Pochettino: Do not disrespect Spurs in title race

[mawspurs]

Mauricio Pochettino says he wants no repeat of the disrespect he feels was shown to Tottenham by Eden Hazard and his fellow professionals the last time they tried to win the Premier League.

Source: Telegraph

 

[The Long Suffering One]

This. Overnight, we became public enemy no. 1 for having the audacity to challenge and threaten the ultimate sporting fairytale that everyone so desperately want to see which was Leicester winning it. Everyone's got their Happily Ever After.

I can't recall in recent memory any other title-challenging team who had to go through the unprecedented amount of bile that current players and managers publicly spouted in wanting Leicester to win it as much as we did. As if its our fault for challenging when the other big teams who spent and spent big screwed up their own title challenge.

 

[Dillspur]

This. Overnight, we became public enemy no. 1 for having the audacity to challenge and threaten the ultimate sporting fairytale that everyone so desperately want to see which was Leicester winning it. Everyone's got their Happily Ever After.

I can't recall in recent memory any other title-challenging team who had to go through the unprecedented amount of bile that current players and managers publicly spouted in wanting Leicester to win it as much as we did. As if its our fault for challenging when the other big teams who spent and spent big screwed up their own title challenge.

Totally agree. I can't remember the name of the Swansea manager at the time, but he came out saying he hoped his "good friend" would win the title and then proceed to play without a striker against them, complete disgrace. I know it sounds like sour grapes (and it probably is) but there really should have been an investigation and bans/fines for those teams/managers that came out in support of Leicester that season, I seem to remember Pulis saying the same thing.

 

[Lilbaz]

It's december, bit early for this shit. But who cares if nobody but us want to win it. Fuck em.

 

[mawspurs]

Hopefully we have learnt to be mentally strong enough to cope with it should something similar happen this time around.

 

[Lilbaz]

Hopefully we have learnt to be mentally strong enough to cope with it should something similar happen this time around.

I'd love it if.... maybe not.

 

[stevespurs]

There does seem to be a few similarities between the Leicester season and this one with Liverpool.

Runaway leaders, that we hope/expect at some time will start dropping points. We end up chasing, as all others fall away. Neither team had been front runners before. I suppose the weight of expectation will be heavier on Pool though.

We have been there before, we are a couple of seasons older and smarter. Exciting times tbh.

After the vitriol from many of us preseason, it has already surpassed so many of our expectations. COYS

 

[Johnny J]

There does seem to be a few similarities between the Leicester season and this one with Liverpool.

Runaway leaders, that we hope/expect at some time will start dropping points. We end up chasing, as all others fall away. Neither team had been front runners before. I suppose the weight of expectation will be heavier on Pool though.

We have been there before, we are a couple of seasons older and smarter. Exciting times tbh.

After the vitriol from many of us preseason, it has already surpassed so many of our expectations. COYS

Liverpool have been very lucky with injuries too, Ox aside.

 

[Lilbaz]

There does seem to be a few similarities between the Leicester season and this one with Liverpool.

Runaway leaders, that we hope/expect at some time will start dropping points. We end up chasing, as all others fall away. Neither team had been front runners before. I suppose the weight of expectation will be heavier on Pool though.

We have been there before, we are a couple of seasons older and smarter. Exciting times tbh.

After the vitriol from many of us preseason, it has already surpassed so many of our expectations. COYS

What was the league like december that year?

We are no where near the home straight. It could be a two horse race between chelsea and arsenal come march.

 

[stevespurs]

It could be, but I doubt it based on our last three seasons.

What we also have, is almost exactly the same players, who have battled through til the end of the season, chasing the winners, only to come up short. They have possibly learned from this, the players, coaching staff....even fans? We are set for the battle.

Arguably each of our players are physically and mentally better than the freaky Leicester season, or the freaky Chelsea season. Now it’s the freaky Liverpool season. I think we are ready. In Poch I trust.

 

[stevespurs]

We also have an excitement factor, the looking forward to getting into the NWHL. I’m half a world away...but I’m so excited.

 

[Lilbaz]

We also have an excitement factor, the looking forward to getting into the NWHL. I’m half a world away...but I’m so excited.

Swap ya.

 

[guiltyparty]

There does seem to be a few similarities between the Leicester season and this one with Liverpool.

Runaway leaders, that we hope/expect at some time will start dropping points. We end up chasing, as all others fall away. Neither team had been front runners before. I suppose the weight of expectation will be heavier on Pool though.

We have been there before, we are a couple of seasons older and smarter. Exciting times tbh.

After the vitriol from many of us preseason, it has already surpassed so many of our expectations. COYS

Except Leicester weren’t top at Xmas, Arsenal were, so not really. And we finished below Arsenal, so not like everyone else really fell away (although we’ve been second by 1 point for 1 game, so perhaps we should cool it on that front in general)

First time Leicester topped the league was the last week of January, and we were just 3 points behind as late as March. They held us at arms length on 5 points difference for a month after but the ‘runaway leaders’ narrative has been slightly overdone I feel

In mid feb, Leicester lost to Arsenal and we beat City away, and we were within 2 points. Leicester then drew to West Brom on the Saturday, and if we’d have beaten West Ham on the Sunday, we’d have gone top on substantially better goal difference. We lost.

Leicester didn’t lose again all season, with a final 10 games of W7 D3 L0. We had a very tough run but our final 10 games after that Wham loss reads W4 D4 L2. Bearing in mind we lost at home to Leicester in January too, fair to say we blew it in latter stages rather than it be a runaway success.

Think some people have reprogrammed this season in their brains to deal with it. The Chelsea game was end of mathematical possibility and the two final game fuck-ups saw us booted to 3rd. But Leicester stuttered and could have been seen off by anyone with some momentum. Not having Europe helped them a lot

 

[guiltyparty]

What was the league like december that year?

We are no where near the home straight. It could be a two horse race between chelsea and arsenal come march.

Arsenal were top, for one. 10 points separated 1st and 10th; this season it’s 24 points

 

[spursbhoy67]

This year I think we are the neutrals prefered team.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Honestly, it's too early for this bullshit. There is no title race at this point. There is not even a title. There is only winning the next match and the next match and the next match. Talking about respect, having won nothing, lagging 6 points behind, being smothered by Arsenal a few weeks back. It's not good enough, and too early.

 

[guiltyparty]

Honestly, it's too early for this bullshit. There is no title race at this point. There is not even a title. There is only winning the next match and the next match and the next match. Talking about respect, having won nothing, lagging 6 points behind, being smothered by Arsenal a few weeks back. It's not good enough, and too early.

Yep so many making themselves look silly. 1 point ahead of city for a week and suddenly everyone’s falling away and we’re alone chasing them down...reads like fan fiction

 

[cider spurs]

It's alright Poch, I got this.

F*CK 'EM

Got to be thick as pigshit if failing to recognise that to actually challenge for the title a team would have to be there or thereabouts, not one of the also rans.

Feckin Boss Hogg ( pet name for Hazard) and the rest of the Chelsea numpties, giving it the big 'un because Leicester won the title as opposed to Spurs LMFAO

Pigshit thickness of the highest calibre. I'd want the team I supported to focus on why we didn't win the league, and how to improve.

 

[lol]

Totally agree. I can't remember the name of the Swansea manager at the time, but he came out saying he hoped his "good friend" would win the title and then proceed to play without a striker against them, complete disgrace. I know it sounds like sour grapes (and it probably is) but there really should have been an investigation and bans/fines for those teams/managers that came out in support of Leicester that season, I seem to remember Pulis saying the same thing.

Yes. But we lost the title when we didnt beat leicester when we should have. And the chelsea game. If we want to be respected then win. And dont look back

 

[spursfan77]

There does seem to be a few similarities between the Leicester season and this one with Liverpool.

Runaway leaders, that we hope/expect at some time will start dropping points. We end up chasing, as all others fall away. Neither team had been front runners before. I suppose the weight of expectation will be heavier on Pool though.

We have been there before, we are a couple of seasons older and smarter. Exciting times tbh.

After the vitriol from many of us preseason, it has already surpassed so many of our expectations. COYS

I’ve said this since the first few weeks of the season. There seemed to be an under current in the media for wanting Liverpool to win the league ahead of Man City. Now we are in second it has continued but now we are the ones in the shadow of it.

Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself.