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The Brotherhood Moment
For once it was the right result for the right reasons but no matter pulling of a win today, the news that Serge Aurier lost his brother just 48 hours before the match in a most horrific manner - and...
CityVP Manjit
Mississauga - Ontario
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2020
18 articles
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We Beat Arsenal
We beat Arsenal. Did we beat Arsenal? Spurs legend said "football is a funny old game" and while the result is a win, the question is how did Arsenal manage to cough this one up. No matter what disast...
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Cold Hard Reality
On the week that the Amazon documentary released it's first trailer of the metaphorical train-wreck that has been Tottenham's season, captured as 8 episodes to air later this fall, and on the back of...
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The Fight in the Dog
If we believe that we cannot teach an old dog new tricks, then we should not expect Jose Mourinho to manage any different than how he is managing the present Spurs squad. That gift called Everton just...
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Egg On Your Face
When Manchester City were second place in the 2018/19 season with 14 games left, they had just lost to Newcastle 2-1 and Liverpool looked like favourites to win the title. That Liverpool team did not...
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The Feat of Feet
The best pair of feet that Tottenham has right now is Tanguy Ndombele and it is the one we are not seeing. We saw the promise of it when Ndombele scored on his debut but unlike the surprisingly good S...
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Football Without Spurs Fans
Finally football has returned after the lock-down and it is a much welcomed return of live sport. It feels strange watching matches with fake fan noise and stadiums devoid of fans. It is exactly what...
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Smart Branding & Personal Goals
The Paradox Wisdom Collection: Brand & Goal [Paradox #47 ] Reference: Ali Anani Buzz : Fear of Failure Magnification Effect https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ali-anani/fear-of-failure-magnification-effe...
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A Tiny Chink of Light
The name Willian Borges da Silva may not be well known to people outside the world of football, but to Spurs fans in particular it is synonymous with a failure of imagination towards creating a champi...
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The Return of Football and Why Tottenham Need it More
If the season is decided today by a co-efficient performance based on points per games played, Spurs will find themselves positioned 9th in the league. The only way they can move higher in the league...
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The Poetic Clipboard
The Paradox Wisdom Collection: Poetic Clipboard [Paradox #46 ] Reference: Ali Anani Post : A Wrong Question to Ask- Which is greater fear or love? https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ali-anani/a-wrong-que...
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Over My Shoulder
The Paradox Wisdom Collection: Over My Shoulder [Paradox #45 ] Reference: Sam Demma Post : CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS WISELY (OR ELSE...) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-demma_choose-your-friends-wisely-o...
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The Barrel: Our Society Over a Barrel
The Paradox Wisdom Collection: The Barrel [Paradox Wisdom #44 ] Reference: Ali Anani Phd Buzz : THE CRACKING OF RELATIONSHIPS https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ali-anani/the-cracking-of-relationships Pa...
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The Pearl
The Paradox Wisdom Collection : The Pearl [Paradox Wisdom #43 ] Reference: Ali Anani Phd Buzz : WHERE IS THE PEARL? https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ali-anani/where-is-the-pearl Paradox Wisdom is not a...
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Hands of Control
Ali Anani Phd posted an intriguing question which I first came across moments ago on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-anani-phd-15305319_beliefs-assumptions-ideas2inspire-activity-665214529...
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Winning When You Had No Right To Win
Two times Spurs played Manchester City this season and two times Manchester City outplayed and outshot Tottenham but how did Manchester City then end up gaining only 1 point out of a possible 6? It is...
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Boomers - The Label Shapers
For the record I was born in 1961. For the record Barack Obama was born in 1961. For the record Douglas Coupland was born in 1961. How does this class of 1961 compare with the class of 1946 that inclu...
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OK AGEISM
My profile picture has been updated on both beBee and LinkedIn and it features a hobo looking shot as I sought a disheveled and aged look for my new OK AGEISM avatar. OK AGEISM is a play on OK BOOMER...
