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You're a FAR more intelligent person than that. The point is valid, though it doesn't include trophies, which is where I think you're questioning it.
Both can be true.
Tbh i quite like Soloman. Hes quite direct and lively.
Agree with you rich
Trouble is …. He was fucking great when he filled in!
For the same reasons as you I want us to sign another LB
So it’s not anti illogical
He a complete piece of shit cunt and wish him nothing but pain for the rest of his existence from the bottom of my heart
The point is pretty irrelevant anyway as the league is a completely different beast to what it was 60s, 70's, 80's. Then you could be a good side, maybe win the title and the following season or two struggle against relegation. Clubs bombed pretty quickly, Leeds, Derby, Man Utd, Us.
Since the Prem/CL league and the advent of huge squads placings dont fluctuate that much. Look how appalling we were 2 years ago, barely played well in a single game, last 3rd of the season we were abysmal and we finished 8th. A season under AVB and Sherwood 7th . Not just us, how bad were Utd last season and yet finished 6th. For a big established club to finish outside the top 8 now is very rare. So obviously points tallies/league placings look more favourable than the 60s or 80s. I know which Tottenham sides i would rather see.
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The average league position was 5.6 in the 1960s versus 4.2 in the 2010s. Bit of a stretch to describe it as more successful than a decade with a league and cup double and European silverware, but 2010s were the most successful period in living memory for most of us, including me. We will need to go some to match either the 1960s or 2010s this decade. We live in hope!
Hincapie
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Gallagher in for skipp
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Gallagher in for skipp
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I understand the sentiment of your post but I can't countenance a decade where "we" (I wasn't alive )won the double and finished 2nd once and 3rd twice as being less than a decade where we finished 3rd twice and 2nd once with the CL final.
You can shout me down for not having been there for those glory days but I'm not accepting what's being posited by him.
Since I've been able to remember being a fan which is from the early to mid 90s, we were either fighting relegation or comfortable midtable until that legend Jol came along.
Since then there have been multiple opportunities to push etc and I won't bore you with that but the one thing that's really pissed me off is the fact that all through my childhood, teen and early twenties it was a given that Woolwich would always be better than us to the point they had a day celebrating it.
When we rose like we did under Poch I couldn't believe it and I'll never forgive the club for not capitalising on it like they should have, instead we're back to where a kid supporting Spurs would assume it's divine right for that lot to be better than us when it shouldn't have been and there's people supporting it becaus the spreadsheets make sense.
Glad kane lobbed him from halfway.line a few years ago. Had a face like a smacked arse. Cunt of the highest order along with wilshere.
Even play Spence there if it means we keep VDV playing CB or resting his hammys
Not a fan then?
That’s why I described it in terms of average league position and expressed my disappointment at not winning trophies during this decade elsewhere in the post. Again, I’m drawn off-topic to explain a self-explanatory post but, yes, we live in hope and it’s the hope that kills.
Well he is on Instagram....
Shockingly enough, that’s why I used the term ‘average’ and discussed my disappointment at not being able to convert this into trophies. I guess I just should posted ‘bald cunt’ to be agreeable.
As an abacus botherer, I should point out the annual position for a year, being a discrete unit of information, represents a data point regardless of value. Finishing 1st or 2nd or 20th in any year provides a single data point. 2nd isn’t a data point less than 1st. Hope this explanation is helpful.
I think every manager thinks they are the one who can do what hasn’t been done. It’s the mentality that got them where they are. The line between self belief and delusion is pretty thin