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Match Prediction

  • Spurs to Win

    Votes: 94 67.1%
  • Manchester Utd to Win

    Votes: 13 9.3%
  • Score Draw

    Votes: 32 22.9%
  • Goal less Draw

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Total voters
    140
  • Poll closed .

spursbhoy67

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Dec 20, 2006
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Yeah, for longer term Spurs fans, it's so much better to be nearly men than nowhere men, but it's still biting at times to fall short. There's no doubting the bar being set in the last few seasons by the eventual winners are just phenomenal rates of consecutive wins. And we can't quite get there, despite points hauls that are still fantastic.

This season would require a near-miracle for us to win it, but I still hope that a wobble by the top two could happen and would like us to be in the right spot to capitalize, especially if we move in to our new home in March.

Bar the league title loss to Leicester and even then it was the Chelsea game which decided our fate we have lost out on recent silverware to the likes of Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Juve to name a few. The level of funding of those four teams with oligarch, country backing and leveraged financing means we have been unlucky in who we have had to compete against.

It is not a case of being Spursy either because if Spursy means second in the league (right now), in the last 16 of the CL, fourth round of the FA Cup and 1-0 up after the first leg of the League Cup then I am sure there are 86 other clubs in England who would swap places with us.
 

rez9000

Any point?
Feb 8, 2007
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I remember people saying that about him when he came to us, that he wouldn’t survive at Tottenham and I think you underestimate him if you think he won’t survive anywhere else. Where is your proof of that? All the clubs I’ve seen him at he’s done very well

I think Spurs and particularly Levy are extremely demanding too, as are the fans so I’m not sure where you’re getting your ideas from that Madrid and Man U are more demanding than us.

And by the way, ‘slating’ is the same as criticising. By saying he’s not ‘tactically seasoned’ is slating/criticising him. Stick to facts not fallacy.
Sorry, spence, but it's not. Slating has a specific attacking flavour to it, while criticising means to breakdown and analyse something. Hence the term film critic or literary critic.

I might not agree with @thinktank but he does, as his name suggests, think about the things he says.

TT, I agree with Spence that saying that Poch isn't tactically seasoned enough isn't really on the money. Not because I think you're necessarily wrong, but because you're giving far too much weight to the importance of tactical ability in football. Tactics only makes up one aspect of a manager's job - development and motivation play a massive part too. And in those fields, I think it's pretty clear how good Poch is.

Anyway, as you both were...
 
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rez9000

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Feb 8, 2007
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First half we were shite, cheap goal to concede. I yhought that lloris should have done much better. Also, poor defending to blame. Second half it was more like Spurs versus De Gea. If it was not for De Gea, we would have won 2,3 -1. Eriksen, Dele, Son and Kane were below par today. Why is Winks in the squad,? I don't know, Surely we have a couple of better players than Winks is. We basically threw away three points today.
We do? Who?
 

rez9000

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Feb 8, 2007
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It is disgusting and a complete waste of 90,000 peoples time, but we cant really complain cos when we are winning we go hide by the corner flag.
That's different. The opposition can still do something about that. A keeper can't be tackled so when they waste time, there's nothing the opposition can do.
 

rez9000

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Feb 8, 2007
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Are we really blaming Lloris for their goal? Rashford was through and clear and just had to put the ball in the right place, Hugo got to the ball but couldn't get enough on it to stop it sneaking in the corner, had a couple of our strikers done the same de Gea would have conceded.
Rashford's shot was pinpoint. The tiniest of fractions either side and it would have gone wide or been saved.
 

glacierSpurs

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Sep 28, 2013
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Pleas can Sky stop using Jamie Redknap as a Spurs pundit he may have played for us but he has never been Spurs.
How could anyone not see; he's not a fraction of Spurs at all. From the way he always has spoken about us, I tend to forget he was once us.
 

Bulletspur

The Reasonable Advocate
Match Thread Admin
Oct 17, 2006
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Hey chaps new member here. Really gutted to have lost that, ha the chances to get 3 pts let alone 1.
Gonna have to deal with the man utd wankfest all week now aswel. Full weeks rest now lets make sure we hammer
fulham next week.
Welcome to the mad house which is Spurs Community. You will do well on here providing you have thick skin!
Our passing first half was poor and Eriksen was well below par today.
He has been below par for several games now
 

Dov67

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Jul 1, 2005
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why has this game got me more riled up than the arsenal game in December??

the fact that 2 ex colleague Man U fans who i have spoken to in a couple of years both emailed me yesterday might have something to do with it! Its like both arsenal and man u fans are regressing toward West Ham buffoonery.
 

alamo

Don't worry be happy
Jun 10, 2004
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Pleas can Sky stop using Jamie Redknap as a Spurs pundit he may have played for us but he has never been Spurs.

This has been exacerbated by his temporary allegiance to us when Harry was our manager. There was footage of him celebrating Lennons goal in the 4-4 vs Arsenal like he was a bin man winning the lottery. No, he was cheering for his dad. Not for Spurs!
 

Spence167

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Dec 19, 2018
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How could anyone not see; he's not a fraction of Spurs at all. From the way he always has spoken about us, I tend to forget he was once us.

I feel like that about Lineker. Never forgiven him for saying we would be hanging from the lampposts after Leicester won the title. He obviously forgot that we saved his kid’s life when he was with us.
 
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