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Parish Council Notes Tyrese Hall Chip After Marbella And Moves Item To Any Other Business

Desmond Parry · Chief Football Correspondent19 October · Reading time: one pint

Tyrese Hall scored a chip in Tottenham U21s' 2-0 win over Leicester, according to Spurs Web, less than 24 hours after returning from Marbella, and the result took the side top of Premier League 2.

The Amenities Sub-Committee of the parish council met on Tuesday evening to consider a chip scored by Tyrese Hall for Tottenham's U21s against Leicester, and agreed that it was delightful, subject to a second viewing.

The clip, which Spurs Web reports shows Hall lifting the ball over a goalkeeper who had played a mispass straight to him, was shown on the clerk's second monitor. The first monitor was occupied by the agenda.

Members were told that Hall had returned from Marbella with the first team less than 24 hours earlier, one of seven academy players on the trip, according to Alasdair Gold. The chair asked for the time of return to be read out twice.

I'm not saying it wasn't a good finish. I'm saying I'd want to see it from behind the goal.

The remark was made by a retired member who has attended every meeting since the bus shelter item and was not asked to elaborate.

The committee then noted that Elisha Sowunmi had doubled the lead, sweeping the ball home with his left foot from close to the penalty spot after being picked out with a cut-back. The second goal was received with a nod and recorded as noted.

A motion to describe the first goal as a beauty, the wording used in the report, was carried five votes to two. One member asked for delightful to be minuted instead and was told it already had been. The result, which leaves the side top of Premier League 2, was read into the record last.

The clerk was asked to play the clip again for the member who had been making the tea. The clip was shown a third time.

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Kulusevski Bench Place Against Coventry Is Reported By Five Outlets, Each Adding A Bolder Verb

Philippa Crane · Media Editor19 October · Reading time: one pint

Roberto De Zerbi said on Sunday that Dejan Kulusevski will be on the bench against Coventry on Monday, and five outlets had reported it by breakfast without adding a single fact.

A bench place for Dejan Kulusevski against Coventry on Monday night was reported by five separate outlets before nine o'clock on Monday morning, the Herald can confirm, and the bench was the same size in all of them.

The original information is understood to be a single sentence from Roberto De Zerbi's Sunday press conference, in which he said Kulusevski would be on the bench after the medical staff gave the okay. It runs to fourteen words and contains no adjective.

By the first outlet it had become Kulusevski named on the bench. By the second he was set for return. By the third he had been handed a place, a verb that suggests a gift, though the club confirms nobody was handed anything but a shirt.

Fourth one said he'd been thrown back in. I looked at the first one again. It said bench.

The man, a Tottenham supporter who read all five at his kitchen table while the toast went cold, said he had checked each for a second source and found that each cited the one before it. He added that he now had a fuller understanding of the bench than of the player.

By the fifth outlet, the Herald notes, the bench had become a dramatic comeback gamble. The piece also confirms that Savio, Pedro Porro and Lucas Bergvall will miss out, which was in the original sentence's neighbouring sentence and has not been improved on since.

Kulusevski has not played since May 2025, a fact all five outlets reproduced faithfully, apart from the one that rounded 500 days up to a lifetime.

The toast was eventually eaten cold, on the bench of a kitchen chair.

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