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The point I've made before though is that boring football is not something Tottenham have an exclusive patent on.
If you're playing an equally boring team (and pick any of them quite honestly) that is intent only on getting a single point out of the game then not very surprisingly it will be a boring game. Who in the PL plays "exciting" football week in and week out? I hate to say this but possibly the Chavs and sometimes Man City and that's it. Are L'Arse exciting? Liverpool? Stoke, Sunderland?
I have no way of knowing (and I can't really be bothered to find out) if fans on sites like KUMB or RedandWhiteKop are whining and complaining because it is perceived that the style of football they play is boring, but I might be willing to bet they're not. Also, If Redknapp and Jol produced such exciting football at WHL then how come they're not managing some top flight team now and producing the same style of football? Probably because they were both completely shit at the last clubs they respectively managed.
Tottenham fans have been accused many times of being deluded or having unrealistic high expectations based on their history, and quite honestly that is how these complaints come over. "We're not exciting enough" "We should play the best football imaginable" "We're so boring, even more than Stoke or Villa", it's just complaining for the sake of complaining quite honestly. This is how the game is in this country now and maybe we just need to accept that its unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
It's not "complaining for the sake of complaining". At worst it comes down to different definitions of what is 'entertaining'.
I accept that some fans are entertained by seeing us competing to be the best of the rest, and are entertained by European football and the prospect of an amazing new stadium. I can even just about accept that some fans find the idea of our club being run super-efficiently to be a form of entertainment.
But there are many Spurs fans who simply don't find the football itself to be entertaining. Your comments about other teams just makes me think football in general is becoming too dull and safe. You only have to look at Argentina v Iran in the last world cup to see how a negative and poor quality team can purposefully suck the life out of a match by being well drilled. Saying it's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future is probably accurate, and a little sad. As I said, it comes down to what you think is entertainment. If the football isn't entertaining (and it doesn't have to be free-flowing to tick that box...I can be entertained by highly efficient but clinically executed football as well), there's little else, personally speaking, to write home about.
As for Jol and Redknapp, I wasn't particularly commentating on their abilities as managers - I was making the point that dull football is not a prerequisite for finishing in the top 5.