The Race to the Title

[nailsy]

Did I in any of my posts say that Newcastle are better than the foxes? No
They have drastically improved since Rafa took over though.

No, but you were talking like they were expected to lose against Newcastle, but not Leicester.

They definitely did not play the same fullbacks, I know, I watched all 3 of those games. Admittedly not every single minute but a good majority to know.

I've checked two different sites. Have a look yourself. The BBC still have all the line ups.

The major change in selection was in not picking Gomis, but he hasn't scored in the league since before Christmas.

 

[spurs9]

You don't get a medal for 2nd.

Apparently, 2nd place actually does get a medal (can't remember where I read that).

 

[Tit&Ham]

You don't get a medal for 2nd.

Hey! I USE 30 mins on a mobile to write a sensible post with the apple-autocorrect trying to change all my words to "pregnant" and this os your reply?!

Shame on pregnant...!

 

[StockSpur]

It seems like Huth said at the start of the season, fuck it, i'm prepared to cheat all year until i get caught, so far its going well for him..

 

[Kirito]

It seems like Huth said at the start of the season, fuck it, i'm prepared to cheat all year until i get caught, so far its going well for him..

Just Huth? I think you will find that this "cheating" runs deeper than that.

Anyway the season is over, we will draw tomorrow.

 

[nasescoba1985]

Would actually still have hat slight bit of hope if it weren't for Leicester playing chelsea away last game. If by some miracle we are in with a shout of the title come last game, there is no doubt in my mind chelsea and their supporters will do everything in their power to not let spurs win the league. If any spurs fan thinks we have a chance of the title then they are incredibly naive and clearly don't know chelsea or their supporters. Take it from me who pretty much has 95% of my mates as chelscum supporters and are pretty happy to lose the final game if it means fucking us over. The chelsea players judging by their comments are clearly willing to throw the game to in a subtle way. If any spurs fan thinks chelsea and their supporters are wanting to win that game because of John Terry's final game then you need to wake up and smell the coffee. Chelsea and their fans hate us and are obsessed with us, We ain't winning this league with help from them.

 

[deluded-yid]

No, but you were talking like they were expected to lose against Newcastle, but not Leicester.



I've checked two different sites. Have a look yourself. The BBC still have all the line ups.

The major change in selection was in not picking Gomis, but he hasn't scored in the league since before Christmas.

I think you'll find it is easier to twist people's words when they are spoken and not written. Again nowhere in my posts on this thread did I say 'expected'.
What I have written is about newcastle' and Townsend's improvement, if you want to assume something else from the written word, that's your issue.
Whether it was fullbacks or not there was a different selection in the Leicester game. Also Swansea played an Italian striker in the chelscum game.
So, do me a favour and stop looking for an argument, considering I was originally quoting someone else, you've made it obvious to me you either love a wind up or you love to talk a lot of s**t.
Either way i'm not bothered, you can read into that and assume whatever you want.

 

[yankspurs]

Apparently, 2nd place actually does get a medal (can't remember where I read that).

Oh yay! We get a participation trophy like in youth american sports?!?!?!? Does Villa get one too?

 

[hughy]

Oh yay! We get a participation trophy like in youth american sports?!?!?!? Does Villa get one too?

Yeah it's called the "Burton Albion away on a windy Tuesday Night" trophy.

 

[Dillspur]

It's not at the moment, they have won 1 (v Villa) drawn 2 and lost 2 in their last 5 away games.

So Everton are due a win

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Apparently, 2nd place actually does get a medal (can't remember where I read that).

I looked it up when someone mentioned it recently and it's not true.

 

[Dharmabum]

I thought it was outside the box and I thought Leicester's pen claim from earlier was more nailed on.

He kept holding him until he entered the penalty box though.

 

[worcestersauce]

BBC reporting that Leicester "will now have to wait until tonight to be crowned champions" they want them to win so much they are going to be so pissed off when we win tonight.

 

[plzsm]

A few positives...
Due a win at Chelsea sometime, our best team in ages v one of their worst
Drinkwater out and probably Huth
Everton got a win, bit of confidence, lukaku and Barkley can cause them problems
The arrogance of acting like you have won something before you have bites you on the ass eventually

 

[sparx100]

I can't see a win for us tonight unfortunately but the media comments and the Chelsea players/managers comments should fire the team up I just hope it gets us a win.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Oh yay! We get a participation trophy like in youth american sports?!?!?!? Does Villa get one too?

The Mr Clutch trophy

 

[Typical Spurs]

OK, so this is my opinion. If Leicester win it which they will more than likely do, then they fully deserve it. Do I think we're a better team? Yes. Every stat other than points says we're better. But points is what matters. If we were 5/6th I'd be willing Leicester to do it over Arse, Citeh etc. But my bitterness comes only because they're stopping my team, our team, winning the league. And I've had to stop myself turning into a football snob, telling anyone who'll listen that we play better football, we dominate teams etc. The people I have said that to have responded exactly how I would - "it's about points". Which it is. But the way we have played has been magic at times.

I don't have an issue with how Leicester play. You play to your strengths. And they have perfected the counter attack. Good on them. How many of them would get in our 11? Kante and Mahrez possibly. Yes they're physical as a team, but so what?! People whining about that fact make us sound like such pussies. It's a contact, physical sport. Yes Huth grapples and pulls etc, Morgan is a big burly defender, but that is what they've got, and they make the most out of it. Huth pulled Fellainie's hair?! So what?! That sort of gamesmanship goes on all over every pitch at every level of the game. Dele Alli is the master at it. I'd hate him if he wasn't ours, he's a proper niggly player, leaves his foot in etc. But it's part of the game.

