Aaaah, the good old 'bang on the bottom of the bottle' days.....
#Nostalgia.
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Aaaah, the good old 'bang on the bottom of the bottle' days.....
#Nostalgia.
Simple yes or no. Do you want us to be like City or Chelsea?Yes. Yes we are friendly trusting people.
Our world record ticket prices. My record breaking salary. Our world record profits.
Its all for you,peasantsfans
Funny how
Honest John
has plenty of time for 'comedic'(*) snide jabs and to go gif-hunting, but is far too busy to address the numerous well articulated replies he's provoked (as ever)....
(*term used loosely)
...It's almost like he's a completely one-dimensional WUM.
Honest John
has plenty of time for 'comedic'(*) snide jabs and to go gif-hunting, but is far too busy to address the numerous well articulated replies he's provoked (as ever)....(*term used loosely)
...It's almost like he's a completely one-dimensional WUM.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
Expect to see lots of knocking it backwards
Ball watching; he does a lot of it
Waddling back from the opposition's half
1.Getting caught upfield, not getting back quickly enough
2.Loses Lacazette
3.Lets Lacazette run past him
4. Game intelligence. Winning 2-1. Caught way upfield. Doesn't get back quickly enough.
Defending, duels, etc
1. Doesn't press Guendouzi
2. Nutmegged by Bellerin
3. Fails to win 50/50 ball v Ozil
4. Poleaxed by Ozil
Free-kick magic
Use of the ball
1. Ruins a good counter-attacking opportunity
2. Goes back to his keeper from within the opposition's half
3. Doesn't want the ball; puts pressure on his backline
4. Backwards again; invites pressure on backline and GK
For those of you who are happy to let goals paper over the cracks
1. Wild
2. Wild
3. Overruns it when Southampton have a great chance to wrap up the 3 points
4. Tame
5. This one was headed for the corner flag
Expect to see lots of knocking it backwards
Ball watching; he does a lot of it
Waddling back from the opposition's half
1.Getting caught upfield, not getting back quickly enough
2.Loses Lacazette
3.Lets Lacazette run past him
4. Game intelligence. Winning 2-1. Caught way upfield. Doesn't get back quickly enough.
Defending, duels, etc
1. Doesn't press Guendouzi
2. Nutmegged by Bellerin
3. Fails to win 50/50 ball v Ozil
4. Poleaxed by Ozil
Free-kick magic
Use of the ball
1. Ruins a good counter-attacking opportunity
2. Goes back to his keeper from within the opposition's half
3. Doesn't want the ball; puts pressure on his backline
4. Backwards again; invites pressure on backline and GK
For those of you who are happy to let goals paper over the cracks
1. Wild
2. Wild
3. Overruns it when Southampton have a great chance to wrap up the 3 points
4. Tame
5. This one was headed for the corner flag
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Slow to react
He's marking Hendo, then he's not marking Hendo
Allows Salah to run off him
Goes hunting for truffles in Liverpool's box,
takes him so long to get back,
ball bounces off him,
smacks a pass at Salah, passes it back to a CB
1. Ball watching
2. Replay of same incident, doesn't see Salah
3. Fabinho gives him the slip
1. Lumping it
2. Sitting down for TAA, like a dying baby hippo trying to track back
3. Doesn't attempt to close Fabinho down, stands well back with his hands over his nuts
1. Lumps it
2. Lumps it
3. Lumps it
4. Hospital pass
5. Runs it out of play
6. Puts Redmond under pressure
7. Doesn't want the ball
He's marking Hendo, then he's not marking Hendo
Allows Salah to run off him
Goes hunting for truffles in Liverpool's box,
takes him so long to get back,
ball bounces off him,
smacks a pass at Salah, passes it back to a CB
1. Ball watching
2. Replay of same incident, doesn't see Salah
3. Fabinho gives him the slip
1. Lumping it
2. Sitting down for TAA, like a dying baby hippo trying to track back
3. Doesn't attempt to close Fabinho down, stands well back with his hands over his nuts
1. Lumps it
2. Lumps it
3. Lumps it
4. Hospital pass
5. Runs it out of play
6. Puts Redmond under pressure
7. Doesn't want the ball
Bit harsh innit?
