What the pundits & media are saying about us

[montylynch]

Was dozing off listening to the sports bar last night, nearly everything was about us. He read out 8 headlines from the papers and 4 of them were about us. The pitch, the stadium, Poch and Dele.

They then did a piece to name a pop group like spurs, a group that always there, always on TOTP with smash hits but never had a recent number one. Best they could come up with was Mud, Status Quo and Bon Jovi.....

I bet the other teams are loving it at the minute now everything's about us.

 

[kmk]

 

[homer hotspur]

Well said Harry. You sometimes think all these pundits are in the same boat/union, but he has really stood up for us there.

 

[Shadydan]

Neville over egged the pudding there just to make a point but I'd be pissed if I was Harry.

I remember Owen Hargreaves saying the same thing about Spurs in the past in a live BT Broadcast and Harry cut him off quickly, I think people don't remember some of the football we played whilst he was in charge.

 

[homer hotspur]

He nearly always backs us up , it isn't only about his time either.

 

[bho]

Good man Harry!

 

[bomberH]

They’re talking about it now on the debate on ssn. Steve McMahon and Mark Schwarzer both agreeing with Harry. What’s bugging me though, is the presenter Geoff something saying has Gary got a point though because look what happened during the Leicester season... Schwarzer said but Gary wasn’t talking about that, he was talking pre Poch but Geoff wanted to talk about us being legends. He then gave the Chelsea game when we were 2-0 up as an example. Geoff’s a bit of a ****.

2 things. Do people seem to forget that we were never in front of Leicester. We were the only team to keep up with them yet we’re the legends. Secondly, they’re talking about the Chelsea game like we were playing Norwich or something. Chelsea away where we hadn’t won for 25 years or something, where they were gagging to stop us winning the league... to draw 2-2 there was the final nail in the coffin yep, but they talk about us ‘bottling it’ like we lost 3-0 to Norwich. It was friggin Chelsea ffs.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

They’re talking about it now on the debate on ssn. Steve McMahon and Mark Schwarzer both agreeing with Harry. What’s bugging me though, is the presenter Geoff something saying has Gary got a point though because look what happened during the Leicester season... Schwarzer said but Gary wasn’t talking about that, he was talking pre Poch but Geoff wanted to talk about us being legends. He then gave the Chelsea game when we were 2-0 up as an example. Geoff’s a bit of a ****.

2 things. Do people seem to forget that we were never in front of Leicester. We were the only team to keep up with them yet we’re the legends. Secondly, they’re talking about the Chelsea game like we were playing Norwich or something. Chelsea away where we hadn’t won for 25 years or something, where they were gagging to stop us winning the league... to draw 2-2 there was the final nail in the coffin yep, but they talk about us ‘bottling it’ like we lost 3-0 to Norwich. It was friggin Chelsea ffs.

You can't bottle something if you were never in front of the team you were chasing. It was the buzz line to come from that season. Low hanging fruit is all it is.

 

[markdadude]

Always loved Harry and the spurs we had underneath him. He gave us some of the most exciting matches as fans. With that team we could go down 3 goals and I would keep on watching thinking we could still win. We never gave up and had individual match winners throughout the team. But Gary of course had a point, he could have put it more carefully, and said before we started getting top 4, thereby excluding Harry's time, but shit, I remember 90s, 00s, when we would play a big team and get the first goal, the feeling would be "Oh no, we've scored too early! Now we've made them really angry - we're gonna loose now"

 

[spursfan77]

Neville over egged the pudding there just to make a point but I'd be pissed if I was Harry.

I remember Owen Hargreaves saying the same thing about Spurs in the past in a live BT Broadcast and Harry cut him off quickly, I think people don't remember some of the football we played whilst he was in charge.

They don’t remember we challenged for the league 2 seasons ago, you can’t expect them to engage their brains and think back 7/8 years.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

The good stuff under Redknapp was the exception, not the rule.
He oversaw whoopings by the big boys regularly. More so than we won and I am a Harry-Era fan.
Before him there was the nearly season under Jol and, other than that, f all else for as long as the premier league has existed. There were 6-0 bollockings by Chelsea, 6 and 7 - 1 twattings by Newcastle, throwing away leads against United between 4-0 hammerings. Our Premier League era until probably 2007 and the odd years after, have been forgetful.

Neville may have appeared disparaging, but to me, he's complimenting THFC now at the expense of THFC then, and that's no bad thing.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

They are also running another story ..

"Tottenham are a shithouse operation disgracing the Premier League"

I don't know the context of this lurid headline and I am not going to click on their shabby sensationalist click bait articles any more.

That was a mailbox letter from a random reader complaining about the NFL logo on a PL pitch and calling Levy and co the shithouses. Not Poch or the players.

