Last season at Stamford Bridge

[guiltyparty]

Anyone trying to pull an upside out of that game is delusional. If we were losing 2-0 and started kicking them about I might have been able to take a modicum of enjoyment from the debacle. But we weren't.

We pissed away a two goal lead, chance of a title and handed a bitter rival our brains as the only trophy they won all season on a silver fucking platter.

 

[KenilworthSpur]

Those moaning about the result last season should remember all the previous seasons we've played there and got turned over without even putting up a fight.

I for one was proud of our boys standing up to their bully boy tactics. Yes some of them overstepped the mark but at least it showed they cared.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

it was a game.
One team was 2-0 up.
It ended 2-2.
If we had won - we would have finished second om PL

People are putting so much additional value into this game that is simply not true, and or at least not evidence for.


Get over it.

I think most people on here have, aside from you.

 

[jonathanhotspur]

When I see Hazard's face today, I will feel a tremendous urge to bitch slap it.

 

[Syn_13]

If anything, I want our players to have learnt from that game. Use their brains. Teams like Chelsea will alway be around to wind you up. We did well to draw but certainly shot ourselves in the foot during that game. After such an amazing season Dembele really fucked up with that seemingly out of character incident. It's nice to see our lads get riled up for the cause, but they've got to learn to play the mental game. Don't let them sucker you in. Plays smart and keep your cool when they're trolling. If anything that'll wind them up more and force them into mistakes, or they'll just give up. We played into their hands. We didn't lose the league with that game, but I do feel we lost 2nd place because of it. Players lost their focus, Dembele's ban hurt us considering he was key to our team's play at that point in time.

Can't help feel that after that game, and after the damp squib that was our season finish, the piss-taking from other club supporters and the media affected the players strongly. It rocked their confidence, and as young, inexperienced players that can be really damaging. We've always been known as legends, but that really took the biscuit. I think that's made the players cautious coming into this season. There's definitely something not quit clicking this season like it did last. Not pressing as well, not playing with as much intensity. Some players don't look as up for it, or with as much desire and passion. Really need to get a good run of form going to change that. Had we followed up the West Ham comeback with a win against Monaco, plus get something out of this game, we could've seen ourselves back up there. Unfortunately, the Monaco game, and CL elimination, completely nullified the effectiveness of our West Ham win. We've got to win today, or at least pull out a top performance to get our boys back on track. Get the club feeling good again, and get back to playing with some fire in our bellies.

 

[StartingPrice]

TBF I'm sick of the "Spurs lost their heads" narrative.

Chelsea came out right ****s and our players weren't protected at all. The ref should have stamped his authority early on Chelsea players and didn't and that's why our layers were so incensed.

We were 2-0 up - the far superior side. It was Chelsea's shit that started everything.

This. Exactly this.

Chelsea have been vile dirty hacking ****ing their way through the last decade - even Liverpool supporters were saying it was good to see us give back to the Chavs what they have been giving to everyone else for years. They beat us in the CC Final purely by committing one niggly foul after another - that, for some reason the ref wouldn't deal with - because they knew if they played us we might biatch them again. I even had neutrals without any prompting from me say it was obvious that was their game plan.

They went into the game ratcheting the pressure up, going on about how desperate they were to stop us winning the title. It was bad enough that managers were stating publicly that they wanted Leicester to win and then either sending out feeble teams against them or playing us like it was their cup final - but these Chav ****s, with their history of vile, dirty cheating play (that went unpunished) were intimating that they would do anything to stop us winning. And the feeble, pathetic FA should have acted, too.

They then started the match flying into tackles like crippling our players for life would be an add-on bonus - and the ref did nothing (surprise, surpise). Before our players really reacted, Fabregas had kicked Dembele (I think) from behind, while on the ground. Willian nearly took Danny Rose's head off. Costa (the dirty diving, cheating ****) was pinching Dembele's back (which was why he reacted). Hell, Fabregas was going around saying vile, vile shit to our players and coaching staff, he was saying things to Lamela about his Mum, he was fecking flicking players and staff in the bollocks after the game - that is the atmosphere they created in the game!

So, they got some back...boo hoo. If the ref had got hold of them in the first place (or if the FA had given them a warning), who knows, our lads might not have had anything to react to. And all we are getting, still, six months later, is how monstrous our players are...the whole dirty, lost their heads narrative. BS! I even read a Chelsea site earlier referring to us, with no self-awareness whatsoever, as leg kicker Tottenham...WTF.

Keeping our heads and winning would have been better...obviously. And I would prefer it if the players have learned from it and don't react like that again even under similar provocation (which maybe the FA and match officials could actually deal with in future). But the situation was all them and who they are...and any Spurs fan who doesn't recognise that needs to have a good look at him/herself (seen as having a good look at self is in vogue ATM ).

As has been said many times before - hate ArseAnal because of who they are; hate Chelsea because of what they are!

@JimmyG2 - could you explain what part of this you disagree with. Perhaps there is something factually inaccurate that you could point out. Or perhaps it is that while upset and disappointed, I feel the main onus for the atmosphere was on the Chavs and it's deterioration was on FA and match officials not dealing with them?