2019
44 articles
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Error Prone Spurs
When one looks at Liverpool and their high press game with similar assets on the field in the year Spurs challenged for the league title, Liverpool today is the team Spurs should have become. The only...
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Spurs Lacking Direction and Spirit of Creativity
While the results have been good with the arrival of new Spurs boss Jose Mourinho, the games against Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Chelsea may portend that the winning start is more new manager...
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The Special One Comes to Spurs
It is strange to realize that there are many Tottenham fans who did not want Jose Mourinho to be appointed as Spurs manager because he does not suit the Tottenham philosophy of beautiful football. Spu...
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Two Teams Soul Searching
The Amazon film crew began filming their documentary "All or Nothing" at Liverpool last week. Last year they filmed behind the scenes footage and story of Manchester City. In that documentary Manchest...
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That Thing Called Football
Why is it that many Tottenham fans want Daniel Levy removed but the ownership of Tottenham absolutely love what he is doing? The answer is what we think the word FOOTBALL means. Today was the first st...
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Brighton Heap Misery on Hapless Spurs
They call it an end of a cycle, which in football terms is a team that has been together so long, that it has got stale. Sir Alex Ferguson constantly refreshed his United side and then balanced those...
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Shambolic Spurs
It has been on the cards for some while as Spurs season continues on its bumpy road. The hammering Bayern Munich gave Tottenham could have been worse if Arsenal a few weeks ago had played with equal c...
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Red Faced Tottenham
Colchester sit 71 places below where Tottenham are with their respective leagues. One can feel happy for the fans of Colchester to have something big to celebrate, a scalp that made the day for fans t...
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What's Wrong with Spurs?
It has already become a transitional season for Spurs with reduce likelihood of achieving the one thing that has continued to allude their manager - which is actually winning any number of the establi...
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Why Didn't Arsenal Smash Spurs?
Spurs did not answer the questions of concern and Arsenal created questions of concern regarding their defensive qualities. Arsenal fans will be relieved to have come back from 0-2 deficit to tie the...
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The Measure of Progress
Last week in the debacle against Manchester City, Tottenham players ended the game with a delusional mindset that they had achieved something massive in stealing a point from Etihad Stadium. This week...
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Second Best Tottenham Ride Their Luck Again
Executive decisions and not on-field talent is the chief barrier to get a side like Tottenham to become champions. For the last four years pundits have cited Tottenham has a team who has a shot at win...
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The Curse of Ajax?
Two late transfer dealings may have kept Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino happy, but as the new Premier League season kicked off for Spurs on Saturday, the first half struggles that led to being...
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Defeat
June 1st was a strange night for the people from London, on the one hand another North London team ended a final with defeat and then in a separate sport of boxing, the poster child of British boxing...
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The Two Mauricio's
For the first time both of the two major European competitions will feature all-British clubs as Chelsea face Arsenal in the Europa League Final on 29th May and Tottenham face Liverpool in the Champio...
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The Intolerable Cruelty of Shattered Dreams
As a Tottenham fan, the last second winner from Lucas Moura that completed a remarkable come back to book Spurs their first Champions League final in Madrid is certainly the headliner that capped a cr...
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THE COST OF LOSING COMPOSURE
It does not matter what line of work we are engaged in, if we lose our composure at a critical point, we can end up counting the cost of our reactionary habit. Whether that be retaliation or rebellion...
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The Financial House vs The Soccer House
Tottenham fans will look at their shining stadium and may say to themselves, now we are with the big boys but for all the brilliant work done on the stadium, there is the massive cost escalation from...
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The Frustrated Fans of That Other Four
In recent months Tottenham have reduced an 18 point lead down to a 3 point cushion. At the same time the chasing pack for a Top Four place in the Premier League have not taken advantage of the sheer a...
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Matthieu Robert-Ortis
I saw a like from Savvy Raj on a LinkedIn post that featured a fascinating three dimensional sculpture. The share she liked only showed the novelty but did not quote the artist. Having examined the vi...
