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Yep, the relative audience sizes is a big part of my frustration with this dynamic.

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Addendum: Just to give my favorite example, whatever you think about Ange, the way his tenure at Spurs was covered was an embarrassment that probably hurt the club in the short and medium term. To this day people parrot narratives they learned from that period of podcasts.

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But it does frustrate me from time to time. And because Spurs in particular (as latest VFTL covered, I think pretty superficially) are a Topic of Conversation every week and every context, bad podcast analysis of Spurs ends up crystallizing into truism. /end

Podcast formats frequently put factual questions to non-journalists and analysis questions to journalists who kinda are not good at analyzing the game. So you can get a lot of authoritative commentary that conflates the editorial and reportage sides of football journalism. Not the end of the world..

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Some journalists are also good analysts of the players and the game, footballistically. Some are not. But the latter are valuable and should be on Spurs podcasts because they provide real knowledge about / coverage of what's going on. The problem is....

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Turning into a thread because my reply is...involved. A common thing I do not like about Spurs podcasts is...

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By the by, can jet fuel melt steel beams???

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You need to be careful asking this question online when US Americans are involved.

I’m lying in wait for a particular letter to come up.

profspur @profspur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That’s just how it grows

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profspur @profspur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My haircut is kinda fucked up but that’s because I was in a hurry

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NathanAClark @nathanaclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bonus @theextrainch.bsky.social Episode The Spectre of Spurs pod.link/1337670733/e... I sat down with @jonmackenzie.bsky.social to discuss his book 'The Spectre of Pep' and Tottenham's role within the tactical meta past, present and future.

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Gonçalo Pina @alvespina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

José Mourinho, your Department Chair

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profspur @profspur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You mean another 6 clubs?

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... the entire enterprise to allow for greater parity and tighter regulations on outside spending and malfeasance from rich owners. Other leagues, e.g. Bundesliga and NFL, have regulatory models for such things.

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'The League' is the Premier League in the same way that 'Amazon' is Amazon, Inc. The individuals in executive positions are paid handsomely to be responsible for the league, regardless of whose watch it was when things went sideways. Letting them off the hook would be failure to restructure...

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Congratulations on your not being in the relegation zone in 75 years trophy! Have you got a song yet?

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It’s funny to me that you think what you’re doing here is something other than demonstrating my point.

I hate to break it to you but being bottom of the league for 3 weeks doesn’t matter unless it’s the final 3 weeks of a season. You can try but there’s no comparison here.

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You guys have a nice evening and good luck this season.

That OP was self-deprecating is immaterial to my comment, though I get you'll fall back on that in one instance and sincerely believe the 'cartel 6' victimhood narrative in another. Kind of odd of you to think a self-deprecating tone is some kind of trump card for what can and can't be a response.

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I mean, I didn't miss the self-deprecation at all. I chose to respond on the terms of the 'cartel 6' bit.

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I think they're banking on sports gambling and banter to be honest.

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To become Everton, Spurs would have to have many more years of poor league finishes, about 15 more years of not winning a trophy, and about 20 more years of not qualifying for the Champions League. Two bad league seasons is bad for Spurs, but nowhere near Everton bad if we're being honest.

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When you last won a top-flight title in 1987 and haven't won a trophy in over 30 years '1961 ha ha ' isn't much of a case is it.

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Increasingly I reevaluate Kane's departure along these lines. More than anything I think he wanted a super club where he could get his due recognition. Secondarily he wanted trofiez. But possibly also he wanted a long career of not getting hacked down every time he's on the ball.

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Cherki is an interesting example now. 6 years younger than Maddison but plays 45-65 mins / game. It's almost like 'luxury player' is an epithet to distract from the fact that the league chose violence over football.

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Olise was good in the Premier League but every time I see the highlights at Bayern I think in the Prem he just gets hacked down and it's not called or carded and you just never find out that the player is a genius.

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There's no suggestion here that anyone let City off the hook. It's just a fact that hammering City--as they deserve--will have the undesirable effect of letting the League off the hook in public opinion.

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City are clearly irredeemable, but I hope fans don't let the Premier League itself off the hook. For this to have gone on for as long as it did cast a vast net of illegitimacy over season after season of results. The League's ineptitude or complicity is maybe worse than City's malfeasance.

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