Spurs 15-Minute Window Is Reported By Four Sites, Each Calling It Bigger, And Stays Fifteen Minutes

A 15-minute spell in which Tottenham are outplayed was repeated by four further websites before breakfast was cleared, a Herald audit has found.

The original item, published by Spurs Web, reported that analyst Enya Collins had compared non-penalty xG across 15-minute blocks and found Spurs trail their opponents only between the 61st and 75th minutes. In that period they have conceded four goals in six league games.

Site one called it a window. Site two called it a dangerous spell. Site three called it a collapse period, and site four called it the quarter of an hour that is killing Spurs. The Herald has measured all four and can confirm each is still fifteen minutes long.

Fifteen minutes. Every week. Same fifteen minutes.

The remark was made over a bowl of cereal by a North London father of two, who had by then read the story on his phone, his daughter's tablet and the back of a cereal box he later admitted was not about football.

The Herald examined each version for new information and found none. All four carried the same six results, the same Newcastle goals, the same Aston Villa goal in the 67th minute and the same Manchester United goal in the 73rd. The fourth added a link to an unrelated article about Marbella.

All four also reproduced Ms Collins's finding that Spurs create 59 per cent of their non-penalty xG after the break, against a league average of 56 per cent. In every case it appeared in the third paragraph, where it is least likely to be read.

It is understood the window remains fifteen minutes in length.

The kettle was boiled again at a quarter past eight.