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Whose Got the Blues?
Manchester City who have spent millions on a dream to win the Champions League inexplicably fell at the quarter-final hurdle again today in match that was one for the ages. A classic that was best wat...
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Reflective Media
Reflecting for reflection sake is mind wandering. Reflection as a process is as organized as any other method of inquiry. As I have developed my reflective practice online, I now operate with a four s...
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Lucky Liverpool
Luck said Jose Mourinho is an essential ingredient in winning a title. On any given week, the team driving for the championship will play below their best, or maybe the opposition was actually better...
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A Quarter Final Draw
Before anyone dreams of playing in the 63,000 ticketed Madrid stadium that belongs to Athletico Madrid for the Champions League Final, they must first navigate two more rounds of the competition in or...
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Switching Off
The Southampton defeat should make Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino angry. He will know that to compensate for the recent losses earlier today at Southampton and at Burnley a few weeks ago, Spurs now...
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Choking at the Bridge Again
Chelsea fans could have expected a total team melt down at Stamford Bridge today after the crazy happenings with the shenanigans near the end of the League Cup Final last week against Manchester City....
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The Burnley Burn
Tottenham did not have the excuse that they played on Wednesday this week to explain their 7th loss this year and the third against a side they should be able to beat. Burnley not only managed to win...
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Branded Swine
The only way I can embrace the concept of personal branding is in the context of branded swine. There are three ways we can think of conformity : 1. People as Cattle 2. People as Sheep 3. People as Pi...
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12 Dominoes from the Premier League Title
Lately leading football pundits have had to inject a cavaet as they talk about whether Manchester City or Liverpool will lift the Premier league title this year. That cavaet is an acknowledgement that...
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Year of the Pig
February 5th is the date of the Lunar New Year or better known as the Chinese New Year. While the Christian calendar is based on a solar year, the Chinese New Year is 11 days shorter than the solar ye...
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Korean Cat Among the Magpies
At the end of the game, the increasingly visible flags from South Korea were noticeable and so has been the scoring process of South Korea's emerging star Heung-Min Son. The Magpies is the nickname fo...
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Cold Feet Elite
Mauricio Pochettino's strange comments this week after being eliminated from both domestic cup competitions have come under fire from commentators and pundits, and quite rightly so. He said that winni...
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The Four States of Truth & Lies
" You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put...
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Dependence on Independence
Our dependence on independence is the reality we create. This dependence is a real thing or need within us, and it comes with both human costs and human values. The United States "Declaration of Indep...
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The Big Get Bigger
When Tom Brady engineered his 9th Superbowl appearance yesterday, this may seem to have nothing to do with Tottenham Hotspur football club, but as the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium gets ready to host...
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Dynamo
Given that sleep and relaxation recharge our organic batteries, the question of the management of our own energy is something that is good to contemplate. Many of our energy drainers are set first by...
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The Besting of Best Practice
Bu zz Submitted by : Dr. Ali Anani Buzz : Prisoners of Assumptions and Habits Ali Anani "On personal and business levels we need to have the courage to escape from habits of best practices and assumpt...
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The Fans Prayer
Ali Anani asked me to expand on a couple of comments on the " Lucky Number 13 " around comment #5 and #7 and expand around the theme of how great teams make luck and yet good teams count their unluck...
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Lucky Number 13
As we await the match up on Sunday of a Tottenham team on the threshold of doing something great and a formerly great team trying to find their way back to their former glory, there is a personal touc...
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The Language of Tough & Difficult
At last I am beginning to see Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino speak about greater ambitions as this week he talked about the Tottenham Chairman would have sacked him if we won just a few cups an...
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Élan
Élan is a word that Debasish introduced to me, which I kept seeing crop up in his brilliant series of poems, which I have often linked to the Poetics Hive . It is a word that I think most people would...
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Tough & Difficult
The chief evidence I have at present that Mauricio Pochettino is still a potentially great manager but at this stage not a winner like the greats of the Premier League a.k.a. Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Gu...
