you know - if you want to descend into infantile jargon and being a smart alec, you are not going to get a discussion out of me.
I have been watching professional football for a long time, and know enough to recognise that teams can turn it on and turn it off when they want, or more often, have to.
You can be a dick and call it urgency if you want - fuck it, you can call it Carl Knoblauch for all I care, but one thing is clear to me, after having watched more hours of football, live (mostly at WHL) and on TV - than I care to admit to. From Newcastle down to Southampton, and from Darlington to Aldershot, and irrespective of their salary, players who possess the skill and teams that have the collective will and skills to match - can rack it up a gear, particularly if the end is nigh.
Teams can also play at an increased tempo from the get go, and settle into a more relaxed, possession and patience based game, and then put their foot on the gas and go again.
This whole discussion is not meant to be an invitation for people to write a treatise on tactical approaches to modern football (sacker to you) or revisit Freuds Ego and the Id, in searching for what motivates man on a cerebral level, neither is it an opportunity for someone who has been watching the game for less time than I have spent in pubs, lecturing me - on what you think I need to know, about your misconception of the purpose of the discussion.
So play nice, and dont try to put me down, and I'll afford you the same courtesy.
I'd much rather keep this as a balanced discussion of ideas and an exchange of views, but trust me - if you want to get snarky, I can give (easily) as good as I get.
Edit -
Actually, thats not true, I won't give as good as I get, I'll walk off and leave you talking to yourself