few weeks ago

This captures a lot:

Kolo Muani hyping the Spurs fans up as he comes off the pitch

Aston Villa 1 : 2 Spurs ▪ xG: 0.7 - 1.3 ▪ xThreat: 0.87 - 1.26 ▪ Possession: 45.8% - 54.2% ▪ Field Tilt: 42.0% - 58.0% ▪ Def Action Height: 53.1 - 41.6

Gallagher’s dog ole ole Gallagher’s dog ole ole Gallagher’s dog! Gallagher’s dog! Gallagher’s dog ole ole

Possess the ball, don’t let your opponent gain free territory, build out from the back. Play protagonist football and get results.

Well the goal conceded ruined my FPL gambit but we move

I was apprehensive when we signed Gallagher yesterday and he turned up for the first time this afternoon but he’s been pretty good.

Vinai and Lange, get lost

He’s not my style of player but it’s hard not to like Palhinha at his most Palhinhaish.

The pressing

Kolo Muani is eating today

HT: That’s how you control a match through possession dominance and defend with the ball. Fake-ass analysts with pinwheel charts told you French and Brazilian internationals couldn’t keep or pass a ball because that would mean Frank is not actually a good tactician.

PRU PRU MOTHERF

Comms talking about Spurs ‘urgency,’ ‘desire,’ and ‘work rate’ bc they’re so beholden to English football centrism that they haven’t figured out the difference is we have possession of the ball and ideas of how to do that. It was our choice to be poor and poorly coached and now it’s not.

Haha we look like we’re playing against ourselves under Frank. Free shots from edge of the box for professional footballers.

What a fucking goal

Wow

If we go down, can’t we just move straight back up to the first division by mere assertion, like Arsenal did?

I haven’t been posting as frequently as usual on Profspur Analysis, but that’s because I’m saving up for the explanation of this cursed season.

Yep

Spurs have had 6 total pens in the past 3 seasons (including this one). In 2022-23 we had 6.