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Studs Up today riffs on Tottenham and the utter lack of cogent communication between Gaffer and Director of Football.

…And believe it or not it isn’t just Tottenham, all over Europe clubs are making an utter pig’s ear of this football lark . Witness Exhibit A, Bayrn Munich’s Bastian Schweinsteiger making himself look like a complete plank, courtesy of The Offside.

Over at The Spoiler, meanwhile, they focus on the motley crew of below par commentators that the BBC has assembled…Their treatise asserts that we deserve better than Shearer’s chuntering on - we couldn’t agree more!