.....Wrap it up from 0-0 at 42m against the league leaders?
Good work
Five
- he's definitely not for me, hopefully this helps demonstrates to others why. He's an incredibly ordinary footballer with and more importantly, without the ball.
Five
- he's definitely not for me, hopefully this helps demonstrates to others why. He's an incredibly ordinary footballer with and more importantly, without the ball.
Levy when he sell half our squad and signs Chilwell on a loan deal with an option to buy.
Good work
How's he clocking up these supa-stats for his defensive play then?
.....Where are the stats going wrong?
Wow. Where to start?
Firstly, lets do a comparison of the 3 clubs prior to the ENIC takeover.
Man City. 8 major domestic trophies, 1 major European trophy
Chelsea. . 5 major domestic trophies. 2 major European trophies
Tottenham Hotspur. 13 major domestic trophies. 3 major European trophies
I think its fair to compare pre ENIC, because it backs up my earlier point that the only possible reason you now believe them to be bigger is that there owners priorities winning trophies, whereas ours don't. Hence the alarming reversal in fortunes since 2000.
Also, as you pointed out, we were the first English club to lift a European trophy, and the first club to achieve the domestic double.
6 times since the war have have recorded the highest average league attendance. The other two clubs have never managed that once between them.
We hold the record for the highest home attendance ever recorded in English football history. And the second highest. And the third. And the fourth.......
Despite going 2 decades of winning next to fuck all, we still sell out a 60,000 seater stadium.
City and Chelsea have smaller stadiums, win loads of titles, but have to regularly give tickets away and in the case of Man City, regularly face the embarresment of thousands of empty seats.
We have spent more seasons in top flight football since the war than both these clubs you claim are bigger than our own.
Now. Remind us why you think they are bigger clubs than Tottenham Hotspur. Your own football club.
If it's purely based on the record since 2000, then surely that's a damning indictment of our owners, wouldn't you say?
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As long as he (or whoever) can break up play and find a 5 yarder to Gio or Ndombele I'm not sure how much that matters....
What would you like to ask meFunny how
(*term used loosely)
...It's almost like he's a completely one-dimensional WUM.
Airfixx
?:dierpochhug:
What would you like to ask me
Absolutely nothing...
I knew I'd be the one you opted to respond to rather than the posts in question though.
Predictable. One-dimensional. WUM.
Good work
Based on those examples.
It’s like showing ten clips of Virat Kohli edging to slip and claiming he can’t play the off drive.
So you're using trophies as an excuse as to why we are bigger and then using stats from before the year 2000. There are 5 clubs who have won more trophies than Spurs in this country. And all 5 are bigger than us.
Cool, we were bigger than Chelsea and Man City BEFORE the year 2000, you know, when we were no bigger than Aston Villa or Everton.
We weren't the first club to do a domestic double at all. Preston were.
Isn't our record attendance based on when we were assigned a stadium bigger than our actual stadium? City filled Maine Road with 80,000 fans and Chelsea filled Stamford Bridge with 80,000 fans in the past. Not entirely sure what the point of that is.
Woolwich rarely fill out their stadium and they're bigger than us too. It's a ridiculous argument and it's all you have to fall back on. Yet you'd probably be the first to moan about the atmosphere because most of those there aren't there for Spurs but because they're tourists or whatever.
So yeah, I'll remind you.
We aren't a big club on the level of those above us. We are bigger than the rest however but not some sort of powerhouse you think we are when we haven't got fuck all to back that up over 30 years
You made the comment that I don't reply though.
Hmmm... Fake news as always from the integrity vacuum.
"Funny how
Honest John
has plenty of time for 'comedic'(*) snide jabs and to go gif-hunting, but is far too busy to address the numerous well articulated replies he's provoked (as ever)...."Knob.
In football terms: it’d be like showing the slip penalty from Kane at Southampton as proof he can’t take a penaltyWhat does that mean?