Well, yeah, you could say the same thing about Harry Redknapp.
But right now even a League Cup trophy would be something for us,
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Well, yeah, you could say the same thing about Harry Redknapp.
But right now even a League Cup trophy would be something for us,
Couldn't agree more....how any level headed person can have any thing more than affection for Poch is a mystery to me.
He had a genuine love for the Club and our fans and I'm unable to proffer up any reasons whatsoever why that shouldn't be reciprocated.
Never had any problem with his detractors when critical of him so long as it was constructive and justified i.e. a downturn in form and results and the natural groundswell of negativity and critique that follows it.
He certainly wasn't faultless but (I felt) a perfect fit for our Club, I didn't want him to go and the tooth fairy in me would love for him to return. Realistically though, second comings rarely reproduce the success of the first time around and I envisage it would end up quite badly and quickly with fan's patience span being reduced from 5 years to 5 minutes if results went against us early on and I would hate for that to happen.
Just like Ramos and the man in the raincoat are?
I don't really think it is. For one major part I don't see fans here going to PSG sites or twitter talking about how it was all Poch and PSG is lucky to have him, would be nothing without him and how much better he is than their club. Maybe there are some doing it, but it seems that here the majority of the talk is in the Poch or other matches thread and positive about Poch.
And to me that is last part is the big difference, it is majorly positive about Poch not negative about PSG. If the Jose fanbois had the approach of loving Jose and talking about how happy they are to see him in another job, how they hope he has success, they hope it works out for Spurs etc. it would be annoying maybe but not nearly as bad as it is. What is truly awful about the Jose fanbois is the way they attack the club and the players to try and build Jose up/make excuses for him. It is their negativity and attacks that is the biggest issue not their constant Jose talk.
Sure some might find it annoying how some fans still love Poch and talk about him, but the general feeling seems to be happiness for the man that did great things for the club, maybe it is because I like the guy, but I think that is much easier to read than constantly hearing about how awful your club is by posters that have zero connection to it.
Is that a justified, true belief? Or is it faintly disguised judgment and criticism of those that don't believe as you do?
You don't think what is one or the other?
You said Poch brought us a swagger and competitiveness and I was simply pointing out it is a reductive description of the transformation Mauricio accomplished at Spurs. He took us to a new level not seen in the Premier league era. Jol had made us competitive relatively speaking. Redknapp the same.
I don't disagree whatsoever it's a shame we didn't win one of the competitions we were competing for. Fucking tragedy.
Probably a bit of both..
Ok, then let's go at the first 50%. What justification do you have for believing it? Can you quote anyone saying it explicitly or implicitly? I can't think of any other way to be justified in believing something besides having some evidence for it. And by saying that you don't 100% (by it being "a bit of both) believe it then it's not a 'true belief' then.
So basically what we're seeing is another of the ways that people argue and complain about ways people do things that strays from the way they do it and it makes their support 'impure' somehow. It's groupthink and your damning those that don't conform.
I didn’t mention you, so I’m unable to answer your question. Sorry for any confusion.
Both things are true. He was the best we had in levy's 20 years or so but at the same time not quite good enough. Hopefully with the a starstudded psg side he will have better luck.
So so true.
I definitely wish him the best of luck and every success at PSG as I’m sure most Spurs fans do.
Hope they win the champions league this season too
The French and Spanish title races are exciting this year.
That second leg will be a big test for him.
I think he walked into Pep's trap again tonight. He set PSG up to play aggressive and on the front foot to try and choke City out, but they just played through the pressure once they found their footing and the aggression ended up boiling over. As someone said in the match thread, like when we faced Chelsea at the Bridge.
Thankfully for Poch he has a history of second leg comebacks against City.
I think he walked into Pep's trap again tonight. He set PSG up to play aggressive and on the front foot to try and choke City out, but they just played through the pressure once they found their footing and the aggression ended up boiling over. As someone said in the match thread, like when we faced Chelsea at the Bridge.
Thankfully for Poch he has a history of second leg comebacks against City.
Poch cultists on suicide watch.