I truly hate the harsh criticism of Vic this season. www.instagram.com/reel/DV8rtON...

Yeah this was as clear a pen as can be. It’s stuff like this that seriously harms the league.

A couple in the pub this afternoon got mad at me because, as I was delicately squeaking by their 5? year old to avoid his sudden movement, he was angered at my being in the general space and venomously struck me in the thigh, and I burst out in laughter. But, like, it was really funny!

I'm not particularly high on Tudor, but it's facially absurd to talk about sacking him after basically the one good performance we've had in the calendar year. This squad doesn't need anymore fuck-yous, plus it's stupid to try and judge these things with such a limited context of 4-5 games.

How many also had Richarlison - KEEP in their mid-summer squad audit?

What do Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins, Jerrod Bowen, Phil Foden, Bruno Fernandes, Bukayo Saka, and that dickhead Callum Wilson have in common? Fewer Premier League goals this season than Richarlison de Andrade.

Once again I'm here to remind you that the best possible future for your club would be to become Spurs. As we speak, your club is doing everything it can to become Spurs, and its fans are hoping and praying for the outcome that is becoming Spurs. profspur.substack.com/p/their-proj...

Cry more Rebecca

FT: More proud than I've been of this squad and this club in a long time. We were the better side tonight but were forced to grab that point from the referee's grasp. That shows me, for the first time this season, that we have what it takes to stay up.

Xavi has to go alone there. A confident Xavi is the match winner.

Absolutely deserved equalizer, for Richy and for the team. Keep going at them.

Super late goal vs LIV please, scored by Richi. 🤎🤎

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO

Richarlison deserves a standing ovation after this one.

Nothing Richarlison did just there when he was called for a foul on Gravenberch is different from what van Dyke did to him in the box.

The fact that Richarlison gets a decent shot away changes nothing to the fact van Dijk fouled him in the box. But these fouls are never, ever given, for reasons best known to the refereeing community.

I don't wanna hear from comms or anyone 'he's gotta go down.' He's not the ref! The ref's job is to make the call!

That's a fucking pen!

HT: Not a bad half to be honest (relative to the standard at this point). We got fucked on pretty much every possible margin call. Hopefully the players see that and take heart and claw this one back in the 2nd half. COYS.

Atta boy Tel

I don't get how the people paid millions to guide football club can't see that every possession that we don't just whack it long and nowhere is one Spurs player trying to dribble the length of the pitch surrounded by 4 opponents and no one in front of him to receive a pass.

A lot of you apparently think the free kicks Szoboszlai scores at league-leading clip are easy to save. Not engaging with that nonsense.

It's crazy, man. We've outplayed them to this point, can't get a margin call for our lives. Every contact on Spurs players waved off. Liverpool get a soft foul in range and another brilliant Szoboszlai free kick. I don't even know how you get your head right after that as a player, genuinely.

Not a foul to begin with.

Part of this run of shit is getting called for fouls on set pieces that are otherwise celebrated as genius tactics.

Xavi on the bench is criminal.

Liverpool are there for the taking. Something has to give.

Spurs fans are used to this by now but it’s actually insane. Pick any team in world football and subtract this many of their equivalent players simultaneously and imagine who’d be playing and what kind of results they’d have.

What’s amazing is actually your lack of reading comprehension.

Last season at this point Spurs were 14th, with 5 more points than we have now, 3 fewer goals conceded, and a goal differential 19 goals better than what we have now. Last season was a fluke. This season is a murder.

I'm a pretty obsessive / universal lover of football and will enjoy watching many different approaches to the game, but I do think the Premier League is becoming a worse product, and the particular indignity for Spurs is we made ourselves bad by trying to play faddish bad football.

Some days the photo editor does all the reporting you need

Assuming London commercial building code requires fire alarms, I think I could get an elephant to find its way through the door or wall by pulling the fire alarm and getting the fuck outta there myself.

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Once again I highly recommend Tifo's coverage of Spurs' UCL debacle. They're the only ones in general football media talking sense about it all right now, re.: the squad is better than our competition, the slipping on that pitch has been a thing, Tudor's choices not making sense, etc.

This holds up, I think. I've rewatched the beginning of the match and I think it's really just awful luck with the slips and an error giving Atleti 3 goals from the jump, with an already demoralized team (see Micky's comments to Dutch media). Really just shit luck, honestly.

No I think actually Premier League exceptionalism leads people to confuse themselves www.nytimes.com/athletic/710...

Honestly almost verbatim what I've been saying. Ange and I don't backchannel, I promise you.

Further to my theory that everything turns around with a manager who will pick these players up, convince them they're good enough to be the protagonists of every match. Maybe this view comes from my experience teaching and mentoring talented people of his age.

This is not a constructive comment, but...what were they thinking brining in a guy who only plays with 3 CBs to a team that finished 17th last season because we couldn't field 2 CBs and still doesn't have 3 available at any given time?

For all the justifiable criticisms of Levy, I've always found it hard to be one of these LEVY OUT / ENIC OUT hardliners. I find it dead simple, however, to want Venkatesham and Lange the fuck out of my club yesterday and forever.

This is good and I agree on the whole, except I don't think we're looking at a mid-table squad (depending on what 'mid-table' means of course) in terms of quality so much as what happens when you manage a bunch of elite internationals *as if they were* a mid-table squad. Plus half are injured.

I came to Bluesky to drink milk, and relitigate Ange. And I've finished my milk.

They can hire the kit man for all I care as long as he plays possession football.

Julián Álvarez Fallon d'Floor vs Tottenham (Free kick that resulted in 4-0) 21'

It’s really not good, of course, but I will take something from the fact we pulled 2 back amid so much calamity. Maybe that shred of something will help them see they are good players up against it and they can turn it around. Only so much shit luck to go around.

First half vs second. Game state &c but even so it’s good to possess the ‘foot’ ‘ball.’

Just need another to make things interesting.

Hire someone who will play attacking, possession, high-intensity football and we’ll close out the season with 6-7 wins.

Beat you 4 times last season, the last of which is why you’re commenting on someone else’s Champions League performance and not your own.