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  • Lloris

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Trippier

    Votes: 7 4.4%
  • Toby

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Verts

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Davies

    Votes: 4 2.5%
  • Dier

    Votes: 2 1.3%
  • Wanyama

    Votes: 4 2.5%
  • Dele

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Eriksen

    Votes: 11 6.9%
  • Son

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Kane

    Votes: 126 78.8%
  • Dembele

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Sissoko

    Votes: 2 1.3%
  • Janssen

    Votes: 3 1.9%

  • Total voters
    160

LexingtonSpurs

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Aug 27, 2013
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But he, and they (Alli, Eriksen et al) are emblematic of this team. Most of the components of this team are what make this team what it is, and what this team is, is what makes these individual components great. And that has always been the hallmark of great teams. It's hard to tell where individual brilliance begins and collective excellence ends. And that is football nirvana. And that is pretty much where we are.
This.
 

Ironskullll

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Nov 15, 2010
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Nirvana / The Ghost of Shitmas Past

I can remember way back to the start of last season, we got off to a bit of a crawler and that great footballing wit Paul Merson, on Soccer Saturday starts rattling on about how we'd have been much better off if we'd have kept the likes of Huddlestone, Livermore and Dawson. How the players playing in their stead weren't up to their standards. I remember Huddlstone whining on about how "we'd decided to go all foreign" as if we'd let ourselves go. I've read some posters lamenting the fate of these players, personally it just gives the fucking hibbeee gibbeees to think what our (past) future could have looked like. A scary ghost of Christmas past for me.

Tactically, analysis is pretty much moribund, they were fucking shambolic and had lost all purpose, and we were just scintillating bar a brief spell when, just like Leicester in the week, them scoring seemed to make us angrier and we just got more brutal on their arses.

Everyone contributed and some of the football this team plays isn't just great, it's bordering impudent and it's a fucking joy to behold. If Eriksen is the brains of this outfit then Alli is the pisstaker in chief. The kid can still bumble at times, and we saw some of that first half, but then he pops up with the obligatory moment of quality, capping a nice move where both Son and Kane played the right passes to tee him up, and from then on he just took the piss, including in a lovely lifted dink that Eriksen nearly finished deftly.

As for Kane, the boy's a fucking phenomena.

But he, and they (Alli, Eriksen et al) are emblematic of this team. Most of the components of this team are what make this team what it is, and what this team is, is what makes these individual components great. And that has always been the hallmark of great teams. It's hard to tell where individual brilliance begins and collective excellence ends. And that is football nirvana. And that is pretty much where we are.

This team has defenders that initiate the attack, and attackers that initiate the defending. Midfielders that have split personalities. We have outscored everyone, out defended everyone, beat everyone, clocked up the best winning run I've seen, gone unbeaten at home for the first time in my lifetime, played the best football - and by that I don't just mean offensively, I mean proper football, this team out works, out runs, out thinks and out plays, it's opponents.

This team has more character than any other team in my lifetime. And that character has been infused into this group by it's leader.

My favourite memory of this season? It was during that Bournemouth game a few games back, we had dipped into that cruise mode that great teams can do in a comfortable lead, and in years gone by that would have been excused, but not this team. The eerie lull was filled by Moad'Dib Pochettino (who's name is a killing word eh @SlickMongoose ) and his booming weirding module voice bellowing vamoooosh vamoooosh. And they immediately did, with panache.

I fucking love this team.


Individual ratings:

Collectively outstanding.
We didn't beat Liverpool. And there's no apostrophe in its. As in its leader. ;) Have loved your contributions this year mate, thank you!
 

JimmyG2

SC Supporter
Dec 7, 2006
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In my dream we won the league
and Hugo got the golden gauntlets.
Arsenal were relegated
and we beat W.Ham.
Easily
But we just about achieved everything else I dreamed of.
Pity it was Hull, they are my third team after Real Madrid and the Mighty Spurs.
Nearly filled a whole line there.
 

JUSTINSIGNAL

Well-Known Member
Jul 10, 2008
15,980
48,499
This team has more character than any other team in my lifetime. And that character has been infused into this group by its leader.

Spot on.

I was thinking about my favourite moments this season. And I think they are 2 games in which we didn't win. Liverpool at home and Man City at The Etihad. In both matches we were far from our best, but where in years gone by we would have crumbled and conceded a flurry of goals, this team didn't do that. We were getting beaten trying to play football, but we absolutely refused to get outfought and outworked. We battled away despite a constant assault on our goal and managed to grind out two credible draws. That's what I love about this team - it believes that it can beat anyone but if things aren't going well is not afraid to roll up it's sleeves and go to war when required.
 
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danielneeds

Kick-Ass
May 5, 2004
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Spot on.

I was thinking about my favourite moments this season. And I think they are 2 games in which we didn't win. Liverpool at Anfield and Man City at The Etihad. In both matches we were far from our best, but where in years gone by we would have crumbled and conceded a flurry of goals, this team didn't do that. We were getting beaten trying to play football, but we absolutely refused to get outfought and outworked. We battled away despite a constant assault on our goal and managed to grind out two credible draws. That's what I love about this team - it believes that it can beat anyone but if things aren't going well is not afraid to roll up it's sleeves and go to war when required.
We lost at Anfield - I think you mean the draw at WHL earlier in the season.
 

Gaz_Gammon

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Apr 16, 2005
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Harry Kane scored more goals (29) than Middlesbrough (27) from 241 fewer shots (110 versus 351)


Tottenham had the youngest starting XI, on average, over the course of the season, at 25 years and 298 days.

Christian Eriksen's goal against Hull had a longer sequence of passes leading up to it than any other goal, with 30.
 

Lighty64

I believe
Aug 24, 2010
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Harry Kane scored more goals (29) than Middlesbrough (27) from 241 fewer shots (110 versus 351)


Tottenham had the youngest starting XI, on average, over the course of the season, at 25 years and 298 days.

Christian Eriksen's goal against Hull had a longer sequence of passes leading up to it than any other goal, with 30.

and in fewer matches(y)
 
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