What our opponents' fans are saying

[fletch82]

Are you new to supporting Spurs? We don't talk like that, or even think it.

We always lose everything, and therefore we will lose. And we will all probably die as a result.

Thank feck somebody said it.

Feel better now much better
All this enthusiasm stuff is weird and in all honesty a little bit scary

 

[Matthew Wyatt]

Are you new to supporting Spurs? We don't talk like that, or even think it.

We always lose everything, and therefore we will lose. And we will all probably die as a result.

Not new. Been a fan since the late '70s and remained a deluded optimist. Sort of like Del Boy -- "this time next year, we'll be millionaires!".

 

[Real_madyidd]

Not new. Been a fan since the late '70s and remained a deluded optimist. Sort of like Del Boy -- "this time next year, we'll be millionaires!".

Did you do that in the 90s?

"We are only ten players short of winning the league" would have been optimistic back then.

 

[brakefluid]

Did you do that in the 90s?

"We are only ten players short of winning the league" would have been optimistic back then.

Whose the one guy you would have kept?

 

[$hoguN]

Whose the one guy you would have kept?

Ginola

 

[Matthew Wyatt]

Did you do that in the 90s?

"We are only ten players short of winning the league" would have been optimistic back then.

Luckily for me the 90s were my non-football period. I was way too high -- if I remembered them I wasn't there. It was only later that I learnt they were Spurs' Dark Ages, hence perhaps my optimism remaining intact.

 

[Insomnia]

Ginola

Well it wouldn't have been Ian Walker would it

 

[TriXed]

Ginola

Also a fit Anderton & Pre Utd Sheringham

 

[nightgoat]

Well it wouldn't have been Ian Walker would it

Jason Dozzell

 

[Don_Felipe]

Also a fit Anderton & Pre Utd Sheringham

Think a fit Anderton was more of a concept than a reality

 

[Sweech]

A bit too much overconfidence in this thread for my liking. Yes we have a decent chance of turning them over, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if we lost.

We will play a completely different game to Leicester, who crowded City out with numbers behind the ball and exploited City's complete lack of pace at the back.

If we press them we could overrun them, but just as likely leave space for our nemesis to punish us. Anything could happen really.

They have shown they don't like being pressed heavily.

Their losses to us and to Liverpool were clear examples of it.

Leicester also implement a heavy press, it's just that theirs is far more selective than most as there are only several areas on the pitch where they seem to turn on the press.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

We will play a completely different game to Leicester, who crowded City out with numbers behind the ball and exploited City's complete lack of pace at the back.

Not entirely sure if that's true. In the match at WHL, they had in fact more possession, uncommonly rare under Poch.
That might point towards our game plane being a bit different. Some place between our usual stuff and Leicester's approach, maybe?

 

[Gowen]

Well it wouldn't have been Ian Walker would it

Back when I was at school we always called him Ian "it's behind you" Walker....

Dark days indeed

 

[yusrisafri]

2 seasons ago when we had bought the magnificent 7 and were doing relatively well at the beginning of the season, and the Gooners were on a poor streak and had not signed anyone in the summer, we arrived at Emirates as favourites. Even the Goon fans were saying "for the first time in many years we go into this game as underdogs". All pundits and media were saying the tide in North London had turned prior to the match.

We lost that match 1-0.

This Sunday, the City fans are saying "for the first time in a long time we play Spurs at Etihad as underdogs".

Gulp.

 

[Don_Felipe]

2 seasons ago when we had bought the magnificent 7 and were doing relatively well at the beginning of the season, and the Gooners were on a poor streak and had not signed anyone in the summer, we arrived at Emirates as favourites. Even the Goon fans were saying "for the first time in many years we go into this game as underdogs". All pundits and media were saying the tide in North London had turned prior to the match.

We lost that match 1-0.

This Sunday, the City fans are saying "for the first time in a long time we play Spurs at Etihad as underdogs".

Gulp.

We're Spurs fans, we know how this ends - I'm expecting either Harry Kane to be abducted by aliens or the bus to be hit by an asteroid.

 

[dagraham]

Not entirely sure if that's true. In the match at WHL, they had in fact more possession, uncommonly rare under Poch.
That might point towards our game plane being a bit different. Some place between our usual stuff and Leicester's approach, maybe?

Maybe, although that was quite early in the season and we weren't playing with the confidence we are now. IIRC they dominated the first 30 mins, but just didn't have their shooting boots on so I think our lack of possession was more about them imposing their game on us, rather than by our design.

It will be interesting to see if we drop off a bit as I would be quite concerned with giving Aguero space in behind.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Maybe, although that was quite early in the season and we weren't playing with the confidence we are now. IIRC they dominated the first 30 mins, but just didn't have their shooting boots on so I think our lack of possession was more about them imposing their game on us, rather than by our design.

It will be interesting to see if we drop off a bit as I would be quite concerned with giving Aguero space in behind.

It's a strange match altogether. I'm not expecting anything, and nothing can surprise me about this one.

 

[RickyVilla]

Whose the one guy you would have kept?

Nethercott

 

[MightySpurs]

Not entirely sure if that's true. In the match at WHL, they had in fact more possession, uncommonly rare under Poch.
That might point towards our game plane being a bit different. Some place between our usual stuff and Leicester's approach, maybe?

Wtf? You think our plane is different?

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Wtf? You think our plane is different?

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Correct.
I think if it is better and more relaxing, we'll arrive fresher.