Have we ever had a more humiliating season ?

You can go back to the season we got relegated to the old second division, the years of the Ginger Pele, John Lacy or Ramon Vega, but even then did we have a single season that included results of 0-6, 1-5, 0-4, 0-5, 0-4 plus 3 defeats against Arsenal without 1 goal and 0-3 and a cup defeat to our cusomary feeder club ?

Can anyone remember so many humiliations in 1 season ?

I would say no just because of the talent we have, spending £100m and all that jazz.

We've had worse seasons of course but that was expected because the players we had were one big pile of smelly poo poo.

Yes. It's exactly the same feeling at the club that it was during the Ramos debacle.

Directionless.

Dude, we used to be bad. Really bad.

ginola99 said:

I would say no just because of the talent we have, spending £100m and all that jazz.

We've had worse seasons of course but that was expected because the players we had were one big pile of smelly poo poo.

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We have had worse seasons in terms of league position but have we ever had so many thrashings in 1 season ?

From Bill Nick till now I cannot think of a worse time. The relegation was down to having a poor side. This side should be getting humiliated the way they do. If someone had of told me that the bindipperas would stick 10 past us without reply over two game or that the spammers would have beaten us twice in a matter of weeks I would have carted them off to the funny farm notwithstanding the other defeats to Norwich, Citeh and L'arse.

TaoistMonkey said:

Dude, we used to be bad. Really bad.

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And now we are good ??

2011/2012 was more humiliating tbh.

To drop 10 points on Arsenal, and to watch Chelsea win the CL thus taking our spot in the CL that we earnt...well, i'd take this season over that.

And thats saying alot seeing as that was the best i've ever seen us play, we were fantastic.

TaoistMonkey said:

Dude, we used to be bad. Really bad.

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Yeah but in those days we were just bad. We weren't supposed to be good!

I've been supporting Spurs since 91, so I've seen worse teams (far fucking worse) but this season expectations were through the roof (we had seemingly plugged all our gaps to an adequate, or greater, standard), which makes the shit fest served up even more galling.
It's the hope that kills you.

Yep, 11/12 season was worse. I'll forget about this season eventually, I'll never forget about that season.

NEVILLEB said:

Yes. It's exactly the same feeling at the club that it was during the Ramos debacle.

Directionless.

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That didn't last a whole season though....and we did win a cup and beat Arsenal 5-1 during the first half of his reign. The two points in eight games thing was embarrassing but it turned around afterwards. This season has has been way worse. No bright spots whatsoever and a constant downward curve. Hammered by Chelsea, City twice, 'Pool twice, beaten by Arsenal three times and even beaten twice at home by West Ham (one of them another hammering).

We've had worse years but the squad was awful back in those days. Expectations were low. This season has been all the more humiliating for where we should be right now. Our rivals have been lording it over us at a time when we're supposed to be going toe to toe. Embarrassing.

Of course we've had worse seasons but have we ever had a more humiliating one? not that I can think of. Given the investment that we made in the summer, how all the so called experts were tipping us as outside title challengers and making daft comments referencing Elvis etc the amount of thrashings we've taken is shameful. When you then go into the so called super stars that we have bought for BIG money and look at their performances, 2 goals from a £26 million striker, a £30 million Argentine wonderkid whose played just 11 games, a £17 million Brazilian playmaker whose probably going to lift the world cup but has been so poor that now he doesn't even make the Tottenham match day squad then it should make you feel sick to the pit of your stomach.

Put it this way, if it had been any other team in the league that were in our position now we would rightly be pissing ourselves at their mismanagement, misfortune or whatever way you want to call it.

I think I've just become numb to it. I don't think I care anymore.

lao said:

Yeah but in those days we were just bad. We weren't supposed to be good!

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I think this is a big point. When we were mid table we had a mid table squad and mid table expectations. The performance yesterday was one of the worst I have ever seen and should rightly be seen as embrassing.

Sherwood blabs on about passion and all this nonsense and his teams are the complete opposite.

It's been tough. Even when we've won, there's been this feeling that we've not really been good.

In the opening fixtures, we were unconvincing, but solid. After a while, we weren't solid.

Another freak stat is the number of clean sheets we've kept. The positive thing is that this time last season, I was nervy and filled with angst every game. This is far less exhausting.

teok said:

I think this is a big point. When we were mid table we had a mid table squad and mid table expectations. The performance yesterday was one of the worst I have ever seen and should rightly be seen as embrassing.

Sherwood blabs on about passion and all this nonsense and his teams are the complete opposite.

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Because he's cowering in the fucking stands. The fucking coward.

Poison.

