Football Daily | Feyenoord and fingernails cause havoc in Guardiola’s house of pain
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Hearing mention of the word “Brest” is undeniably funny if you’re 12 years old, bored out of your mind and sitting at the back of a French class when it’s mentioned by the only grown-up in the room. But Football Daily feels it could be on thin ice devoting this lengthy treatise to a withering dissection of Tuesday night’s toe-curling synod of the CBS Archbishops of Bigger Cup B@nterbury and have decided instead to focus our gimlet stare on one of the other big stories of the evening. Specifically, the weird capitulation of a Manchester City side who were 3-0 up and coasting in what was supposed to be a much needed confidence-booster at home against Feyenoord before a potentially traumatic and season-defining visit to Anfield this weekend.
Roy Keane’s two-footed definition of Spursy wasn’t the only origin of Spursyness (yesterday’s Football Daily). I first came across it in fan forums in the 2000s and it meant more than the ‘being a bit soft’ that Keane’s imaginative capabilities run to. It was also the absurd ways the universe seemed to conspire against us. The infamous food poisoning before the West Ham game to finish fourth in 2005-06 was a big one. Finally finishing fourth for the first time in 2011-12 and Chelsea fluking Big Cup to take our spot in the competition was another – especially because of the rule change that followed to prevent it happening again. Likewise actually getting to a Big Cup final but immediately conceding a penalty to a handball that wouldn’t be a penalty the following day. These are big examples, but there were always badly timed injuries or failed transfers that could get weaved into the story. You probably have to love Spurs to see it like that, and most people don’t love Spurs, so Keane’s (and Chiellini’s) definitions took over” – Richard Moyse Fenning.
Just think, if things had gone the morally correct way at the playoff final in 1999, the entire football world would be laughing at Gillingham now instead of at Manchester City. On such tiny margins” – James Vortkamp-Tong.
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