The Mailbox asks questions of Tottenham's direction under Antonio Conte and the media's role in prompting Qatar and the World Cup...
. The labor exploitation for the Qatar World Cup seems shocking and reprehensible. Who could argue it? Who could argue that it’s sports washing at its peak. It’s absolute peak.
Sure, there won’t be any money left for another tournament as the British tax payers money is currently being spent pumping billions of pounds worth of lethal weapons into Eastern Europe. Another endless profitable war for Britains unelected bribers… i mean lobbyists. Its corruption in Qatar… its lobbying in the UK. Big difference. Lovely Jubbly. Lets have a cup of tea to celebrate.
After all, I have been an utter nut for sport, precluding education from my list of concerns at school right up until finishing high school, only to be quite jaded by 35 years of age with all of them to be honest. The team is so likeable, because they play with energy and they attack in numbers. But also look at who’s on the pitch! The second half midfield attack was: Longstaff, Bruno, Willock, Almiron, Murphy, Wood. Asides from Bruno, two months ago you’d have said that’s a relegation side.
The morning after a clinical victory, what stuck with me was the attitude of the players. Newcastle won 4-1 away, to an established prem side, but had fewer shots and were narrowly behind on xG. And so instead of celebrating a huge win, senior players were being clear how disappointed they were with the performance and how much they need to improve. That’s a mentality Howe has instilled that will do well whatever comes next .
This curiousness mostly stems from Conte both being simultaneously the answer to our problems and the cause of our problems. We know he’s a very good manager. We know that he wins things. We know that he’s one of the best chances of changing the mentality at Spurs. But we also know he’s destructive and negative. We know he’s tactically rigid. And most pertinently of all, we know he’s transitory.
So my question is what is the point of Conte and Spurs together? There’s no evidence he’ll stay long. And the chances of winning things just aren’t that great. While he’s in charge we’ll never be able to long term plan. I genuinely thought at 2-0 to Bournemouth that he might be resigning after the match – that threat of sudden departure will linger after every bad defeat . No-one is enjoying the football either.
Now all of these teams are on top of their league and doing worse than or exactly equal to Arsenal, but you would be hard pressed to find any football fan to not consider these teams contenders for their title. As for the World Cup, I sympathise with people who have been aiming for this professionally for years. I won’t judge anyone who goes, and I’ll watch some of the games for sure, but the timing and the controversy have teamed up to make this the least anticipated World Cup of my life so far.Does it not occur to everyone that one of the main reasons Arsenal are top of the league is because of? Arteta has brought a holistic approach to football and it’s obviously paying dividends.
1 – For a certain generation of English commentators Arsenal still represent the club that brought an end to the good time British Boys Club that was soccer. They were the team that not only globalised the game but also changed the focus to things like nutrition, analytics, and psychology rather than “Passion”, alcohol and strikers that lead with their elbows.
Spurs – Son was absolutely shocking in the first half and spurned about 4 opportunities to play a simple pass in to Richarlison / Kane for one-on-ones with Ramsdale. On another day Spurs get a few of these . Then after the red card it was a walk in the park.
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