Guy Fletcher

He's (understandably) underplaying how miraculous reaching the CL final was (in more than one way).

Yes, to the extent that I could find a steer from the rules it seemed like that. Quite annoying given that an indirect free kick to the defending team is less good than a goalkick from the hands! My kid’s team have loads of counterattacks stopped this way.

Question from kid football today: suppose a keeper is trying to kick the ball from their hands, if an opponent intentionally runs across their path, can the keeper still go ahead with the kick (and smash it into the player from close range)?

Oh nice! What’s he like, stylistically?

That would be satisfying. And definitely the groundwork is there (the dance party). And, marginally, Jamie looking so much like Rick Grimes primes you to underestimate it.

1000% this!

I met him last season with my eldest and he seemed such a lovely kid. Said that the janitor asked him if he'd watched the derby at the weekend and he got to say "Yeah, I scored in it." Really hope he comes good for us.

Can I ask your opinion about the end of Years / beginning of Temple? I thought the end of Years kinda spoiled it (with that extra bit to set up the next film, after what seemed like a natural ending). And, having seen Temple, I still don’t get why they did things that way. What did you make of it?

@jackpittbrooke.bsky.social Frank serving up the celebratory snacks at full time

Tottenham eh

Book blogging, part 1. How happy should you be about the present state of the world? This is a coherent question. It is also neglected: the literature on norms for emotion almost never discusses happiness. This is effectively the gap the book aims to address. alexgregory.name#HAPbook

Our obsession with signing very similar left sided attackers in the same age bracket is bizarre, especially when for so many seasons we've tried to get by with no proper backup keeper!

At least one (preposterous) episode of wondering if this is a new Kane’s-deflected-free-kick-against-Villa-that-saved-Poch. Ridiculous.

nothing today (yet!) just amazed at the emotional rollercoaster of the build up to last night and then the performance and how I feel today!

A scene from peep show. Tony telling Jez “she’s the beautiful position, my friend”.

Another day of supporting Tottenham hotspur

I wonder if there was a typo in the drafting of this because “and/or“ doesn’t really make sense. Maybe was supposed to read “and so…”?

Yeah, it reads to me like (1) you don’t have to reinstate Solanke (2) if you reinstate Solanke, it can’t be in place of someone other than Tel.

it’s Scanlon’s World Cup thought experiment but the man trapped under the transmitter is all of us

Great stuff! Superb cover and jumper colour coordination!

That’s really interesting cos I’d just been assuming it was driven by anxious self-preservation this season but that suggests it’s more of a stable trait.

Livening up moderation by pretending I’m VAR at stockley park, looking for clear and obvious errors.

Oh man!

I’m still haunted by how good we made Wolves look that day.

at least we’ll get more bicycle kicks goals from JP

@nathanaclark.bsky.social keep thinking back to that behind-the-scenes clip of TF at Brentford that you highlighted — where he says that they defended really well (vs Liverpool?) — and your bemusement with it, given what had actually happened on the pitch. Turned out to be very prescient

Is this a good faith misunderstanding or a cynical attempt to go viral?

“2025, completed it mate.”

I've been listening to 'Careless People' and, keen to see the photo of Sandberg with Abe, find this post www.instagram.com/p/Cfxf20aDoka/ which is just too perfect as a follow up to this section of the book.

No Tottenham team has ever made playing football look so hard.

Yeah, this experience has really shown that you have to wait til the fans are relatively united on changing the manager, even if it means (as here) starting a season with a manager you’re sure you want to replace. Otherwise you’re setting up two camps against any new manager (not him, not anyone).