I can see that. Sammy's got that in him...but to be honest that might get him a wee bit of respect from me. If it makes people think and keeps them 'honest' then that's not so bad.
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sammyspurs
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Dier, meanwhile, spent much of his time pointing, some of it shouting and not enough actually doing. At 26, he already looks an ex-footballer.
www.theguardian.com
Chaos replaces control at José Mourinho's anarchic Tottenham
Spurs’ win at Aston Villa was the fourth 3-2 victory over the Portuguese’s brief tenure and the unlikely entertainer is upwardly mobile in fifth place in the Premier League
www.theguardian.com
No I just have this thing where if someone plays shit I will say they played shit, and if they play well I will say they play well.
Not surprised that morons with agendas find that inconceivable
I don’t have pictures of Kane hanging on my wall because I’m all big now.I can see that. Sammy's got that in him...but to be honest that might get him a wee bit of respect from me. If it makes people think and keeps them 'honest' then that's not so bad.
I don’t like players because they dance in the changing room or have a good Instagram account.
Play well and I’ll give credit.
Simple as that.
Couldn’t have described it any better.Dier, meanwhile, spent much of his time pointing, some of it shouting and not enough actually doing. At 26, he already looks an ex-footballer.
Chaos replaces control at José Mourinho's anarchic Tottenham
Spurs’ win at Aston Villa was the fourth 3-2 victory over the Portuguese’s brief tenure and the unlikely entertainer is upwardly mobile in fifth place in the Premier League
Except deliver 4 suicide passes within the first 20 minutes. He did get slightly better after that but he really couldn't have got any worse.Dier, meanwhile, spent much of his time pointing, some of it shouting and not enough actually doing. At 26, he already looks an ex-footballer.
Chaos replaces control at José Mourinho's anarchic Tottenham
Spurs’ win at Aston Villa was the fourth 3-2 victory over the Portuguese’s brief tenure and the unlikely entertainer is upwardly mobile in fifth place in the Premier League
OK - I swear someone posted the stat I quoted - maybe I misunderstood it.
Absolutely love Gazzaniga's passion. Brilliant.
Not there today, but Parrott is a big character on bench, especially considering his age.
Gazz is epic! .......Loved him vibing Gedson up before he went on.
Ben feelin' the COYS big-time for the goal too. .
You love to see it.....
I love Dier and I think he’s under-appreciated for the role he played from 2015-2018, but he got old quick. Maybe he put on too much muscle, maybe he never truly recovered from his ailments, but it’s been 3 months and he’s not really improved at all.
He may be a good player to keep around as a 4th CB and 2nd DM, but If he stays I don’t see him making too many match day squads outside of cup matches next season.
He may be a good player to keep around as a 4th CB and 2nd DM, but If he stays I don’t see him making too many match day squads outside of cup matches next season.
Meh.... He get's up and applauds his team-mates for the winner and appears pretty focussed on the match the rest of the time..
If we manage to shift Wanyama and replace him with a high quality DM, Dier becomes a perfectly viable squad member for the purposes you describe. Not on big wages and cost us fuck all to begin with so I seen no point in striving to move him on when there's other, more pressing business to deal with.
Revisited the post I was quoting and I must have misread it - it says PASSES 25 (71%). I read it as 25% oops.
He likes players to keep their eye on him.
So you're as clueless as a daily mail reporter, you should keep that quite.
There was a clear strategy today - hoof-ball - we sent more long passes from the back than in any game this seasons Sanchez with 64% and Aurier also with 64% pass success shows just how many hopeful long punts were being used ... why? because Villa can't defend they make more errors in defence than any other side .... and guess what this 'clueless chaos' strategy led directly to our winning goal ... but you go with the daily mail if you must.
Dier did his job, the change was clearly a planned one as Dier was having by far his best period of the game when the substitution came, what was his job? Clutter up the midfield and stop Villa scoring from the edge of the D ... that worked as they did not score from the edge of the D. Our problems all came from corners and crosses, that's not just on Dier.
In the end we set out to create chances by bombarding their back four, it worked we created loads let's face it with some better finishing it could have been 3 - 7 ....
This was a good example of where Jose sacrifices his rigid principles to get a result ... our line-up screamed we're going to score one more than you, so did our substitutions ... Richard Jolly at the Daily Mail is a football illiterate he writes click-bait shit for idiots ... seems he found his mark.
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Still far from his best of years past, but it was encouraging to see what was clearly an Eric Dier performance instead of the confused impostor that has seemingly been occupying his body for a season or more.
To the quote from that Guardian piece, an ex-footballer is exactly what he did NOT look like today, for the first time in awhile.
To the quote from that Guardian piece, an ex-footballer is exactly what he did NOT look like today, for the first time in awhile.