Nice. You should rename this article 'Ready Break - Central heating for Yids' for the lovely warm feeling it portrays.

I concur with the sentiments and think we all get carried away sometimes. I can't help but feel that fans would be more patient if it wasn't for the recent success of a certain north London rival. Either way, as of last season we can certainly put this era in the 'good times' box. Long may it continue.

I feel all warm and nice ........ oh, I may have peed myself!

Nice article, but can't help but explain the flip side to the coin.
Having been a season ticket holder for a few years, I've seen some miserbale dross (managers and players). We've been shite and we've known it.

Since Levy took the bull by the horns and shook the club out of its sleepy ways, expectations have been high.

I now go the lane expecting us beat everyone. I come away disappointed if we lose or draw and feel we only did what was expected when we win.

This changes when we play some of bigger and closest rivals (Chelsea & Arsenal) and the fear of losing kicks in. The crowd are up for it and there is a real sense of excitement.

I used to get this every week but not anymore.

I'm not suggesting for 1 second that I want to go back to the bad old days, but we have to pay the price of our newly raised high expectations.

I think a lot of our fans do not understand the difference between fifth and fourth.
The 'top four' have been established over a number of years and are a class apart in the Premiership, they are all regular CL winners, finalists or semi-finalists.

Last season we showed that we were the 'best of the rest', but then for some reason our fans seemed to believe that this year we would break the stranglehold.

It took Liverpool several season, via a few trophy wins, to join the old top 3 elite and it will take us the same (hopefully with a couple of trophies as well).

I know it is frustrating but we must be patient.

i am still upset about losing to the enemy at cashburden grave, and my support of the team that "played" that day have gone down in my estimation. i have been a spurs fan for many many years,"over 60 years" and i have never been so disappointed as i feel now, and i cant for the life of me feel confident that this present squad of players can bring back the glory days. they should hang their heads in shame at the way they let down the club and the superb fans that the spurs have.

i think we are on the verge of something good. I have held a season ticket for a number of years now with my friend and i can honestly say i enjoy coming down more now and the football is a bigger attraction than the pubs and the social life.
Although i have to say i love the Coach & Horses and the darn fine Stella it serves !!!:beer:

Come on BMJ you're the man to take us forward !!!

:cheers:

A little bit of thought and it is quite clear why it was such a disappointment. If you expect a lot and it doesn't happen, the fall will be bigger. A few seasons ago, we'd be resigned to losing away to Arsenal before it began. A 3-0 loss and we'd be our usual selves come Monday morning. This time we felt we could really do them over but we returned a scoreline similar to that of past teams. It disappointed everyone.

Your disappointment doesn't stem from the quality of the team but your own expectations of what that team can achieve. It is a young squad full of potential and it is exciting times for Spurs once more. We may never win the double again but that does not mean we should be doom mongerers and castagate (sp) our current squad. As it stands they are the best we've had in a long time and should be looked upon with pride and confidence.

Personally, I am tired of people harking on about the 'glory days' and how good we used to be. The fact is, when Spurs were last successful it was a different age. The standard of football was shit, lets be blunt.
A game between a 60's double-winning side and our current first team and I think our current team would turn the 60's team over. This is not to dismiss the talents of the double-winning team, but to show how football is such a professional game now and the standard has risen so dramatically (even in the last decade - let alone 40 years).
This is why I do hate people getting nostalgic and remembering 'the good days'. The fact is, as a team we have never been better. Despite a lack of siverwear, I think the potential achievements of the current team in modern day football are greater then those of that 60's double-winning team. These are the glory days for me, and I expect things to get even better.

Take off those rose tinted glasses and look into the light - be proud of your team that bleeds blue and white.

roguespi i think you hit the nail on the head with your final quote "the fans should bleed blue and white" thats my whole argument, its the players who should bleed blue and white they dont , on that miserable afternoon at the goons arena the players"well most of them" bled yellow which is quite unacceptable for me and many other ardent fans. you also stated that the "60s football was shite" can you justify that statement and also did you attend whl in those glory glory days" .
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What a bloody insult. Team selection was wrong and collectively they were poor on the day. These things happen and will happen again in the future. Get over it and look to the future not the past.

Wow. You're like a walking, talking Spurs hard on!

Warms the heart though.

I was there in the glory days, the days when you went to the lane expecting to stuff any and every team that turned up. I was there when Danny Blanchflower lifted the FA Cup at Wembley, I was there when the open top bus crawled through Tottenham, I was there and I remember and it's those memories that bring a warm glow to a cold winters afternoon when the gooners put it past us again.
This is Spurs you're talking about - the glory team, the team that may have been in the doldrums for a few years but they're still Spurs, the greatest of all football teams and one day, quite soon, I hope you will experience what it's like to be a Spurs supporter during the new glory days.

you've said it all right! Expectations have now taken over, were not a team looking where three points will take us, but expecting three points! The expectations have changed now boys! COYS

I just did a sex wee.:bigsmile: