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Tottenham Talk on Thursday 18th November

Tottenham Talk on Thursday 18th November

Emerson-Royal


Welcome to Thursday and further Tottenham Talk that isn't just centered around what you can read on social media, copied into the main stream media.

The state of journalism is poor when we get articles about who said what on social media and none have any expertise in the game.

That should be left to blogs to provide content, not mainstream media.

To alleviate the boredom of the international break, I have continued to seek out new worlds, to boldly do where...sorry got carried away Captain kirk, I have dug deep to find some more obscure articles on Spurs blogs you probably haven't seen that I think are well worth a read, so congratulations to their authors..

Anyway, you get different things here and I have dug out some more articles from Spurs blogs for Spurs fans to read from both the male and the female of the species.

Enjoy these UK, Argentina and USA Spurs blog views.

Spurs Blog Article 1

A Spurs Blog article from 2017 but well worth a read and one many of us can relate to.


I grew up on the Beautiful Game. I’m of the generation whose pre-Premier League childhood memories associate the game with dodgy perms and mullets (hello Chris Waddle…), the final years of standing on the terraces as the norm in the top flight, and the weekly Saturday afternoon ritual of listening to the wonderful James Alexander Gordon read the classified football results on the radio. It wasn’t a girl’s world back then, but I was still utterly entranced by it all.

Spurs Blog Article 2

This one from 2019 involves a story from Argentina and talks of his Ossie Ardiles and Ricardo Villa link.


My dad was always more of a football fan than me; it came naturally to him – it was in his blood. He grew up playing on the streets of Buenos Aires and throughout his teens and twenties he and his brother Cacho would go to la Bombonera to watch Boca Juniors in every home game.

When he met my mum and moved to London he married into a family of Spurs fans. He kept alive his links to Argentine football by helping Spurs new-boys Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa settle in London (a story I will save for another day).

Spurs Blog Article 3

Spurs Blog article 3 takes us across the pond to the US of A and a post from 2018 with disenchantment of Harry Kane.


The other day, as I was filling out an online form that required a security question, the first suggested question was, “Of what sports team are you a fan?” Almost without thinking I put down “Spurs”.

Why? Well, I have been following the English Premier League religiously since its telecasts became available in the USA. And, in talking with other such followers, I discovered that one is expected to be a supporter of some specific team, and something instinctively drew me to Tottenham Hotspur.

Spurs Chat

Emerson Royal on training under Nuno: 

“The manager is Portuguese but they didn’t translate anything for me, Moura translated it for me…some training sessions I didn’t understand anything that was going on.”

This is what the fan doesn't see, doesn't know and thus judges without the relevant facts.

Many don't want to know the facts if it doesn't support their view.

It is so telling, a player admitting he didn't know what was going on, reminds me of when Erik Lamela joined and wasn't given the support he should have been given, despite club staff thinking they were doing all they could, they weren't.

We pay millions for an asset, yet such an important element is left to chance.

A winning mentality pays attention to every detail and communicating training ideas is fundamental to how a player performs and thus how the team perform.

Football is not a game of make it up as you go along.

It is one of structure and routine, it's one of ingrained patterns, reducing the mental questions a player has to answer.

I have written about this before, if you keep moving the ball quickly, you are forcing the opposition to make decision after decision and that is waring.

Mental fatigue kicks in and mistakes occur which you hope to exploit.

Controlling that mental weakness by controlling your emotional thought process reduces mental fatigue, thus reduces errors.

That's the unseen benefit of Conte's shadow training, it reduces on-field decision making with 'parrot fashion' football.

Incidentally, both 24-year-old midfielder Tanguy Ndombele and Serge Aurier were offered in exchange for Emerson but Barca rejected the both of them.

You all have a grand day.

Well that's it for this morning's offering folks.

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  • Americans share share share, a big audience I'm looking to grow further
  • Outside UK - again looking to grow the audience, every share helps

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