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ERO

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So, to cut to the more important stuff. Which pubs will be Tottenham?
 

shelfboy68

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In fairness, Wigan knocked out Manchester City. Stranger things have happened.
Good point but in fairness Southampton have a relegation scrap on their hands which in the wider context is more important to them but definitely agree stranger things have happened.
 

Saoirse

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Aug 20, 2013
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what is it now? 7 fa cup semi final defeats on the trot since 91?

just the law of averages suggests that this time, surely, it cannot happen again!!

Can it??

Unfortunately that would be the Gambler's Fallacy, not the law of averages.
 

oohaahedgar

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what is it now? 7 fa cup semi final defeats on the trot since 91?

just the law of averages suggests that this time, surely, it cannot happen again!!

Can it??
I've been to all of them except Chelsea last season. The first 4 I went to we won (1 after a replay). It's about time we stopped this sequence and get back to a winning one.
 

dude573

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Aug 31, 2012
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We will be scrutinised the most leading up to the game. I expect headlines such as "last chance saloon" or "now or never" when discussing us. Mourinho will also start talking about us/Poch in a few weeks too, calling it an unfair advantage, saying how he admires our players, how Poch could manage any club in the world etc.

We are literally about to see the most aggressive analysis of Tottenham in recent years - everyone of our first team players will be linked to every club around the world.

We have an abysmal record in cup semi finals, but we have played a lot better in the last few, the 4-2 loss to Chelsea was horrible, you just felt like we would come back into the game until Matic's rocket. We have to use the recent loses to push on and play with more maturity. This includes Poch, who has to be savvy and stick to our strengths.

We have a better team than United, but they are perpetual winners. Chelsea will most likely scrape past Southampton and they have had our number in cup competitions recently, apart from Woodgate's nosing it in of course!

I am already so nervous, and we are nowhere near the games! However a trophy has been long overdue, so COYS!!!
 

Mullers

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I think the biggest hurdle we have here is a mental one.
ITS CHELSEA, ITS MAN U..... AAAHHHH.

Just watch either of these teams last 10 games. I mean really watch them. Strip away the name and the history and imagine you're watching Reading or Watford, Norwich or the like.
They're both playing shit, Man U more than Chelsea.
We have nothing to fear.
We got this.
Forget about current form, they will both step up, I'm sure about that. We need that spirit of 2008, we need to treat this as important trophy and not devalue it, if we are going to win the cup.
 

MattyP

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May 14, 2007
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So, to cut to the more important stuff. Which pubs will be Tottenham?
It depends on who gets what "end" of the stadium.

Hopefully we get the Wembley Central end of the stadium.
 

jamesinashby

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Trust me ....of the three possible opponents we were Jose's worst nightmare. They don't deserve to be in any sort of final so let's knock them out now and stuff Chelsea to lift the cup...COYS.


We face an unprecedented event in the history of the FA Cup, the equivalent of 2 home games in the semi final and final. Despite many wailing about a non-existent Wembley curse, we have turned it into a fortress. Add to that we are as good, if not better than any other EPL side (possibly only matched by City), we must be favourite to lift the cup this season. It isn't just Utd's nightmare, all three of the others will start as underdogs and will start the game more in hope than with confidence.

COYS
 

slartibartfast

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I was just about to write the exact same sentence using the same players as examples.

You can be as odd formmas you like but if you’ve got matchwinners in your squad then form goes out of the window at this stage of the cup - realistically there’s nothing between the three teams.
I wasnt suggesting they're on the same level as Watford and Reading lol.
And obviously they got match winners. I said in another post both Chelsea and Man U have an annoying habit of being out played, only getting 4 shots and scoring 2 goals and winning.
What I was getting at is we need to get over any fear factor we may have over WHO they are and I think if we do that we'll have a far better chance of beating them. We're the better team. No doubt about that imo
 

gavspur

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In thes games, there’s always one of our players that has a brain fart.. If we cut out any silly mistakes, and play our aggressive attacking game, we should do this..

And feck me, the amount of Chelsea and Arse fans who keep saying we are trophy dodgers, I’d Keegan love to shove it down their pikey throats.. After all the ‘they Need to win trophies’ media garble, it would be superb to win this before everyone heads off to The World Cup. Our boys with their heads and pride held high.

Get Ledley in to talk about lifting a cup for Spurs, and describe what it means to everyone.. COYS
 

ghjk_91

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This will obviously be a really tough game, but it's an incredible indication of how far we've come under Pochettino that we're favourites to beat Man Utd in a semi final.

I'm only 26 so for almost all of my life United have been far and away the best team in the league, and Spurs have been miles behind them.

We are so lucky to have such a quality team right now - the most famous teams in the country fear us, and rightly so.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Aug 31, 2012
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One of the reasons I so wanted a season ticket was to help guarantee tickets to games like this.
So I get my first season ticket at Wembley and, in my very first season as a season ticket holder we get a semi final, yay.

Except the fucking wife already booked a 2 week fucking holiday leaving 2 fucking days before.
Fuck her. I'm gonna sulk for 2 weeks, that'll teach her.
 

chinaman

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Jul 19, 2003
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One of the reasons I so wanted a season ticket was to help guarantee tickets to games like this.
So I get my first season ticket at Wembley and, in my very first season as a season ticket holder we get a semi final, yay.

Except the fucking wife already booked a 2 week fucking holiday leaving 2 fucking days before.
Fuck her. I'm gonna sulk for 2 weeks, that'll teach her.


You mean that if she hadn't booked the holiday, you wouldn't have touched her?:)
 

yankspurs

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Aug 22, 2013
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We will be scrutinised the most leading up to the game. I expect headlines such as "last chance saloon" or "now or never" when discussing us. Mourinho will also start talking about us/Poch in a few weeks too, calling it an unfair advantage, saying how he admires our players, how Poch could manage any club in the world etc.

We are literally about to see the most aggressive analysis of Tottenham in recent years - everyone of our first team players will be linked to every club around the world.

We have an abysmal record in cup semi finals, but we have played a lot better in the last few, the 4-2 loss to Chelsea was horrible, you just felt like we would come back into the game until Matic's rocket. We have to use the recent loses to push on and play with more maturity. This includes Poch, who has to be savvy and stick to our strengths.

We have a better team than United, but they are perpetual winners. Chelsea will most likely scrape past Southampton and they have had our number in cup competitions recently, apart from Woodgate's nosing it in of course!

I am already so nervous, and we are nowhere near the games! However a trophy has been long overdue, so COYS!!!
Didnt you know the media already sold Lloris, Kane, Vertonghen, Toby, Rose, Dier, Eriksen, Dele, Son and Lamela a while ago? This will be no different.
 
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