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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Spurs fans doing the Poznan? Yes it’s petty, but also perfectly reasonable

A merchandise stall outside Tottenham's stadium
Sales of half-and-half scarves must have been good. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

STRANGER THINGS?

Whether it was the eerie silence occasionally punctuated by half-hearted chants of disparagement at the expense of Arsenal, Rodrigo Bentancur’s violent and protracted shoeing of a vacant dugout seat next to that occupied by a visibly frightened Bryan Gil, or Ange Postecoglou’s none-too-matey touchline exchange with a loud fan urging the Spurs boss to instruct his team to tank a contest they were probably going to lose anyway, Tuesday night’s match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was a decidedly weird affair. But then it was always going to be strange when a very sizeable percentage of Spurs fans were desperately hoping their team would lose against Manchester City, all the better to deal Arsenal’s chances of winning the title a potentially fatal hammer blow.

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