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Previously described as “schoolyard stuff, mate” by Ange Postecoglou, the first recorded use of the term ‘Spursy’ is unknown but is believed to date back approximately 11 years. The dictionary – well, Urban Dictionary – has plenty of entries describing the soft underbelly and lack of backbone that has been the hallmark of Tottenham teams going back far longer than a decade. Students of its etymology believe it may have its origins in the three-word pre-match “Lads, it’s Tottenham” address to his Manchester United players by Sir Alex Ferguson before a meeting between the two sides at Old Trafford at some point during the 12 years Roy Keane played for the club.

Olaf Janssen will be the first coach in professional football to be mic’d up on 8 December. His coaching orders, discussions and talk will be heard with a time delay” – football fans watching Magenta Sport in Germany will have the pleasure of hearing the almost-live effing and jeffing of Viktoria Köln’s perma-tanned manager when they take on VfL Osnabrück in the third division. What’s German for “hit the [eff]ing channel”?

Hurray! A ‘trailblazer’ scheme. If there’s one thing that a multi-billion-pound industry like the Premier League desperately needs, it’s the ability to get the government-subsidised labour of people who ‘will lose their benefits if they refuse to take up opportunities’. And note, of course, that opportunities means ‘work or training’. Or, as we used to call it in the olden days, ‘general dogsbody, making tea and photocopying’” – Noble Francis.

Manchester City becoming ‘Spursy’ (yesterday’s Football Daily letters)? Please! City invented that concept. Does no one remember ‘typical City’? We have always been able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory” – Pat Condreay.

Firstly, kudos to Spurs’ Guglielmo Vicario for keeping a clean sheet against City despite playing an hour on a broken ankle. Now that he’s going to be recuperating from surgery for a wee while, will he be living Vicario-usly through Fraser Forster? Sod it, I’m not even a little bit sorry” – Derek McGee.

When spelling out a phrase, such as ‘fair market value’, followed by its abbreviation in brackets (FMV), it is common practice to then use said abbreviation in any further use if the phrase. In your article on the Premier League v Manchester City (Friday’s Football Daily) you failed to follow this protocol, and spelled out ‘fair market value’ in the subsequent paragraph, thus wasting a number of key strokes. And I’ve wasted something like 465 writing this email” – John Ellen.

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