- Feb 13, 2004
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I think Bellamy is the only pundit I have heard call it out as it is, that both our previous two seasons we have ran two teams close who were not in the champions league and it was entirely possible we could have won two titles. No one else will say it. He's gone up a few notches in my book.
I know there are a multitude of factors that make pundits and the media say it as they do, so I'm not entirely sure there's a conspiracy against us.
On the other hand, we finished third (should have been second) and then second in the league and it was all just because of failings within the richer clubs. We were drawn in the so-called group of death and we qualified with two games to spare - and the narrative is that it is just Dortmund and Real being poor. At the same time if anything negative happens it fits a narrative, usually involving words like Spursy and bottle-jobs, where we are responsible for our own downfall.
It isn't every pundit and every journo in every media story - but when this is just the general, acceptable narrative, it is easy to see how an average Spurs fan could see it as something hostile to the club.
Good for Bellars for looking beyond the dominant narrative.
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