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What Our Opponents' Fans Are Saying About Us 22/23

$hoguN

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There's no clear favourite in our group that's probably why people might view it as easy. Personally I feel it's the hardest group to predict.
In some ways it is a hard group to predict but if we are serious about being a “big club” and wanting to win titles this is as easy a group as it gets and when you look at other clubs we are the clear favourites. We need to relish that and make sure we put in performances that deserve that view. If we can’t do that than we aren’t winning anything.
 
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Having recounted the story of my old man in the Forest match thread, I feel honour-bound to bring from the Forest forum this slightly different take on father-son attendance at a Forest-Spurs game...

Nottingham Forest Vs Spurs was the only football match I ever managed to drag my dad to. He hated football. Before the match they had a police dog demonstration team so my dad spent most of the game shouting "bring the dogs back out, it's better than this shit".

He did admit that Jimmy Greaves bloke was rather good though.
 

LondonOllie

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Sporting:


Very even group. We lucked out in the first 2 pots but got the toughest team from Pot 4. Anything could happen.

Yeah not a terrible draw for sure….Benfica on the other hand :D

i'm worried with ours we could easily get 2nd or 4th if we crap the bed.

Super stoked about our group this year. Awful time to sell Nunes.

Definitely possible for Sporting to advance out of this, but the club needs a few additions and to hopefully be injury free when these fixtures come about. Getting OM in pot 4 stinks.

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Frankfurt


Tottenham get battered, everywhere they go....

In my opinion, the group is the best thing that could have happened to us.

Good opponents, but they aren't grenades like City, PSG or Real, but at the same time none where you say, "Well, you just have to win there..." like it would have been, without arrogance, in Haifa, Pilsen or Copenhagen... .I'm

really looking forward to it

The Tottenham fans mostly speak of a dream group, an EL group or the possibility of resting players for the PL games during the CL group games. The few voices admonishing caution are laughed at. I've rarely wished for a club to be fourth. I hope we get in shape in time and spank their butts.

Well, from their point of view that is actually correct, with the exclusion of the supposed arrogance. On paper, we were one of the easiest opponents in Pot 1 and Sporting weren't the worst from Pot 3 either. Marseille, as a Pot 4 opponent, is, I think, underestimated per se.

They've never played at the Waldstadion... I think they'll just finish second and get a point against us overall

Isn't it kind of arrogant to assume that the supporters of a rival club would be arrogant if - after a few minutes of reverential pause - they don't see Eintracht quite on the level of Real, Man City and Bayern?

I don't care if the Hotten Totten take us seriously up on their island or not. The more they underestimate us, the better for us.

In Pot 2 we could have gotten completely different calibres. Of course, Tottenham has to be taken seriously, but Juve or Barca would have been completely different house numbers.

We took revenge against West Ham in May for 1976, this time we will take revenge on Tottenspurs for leaving in 1982. How could we not extend our early lead back then and then conceded a late goal. Now the time has finally come to erase this blemish......


...First leg at White Hart Lane was lost 0-2. After all, Tottenspur's Ray Clemens played in goal, Steve Perryman, Ossi Ardiles, Steve Archibald and the legendary Glen Hoddle; he was a real football god.

We probably would have shot the thing with our Grabi as a team back then. Catching the 2-1 in the 80th minute was the end because of the away goal rule. Nevertheless, the games against the Hammers and Tottenspurs were the highlights of the respective European tour. Failed once in March, the other time in April. This year on May 18th finally won the thing again. Next year the European tour will, with a bit of luck, end on June 10th in Constantinople, in the worst case on May 17th in the semi-finals. got a good feeling I even got to see the second leg against Spurs to the end - my son wanted to hatch at North West Hospital. He waited until the next day + now proudly carries the Eintracht Adler on his arm - in London.

Such data is remembered, I hatched during a World Cup qualifying game from D for the World Cup in Switzerland. D became world champion for the first time a year later. It's been a long, long time, I don't know anything, was too young.

Now two wins, like against West Ham, would be my dream for the group games against Tottenspurs.

My daughter will forgive me, she worked for Spurs Academy for a long time. Now she's wearing Eintracht shirts from the finals in the fitness studio in London, so she's cleansed, and for years she's loved drinking her Äppler and a Mispelchen in the Seckbacher Rad. That just by the way

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OM


find the draw not too bad, I expected worse. There's a way to do something for me.

So we're going to end up having Ronaldo and Malinovskyi at Vel, one with Sporting, the other with Tott!

For me the ideal classification:
Marseille
Sporting
Tottenham
Frankfurt

I think however that Sporting this year is weakened: loss of Sarabia (rp at PSG), Palhinha and Matheus Nunes. For me without a qualitative leap (or in front with the arrival of CR7, or in the middle) it is the weakest team in the group (and you know that I support them). Defensively it's catastrophic with 3 goals conceded against Braga and Porto (3-3 and 3-0).

The logical classification would be:
Tottenham
Frankfurt
Marseille
Sporting

It is ultimately a fairly open group behind Tottenham

Tottenham remain favorites and for the others it's open.

We should be able to improve

Without realising what I was doing, I caught myself reading the Frankfurt comments in Basil Fawlty’s voice (to myself, not out loud) ?


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Kingstheman

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Having recounted the story of my old man in the Forest match thread, I feel honour-bound to bring from the Forest forum this slightly different take on father-son attendance at a Forest-Spurs game...

Nottingham Forest Vs Spurs was the only football match I ever managed to drag my dad to. He hated football. Before the match they had a police dog demonstration team so my dad spent most of the game shouting "bring the dogs back out, it's better than this shit".

He did admit that Jimmy Greaves bloke was rather good though.
Jimmy Greaves transcends many things.
 

chas vs dave

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Jul 17, 2008
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Having recounted the story of my old man in the Forest match thread, I feel honour-bound to bring from the Forest forum this slightly different take on father-son attendance at a Forest-Spurs game...

Nottingham Forest Vs Spurs was the only football match I ever managed to drag my dad to. He hated football. Before the match they had a police dog demonstration team so my dad spent most of the game shouting "bring the dogs back out, it's better than this shit".

He did admit that Jimmy Greaves bloke was rather good though.
His dad sounds like a right immature bellend. I've gone to things I don't like for my kids. You just be tolerant and get through it.

The only exception.was when my ex wife made me go to watch cats with her. Which was impossible to tolerate.
 

sundanceyid10

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You're considered part of a top six if you finish in the top six every year.
And we've done this for most of the last decade.

it's not related to how many trophies you have won. The clue is in the phrase 'top six'.

it's about the level you play at, being able to compete against the best teams in your league, going head to head with the likes of Bayern, Real, and Barca on a Wednesday night.
That’s great but the game is about winning trophies, we simply have to get over the line in competitions. Winning trophies/competitions breeds confidence in a way that nothing else can.
 

TheChosenOne

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Dec 13, 2005
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Eintracht Frankfurt’ a arena is called ‘The Waldstadion’ which translated means Forest Stadium.

I haven’t been to the remodelled place but yes it is slap bang in the middle of a forest. Anyone going there - be alert - EF have ultras who like to have a pop at rival fans.
 
Jan 28, 2011
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Eintracht Frankfurt’ a arena is called ‘The Waldstadion’ which translated means Forest Stadium.

I haven’t been to the remodelled place but yes it is slap bang in the middle of a forest. Anyone going there - be alert - EF have ultras who like to have a pop at rival fans.

If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise.
If you go down in the woods today, you'd better go in disguise;
For every Herr that ever there was will gather there for certain because
Today's the day the bloody Herrs act like right pricks.

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chas vs dave

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That’s great but the game is about winning trophies, we simply have to get over the line in competitions. Winning trophies/competitions breeds confidence in a way that nothing else can.
If the game was about winning trophies, then 96 of the league clubs should just pack it in. Only 2 or 3 clubs regularly win trophies.

The game isn't about trophies, not for me anyway. Trophies are just a bonus.
 

Marty

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Mar 10, 2005
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I quite like us being called Hotten Totten and we should refer to ourselves as such more often! but where is this island he speaks of?
Hottentott is a pretty outdated derogatory term for sub-Saharan Africans that was widely used in Scandinavian languages, German and Dutch back in the day. Not a very cool thing to start calling anyone.
 

the yid

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Eintracht Frankfurt’ a arena is called ‘The Waldstadion’ which translated means Forest Stadium.

I haven’t been to the remodelled place but yes it is slap bang in the middle of a forest. Anyone going there - be alert - EF have ultras who like to have a pop at rival fans.
Unlike the Germans to start a fight
 

JerryGarcia

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May 18, 2006
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His dad sounds like a right immature bellend. I've gone to things I don't like for my kids. You just be tolerant and get through it.

The only exception.was when my ex wife made me go to watch cats with her. Which was impossible to tolerate.
I’d pay good money to watch someone shout "bring the dogs back out, it's better than this shit" at a performance of Cats.
 

fishhhandaricecake

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I'm actually positively surprised by most of the posts in that thread.

9/10 rates Conte highly, and a lot are very realistic about Arteta as well.
Refreshing to see actually.

Mine would be:
1. Klopp
2. Conte
3. Pep (below Klopp and Conte because he has worked with far better squads and bigger budgets than Klopp and Conte) obviously an incredible tactician but the squad he’s had have been insanely strong tbh so I don’t find it as impressive as seeing Klopp and Conte transform teams.
4. Tuchel
5. Potter
6. Ten Haag tbc

The rest don’t come close.

I think most fans put bias out the window and admit that Conte is an elite world class top 3-4 manager in the world as even the most biased fans would be mad to deny it.
 
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