The Flat Track Bullies Lost


The Flat Track Bullies Lost



There we go, I wrote it in midweek that Spurs are flat track bullies, we do not have the mentality of a winner.


I have written much about the difference between trying to win a football match and a winning mentality, the two are worlds apart and only someone with a winning mentality can understand the difference.

Once again, at crucial pressure points, we bottle it. 

You channel emotion, you focus it, we don't have enough players we can. 

There is a reason some of our players haven't made it at top clubs abroad, it's because they don't have it mentally and I'm looking at Serge Aurier here.

I say it time and time again, talent, skill is not enough, Dele Alli has found that out and he has had to refocus on football, which he started during an international break (the first he was dropped for) when he got rid of commercial commitments that were getting in the way.

Aurier kept giving the ball away, was fast asleep for the corner, looking at the ground when it was actually played and then jogged out as if he were jogging to the sea on the beach. The same thing Danny Rose does.

He has a lazy approach to football, Sanchez has a backwards approach (was 141st for forward passes in the Premier League last season).

Sanchez 1,440 passes 2018/19 PL season, 391 completed forward passes!

Vertonghen has again a slow approach lazy approach, Danny Rose is not committed to the club, Christian Eriksen isn't committed and has regularly disappeared in big games and what Paulo Gazzaniga was doing goodness knows.

Bottle it, that was the act of a frightened goalkeeper, a goalkeeper who doesn't want to get hurt.

Dele Alli spent too much time deep in our half because we couldn't play out from the back, but then Dier is a backwards player and Sissoko lacks positional sense and stops us playing.

We played some passes so slowly across the back that I wondered whether they were actually going to make it. In midfield, we telegraphed passes and under-hit them so they were easily intercepted so we couldn't keep the ball for the second game running.

Why can a professional footballer not put in a first-time cross, why have they got to try and set themselves and set the ball up for them to be able to cross it?

There is so much wrong that Jose Mourinho has a big task on his hands.

We have too many players who pass the buck and give someone else the responsibility and too many players who don't move enough off the ball, making it easy to mark. 

A club that win things beat a club who doesn't know how to win things today.