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Resolutions
In an age of advanced technologies and artificial intelligence systems that themselves are self-learning in a way that makes the idea of the evolution of a singularity way more plausible than at any t...
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Resolutions
In an age of advanced technologies and artificial intelligence systems that themselves are self-learning in a way that makes the idea of the evolution of a singularity way more plausible than at any t...
2018
38 articles
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Piggy in the Middle
It is one thing to discover that there is a company that sells piggy banks in the colours of professional football teams, but an all together stranger thing to find Tottenham move temporarily into 2nd...
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Talking with Symbols - Emojis
As the demographic gets younger, the use of emoji's should escalate and that accompanies the rise of mobile phones that seek emotional information with texting. Yet video chats may kill the emoji befo...
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Happiness as a Paradox
The only legitimate reason I have for discussing happiness or trust online is out of my own unhappiness or distrust. As a society we are constantly engaging a paradox of happiness and trust because we...
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The Tiger In Us
The DNA of the Tottenham team is not that much different from the DNA of us as mainstream people, especially for the last 50 years, which is they have not found the tiger within them. For sure they re...
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Tribal Identification
My tribal identification in soccer is no secret especially since this buzz is being marked in the Tottenham hive, but I am not a great example of tribal identification. If anything over the years the...
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I Choose Not To Know 7 Billion People
The impetus of this post is as an extended answer to a question posed by Tausif Mundrawala about dining with complete strangers . This buzz goes further than the comment I left on Tausif's buzz namely...
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The CityVP Window
Bu zz Submitted by : Dr. Ali Anani Buzz : Is Self-Awareness a Remote Dream? Adapting on the Johari Window Dr Ali Anani ask questions about awareness and self-reflection The Johari Window is the starti...
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Speech Disfluency
If we deliver a grammarian report we should recognize that ALL reports and feedback mechanisms represent a single point of view. There is always another level of detail that we can apply to how we vie...
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Curse of the Administrators
The hardest part of learning offline is experience with working space and how working spaces seek to define us rather than we explore our relationship with those working spaces. It is difficult peelin...
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KNOWMADS
It used to be that writers like Tom Peters introduced ideas like "War for Talent" as if patriarchal mindsets did not dominate workplace cultures as it is. When I read a piece shared by Mamen 🐝 Delgad...
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Emotional Diversity
A part of my iterative learning development is to enrich my life spectrum both the visible and invisible aspects of that which integrates to create, shape and develop my existence. One idea that I stu...
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Enjoy It While It Lasts
Bu zz Submitted by : Paul Walters Buzz : There Comes A Time When You Have To Say, “I’m Too Old For This!" Paul Walters coaxes the reality of aging as he both pokes fun at it and comes to term with the...
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How Did Spurs Win?
Halloween should have finished a few days ago but for Wolverhampton Wanderers it must seem that it got extended when they had played absolutely brilliantly, dominating the game against Tottenham and f...
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City to City
There are times when the result of a match gives way to meaning where the result is academic and insignificant in comparison. This week has been like that with the tragic events of the helicopter cras...
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Shadow Appreciation
Bu zz Submitted by : Dr. Ali Anani Buzz : Shadow Engagement In his buzz Shadow Engagement Ali Anani lists three bees that he appreciates unplanned engagements that inspire his appreciation. The buzz f...
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That Spursy Reputation
Do you have a reputation for blowing it during the big moments of your life? Then hopefully you are not inflicted in the way Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has been for many decades now. That reputat...
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Overachieving - Underperforming
For Tottenham to make sense of what statistically has been "the best start for them in ANY Premier League Season" is to understand that performance through the actual game story. For that reason it is...
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Synaptic Time
Bu zz Submitted by : Gert Scholtz Buzz : About Time Gert Scholtz talked about time as perception, measurement, money and as valuable thing We are more apt to think of time as the timer rather than as...
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A Withdrawal from Withdrawing
The meaning of withdrawal has multiple meanings which include the act of disconnecting from society and embracing one's own privacy, it also can mean the act of taking out money from an account and a...
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Small Team Superiority - Big Team Inferiority
Many of us play in a small sandbox but enlarge our contribution relative to small team leadership. In that regard the current Tottenham team are Small Team Champions and after their fortunate victory...
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A BRIGHTER TIME IN BRIGHTON
After three defeats that were not worth much ink to dwell on, Spurs finally were on the right side of a 2-1 score for the fourth game running. The win against Brighton was not conclusive but it stoppe...
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Golgafrincham
Planet Earth, at least in the prosperous part of the planet that we reside on, should be renamed Golgafrincham, in the manner Douglas N. Adams wickedly brilliant mind had drawn up in his book Hitchhik...
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False Dawn in the Land of Elton John
The question last week at Old Trafford was whether Manchester United played in crisis mode and failed to capitalize on their superiority or whether Spurs are finally worthy of being called title conte...
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UPSIDE - DOWNSIDE
One would think from today's result from Old Trafford that Manchester United had their butts right royally kicked, but that could not be further from the truth. After a very poor effort and display at...
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Shadow Being
Bu zz Submitted by : Dr. Ali Anani Buzz : The Deep Dark Forces Ali Anani explores the dark side of the Jungian Shadow - The Hidden Unconscious Self that many people are not aware of. If I do not know...
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Aretha - Respect
The poignancy of death is remembrance but the poignancy of remembrance is how that remembering transforms us, and the kind of respect that Aretha Franklin sang about is not simply skin deep - it is a...
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Take A Break
No matter how world class a player is, like the rest of us human beings, they need to take a break. Hopefully Tottenham will see the wisdom of this because no sooner as the World Cup Finals are comple...
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Last Man Standing
All the Belgian and English based Tottenham players still in Russia will be now rooting for Hugo Llloris, because Lloris is not just the captain of France but he is also the captain of Tottenham. Iron...
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Grown Men Crying
When Tottenham great Paul Gascoigne came off the field in the 1990 Semi-Final of the World Cup - he wore his passions on his sleeve and experienced players felt the weight of a nation on their shoulde...
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FTE
Note : Cross posted from LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fte-cityvp-manjit A real full-time job and I mean that in the biggest and brassiest term FTE represents in the modern world work is bec...
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The King of Parisian Clay
There is no question who is the Greatest Clay Court Player of All Time - but there is a couple of years to determine who will be the Greatest Tennis Player of All Time As Rafael Nadal pumps his arms i...
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Be Careful What You Wish For
With Liverpool more focused on their Champions League Final match, they let slip a couple of poor results that allowed Tottenham to nudge past them in the Premier League. Tottenham's 3rd place finish...
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TOTTENHAM AS A TOP THREE
Tottenham finish in the Top 3 again. That is actually very good news for a Tottenham supporter because it means they have over-performed in the league in comparison to their wage structure, which shou...
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Translating the Global Village
We reside in a time when technology is rapidly overcoming the limitations of the "Tower of Babel" - which is a biblical story of why human beings spoke so many languages - the idea being that if all h...
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Delusions in Illusions
Bu zz Submitted by : Dr. Ali Anani Buzz : Emerging Illusions In his buzz "Emerging Illusions" Ali Anani explores the relationship between influence and the impact of illusion on that influence "Emergi...
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Tottenham Revert To Their Reputation for Choking
Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino has made Tottenham competitive over a short number of years but still has not eradicated their flair for failing on the big stage. The irony this year is that Tottenh...
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Artifiical Intelligence vs. Superficial Intelligence
If we are going to examine the worst of what artificial intelligence can do to us, we should join that at the hip of hiplessness with what the worst of superficial intelligence can do in conjunction....
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The Brito Beatles
This is the work of Brazillian animator and beBee Brand Ambassador José Brito e Silva : https://www.bebee.com/bee/jose-brito-e-silva His caricatures transcend any possible language barrier and these d...