The thing about going 20 years without a PL title and falling agonisingly short twice in a row in the two seasons before is that you go into the new season thinking every dropped point, every semi-convincing performance, even every self-/referee-sabotaged performance, is the end. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first game of the…
When the careers of Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho are critically looked upon in the future, there’s every chance people will inadvertently remember their time at Tottenham and wonder how that ever happened. Not because Conte and Mourinho were terrible coaches at Spurs—far from it, in fact—but because it was the most unlikeliest cultural and…
There’s an ongoing debate in football—a wrangle over “the soul of football” itself—it may well be blatant overstatement this one, probably, especially when the “Positionists” think it’s pointless talk; some call it a fallacy, in fact. And even for the most flappable of “tacticos,” football may have fallen off, but pace and power remain far…
