Match Threads Spurs v Barcelona - Match Thread

[Sweetsman]

Doubt Wanyama could catch a tortoise let alone Messi

What about a tortoise called Messi?

 

[Locotoro]

What is it you can't get through your skull? My fears and criticisms of our side have come from all of the games this season. NOT just based off last night.

That said, last night showed again we are a side lacking in confidence and rhythm, hopeless in central midfield and at the back. As we've seen all season.

As good as Barcelona were, we were just as bad. It's all so easy to use injuries as an excuse. What was your excuse for Liverpool at home? Or the terrible defensive performances at Newcastle away? First half at old Trafford?

Fact is we are nowhere near as good as we were last season based on current and recent evidence. That is called regression.

So you're looking at our performances so far this season and comparing it to an entire season stretch of ups and downs of 60 odd games?! Because that's a clever thing to do?

Yes, we are not performing at our best, after 7 league games is anyone in the league performing at their best? No, not even Man City, Chelsea or Liverpool can claim to be at their best. And no one is claiming that we are either but that doesn't mean the wheels have hardly fallen off.

Take into perspective what's going on at the club and engage your brain instead of writing posts that read like a trolling TalkSport header!

 

[gerishep]

It’s the same “mob” time and time again who post multiple times after a loss, saying basically the same thing over and over again, who you never hear a squeek from when we play well.

I understand the frustrations, even agree with some, but the self entitlement driven rhetoric that some come out with on here is extraordinary.

Some may feel that venting is cathartic, and it probably is, but do it once rather than bore the pants off everyone repeating the same tosh multiple times.

And here you are sitting on a higher plateau, knowing all seeing all. The rest of us need not speak, just sit and be quiet, watch and listen we might learn a few things.

 

[Ionman34]

And here you are sitting on a higher plateau, knowing all seeing all. The rest of us need not speak, just sit and be quiet, watch and listen we might learn a few things.

Don’t be an arse and read the mail you pillock.

I understand and even agree...

With the first post.

The multitude that follow it, saying the same shit over and over are the ones that are unnecessary.

Hardly surprising from people like you though...

You couldn’t read my post, you’re not likely to bother reading anyone else’s either.

 

[Vulcan10]

Anyone who has supported Spurs for long enough, and by that I mean over decades, will know and appreciate that last night encapsulated entirely what we are capable of in 90 minutes plus injury time in a football match. Spirit, bravery, passion and brilliance, heavily laced with rank bad stupidity, nativity and siucidal tendencies when it comes to defending. All of this can literally be on show and turn on a sixpence in minutes, where we go from looking the real deal on the biggest stages as we trade blows with the worlds best giving them a scare to not looking out of place in a Sunday League game on Hackney Marshes where a ramshackle outfit from a Leytonstone pub team with odd socks and different coloured shorts would show better defensive qualities and be able to pass it to one another at the back with more composure than we did at times.

One the finest examples of this was demonstrated when like a boxer who was being pummelled on the ropes by a majestic world champion, we dragged ourselves back in the game again with Lamela's second and showed real guts and spirit and firing the crowd up and then almost giving them a heart stopping moment as we conspired to to nearly conceding a 4th within a minute or two with some suicidal back passing and a complete mix up with Lloris coming right out of his area then losing the ball in yet another keystone cops moment to scrambling it away by the skin of our teeth.

I still love you Spurs and I always will whatever you do, but I won't pretend it when I say that you frustrate and exasperate me and wear my patience thin in equal measures.

On a few other notes, the gulf in class was there for all to see, Messi was a joy and a privilege to watch even though it hurt like hell that it was against us, but the spirit and bravery we showed was equally as enjoyable.

My biggest gripes apart from our lapses of stupidity were the officials who did their level best to give Barcelona a helping hand when they didn't need it, especially in the first half, and I don't think I was the only one in the crowd who thought their 2nd should have been disallowed, I was behind the goal to the left and had what I thought was a clear sight of it going out for a corner before being pinged back into play for that peach of a shot that put them 2-0 up. My other gripe is the Barcelona fans themselves, what an absolute disgrace that they sent tickets back and couldn't even fill their away corner. For a club that claims it's about more than just football who are amongst the biggest in the world how on earth can they fail to fill their little section when Rochdale can in the snow. London is a very cosmopolitan city and how many plastic tourist fans do we all see walking round all corners of the globe wearing Barcelona memorabilia, yet at the world renowned Wembley, their fans and bandwagon jumpers can barely fill a bath !!!!

Glad someone else mentioned this. I thought at the time the ball went out. Can't believe more wasn't made of this, either by our players or tv replays etc. Not one shown anywhere that i've seen.
I think everyone was mesmorised with the goal and forgot to apeal. Odd.

 

[Vulcan10]

I've been a little critical of Poch at times this season, I don't think he's been at his best on or off the pitch but I felt sorry for him (and us) when he brought Sissoko and Llorente on last night to try to change the game against Barca, two players we wanted to move on in the summer for better quality.
He must feel like he's being asked to do an impossible job with one hand tied behind his back after that transfer window.