 

[riggi]

It was embarrassing.

 

[StartingPrice]

It was embarrassing.

See this is what I just don't get. While it was upsetting and disappointing, I just don;t understand why so many of our fans seem more intent on saying this than they are at being actually angry about the way the Chavs behaved before and during the match, and the FA and match officials for letting them do it (as usual).

Our team are young lads, and had to watch/listen to opposition managers say they wanted Chelsea to win the league and then send feeble teams performing feebly against Leicester, or playing like it was their cup final against us. On top of which, Chelsea were spouting off before the match, and allowed to do so. And then, with a long history of fouling us out of games, and being allowed to do so, they were flying into challenges and committing red-card offences with impunity. And the match officials did nothing. Our lads are young and human. I would rather they had held their composure and won. And I hope they have learned form it. But I honestly do not understand why any Spurs fan should be more intent on blaming them than being angry at the Chavs and their behaviour. Or the FA and match officials for letting them get away with it...as usual. At what point would you react to that shit?

 

[riggi]

See this is what I just don't get. While it was upsetting and disappointing, I just don;t understand why so many of our fans seem more intent on saying this than they are at being actually angry about the way the Chavs behaved before and during the match, and the FA and match officials for letting them do it (as usual).

Our team are young lads, and had to watch/listen to opposition managers say they wanted Chelsea to win the league and then send feeble teams performing feebly against Leicester, or playing like it was their cup final against us. On top of which, Chelsea were spouting off before the match, and allowed to do so. And then, with a long history of fouling us out of games, and being allowed to do so, they were flying into challenges and committing red-card offences with impunity. And the match officials did nothing. Our lads are young and human. I would rather they had held their composure and won. And I hope they have learned form it. But I honestly do not understand why any Spurs fan should be more intent on blaming them than being angry at the Chavs and their behaviour. Or the FA and match officials for letting them get away with it...as usual. At what point would you react to that shit?

Chelsea being dirty wankers shocker.

It was a learning curve. I totally get why they did what they did but winning would of given a bigger fuck you to them.

Anyway it's water under the bridge...

 

[StartingPrice]

Chelsea being dirty wankers shocker.

It was a learning curve. I totally get why they did what they did but winning would of given a bigger fuck you to them.

Anyway it's water under the bridge...

I know.

And the FA and match officials allowing them shocker, too.

Obviously, the most important thing is that our lads learn from it, now.

Just think it is sad that so many of our fans are still having a go at our players when afaiac Chelsea, the FA and the match officials are who should really be blamed.

 

[riggi]

I know.

And the FA and match officials allowing them shocker, too.

Obviously, the most important thing is that our lads learn from it, now.

Just think it is sad that so many of our fans are still having a go at our players when afaiac Chelsea, the FA and the match officials are who should really be blamed.

I'm not still having a pop at them. I did at the time though.

 

[yusrisafri]

it was a game.
One team was 2-0 up.
It ended 2-2.
If we had won - we would have finished second om PL

People are putting so much additional value into this game that is simply not true, and or at least not evidence for.

Would we have won if we didn't put up a "fight"? Maybe and maybe we had lost 3-2.

Did we lose our pl title here? No way. We lost when Leicester beat Norwich 1-0 om the 90th minute, and when They equalized vs west ham om the 94th minute.

It was a game. It ended in a draw. It was a respectable draw.

Get over it.

A good wank will do u a world of good mate. Slowly release that pressure

 

[Wellspurs]

Come to think of it our duck should have been broken years ago...
Gomes fumbled the ball but it didn't cross the line goal given. Chavs winner miles offside but given.

 

[sunnydelight786]

TWENTY SIX YEARS, let that sink in.... West Ham have more wins @ CFC & AFC than us, that's shameful but our bottling club & happy clapper fans will always find a excuse for it....

 

[shelfboy68]

TWENTY SIX YEARS, let that sink in.... West Ham have more wins @ CFC & AFC than us, that's shameful but our bottling club & happy clapper fans will always find a excuse for it....

There is no excuse mate we have had an inferiority complex with them and few others for a ridiculous amount of time, our record with them is just worse than the others as Chelsea could play their kids and win.
Look we just need to try and forget it we all knew that we were going to lose today because it was obvious and it was us, our aim now is to try and stay close to the top 4/5 teams and get back into the europa next year and make a better fist of it.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

We actually lost the plot after Kane scored that great goal at WHL to put us into the lead v the scum

The team and all of us actually thought we were going to win the league at that moment

What we all forgot was that we hadn't even won that game yet (v 10 men!) let alone the league

Hopefully we can all learn from that experience but unfortunately I doubt it somehow

 

[shelfmonkey]

TWENTY SIX YEARS, let that sink in.... West Ham have more wins @ CFC & AFC than us, that's shameful but our bottling club & happy clapper fans will always find a excuse for it....

I think its about time we the fans started to demand more from our players, too many of them are really not rolling up there sleeves when they should. I hate to say it, but that ginger twat Durham was right when he said it the other week!