Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou has been earning plaudits aplenty for a lot of things since taking the Spurs reins.
The performances, the results, the transfer business, the man-management – Postecoglou has done well in all of these things at Tottenham.
But it’s not just Spurs and their fans that are the beneficiaries of the Australian’s methods at N17.
Postecoglou’s press conferences at Tottenham have also gone down a treat amid supporters and neutrals alike.
For instance, Fulham captain Tom Cairney has praised what the Spurs boss recently said about the idea of blue cards in football.
The Cottagers skipper, speaking on the Footballer’s Football podcast, believes Postecoglou’s answer was “very good”.
Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou thinks blue cards will ‘destroy’ football
For context, the International Football Association Board is planning trials for blue cards, which would see players forced off the pitch for 10 minutes for dissent or cynical fouls.
“Adding another one. What is that going to do? The remedy is already there,” Postecoglou said last week, as per BBC Sport.
“If it’s not being enforced to the level people are satisfied, do that. That’s the change.
“One team being down to 10 men for 10 minutes, you know what that is going to do to our game? It’s going to destroy it.
“You’ll have one team sitting there trying to waste time for 10 minutes waiting for someone to come back on.
“Every other game is trying to speed up and declutter, all we are trying to do is go the other way for some bizarre reason.”
Cairney, speaking on the Footballer’s Football Podcast, said: “Ange’s answer was very good, the Tottenham manager. I thought his answer was very good.
“He basically said every other sport is trying to declutter their sport and we are the only sport right now which is trying to add crazy things in and just make it more and more complicated.”
Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou is spot on – TBR View
Postecoglou is right. Obviously the idea of a sin bin for football isn’t bad with regards to enforcing discipline, but the thing with rugby union is, they’ve got two cards. The yellow is the sin bin, the red is the dismissal.
Adding a third card will just complicate things massively. One point of comparison would be the British monetary system, which in the 1970s went from the incredibly convoluted pounds, shillings and pence system to just pounds and pence, making things much easier.
This would be like that, but in reverse. It would just complicate things massively in a game that’s already pretty complex and also very fast-paced. Honestly, we shouldn’t go there.