Bill Nicholson famously said that ‘It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory.’ And even now don't we retain some of our self respect, some of our identity and self-worth from this idea that despite injustices and despite all these years of failures and humiliations, we had our eyes fixes on something more beautiful, more glorious than anything we've seen before?
But that's why I find the attitude of some of the posters on this forum incomprehensible. When we talk of our great players, we already have the bitterness of a spurned lover in every sentence. When Bale runs past half the pitch and scores a goal that I will show my grandchildren the video of, half the posts on here complain about what Real Madrid must be thinking. Who cares about Real Madrid? What joy to see those moments in a Tottenham shirt, those moments which will always be Tottenham's!
Whenever Harry Redknapp is mentioned, there follows a deafening wave of reminders that we've gotten over him, which are as convincing as had they come from Miss Havisham herself. And why should we? If Redknapp's glories were overshadowed by spectacular failures, we of all people should have learned to love that by now (what else could be the "Tottenham way"?).
I think it is time we Tottenham begin to love our successes wholeheartedly, and smile wistfully upon our failures. Gareth Bale, I love you for always. Harry Redknapp, you made me more happy to be a Spurs fan than ever before. AVB, you're one of us now!
But that's why I find the attitude of some of the posters on this forum incomprehensible. When we talk of our great players, we already have the bitterness of a spurned lover in every sentence. When Bale runs past half the pitch and scores a goal that I will show my grandchildren the video of, half the posts on here complain about what Real Madrid must be thinking. Who cares about Real Madrid? What joy to see those moments in a Tottenham shirt, those moments which will always be Tottenham's!
Whenever Harry Redknapp is mentioned, there follows a deafening wave of reminders that we've gotten over him, which are as convincing as had they come from Miss Havisham herself. And why should we? If Redknapp's glories were overshadowed by spectacular failures, we of all people should have learned to love that by now (what else could be the "Tottenham way"?).
I think it is time we Tottenham begin to love our successes wholeheartedly, and smile wistfully upon our failures. Gareth Bale, I love you for always. Harry Redknapp, you made me more happy to be a Spurs fan than ever before. AVB, you're one of us now!
