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Greater chance of burn out physically and emotionally. It's obvious his international career is harming Spurs. Selfish to say so but it's true. When these Micky Mouse games are out of the way no one will care about them, it's all about Spurs and players' and fans' own clubs.

The World Cup and Euros are great entertainment in the summer but anything else related to internationals - including this cynical 'tournament' - is a waste of time.

I also get the feeling he's so dedicated because he feels he stands a good chance of winning a pot with England subtext because I won't with Spurs.

Feel free to shoot me down but I don't believe any Spurs fans really share Harry's enthusiasm for the internationals.

Would love to hear others' take on it. I'm a miserable, bitter git after all.
 

mattyspurs

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Greater chance of burn out physically and emotionally. It's obvious his international career is harming Spurs. Selfish to say so but it's true. When these Micky Mouse games are out of the way no one will care about them, it's all about Spurs and players' and fans' own clubs.

The World Cup and Euros are great entertainment in the summer but anything else related to internationals - including this cynical 'tournament' - is a waste of time.

I also get the feeling he's so dedicated because he feels he stands a good chance of winning a pot with England subtext because I won't with Spurs.

Feel free to shoot me down but I don't believe any Spurs fans really share Harry's enthusiasm for the internationals.

Would love to hear others' take on it. I'm a miserable, bitter git after all.
I won't shoot you down as you are entitled to your own opinion, however I do share Harry's enthusiasm for the internationals.

I am immensely proud when watching Harry and our other contingent play for England. I am English, and a football fan, so I support the national team.

For me to see the England team do well, with Harry, one of our own, leading the team out, scoring goals, and assisting is wonderful to see, and I love the fact that he wants to play for them.
 

Seafordian Spurs

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I won't shoot you down as you are entitled to your own opinion, however I do share Harry's enthusiasm for the internationals.

I am immensely proud when watching Harry and our other contingent play for England. I am English, and a football fan, so I support the national team.

For me to see the England team do well, with Harry, one of our own, leading the team out, scoring goals, and assisting is wonderful to see, and I love the fact that he wants to play for them.

My brother feels exactly the same way, describes himself as an England fan (as well as Spurs!)

Don't get me wrong. I love the WC and the Euros and appreciate they necessitate qualifiers.

However, Harry is so diligent about his duties its apparent his Spurs form is suffering. Not just from internationals but from a cumulative effect of everything around Spurs.

Frankly, I'm just desperate for the entire Spurs team to be fresh and ready for the run in and these games get in the way of that.
 

Gb160

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Yup. Your point?
I didn't make a point, I asked a question.
Yours is a becoming quite a common opinion, and from non-England fans, I fully get it.
Spurs first for me, but England will always come a very close second.

Harry is so diligent about his duties its apparent his Spurs form is suffering
You keep saying this, but not clarifying it...can you?
 

mark87

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I love the fact that Harry is England captain and I'm very happy for him too as you can tell he is extremely honoured to have such a role.

I personally think he thrives on the responsibility, the man is a leader and everyone in both the England and Tottenham squad recognises this.

The only way playing for england could hinder his time with us will be due to fatigue with the extra games it brings, but then you can say that about every player who plays internationally.

Lets not forget the guy has scored 24 goals this season and is on course to get over the 30 goal barrier again and this often gets overlooked by spurs fans as to just how many goals he scores and the influences he has on the team.

In conclusion; sell the twat.
 

Seafordian Spurs

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I didn't make a point, I asked a question.
Yours is a becoming quite a common opinion, and from non-England fans, I fully get it.
Spurs first for me, but England will always come a very close second.


You keep saying this, but not clarifying it...can you?

Clarifying it - what do you want, statistical, empirical, data driven evidence? Actually that would be an appropriate way to illustrate things but I don't have it to hand funnily enough. This being a forum only obnoxious comments will do!

I mentioned the cumulative effect - our English contingent have not had a good preseason thanks to our decent WC run, the added stress of playing away for almost two seasons, Harry stepping in to play in other international games. ...all of this has been bad for Spurs.

I appreciate that as a professional sportsman Harry feels pride to represent his country at the highest level. Just a shame its impacted upon Spurs. You'd have to be deluded not to see this.
 

Gb160

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Clarifying it - what do you want, statistical, empirical, data driven evidence?.
Well unfortunately any opinion without the bolded bit really doesn't hold much weight does it?
This is a forum for debate, discussion and opinion, and forgive me for being blunt, but yours is just noise.
 

Seafordian Spurs

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Well unfortunately any opinion without the bolded bit really doesn't hold much weight does it?
This is a forum for debate, discussion and opinion, and forgive me for being blunt, but yours is just noise.

Noise on an online football forum - gosh, who'd of thought it?

If Harry does himself damage in the next couple of games I guess it won't matter too much. We coped commendably without him and at least we'd have all experienced great pride of seeing him represent our country.
 
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