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It's not 'undeniable' at all - as has been pointed out to you literally hundreds of times, it depends how you define 'worse team', 'success' etc, and for some people it's about more than trophies (which, let's face it, hardly any clubs win, yet they all still have fans); for some people it's about league position (being the most consistent long-term measure of success), and even then, that being considered in relation to CONTEXT, i.e. what has been happening at the time with other clubs, how the horizon has changed etc. You may not agree, and of course that is your right, but the above is a perfectly legitimate measure in the eyes of some (indeed many it seems) fans, therefore claiming your opinion to be the one and only legitimte opinion, 'undeniable', is simply arrogant. Other people can have legitimate opinions that differ from yours.
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Great post.

But welcome to the anti ENIC bully list unfortunately.

I can show you where you can turn off disagree notifications if necessary.
 
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Great post.

But welcome to the anti ENIC bully list unfortunately.

I can show you where you can turn off disagree notifications if necessary.
That's fine, I've no issue with people disagreeing with anything, everyone is entitled to their opinion. :) Incidentally, I have never and would never put anyone on ignore either - I've always thought it's far more important to listen to and try to understand the opinions of people you disagree with than surround yourself only with people you agree with, and hence to accept that there can be lots of different yet legitimate views on things. :)
 
Context-less, arbitrary, disingenuous - a 25 year rolling graph, good grief, top 4 finishes back in an era when top 4 wasn't even a thing, good Lord lmao
So according to this Sugar and Scholar should be tied in together with the latter part of the previous regime ergo Sugar took us forward and ENIC has taken us backwards, I mean what?, Also didn't we get relegated on the 70s as well from the 1st division? What are we even doing here?
Like I already explained in the above post if your argument is whether ENIC have improved the team then why are you including previous owners before Sugar? It's such a non comparison.
wtf am I actually reading, this thread man
People wonder why I defend the board in here or whatever but this is the sort of nonsense I'm talking about, incredible.

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Incredibly childish. Embarrassingly childish.

All the hallmarks of a troll.
Out of interest, do you condone the opposing poster ending his retaliation with "So jog on"? Do you think that's childish too? Or are actions only considered childish when undertaken by people you disagree with?

You are without any doubt whatsoever the most disingenuous and deceitful poster on this entire forum, so I'm not sure you're in any position to be chastising others.
 
Incredibly childish. Embarrassingly childish.

All the hallmarks of a troll.
I'm only responding in kind to your turn of a homophobic response backed up with multiple disagrees on multiple posts - with the same gang of people all disagreeing together on the same posts.

Even when I posted little more than Wikipedia stats of how many more league titles Woolwich had won than us when ENIC took over as you were factually wrong - you doubled down.

You can't tolerate being wrong though often are wrong - but you also can't and won't accept anything that could disprove your ENIC hatred logic.

It's a terrible personality trait to be so hateful, and a bully.
 
But it does include trophies won during the periods

But the whole thought process behind a team / club improving is based upon league position.
If the charts showed we were worse than ever before I’d buy it.
But instead it shows our league average positions are up there with the double winning team.
That’s a hard fact.

One question that does come to my mind is that given the choice between having Tottenham’s football experience over the last 25 years and the next 25 years or Leicesters experience who would you choose?

And it’s the whole lot. Trophies, relegation, New Stadium size etc etc.

Who would you rather be? They have been more successful that’s for sure.

And are you saying right now they are better than us?
Funnily enough the year ENIC arrived 2000/2001 they finished 13th to our 12th. 1 point behind.
So they pretty much started from the same spot 1/4 century ago.

But we have not improved more than them from 2001? That’s the take? As they have won more. Been relegated more too.
 
But the whole thought process behind a team / club improving is based upon league position.
If the charts showed we were worse than ever before I’d buy it.
But instead it shows our league average positions are up there with the double winning team.
That’s a hard fact.

One question that does come to my mind is that given the choice between having Tottenham’s football experience over the last 25 years and the next 25 years or Leicesters experience who would you choose?

And it’s the whole lot. Trophies, relegation, New Stadium size etc etc.

Who would you rather be? They have been more successful that’s for sure.

And are you saying right now they are better than us?
Funnily enough the year ENIC arrived 2000/2001 they finished 13th to our 12th. 1 point behind.
So they pretty much started from the same spot 1/4 century ago.