This is without doubt the worst season I've experienced as a fan. The sniping in the stands, the terrible support, the directionless money-burning from the highest echelons, the directionless and clueless management from the touchline. With probably one of our top 3 squads we've had in the last 20 years (if you look at the squad, fully fit).

Even when Jurgen was scoring against Wimbledon, there was at least an element of desire, an element of passion from Daveeed. When Gus Poyet got substituted when we smashed Chelsea in the League Cup he danced all the way to the touchline arms aloft. When Keano did his jig after the Ar5ena1 game. When Rafa shushed the Arsenal fans at the Emirates and at White Hart Lane.

Who out of that lot is gonna do anything like that? Did any of them look like they even gave a shit? How does Sherwood expect to instill anything like the above if he's still doing the equivalent of his first year at Uni when others around him have all their qualifications and 10 years experience of the actual job he's studying for.

Maybe it's just the final embers being blown out by Modern Football. Christ, I get more excited by switching on my Xbox and playing FIFA than I do about going to the Lane. The former only costs me £40 a year. The latter costs me a grand.

Gah! So much Spurs. So little love right now.

barry said:

I've been supporting Spurs since 91, so I've seen worse teams (far fucking worse) but this season expectations were through the roof (we had seemingly plugged all our gaps to an adequate, or greater, standard), which makes the shit fest served up even more galling.
It's the hope that kills you.

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There is the precise problem.
Too many people saw us spend £100 million, while United, Chelsea & City appointed new managers, and assumed/expected that we would legitimately challenge for the title or at least top 4.

I on the other hand was the eternal pessimist, knowing full well that there was no way we could integrate that many new players in one go and be capable of any sort of challenge....... We are exactly where I expected us to be, although I thought AVB would get the full season.

We weren't particularly good last season, we just had one player who single-handedly picked up the points for us.

Meh

2001-2005: Mid table wilderness

Team management passed to Tottenham legend Glenn Hoddle who took over in April 2001 with the team lying thirteenth in the table. His first game saw defeat to Arsenal in an FA Cup semi-final. The club captain, Sol Campbell, after a season in which he made repeated statements in the media outlining his desire to remain at Tottenham, joined Arsenal on a Bosman free transfer that summer. By signing Campbell on a 'free transfer', Arsenal were spared a hefty transfer fee for one of the best defenders in the country at the time. Consequently, they were able to offer Campbell a contract believed to be worth in the region of £100,000 per week. The loss of a transfer fee by Spurs, the move to their bitterest rivals, and the perceived underhanded fashion in which he negotiated his move, led to Campbell being vilified by Spurs fans thereafter. The relationship was further soured several years later (after Campbell had moved to Portsmouth) by accusations that he had been subjected to racist and homophobic chants during a match against Spurs. While the national media argued Campbell's part, the police sought prosecutions against 16 fans, some of them children, filmed as taking part in the chants. The chanting, which was quoted by the Magistrate as "Well-Rehearsed" and well-planned, included Lynching and HIV. Campbell meanwhile has never expressed regret or remorse over his defection to Spurs' fiercest rivals.

The summer before Hoddle's arrival as manager, Tottenham had plunged into the transfer market for their first eight-figure signing when they paid Dynamo Kiev £11million for Ukrainian striker Sergei Rebrov. However, Rebrov was not a success at White Hart Lane, managing just 10 goals over the next four seasons (the last of which was spent on loan in Turkey) before joining neighbours West Ham United.

Hoddle turned to more experienced players in the shape of Teddy Sheringham, Gus Poyet and Christian Ziege for inspiration, and Spurs played some encouraging football in the opening months of his management. Season 2001–02 saw Spurs finish in ninth place, as well as reaching the League Cup final, where they lost to Blackburn Rovers, having been the favourites after their 5-1 demolition of Chelsea in the previous round.

The only significant outlay prior to the following campaign was £7 million for Robbie Keane, who joined from Leeds United. 2002–03 started well, with Tottenham in the top six as late as early February, but the season ended with a tenth place finish being the result of a barren final 10 games of the league campaign that delivered a mere seven points. Several players publicly criticised Hoddle's management and communication skills. Six games into the 2003–04 season, with Spurs struggling at the foot of the table, Hoddle was sacked and David Pleat took over on a caretaker basis until a permanent successor could be found.

In May 2004, Tottenham appointed French team manager Jacques Santini as head coach, with Martin Jol as his assistant and Frank Arnesen as Sporting Director. Santini quit the club in bizarre circumstances in early November. He was replaced by Jol, who turned things around and secured a ninth place finish. In June 2005, when Arnesen moved to Chelsea, Spurs appointed Damien Comolli as Sporting Director.