- Mar 18, 2005
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I’m not anti cup success, I just don’t agree with pundits who are saying - and I hear this a lot lately - “they haven’t won a trophy yet” as if winning a league or fa cup is needed to validate that this team is very good. It’s typical “proper football man” type jargon.
I’ve enjoyed every cup win we’ve had in the last four decades. But I enjoy much more feeling like we are a serious football team over a period of a few years and not a bit of a “lads, it’s Tottenham” joke.
Going into games against the very best teams without a timid inferiority complex feels bloody good. As does knowing everyone else fears us.
It’s not quite the same brief elation as a cup win, but I wouldn’t swap it for that more long lasting feeling of footballing well being we have enjoyed lately.
Success in the league brings CL football, which brings the revenues and kudos that brings a better quality of player that improves your overall squad which makes cups a more likely by-product.
Poch has that priority right.
Agreed.