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Team Focus: Instability Continuing to Derail Spurs' Ambitions

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Team Focus: Instability Continuing to Derail Spurs' Ambitions There’s a story of Roy Keane’s new autobiography that begins with him waiting for Alex Ferguson to give his team talk before a match against Tottenham Hotspur. It’s an anecdote Keane uses to explain Ferguson’s feel for what a dressing-room needs, but it also says much about S...

Team Focus: Changes Taking Effect with Sherwood in Charge at Spurs

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Team Focus: Changes Taking Effect with Sherwood in Charge at Spurs Tim Sherwood, perhaps understandably, took issue with certain perceptions. After his Tottenham Hotspur side had been eviscerated by Arsenal in the FA Cup, and endured entire tracts in front of their defence repeatedly exposed, the new White Hart Lane boss was asked why he risked playing an outdated ...

Team Focus: André Villas-Boas' Tottenham

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Team Focus: André Villas-Boas' Tottenham Ever since he assumed control of Tottenham in the summer, André Villas-Boas has been given relatively short shrift when making the assertion: We are almost a new team.The apparent reluctance to accept his claim is, in part, explicable from the perspective that the players most associated with...

Chelsea Evolution Under Villas-Boas Aim to Overturn Last Season's Defeat to United

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Chelsea Evolution Under Villas-Boas Aim to Overturn Last Season's Defeat to United Andre Villas-Boas faces the first major test of his Chelsea tenure with a trip to Old Trafford this Sunday. Having dropped just two points at home last season, United will be favourites for this one; indeed, it was only four away league games ago that Chelsea last travelled to face Sir Alex Ferguson...