cjsimba
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- Dec 5, 2006
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The thing that gets me, and without trying to sound too self-absorbed and conceited, is that we seem to be one of the only clubs that doesn't get our turn at glory. Couple of examples:
-Man City, forever in Man Utd's shadow finally last season finished above them and got to have their superior moment.
-Everton - same thing with Liverpool. Forever waiting to get one over Liverpool, and now in recent seasons they are finally getting their rewards for seeing out so many years of struggle.
-Even say a team like Cardiff who have gone out in the play-offs the last three seasons(!) are now finally getting their reward this season and finally getting to the premier league.
It sounds narrow-minded and self-centred, and there are definitely loads of clubs who would give anything to be in our position, but that just doesn't take away the feeling that we seem to be cursed and never able to have OUR moment. (I do know and appreciate that this is the best period to be a Spurs fan in the last 30 odd years, but tbh the extra hope and expectation just seems to make failure all the more harder to take.) We have unlucky examples like lasagne-gate, chelsea's champs league win, fulop, the linesman today, always going out on penalties etc. coupled together with how we (more importantly) always seem to shoot ourselves in the foot and collapse under pressure season after season. Even when we do achieve success (4th in 09/10) Arsenal still finished above us....
I guess it would just be nice to see a bit of justice in football; a bit of reward for going through so much over the years. But then again that isn't football and that isn't life. The rollercoaster of a ride Spurs fans (perhaps more than any others) go through each year can be great fun and entertaining - we wouldn't have it any other way we always say. Well, I think we say this in part because we feel when our time comes it will make the success all the more sweeter than say, simply winning the title thanks to being bought by a russian billionnaire......The problem is that at the moment our time just wont seem to arrive....
....But hold on, perhaps this post is far too premature. The season is definitely not yet over, THIS MAY STILL BE OUR TIME!!! What I like to do when our rivals get a lucky win is to pretend they won far more comfortably than they did. So today in my mind, Arsenal waltzed into a 3-0 lead in the first half with Norwich getting a consolation late on.....makes it much easier to take! The bonus is that there are definitely cracks in their team and we just have to hope Everton on Tuesday take points off them like they did us. We always thought Norwich at home would be 3 points for them so forget today. Fulham, QPR and Newcastle away are all tough tough games too so its all to play for.
In my opinion, a club and its fans are far more connected than we think. A winning mentality from the fans (or lack of) can have a serious effect on how the team in turn thinks, reacts and plays. Just one goal goes against us at WHL and the crowd immediately sinks, hassling the players to create out of nothing, jeering at every misplaced pass etc. This clearly gets to the players who panic, worry and buckle under the pressure. So we need to show our support to them now more than ever, we need to get behind the team these last few games, BELIEVE that we are going to turn it around and BELIEVE that this year we will finally get our rightful turn at success. In turn that positive energy will translate to the players. It is the only way that we as a club will be able to destroy this vicious cycle of defeatist thinking that swims back and forth between both the fans and the players.
By the way, I do recognise the hypocrisy in my post and how the very pessimistic, self-centred feelings I say we need to overcome are splashed out for all to see in my first few paragraphs. But i like you am a spurs fan. I too cant shake the 'why always us' thoughts that are all engrained in our heads and always immediately come out after any negative result. I started writing this post in this exact fashion, feeling angry after the norwich result and bemoaning our seemingly never-ending bad luck. But by the end of the post i realised that thinking like that achieves nothing....
This club is made up of both players and fans. The players play their part on the pitch, but the fans play just as big a part by how they react and think off of it and how this mindset and energy translates to the players. Only we as a club can turn around our fortunes. Only we all together can stop this vicious cycle of defeatist thinking that is currently stopping us from achieving our potential.
Einstein's definition of insanity can almost be taken as the definition of being a Spurs fan - 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' To finally enjoy our time we have to go out and get it! COYS!!!!
-Man City, forever in Man Utd's shadow finally last season finished above them and got to have their superior moment.
-Everton - same thing with Liverpool. Forever waiting to get one over Liverpool, and now in recent seasons they are finally getting their rewards for seeing out so many years of struggle.
-Even say a team like Cardiff who have gone out in the play-offs the last three seasons(!) are now finally getting their reward this season and finally getting to the premier league.
It sounds narrow-minded and self-centred, and there are definitely loads of clubs who would give anything to be in our position, but that just doesn't take away the feeling that we seem to be cursed and never able to have OUR moment. (I do know and appreciate that this is the best period to be a Spurs fan in the last 30 odd years, but tbh the extra hope and expectation just seems to make failure all the more harder to take.) We have unlucky examples like lasagne-gate, chelsea's champs league win, fulop, the linesman today, always going out on penalties etc. coupled together with how we (more importantly) always seem to shoot ourselves in the foot and collapse under pressure season after season. Even when we do achieve success (4th in 09/10) Arsenal still finished above us....
I guess it would just be nice to see a bit of justice in football; a bit of reward for going through so much over the years. But then again that isn't football and that isn't life. The rollercoaster of a ride Spurs fans (perhaps more than any others) go through each year can be great fun and entertaining - we wouldn't have it any other way we always say. Well, I think we say this in part because we feel when our time comes it will make the success all the more sweeter than say, simply winning the title thanks to being bought by a russian billionnaire......The problem is that at the moment our time just wont seem to arrive....
....But hold on, perhaps this post is far too premature. The season is definitely not yet over, THIS MAY STILL BE OUR TIME!!! What I like to do when our rivals get a lucky win is to pretend they won far more comfortably than they did. So today in my mind, Arsenal waltzed into a 3-0 lead in the first half with Norwich getting a consolation late on.....makes it much easier to take! The bonus is that there are definitely cracks in their team and we just have to hope Everton on Tuesday take points off them like they did us. We always thought Norwich at home would be 3 points for them so forget today. Fulham, QPR and Newcastle away are all tough tough games too so its all to play for.
In my opinion, a club and its fans are far more connected than we think. A winning mentality from the fans (or lack of) can have a serious effect on how the team in turn thinks, reacts and plays. Just one goal goes against us at WHL and the crowd immediately sinks, hassling the players to create out of nothing, jeering at every misplaced pass etc. This clearly gets to the players who panic, worry and buckle under the pressure. So we need to show our support to them now more than ever, we need to get behind the team these last few games, BELIEVE that we are going to turn it around and BELIEVE that this year we will finally get our rightful turn at success. In turn that positive energy will translate to the players. It is the only way that we as a club will be able to destroy this vicious cycle of defeatist thinking that swims back and forth between both the fans and the players.
By the way, I do recognise the hypocrisy in my post and how the very pessimistic, self-centred feelings I say we need to overcome are splashed out for all to see in my first few paragraphs. But i like you am a spurs fan. I too cant shake the 'why always us' thoughts that are all engrained in our heads and always immediately come out after any negative result. I started writing this post in this exact fashion, feeling angry after the norwich result and bemoaning our seemingly never-ending bad luck. But by the end of the post i realised that thinking like that achieves nothing....
This club is made up of both players and fans. The players play their part on the pitch, but the fans play just as big a part by how they react and think off of it and how this mindset and energy translates to the players. Only we as a club can turn around our fortunes. Only we all together can stop this vicious cycle of defeatist thinking that is currently stopping us from achieving our potential.
Einstein's definition of insanity can almost be taken as the definition of being a Spurs fan - 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' To finally enjoy our time we have to go out and get it! COYS!!!!