Have they rode their luck? Yes at times. Some decisions could've been different. But that isn't why they're winning it. If it was Chelsea, arsenal, Citeh, utd winning it most would feel better about it, cos they tend to play the 'right' way. But because it's Leicester it's seems a lot of us feel they don't have the right to be there.

The future looks so good for us. Leicester will quickly become irrelevant again. If we win tonight it keeps it alive by a thread. I just wish they had anyone other than Chelsea on their last game.

 

[mrlilywhite]

For me personally I wont look beyond our game tonight. It is one of those games you dread as far as I am concerned. If we win (and it's a big if) then we can start looking fwd to the Leicester game against the Toffees. Lose tonight then it's over and we have to guard our backs against Arsenal. The irony in Chelsea winning could have a bigger impact than giving them bragging rights that they ruined our title charge. Their smug little faces burning images in my mind.

For what it's worth we have been the best team in the league, but most other fans, and clubs really hate the idea of us winning the league. Delusions of grandeur are what other "big" clubs have claimed about us before, and that we have the worst fanbase (A walk over to RAWK will counter the latter assumption). Leicester meanwhile are regarded as a breath of fresh air when they play long balls over the top to their quick men, and not forgetting their gladiatorial approach too as they move opposition players out of the way. I say this with an air of sarcasm of course. There is no way that is the right or wrong to play football, but it comes to my mind that advertising Leicester as your country's best football team is arguably more detrimental to the premier league.

For us it is simple. We need to get over the Chelsea game with a win. If Leicester are going to have a couple of players out against Everton (and Huth should be out given his blatant hair pull on Fellaini, though would not surprise me if nothing was done retrospectively), then you could hope that Everton have a chance. My personal feeling is that we now need to protect what we have and don't give the gooners a whiff, but maybe, just maybe beating Chelsea could bring the title to the last game. Will be glad to say goodbye to this unusually suspicious run of Monday night football though!

 

[Roynie]

Just because Hazard and Fibreglass said they would rather Leicester win the title it doesn't mean they are going to throw the game. Let's face it, if we are still in the race when it come to the last game, the media are going to be all over Chelski like a rash. Having come out publiclity with that shit they have put themselves right in the spotlight and it's not as if only Spurs fans have seen it, everyone has. Any mistake they make in that game will be viewed as an attempt to throw it and by saying it they have made it very, very difficult to actually do.

 

[Don_Felipe]

OK, so this is my opinion. If Leicester win it which they will more than likely do, then they fully deserve it. Do I think we're a better team? Yes. Every stat other than points says we're better. But points is what matters. If we were 5/6th I'd be willing Leicester to do it over Arse, Citeh etc. But my bitterness comes only because they're stopping my team, our team, winning the league. And I've had to stop myself turning into a football snob, telling anyone who'll listen that we play better football, we dominate teams etc. The people I have said that to have responded exactly how I would - "it's about points". Which it is. But the way we have played has been magic at times.

I don't have an issue with how Leicester play. You play to your strengths. And they have perfected the counter attack. Good on them. How many of them would get in our 11? Kante and Mahrez possibly. Yes they're physical as a team, but so what?! People whining about that fact make us sound like such pussies. It's a contact, physical sport. Yes Huth grapples and pulls etc, Morgan is a big burly defender, but that is what they've got, and they make the most out of it. Huth pulled Fellainie's hair?! So what?! That sort of gamesmanship goes on all over every pitch at every level of the game. Dele Alli is the master at it. I'd hate him if he wasn't ours, he's a proper niggly player, leaves his foot in etc. But it's part of the game.

Have they rode their luck? Yes at times. Some decisions could've been different. But that isn't why they're winning it. If it was Chelsea, arsenal, Citeh, utd winning it most would feel better about it, cos they tend to play the 'right' way. But because it's Leicester it's seems a lot of us feel they don't have the right to be there.

The future looks so good for us. Leicester will quickly become irrelevant again. If we win tonight it keeps it alive by a thread. I just wish they had anyone other than Chelsea on their last game.

Bottom line is that as ridiculous as it sounds, Leicester have been the best team at winning games this season, it might not be pretty, there might be a few unsavoury characters in their team but they have just been better than everyone else.

I kind of hate (and slightly love) the fact that we are the bad guys in this story - it is stopping me enjoying what is the most incredible story in English football in the last..... well for as long as I can remember. There's plenty to dislike about Leicester, but it can only be a good thing that they demonstrate that any team really can win the league - because until now, I wouldn't have agreed. Hopefully them doing it this year demonstrates to our players that they can do it next year. It's frustrating, (trigger warning) spursy almost that in any other season WE would be the fairy tale, we would be the story, we would be the plucky outsiders upsetting the apple cart - instead somehow we've been cast as the evil megabucks Sky 5 big club that needs to be put in their place (and how did that happen?)

But, that doesn't stop the fact that this is the most incredible spurs team I have ever seen, this is the best season (at least league-wise) I have ever seen - and we should be able to do it next year (not that anything's guaranteed - ask Liverpool )