But we have not improved more than them from 2001? That’s the take? As they have won more. Been relegated more too.
At the end of the day, if you’re happy that under Levy & ENICS tenure we‘ve seen an improvement in our average league position from the previous 24yr period from 9th to 6th but over the same period, our trophy count has dropped from 5 to 1, that’s entirely up to you.
 
At the end of the day, if you’re happy that under Levy & ENICS tenure we‘ve seen an improvement in our average league position from the previous 24yr period from 9th to 6th but over the same period, our trophy count has dropped from 5 to 1, that’s entirely up to you.
Hoorah, finally an acceptance that people can have different opinions - someone who accepts that we can agree to disagree - great! :)

And I do think this is most likely the crux of the whole disagreement - one side believes trophies are a better indication of success, the other believes it's league position. There are obviously arguments for both, so the sooner we all accept that other fans may prefer the opposite measure to us, the better. :)
 
Sugar dug us out of a massive fucking hole, built 2 new stands, won a cup, over turned a potential relegation worthy 12 point deduction and sold us in rude health.

It's actual madness how much mud the Levy apologists fling his way. If you want to have ago at bad chairmen, it's probably Irving Scholar that nearly ruined us that needs some flack.

Or, you know, the chairman who has turned us into a well run club with nothing to cheer about.

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He also appointed the Gooner I most hated as Manager which I will never forgive him for.
 
I'm only responding in kind to your turn of a homophobic response backed up with multiple disagrees on multiple posts - with the same gang of people all disagreeing together on the same posts.

Even when I posted little more than Wikipedia stats of how many more league titles Woolwich had won than us when ENIC took over as you were factually wrong - you doubled down.

You can't tolerate being wrong though often are wrong - but you also can't and won't accept anything that could disprove your ENIC hatred logic.

It's a terrible personality trait to be so hateful, and a bully.

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Then show a table of cups won not league finishes that show the opposite to what they are saying.

Fucking weirdos.

I can't get my head around it why anyone would use that chart as a stick to beat the board with, we really are in desperation levels.

Imagine a Villa fan saying that the current owners have taken them backwards because they won the European Cup in 1982 which was in a previous period ffs :roflmao:
 
At the end of the day, if you’re happy that under Levy & ENICS tenure we‘ve seen an improvement in our average league position from the previous 24yr period from 9th to 6th but over the same period, our trophy count has dropped from 5 to 1, that’s entirely up to you.

So am I happy?? I’m sure I’d be happier if we won the league every year. And more cups. But we didn’t. And I’m not unhappy with life.
Saying that I don’t go to watch spurs anymore as I think our ticket prices are out of control. So I don’t have the same skin in the game as others still do.

On the flip side I can’t stand and look at the stadium , the training ground, and a record of 15/15 top 10 finishes and 10/15 of them being in the Top 5 the last 15 seasons and say the team/club hasn’t improved from what I witnessed in the 90s.

It has.


I’m also very keen to see what happens next. Kane and Son cost us £20m between them. Expect them to be our 1st and 4th greatest goal scorers of all time when Sonny eventually leaves and they played together for the vast majority of those goals.

How ambitious we are replacing those goals is probably ENICs biggest question they will be asked over that first 25 years timeline.
 
If your argument is that Spurs were a trophy winning club then you're making a comparison to a previous owner and you compare it to the previous regime, if the previous regime had a record similar to what we have now or by and large where our trophy haul decreased in that period then you're completely disingenuous if you're putting that all on ENIC.

Also what's more is that trophies back then were far easier to win and weren't being hoovered up by state sponsored teams and teams with Oligarth's who's intention was to launder their money and buy their way to success, no doubt we should have won more but when you provide context it's really not as black and white as you're making out.
That’s why I never pointed out Levy won the same as Sugar but over 24 years and not 10, that would be uncharitable , especially considering Sugar had steadied the ship . I would never point that out
 
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I'm only responding in kind to your turn of a homophobic response backed up with multiple disagrees on multiple posts - with the same gang of people all disagreeing together on the same posts.

Even when I posted little more than Wikipedia stats of how many more league titles Woolwich had won than us when ENIC took over as you were factually wrong - you doubled down.

You can't tolerate being wrong though often are wrong - but you also can't and won't accept anything that could disprove your ENIC hatred logic.

It's a terrible personality trait to be so hateful, and a bully.
Pot kettle black...
Wasn't it bullying to ridicule my grammer with a picture of a disabled person? That was shameful
 
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