Cartilage Free Captain: FanPosts

If Tottenham realistically wants to challenge for the Premier League then it needs to start by signing Paulo Dybala on a free for next season. It would be too easy to say with the arrival of Dej...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2022/3/22/22990674/the-case-for-paulo-dybala

It’s a cold, dreary Thursday in February, that most pointless and interminable of months, and I’m going to go ahead and assume it’s that way everywhere, and if it’s not, it should be, bec...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2022/2/3/22916657/tottenhams-ten-most-soul-crushing-in-league-transfers-2001-2022

There are two ways a manager can approach a new team. There is the pragmatic approach whereby the manager finds a way to play to suit his team, or there is the adherent approach whereby the team ...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2022/2/2/22913599/transfer-window-should-re-ignite-spurs-hopes

Over the last few days, when Dele's situation at Spurs drew to its inexorable conclusion, much has been made of his legacy at Spurs and attempts have been made to fit him and his legacy into an e...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2022/2/1/22912400/the-starboy

I wanted to share an anecdote about my Nan’s first journey to the new Tottenham Stadium. (She had been to WHL, but as a Leyton Orient fan, standing in the 70’s. (Pretty sure she started a rio...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2022/1/12/22880712/wheelchair-football

Editor's note -- Great work and an impassioned entry into the Tanguy Ndiscourse. Thanks, Ray_of_Sonshine! As the dust settles on Tottenham Hotspur’s rather nervy 3-1 win over Morecambe FC in ...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2022/1/11/22875105/perception-not-performance-is-the-problem-a-close-examination-of-the

Since I had the two hours Spurs usually waste to fill up, I decided to look at club popularity, penalties given and conceded, and average league rank from 2014-15 through 2020-21. The idea was to...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/12/13/22832477/big-team-bias-and-penalty-favoritism

I found myself reading reddit comments posted in response to this meme trumpeting Newcastle's entrance into the filthy lucre cadre and was actually forced to think about some things. Strange tim...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/10/9/22717872/how-do-we-respond-to-the-existence-of-evil-in-the-world

Ok I was going to start this by taking specific highlights from today's match and sifting through specific situations to highlight just how good Bryan Gil was in the first half. Unfortunately, EC...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/8/27/22643906/is-bryan-gil-the-key-to-unlocking-the-best-from-tottenhams-squad

With The new commentating system being somewhat of a let down I created a discord server to temporarily help us, and as a way of protest. They have said they are going to add the z-key functional...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/8/4/22609747/discord-cfc

Photo by Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images I promise this will ultimately be about football (if you refuse to read about something other than football, skip to the first part in bold bel...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/7/22/22585879/lets-retire-the-phrase-having-to-sell-to-buy

Nuno Espirito Santo, the new Tottenham Hotspur manager, is known to use a variety of formations in his previous clubs. He preferred a back 3 formation at Wolves but also used a back 4 setup in hi...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/7/19/22583097/what-formation-could-spurs-use-in-2021-22-under-nuno-a-fans-view

Hi all. Anybody have any good recommendations for places in NYC to watch Euro games with lots of fellow Danish fans? Bars, Scandinavian/Danish clubs, beer gardens, outdoors squares, etc? A coupl...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/6/28/22553886/places-in-nyc-to-watch-denmark

The best executives are fundamentally good at one thing. They’re able to manage a vision into reality. This isn’t to say that they can’t be good at other things or that other things don’t...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/6/2/22465268/schrodingers-chairman

Dear Harry, Being a relatively young fan and only starting to watch in the 2010-2011 season, you have been around for most of my tenure as a Spurs fan. As much as I can look back fondly on the ...

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2021/5/20/22445878/a-pre-transfer-farewell-letter-to-harry-kane