- Jan 19, 2006
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Didn't Keith Burkenshaw say that in '84?We don't have a proper club anymore very depressing.
Didn't Keith Burkenshaw say that in '84?We don't have a proper club anymore very depressing.
He did yesDidn't Keith Burkenshaw say that in '84?
Good post and attitude, just use supporting Spurs as comedy and as an escape from the sad/scary times in Ukraine etc.It's really quite simple.
Look, the world, especially the current one, is filled with ugliness & things so much more important than football/Tottenham Hotspur.
Yeah, of course we're emotionally & financially invested. Once this fucking club gets it's claws into you, that's it, life fucking sentence!
But change how you think.
.
Use THFC as an escape from the ugliness of an ever deteriorating world.
Use the match threads as a platform to laugh at the genuinely laughable outbursts some people have, only to be made to look a total thunder**** moments later when the player they've been slagging off does something magic.
Honestly, everything is so much more enjoyable, fun even, if you're just able to take that step back.
I genuinely only come on here for a laugh now.
People have got so serious over the last couple of years, turning on each other regularly on here. And for what? Because we lost a game? Because someone played shit? Because the owners haven't spent what you'd/we'd like? Because we've once again won nothing?
If you're honest with yourself. You expect those things to happen anyway because, lads, it's Tottenham!
Just expect to be everyone's favourite banter club, including your own. ?
Would you say Tottenham fulfills some sort of proxy religious impulse of yours? Or that the club is some sort of archetypal pillar that forms one of the stronger mental modules of yours?to be honest i absolutely love this club with every fibre of my being but at the same time absolutely hate it with every fibre of my being too.
COYS but also fuck em at the same time, not sure if it's just me but thats how i feel.
Love it. Just like I love a post loss frustration/regret wank and I love a post win ferocious/regret wankIt's really quite simple.
Look, the world, especially the current one, is filled with ugliness & things so much more important than football/Tottenham Hotspur.
Yeah, of course we're emotionally & financially invested. Once this fucking club gets it's claws into you, that's it, life fucking sentence!
But change how you think.
.
Use THFC as an escape from the ugliness of an ever deteriorating world.
Use the match threads as a platform to laugh at the genuinely laughable outbursts some people have, only to be made to look a total thunder**** moments later when the player they've been slagging off does something magic.
Honestly, everything is so much more enjoyable, fun even, if you're just able to take that step back.
I genuinely only come on here for a laugh now.
People have got so serious over the last couple of years, turning on each other regularly on here. And for what? Because we lost a game? Because someone played shit? Because the owners haven't spent what you'd/we'd like? Because we've once again won nothing?
If you're honest with yourself. You expect those things to happen anyway because, lads, it's Tottenham!
Just expect to be everyone's favourite banter club, including your own. ?
I don't know about that actually, the club has been a part of my life as long as i remember and i love and hate it at the same time, although hate is too strong a word probably but it winds me up sometimes beyond belief and a lot of that stems down to the fact we never seem to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity regardless of who is at the helm and who is in the playing staff, the club almost feels cursed.Would you say Tottenham fulfills some sort of proxy religious impulse of yours? Or that the club is some sort of archetypal pillar that forms one of the stronger mental modules of yours?
I think this is it really.Even away from the macro level stuff like the direction the club is going or actual success etc...There just isn't anything to excite me over the course of 90 minutes. Other than a flash of creative brilliance from Kane it is stale and boring. Perhaps that's why I enjoyed Ndombele - because he would give a moment ( amongst crap) that wowed. Or Lamela gave an unpredictability or a reason to think he cared as much as you.
The noise of seats at WHL as everyone stood in unison as Lennon sprinted in to space even though it often ended in nothing..
Dembele turning away from 4 players gave a moment to gasp, even though it achieved little...
Ginola only scored 13 goals in 100 pl appearances - but the moments of childish delight his meandering runs and drops of the shoulders gave - it was fun.
Alderweireld, a CB, playing breathtaking 60 yard pass in behind - when we now have midfielders who can't even see that far...
Robbie Keane and that stupid fucking celebration made me grin like a kid..
On top of the disconnect we now have another manager, after several others, who likes bland functional footballers with little imagination. So on top of the disconnect with football and the club in general - the 90 minutes of football aren't even littered with fun anymore....
