Defending is a largely a confidence issue. Bonders, Lee, Safety First and even Baby Face are all good enough at their jobs to keep clean sheets. They have all been a part of successful back lines, whether at Spurs - together or apart - or at other clubs. When conditions are right, when belief is firm, all of theses players can do the job. So, what is going wrong right now?
The omens were there all along: a new manager’s first game, a morning spent in a leisure centre all too close to the New Library and a pair of “lucky” pants that should’ve been binned a long time ago. It was so obvious. What a fool I have been.
So caught up, was I, in showing off to LB, flexing my manly sporting ability on the squash court - as only a true amateur can - that I took no time to consider the incredible bad fortune I was heaping upon my team. Smiling away, unthinking as I gently tortured my girlfriend by making her run from corner to corner, within site of the Effemirates, I wasn’t just laughing in the face of fate, I was slapping it playfully about the cheeks, sticking my fingers up its nose and giving it a good smacker square on the lips.
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