PrasunJW ★[BLUE]

Member of the Church of the Exuberant Raptor |
Boldly going where no one has gone before

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@crazyflaree @TrollFootball It is not a basketball. Footballs back in the days used to be like that

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

Unacceptable hygiene conditions in my train coach today. Cockroaches and bugs everywhere. This is not the standard passengers deserve. Urgent action needed to maintain cleanliness standards.
Train - Vibhuti Express - 13048
Coach - B1
@indianrailway__ @RailMinIndia @RailwaySeva

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@xAlexTHFC

[Talking THFC @TalkingTHFC]

Heung-Min Son has one of the most ridiculous goal catalogues of all-time ✨️

Today as good a day as ever to give it a watch 🇰🇷🍿

[Spurs Army @SpursArmyTweets]

I Can’t Smile Without You, Sonny ❤️

Thank you for everything, LEGEND.

[Zhelan @walkingtoglory]

Mr Tottenham 🥹🤍 you will be so missed legend

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

Korean Tottenham fans singing for Ange Postecoglou😢😢
Frank is great and all, but I miss Big Ange too😭

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@CFCHorpe Fancy words for a portfolio company

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@CoysNews I will always be loving Big Ange instead

[S. @SebC__]

🦘🇦🇺My take on Ange Postecoglou.

If you disagree, that's fine. Freedom of speech, your opinion might be listened to or not.
Mine is, I know by who. That's what I care about.

🌏Postecoglou has coached every age group at national / international level on 3 continents. That's inspirational and commands respect, if he was to be found out, as he said, he'd have been a long time ago like these former pros who cry because they get a U19 team relegated (ask me the names).

🤓From a footballing standpoint, he's not making up theoretical shit like all these nerds jumping up on the Pro License barely coaching a team; and scrambling to figure out the reality of the sport/people in Phase 2, 3 doing the polar opposite to what they told everyone they'd do.

🧠The football Postecoglou sets up has room for decision making within a structure which is an extraordinary achievement from a coaching standpoint, and what every coach in the world should aspire to do.

Ajax or Netherlands 1974, Nantes 1995, Rijkaard's Barcelona, Wenger's Arsenal.

If you like "good football" , this is good football.
If you want to win, pay more and get the best players. The correlation is right there.

🔁There's rotations everywhere (think triangles who tilt, carrier and two options short/long), and players have 2-3 options everytime.
The right balance between combinations into feet and third man runs (third man runs are vital - and often forgotten when nerds coach teams and have a control kink)

🫡For that, you need a club culture of empowered players caring about the common good ; and also good enough to act selflessly to what the game demands (and actually execute it).

⚖️The challenge is that bang average off the mill pros do what they're told, can't do most things. And ones who can't do play the solo card - football is an individual sport masquerading as a team sport.

👀I can confidently second guess that the hesitation in collective movement suggest they're thinking in real time and not going "by the book" (which is microwave coaching).

👥How often Postecoglou talks about culture, turning up together for a meal before games. Old school, but actually grounded. This isn't a startup or UberEats.

🧘‍♂️There's a handful of adults coaching Premier League teams.
Slot maybe, Howe, Emery, Frank, Glasner, Moyes, McKenna who value the holistic composition of performance: squad chemistry, work ethic, managing people and treating them as adults.
Coincidence or not, I rate all of them. Coincidence, they all overperfom with the resources they have.

🚩Defensively, the idea to hold a high line can make sense on the occasion. Most of you don't work in football. People who do know the biggest paradox in the modern age is that lot of players are outstanding to think smart and execute fast in high pressure situations; yet are out of their depth when they have time and space to think.

🫣Chelsea 11v9 took half an hour to break down 9 fuckers on halfway line, and people know how badly it reflected on one of the worst assemblage of players ever seen pound for pound. And that's not Postecoglou's team.

Then again, listen to who you want. I've done it too. 9v11 winning 5-2 from 2-1 down at National level whilst the other team was spamming diagonals out of play.

🚑The injury crisis is worrying, but it's also a vicious circle. Majority of clubs nowadays sign players to replace injured players. If you get one or two key players injured by the extreme random demands of the game (facing a Haaland, Jackson etc... stretches your CBs to the limit - Van de Ven got muscular in game injury like Rodri got injured like Fofana got injured).

🚁💰I don't think the training methods are in question; not should they be questioned more than Pep or Maresca's who can actually afford to get replacement brought in (and still get injuries) - and never get questioned.
Spurs play Gray at CB. Chelsea can afford to call Chaloback, or City sign another 40 million a piece CB.

🕳️Spurs lost Kane and finished 5th, like nothing happened. That's outstanding.

📼⛳️Training clip:
possession box to create the moment to change gear and find a striker dropping off the front. What happens then is a "wave" 3v2, with decision making. Drive diagonally, straight pass for diagonal runs. Affordances (what players perceive they can play) and match realism. See the cut off corners to guarantee runs going towards goal. Can't be more modern, evidence based, empowering, enjoyable and football realistic.

🏟️🎞️Game footage:
look how they're using each pass as a timeline to allow a third man popping up in space. Good reaction on turnover.
See another triangle being created, with players selflessly filling in the tips of the triangle even rotating. Matar Sarr gets sucked into the space, puts an outstanding goalmouth delivery with presence and bodies in the box - especially at the far post. Brennan who everyone called a flop.

Tremendous, organic (= player led) output.
What you can do = the team's outlook.

⚽️I'm talking football there, not theory, not pattern playbook, not fiscal optimisation.

📊Spurs are working on relative budget. Don't budget CL football. Spend 40% turnover on wages, when Chelsea's etc... are 70% or Leicester 120%.
🏇💉It's like the only clean horse in a race when others are stuffed with red bull, cocaine and creatine. And some of you Peaky Blinders are looking everywhere - even if you saw the episode where they stuff the horse to make it win.

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@Jon_Mackenzie To quote a great man- "It's not the statistics". Not this time at least.

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@LoveTheShirt There was this girl I never told how I felt because there wasn't enough time. It was the sensible decision as she was going to leave the city for her studies. We left things at a really good place, but I still wonder what could have been. This feels quite similar.
#BigAngeForever

[V1ZZY @v1zzyvisuals]

Ange Postecoglou dared to do it his way…

#Ange #sacked #LevyOut

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@Flav_Bateman Trophy drought ending manager getting the backing is the easiest call to make. He scuffed that. I used to be neutral to the Levy-out debate. Safe to say, I am as disillusioned as I can be

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You dance with the one who brought you to the party...
Another night that I won't get to see to its conclusion.
Goodbye Big Ange😖😖

[Simply Spurs @Simply_Spurs]

Changed his photo to Arsenal’s European trophy. He’s taken the Ange news really badly

[HotspurReports. @hotspurreports]

Thank you for everything Ange, you put a smile back on millions of Spurs fans faces.

Exciting, thrilling football. Hammered with injuries, but you kept playing your way.

Delivering our first European trophy in 41 years.

I'm speechless.

Love you, Big Ange. 💙

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@steffii_92 You lot getting pretty good at imagining I reckon

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@Flav_Bateman There is no glory here😖😖

[PrasunJW ★[BLUE] @JustPrasun]

@CraigxMitch The game's supposed to be about glory, no? Using my head could have been done next May or atleast this December