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Glorious thread and opening statement.
I might have waited til we were a little further on in the season before bringing this particular thread out.
Im loving it, fella. Its bloody awesome at the moment and it was a bit of a joke, the bottler stuff is a load of crap. We rarely lose to teams that haven't spent billions of pounds more than us these days.This is the wrong way of thinking and typical of a bottler mentality because you're waiting for the day things will fuck up, no offence
This is about how far we've come as a football team, if you can't celebrate the fact we've gained vital steps under Poch including the result last night and wait until the end of the season then what is the actual point of supporting a football team.
Live in the moment.
Someone in the match thread (can't remember who) made a couple of comments during the game with this legends thing as the obvious agenda. Different strokes I suppose.
Spot on! Enjoy and celebrate the moment. Dont wait until the end "just in case" as that is one definition of a bottler!!This is the wrong way of thinking and typical of a bottler mentality because you're waiting for the day things will fuck up, no offence
This is about how far we've come as a football team, if you can't celebrate the fact we've gained vital steps under Poch including the result last night and wait until the end of the season then what is the actual point of supporting a football team.
Live in the moment.
We did miss a squillion chances mind. And they hit the post twice.
If Inter had won, then those myriad of missed sitters could have seen us... err... bottle it?
This situation has made us a far more robust outfit and no more so than this season, where we have won 8 out of our 10 away games, which is mightily impressive in anyone's book. We appear to approach all games irrespective of venue or competition with the same mind set and tactics and with the odd blip this has proved to be successfulFinal point; we haven't had a home advantage for 18 months now. That is huge and something a lot of rival fans have forgotten.
? Yeah I can definately see those same people logging onto Spurs Community to look for this thread as some sort of justification for using the term.
Yes we have and for many years. Even under Poch early on. We're just not anymore. That's the big influence Poch has made on this team. He had to change that mentality that was deep to the core of the team.
Some people will still use the phrase legends any time we lose at the end. It's because we were once and they can't seem to let go of the fact that we're different now. Although it seems we rarely get called legends now anyway, instead we get "but they haven't won a trophy". Haters are always looking for something to use against us. When we win a trophy it will be "but that's just 1 trophy, they need to win the League or Champions League". If we win those it will be "but they need to win them over consecutive seasons". If we win trophies like Utd did under Fergie over a long period of time we may finally get the praise we deserve.
This team has really been through it all these past 3 Champions League group stages. The first time under Poch we had a group we felt was not too difficult and should top it. We didn't show up though and got knocked out. The second time around we had a tough group and were not so confident. The team rose to the occassion and topped the group. This third time around we had another tough group, we didn't show up at first and then showed the character to turn it around. The third time was like a mix of the first and second time.
That's not really bottling it. If we had been up against it defending and then caved in at the end it could have been considered so. When you're positive and pushing forward with attack after attack that can't ever be seen as bottling. We were in a frustrating situation, anxious in front of goal but always going for it. I've seen Real Madrid play similar against Barca and miss just as many chances.We did miss a squillion chances mind. And they hit the post twice.
If Inter had won, then those myriad of missed sitters could have seen us... err... bottle it?
This isn’t the only place that exists. Spurs fans in general react to it too much. SC is just a microcosm of it.