Cheers Marty - as always.

Was the random reader a WHU fan?

 

[donny1013]

They’re talking about it now on the debate on ssn. Steve McMahon and Mark Schwarzer both agreeing with Harry. What’s bugging me though, is the presenter Geoff something saying has Gary got a point though because look what happened during the Leicester season... Schwarzer said but Gary wasn’t talking about that, he was talking pre Poch but Geoff wanted to talk about us being legends. He then gave the Chelsea game when we were 2-0 up as an example. Geoff’s a bit of a ****.

2 things. Do people seem to forget that we were never in front of Leicester. We were the only team to keep up with them yet we’re the legends. Secondly, they’re talking about the Chelsea game like we were playing Norwich or something. Chelsea away where we hadn’t won for 25 years or something, where they were gagging to stop us winning the league... to draw 2-2 there was the final nail in the coffin yep, but they talk about us ‘bottling it’ like we lost 3-0 to Norwich. It was friggin Chelsea ffs.

It's a classic case of not letting facts get in the way. If you even try to say that to rival fans when they start calling us legends, they just shout even louder.

 

[Kiedis]

It's a classic case of not letting facts get in the way. If you even try to say that to rival fans when they start calling us legends, they just shout even louder.

Arsenal actually led the League that season after about 22 games, but I guess people just knew that they were never really in the race, seeing as they're Arsenal.

 

[Cornpattbuck]

The Guardian seem a bit obsessed at the moment: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...pur-stadium-redevelopment-haringey-neighbours

 

[Kiedis]

The Guardian seem a bit obsessed at the moment: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...pur-stadium-redevelopment-haringey-neighbours

I think Conns pieces are always worthwhile, but it kinda sounds like Spurs are the only ones really doing anything of note when it comes to regenerating the area? How's the tube station coming along?

 

[TheChosenOne]

I think Conns pieces are always worthwhile, but it kinda sounds like Spurs are the only ones really doing anything of note when it comes to regenerating the area? How's the tube station coming along?

Another day another hatchet job.


You will never please the locals.

I saw a quote recently from some concerned group of Islington residents questioning as to The Emirates and who did Arsenal think they were ? Adding they were only there about '30' days a year.

 

[wrd]

Another day another hatchet job.


You will never please the locals.

I saw a quote recently from some concerned group of Islington residents questioning as to The Emirates and who did Arsenal think they were ? Adding they were only there about '30' days a year.

People will always be anxious about change and negative towards it, I know it's shit that it will put a few locals noses out of joint and affect them but I think having this stadium will improve the area for many many people, there's a lot of positive things coming from this venture. I know it's unpopular to back the big football team vs the small local community but I really feel like it's a huge upside for the community.

 

[Kiedis]

Disclaimer; looking at the area very much from afar and have never visited the place unless it's because of a match

Wouldn't every bit of regenerating and "polishing" the area be very welcome for the locals? The Sainsbury must've created jobs and stuff of actual and unquestionable value to the area? As opposed to the "look, here's Serge Aurier doing aerobics with some locals as part of the Tottenham Hotspur Foundations work..." bits.

Not about to make this a "teach the foreign guy about North London" thread, so I'll move over to the Stadium thread to see if there's something to learn

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

They’re talking about it now on the debate on ssn. Steve McMahon and Mark Schwarzer both agreeing with Harry. What’s bugging me though, is the presenter Geoff something saying has Gary got a point though because look what happened during the Leicester season... Schwarzer said but Gary wasn’t talking about that, he was talking pre Poch but Geoff wanted to talk about us being legends. He then gave the Chelsea game when we were 2-0 up as an example. Geoff’s a bit of a ****.

2 things. Do people seem to forget that we were never in front of Leicester. We were the only team to keep up with them yet we’re the legends. Secondly, they’re talking about the Chelsea game like we were playing Norwich or something. Chelsea away where we hadn’t won for 25 years or something, where they were gagging to stop us winning the league... to draw 2-2 there was the final nail in the coffin yep, but they talk about us ‘bottling it’ like we lost 3-0 to Norwich. It was friggin Chelsea ffs.

You can't bottle something if you were never in front of the team you were chasing. It was the buzz line to come from that season. Low hanging fruit is all it is.

It's a classic case of not letting facts get in the way. If you even try to say that to rival fans when they start calling us legends, they just shout even louder.

We may never have been ahead of Leicester, but let us not ignore the fact with 11 games of the season left, the title WAS in our own hands. We entered a game at Upton Park needing a win that would have taken us above Leicester to the top of the table and we lost. We next had Arsenal at home, were 2-1 ahead playing against 10 men and drew, again missing an opportunity to go top on GD this time.
By that stage, not the Chelsea or West Brom games, we were never catching them.