Eye of the Barrell (Flashback)

The Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou has been a revelation at Tottenham with an expansive attack first mindset to change the clubs dynamic. The Postecoglou resolve was tested during the Spurs autumn encounter v Chelsea with Christian Romero and Destiny Udogie being sent off for the Lilywhites to be tasked with nine players remaining, but Postecoglou would not abandon his principles and decided to go gung-ho while facing down the eye of the barrel with a high line defending near on the halfway line defending near on the halfway line being the tactic, open folly. A through ball or a Chelsea dink over the top of the Spurs offside trap would see the Chelsea operate virtually unchallenged in the entirety of the Spurs half to create chance after chance, the Chelsea ran out winners 4 to 1 but with clinical finishing a double figured deficit would have been rounded on the score board. Postecoglou needs to address his coaching theory on the team being reduced with the red card culprits, tactics have to be flexible on occasions, plan B so to speak. To suggest a 5-2-2 tactic with the back five defending on the penalty box lines to restrict the Chelsea space in behind and to hold the line to endeavour to restrict the opposition to long range shots. To retain the two forwards would facilitate the out ball to give the team a chance of relieving the Chelsea pressure, an opportunity to move forward as a team must be left on the tactic board.

Link to article Sept 1^st 2012 ‘How to Beat the Negative Ten Men’ Flexibility on this tactic if reduced further to nine players would be to reduce the midfield to two midfield players who would centralise to offer a middle graded protection for the back five defensive unit, the two forwards would still remain to offer continued positivity for the team, the gung-ho Postecoglou tactics to look down the eye of the barrel is not the requirement.

Those Beady Eyes (The Bodycam)

The new kid on the football block the bodycam. To be introduced at ta full scale level? Too many beady eyes may give it some shut eye, the new trial player testing bodycams yet to be introduced during match play. If given the get go watch those shin buster tackles at close quarter, the artificial intelligence bro is watching raise the middle fingers bro all wired up to the AI powered bodycam stitched to a GPS vest (Global Positioning System) technology and tracking, it’s all around the world big bro. attached an ultra light to the vest, shine the light positioned at chest level for the perfect interaction through the eyes of the players, shatter-proof for those flying elbows, don’t forget to dump the cam on ones toiletry missions, no need for intrusion oh for those beady eyes, it’s a stitch up footballs bodycams.

Run Like a Chicken

Luton Town’s Andros Townsend has revealed his daily diet of chicken feet on the menu, Andros claims that the feet are good for cartilage and bone retention with a need to eat near the nails, crunch, time to add the nail varnish for that special effect. Now the question is do the feet run like a chicken without the body affect, after Andros the steamed feet puts so much goodness into daily pills and shots for training, the new fitness regime, time to inform the group the players on the chicken feet menu, time to do a menu runner. The feet are delivered to ones home all cardboard boxed up so they cannot do a runner, run like a chicken it’s all real? Cluck cluck.

An Institution Not to be Slayed

The Premier Leagues 10 points deduction savaging Everton Football Club will kick start a steadfast hardened approach to tighten the noose on Manchester City who are under the hammer of 115 rule breaches v the Premier League. The three man independent commission ruling against Everton signals to be in cahoots with the PL to offer a kangaroo mock up. Everton’s overspend of a paltry 20 million pounds concocted the Prem’s 10 point penalty, to fit the punishment? No, yes Everton have breached but to suggest a 3 points to 6 points penalty would be more appropriate, Everton have sunk into the relegation zone (at time of writing). Everton FC being flagged as the flag waver warning to other clubs, Everton sacrificed. The Premier League’s message is billboarded to say we can regulate the game, so is the governments projected regulator entrance to football a blessing to suffocate the Prem’s muppets, they are the ones that need to be regulated and that will transpire to be the case to bring the curtain down on their gravy train. The Prem’s CEO Richard Masters has previous during the COVID period to use delaying tactics on agreed payments to the Football League clubs, masters who tried to set the stooged three man commission in play during March of last season to relegate Everton, he failed and he will fail again on the 10 point offering, eat the toffees and choke back the tears, Everton to be relegated? Not on this watch. The club’s supporters will rally round in their trench warfare blue to galvanise, to fight back, Everton’s ‘dogs of war’ tag, the Premiership’s dog eats the dog. The Toffees being not in the upper echelons of previous pastures but they are the big dog on the Prem block, smoke them flares, trail blaze them across the Mersey, EFC has pedigree, an English football institution the ‘people’s club’ that is what will prevail, not the gutless muppets of the Prem’s blazer brigade.