Wednesday Hoddle of Coffee, Tottenham Hotspur News and Links, January 11, 2017

[Editor’s note: this morning I found this article fragment in the Cartilage Free Captain editor. I can only assume that Jake fell asleep watching Big Ten basketball or was busy with his kids. It happens. The number one rule of this blog is: day-job and family obligations first.

So, I’m leaving the title and photo in place and will leave it to you, gentle Hoddlers, to ponder the existential question proposed in the article dek: Are the mid-table sides especially bad this year?

Yes. Yes, I believe they are.

We love you, Jake! Sleep tight!]

NOTE FROM JAKE:

Started this last night. Kid woke up. I never made it back to my office to finish. Here are the links I was going to share:

Gab Marcotti on World Cup Expansion

Julian Nagelsmann and the Reshaping of Football Management

StatsBomb on the EPL Mid-Table Teams

Licence to Roam wrote a nice, simple summary of how Poche masterminded our win against Chelsea