- Aug 21, 2008
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The goal, the dream, the myth, the legend, the we beat Milan at the San Siro.
Hear me out here for a second: I think the top 4 is ruining our club.
Spurs have made their name as a cup side, a team that chases silverware with flair and passion. A team that attacks the ball and the goal rather than sitting back.
The last time we saw that Spurs was the 10/11 season under Redknapp, where VDV, Modric, Bale, Lennon wreaked havoc at WHL.
That year we went on a pretty decent CL run, something we all savour...but look at us now.
Everyone is bloody petrified. The players don't want to let in an early goal because we might lose and not get top 4, so they sit static. The fans want the players to play 'The Tottenham Way', but not if it means we lose a match because we might not make top 4. Levy cycles through managers like the fucking plague because he sees something in them that might not be good enough for Top 4.
I want to play in the Champions League as much as the next man, but what is top 4? Fourth isn't a trophy, or anything discernible really. One year we finished fourth and were beaten to a CL spot by Chelsea who actually won a trophy. And indeed, what is the Champions League? We are an English side, 6 games a season against good European teams doesn't take away the fact that our ultimate goal is to win 38 of them from teams on the same island.
It's actually ruining us. We don't care about how we play, or our players and manager - all we care about is finishing top 4. By hook or crook, it doesn't seem to matter.
The most depressing thing; it won't change. As long as this myth perpetuates about top 4 meaning rockstar players, a shiny new stadium and global domination - we detract from the reason we watch this club. Can you honestly tell me that, this far into their Spurs careers, someone like Soldado who was brought in to get us Top 4 is any better than Crouch, who we all hated?
Even more bemusing is that the groupthink behind making the CL isn't to win it, it's simply to be in it. To make up the numbers.
Sport is irrational, that's why we're all here, but it shouldn't be this irrational. Surely our goal should be to cheer on an attractive, passionate and successful side and to bring in some silverware - rather than demanding the myth that is Top 4?
Hear me out here for a second: I think the top 4 is ruining our club.
Spurs have made their name as a cup side, a team that chases silverware with flair and passion. A team that attacks the ball and the goal rather than sitting back.
The last time we saw that Spurs was the 10/11 season under Redknapp, where VDV, Modric, Bale, Lennon wreaked havoc at WHL.
That year we went on a pretty decent CL run, something we all savour...but look at us now.
Everyone is bloody petrified. The players don't want to let in an early goal because we might lose and not get top 4, so they sit static. The fans want the players to play 'The Tottenham Way', but not if it means we lose a match because we might not make top 4. Levy cycles through managers like the fucking plague because he sees something in them that might not be good enough for Top 4.
I want to play in the Champions League as much as the next man, but what is top 4? Fourth isn't a trophy, or anything discernible really. One year we finished fourth and were beaten to a CL spot by Chelsea who actually won a trophy. And indeed, what is the Champions League? We are an English side, 6 games a season against good European teams doesn't take away the fact that our ultimate goal is to win 38 of them from teams on the same island.
It's actually ruining us. We don't care about how we play, or our players and manager - all we care about is finishing top 4. By hook or crook, it doesn't seem to matter.
The most depressing thing; it won't change. As long as this myth perpetuates about top 4 meaning rockstar players, a shiny new stadium and global domination - we detract from the reason we watch this club. Can you honestly tell me that, this far into their Spurs careers, someone like Soldado who was brought in to get us Top 4 is any better than Crouch, who we all hated?
Even more bemusing is that the groupthink behind making the CL isn't to win it, it's simply to be in it. To make up the numbers.
Sport is irrational, that's why we're all here, but it shouldn't be this irrational. Surely our goal should be to cheer on an attractive, passionate and successful side and to bring in some silverware - rather than demanding the myth that is Top 4?