It's really quite simple.
Look, the world, especially the current one, is filled with ugliness & things so much more important than football/Tottenham Hotspur.
Yeah, of course we're emotionally & financially invested. Once this fucking club gets it's claws into you, that's it, life fucking sentence!
But change how you think.
.
Use THFC as an escape from the ugliness of an ever deteriorating world.
Use the match threads as a platform to laugh at the genuinely laughable outbursts some people have, only to be made to look a total thunder**** moments later when the player they've been slagging off does something magic.
Honestly, everything is so much more enjoyable, fun even, if you're just able to take that step back.
I genuinely only come on here for a laugh now.
People have got so serious over the last couple of years, turning on each other regularly on here. And for what? Because we lost a game? Because someone played shit? Because the owners haven't spent what you'd/we'd like? Because we've once again won nothing?
If you're honest with yourself. You expect those things to happen anyway because, lads, it's Tottenham!
Just expect to be everyone's favourite banter club, including your own. ?
Good post and attitude, just use supporting Spurs as comedy and as an escape from the sad/scary times in Ukraine etc.
Tbh I don't think it has helped that we've hired 3 very defensive mangers in a row, we are not used to this kind of low possession structured defensive football and when you combine that with a stale squad, no back-up to Kane and throw in a pandemic its not a good mix but strip it all back we have a world class manager, some good players we can get behind and in the scheme of things its all fine and nothing to moan about.
It's really quite simple.
Look, the world, especially the current one, is filled with ugliness & things so much more important than football/Tottenham Hotspur.
Yeah, of course we're emotionally & financially invested. Once this fucking club gets it's claws into you, that's it, life fucking sentence!
But change how you think.
.
Use THFC as an escape from the ugliness of an ever deteriorating world.
Use the match threads as a platform to laugh at the genuinely laughable outbursts some people have, only to be made to look a total thunder**** moments later when the player they've been slagging off does something magic.
Honestly, everything is so much more enjoyable, fun even, if you're just able to take that step back.
I genuinely only come on here for a laugh now.
People have got so serious over the last couple of years, turning on each other regularly on here. And for what? Because we lost a game? Because someone played shit? Because the owners haven't spent what you'd/we'd like? Because we've once again won nothing?
If you're honest with yourself. You expect those things to happen anyway because, lads, it's Tottenham!
Just expect to be everyone's favourite banter club, including your own. ?
Lets be honest, teams at the peak of their area have identity. We aspire to be a top 4 club, if you are there comfortably you have identity. Wolves/Southampton aspire to be a top 8-10 club, they have identity.I think this is it really.
I was willing to sell my soul to the pragmatists on the hope of winning some silverware but the more this has dragged on the more i realise the value i place on enjoying the football weekly even if that does not result in pots come what May, for the last few years it really has been dull as dishwater on the pitch and a bit shambolic off of it, it is almost like a chore following us which i haven't felt before even when we weren't great.
We lack Identity.
Lennon would take an absolute BEATING on this site and in the stadium nowadays. Groans every time he didn't put a good cross in or lost the ball.Even away from the macro level stuff like the direction the club is going or actual success etc...There just isn't anything to excite me over the course of 90 minutes. Other than a flash of creative brilliance from Kane it is stale and boring. Perhaps that's why I enjoyed Ndombele - because he would give a moment ( amongst crap) that wowed. Or Lamela gave an unpredictability or a reason to think he cared as much as you.
The noise of seats at WHL as everyone stood in unison as Lennon sprinted in to space even though it often ended in nothing..
Dembele turning away from 4 players gave a moment to gasp, even though it achieved little...
Ginola only scored 13 goals in 100 pl appearances - but the moments of childish delight his meandering runs and drops of the shoulders gave - it was fun.
Alderweireld, a CB, playing breathtaking 60 yard pass in behind - when we now have midfielders who can't even see that far...
Robbie Keane and that stupid fucking celebration made me grin like a kid..
On top of the disconnect we now have another manager, after several others, who likes bland functional footballers with little imagination. So with the disconnect with football and the club in general - the 90 minutes of football aren't even littered with fun anymore....
What do you miss about it ?Damn... I'm rewatching The Lane ahead of tonights 5 a side. Dear god I miss that place, and the teams I saw in it.