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[Kai]

Hopefully Spurs can pull it off, anything is possible with Kane and Son on the pitch.

Not looking great though, is it?

Well, they hung in there and rode their luck but really needed a moment of quality from someone, nobody stepped up.

Feel really bad for Spurs, they'll get ravaged again on social media. Ryan Mason winning it would've made for an incredible story.

[Trader Pat]

Sacking Mourinho makes even less sense now, if Spurs would have won today nobody would have mentioned Mourinho again but now its an easy headline.

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To be put in charge at 29 of a Premier League club for a Cup final suggests someone thinks the lad has something about him. Watch this space!

[wearthefoxhat]

I think OGS just done his bollox.

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I think OGS just done his bollox.

Should all those who layed 0-0 make a claim under the guarantee

[Morbius]

Sacking Mourinho makes even less sense now, if Spurs would have won today nobody would have mentioned Mourinho again but now its an easy headline.

IMO sacking Mourinho a few days before a cup final just basically underlines that he had lost the dressing room or the backing of several senior players. It's common knowledge now that senior players went to see Levy and he probably felt that getting rid of him before the cup final would serve two purposes.

Firstly it would raise morale sufficiently enough to give them a chance in a one off game. Secondly if Jose won a trophy then it would have been harder to get rid of a manager who has just delivered their first trophy in 13 years. If he gets a top job at a potential CL winning "super" club I will be stunned.

It was clear after the DZ second leg that something was very wrong at that club

[Trader Pat]

Sacking Mourinho makes even less sense now, if Spurs would have won today nobody would have mentioned Mourinho again but now its an easy headline.

IMO sacking Mourinho a few days before a cup final just basically underlines that he had lost the dressing room or the backing of several senior players. It's common knowledge now that senior players went to see Levy and he probably felt that getting rid of him before the cup final would serve two purposes.

Firstly it would raise morale sufficiently enough to give them a chance in a one off game. Secondly if Jose won a trophy then it would have been harder to get rid of a manager who has just delivered their first trophy in 13 years. If he gets a top job at a potential CL winning "super" club I will be stunned.

It was clear after the DZ second leg that something was very wrong at that club

Maybe the players got fed up of him, maybe its a financial thing where it would cost more to sack him if he won a trophy but whatever the reason to sack the only man to have beaten Guardiola in a cup final days before a cup final is very odd.

[Morbius]

Sacking Mourinho makes even less sense now, if Spurs would have won today nobody would have mentioned Mourinho again but now its an easy headline.

IMO sacking Mourinho a few days before a cup final just basically underlines that he had lost the dressing room or the backing of several senior players. It's common knowledge now that senior players went to see Levy and he probably felt that getting rid of him before the cup final would serve two purposes.

Firstly it would raise morale sufficiently enough to give them a chance in a one off game. Secondly if Jose won a trophy then it would have been harder to get rid of a manager who has just delivered their first trophy in 13 years. If he gets a top job at a potential CL winning "super" club I will be stunned.

It was clear after the DZ second leg that something was very wrong at that club

Maybe the players got fed up of him, maybe its a financial thing where it would cost more to sack him if he won a trophy but whatever the reason to sack the only man to have beaten Guardiola in a cup final days before a cup final is very odd.

But it's cause and effect Pat. I'm guessing that when he beat guardiola in the copa del rey that his dressing room wasn't in the same state as this one plus anything can happen in a one off game... even Wigan did City in a cup final so I'm not reading anything into that. Tottenham would have had no chance in that final if the players downed tools and thought that was the only chance to get him out. Is that a shocking lack of professionalism or players simply seeing the bigger picture???

[Trader Pat]

But it's cause and effect Pat. I'm guessing that when he beat guardiola in the copa del rey that his dressing room wasn't in the same state as this one plus anything can happen in a one off game... even Wigan did City in a cup final so I'm not reading anything into that. Tottenham would have had no chance in that final if the players downed tools and thought that was the only chance to get him out. Is that a shocking lack of professionalism or players simply seeing the bigger picture???

If it is player power that forced him out then I expect Spurs to be much improved down the stretch. Not much point in forcing out the manager just to continue getting the same results.

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The summer transfer window is going to be a real bun-fight. Pent up demand. Post Euros. 3 of the big six looking to refresh. City doing the usual ie grab anyone likely to help guarantee success.

[Kai]

Rather unusual market activity on Leicester-Palace just before the off, very rarely see something like that.

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Absolute spanker by Iheanacho. Well done fella!

[Trader Pat]

Absolute spanker by Iheanacho. Well done fella!

And fair play to Leicester, a well run club with a very good manager

Always liked Rodgers, a man with virtually no ego on show

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Absolute spanker by Iheanacho. Well done fella!

And fair play to Leicester, a well run club with a very good manager

Always liked Rodgers, a man with virtually no ego on show

Agreed. 2 touch in the defensive 2 thirds, and in the final third, do what you like.
Seems to have great respect for and from his players. Swansea, Liverpool, Celtic, Leicester. Great job all the way.

[Morbius]

Absolute spanker by Iheanacho. Well done fella!

And fair play to Leicester, a well run club with a very good manager

Always liked Rodgers, a man with virtually no ego on show

I remember the "being Liverpool" documentary when he was manager and the scene on the training pitch where he was talking to jonjo shelvey and he was saying "you're quality".... Since then he went to Swansea and Newcastle.. Good to see his careers going in the right direction.

But on a serious note I like Rodgers too and indirectly Leicester are placing pressure on the big six with two top fours in six seasons although you could argue that arsenal are doing that to themselves lol