 

[chinaman]

I've been a little critical of Poch at times this season, I don't think he's been at his best on or off the pitch but I felt sorry for him (and us) when he brought Sissoko and Llorente on last night to try to change the game against Barca, two players we wanted to move on in the summer for better quality.
He must feel like he's being asked to do an impossible job with one hand tied behind his back after that transfer window.

Being asked to turn anchovies into caviar.

 

[thebenjamin]

Over 82k last night with a huge amount of empty seats in the Barca end

I wonder if we'd have beaten the previous attendance record had their section been full

Also with so many empty seats in the Barca end does this mean they are not a very big club in the great scheme of things

Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Man U would never have empty seats like that in their away end. I was actually shocked how little support they had last night. Seemed a really tin pot turnout for a supposedly giant club!

Travelling to away games isn't really a thing in Spain

 

[Bulletspur]

Over 82k last night with a huge amount of empty seats in the Barca end

I wonder if we'd have beaten the previous attendance record had their section been full

Also with so many empty seats in the Barca end does this mean they are not a very big club in the great scheme of things

Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Man U would never have empty seats like that in their away end. I was actually shocked how little support they had last night. Seemed a really tin pot turnout for a supposedly giant club!

Or you could look at it another way. In their eyes we were not a big enough club for them to make the effort to attend. Might sound a bit arrogant but it could and probably is the reality of the situation. Put it another way, they are a top draw for us but we are not that for them.

 

[Bulletspur]

I've been a little critical of Poch at times this season, I don't think he's been at his best on or off the pitch but I felt sorry for him (and us) when he brought Sissoko and Llorente on last night to try to change the game against Barca, two players we wanted to move on in the summer for better quality.
He must feel like he's being asked to do an impossible job with one hand tied behind his back after that transfer window.

Why feel sorry for him? He was the one that bought them, or at least sanctioned their purchase

 

[gerishep]

Don’t be an arse and read the mail you pillock.

I understand and even agree...

With the first post.

The multitude that follow it, saying the same shit over and over are the ones that are unnecessary.

Hardly surprising from people like you though...

You couldn’t read my post, you’re not likely to bother reading anyone else’s either.

So sorry to be a pillock to you. People like me eh. Sort of confirms my thoughts about you, but I won't call you names

 

[shelfboy68]

I've been a little critical of Poch at times this season, I don't think he's been at his best on or off the pitch but I felt sorry for him (and us) when he brought Sissoko and Llorente on last night to try to change the game against Barca, two players we wanted to move on in the summer for better quality.
He must feel like he's being asked to do an impossible job with one hand tied behind his back after that transfer window.

Totally agree although what transfer window

 

[kaz Hirai]

Why feel sorry for him? He was the one that bought them, or at least sanctioned their purchase

Was thinking the same, his players, not avbs or Tim's. It's just they turned out to be shite

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Why feel sorry for him? He was the one that bought them, or at least sanctioned their purchase

He didn’t buy or sanction the purchase of Sissoko- that was on Levy. I don’t know about Llorente

 

[Shadydan]

He didn’t buy or sanction the purchase of Sissoko- that was on Levy. I don’t know about Llorente

Of course he sanctioned it, he was begging for a pacey player after the Liverpool match at WHL, he may have wanted someone better but I'm not having the fact that he had nothing to do with bringing Sissoko in.

 

[Gb160]

He didn’t buy or sanction the purchase of Sissoko- that was on Levy. I don’t know about Llorente

Didn't he?

 

[Gb160]

Of course he sanctioned it, he was begging for a pacey player after the Liverpool match at WHL, he may have wanted someone better but I'm not having the fact that he had nothing to do with bringing Sissoko in.

Exactly, the idea that Levy would spend £30m on a (not young) player the manager doesn't even want is just ludicrous.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Of course he sanctioned it, he was begging for a pacey player after the Liverpool match at WHL, he may have wanted someone better but I'm not having the fact that he had nothing to do with bringing Sissoko in.

Read his book- he confirms it was a Levy purchase. A book that was cleared by the club for publication. So because he was ‘begging’ for a pacy player, this becomes an immutable fact that he wanted Sissoko? Jesus dabbed

 

[donny1013]

Read his book- he confirms it was a Levy purchase. A book that was cleared by the club for publication. So because he was ‘begging’ for a pacy player, this becomes an immutable fact that he wanted Sissoko? Jesus dabbed

It was one of the main reasons Mitchell left the club. I have posted about it previously during the transfer window. Levy was all over it.

 

[Shadydan]

Read his book- he confirms it was a Levy purchase. A book that was cleared by the club for publication. So because he was ‘begging’ for a pacy player, this becomes an immutable fact that he wanted Sissoko? Jesus dabbed

So let me get this straight...

Poch says it was a Levy purchase which in your book means that Poch didn't agree to the deal in any way shape of form?, lol k then.

Since when did Daniel Levy pay so much money for a player up until that point especially at the end of the window? So are we led to believe that he suddenly changed his business strategy dramatically and Poch had no say on the matter, please.