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Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
I can't belive Kosher Kid Kosher Kid missed the threat to move to the Olympic stadium...and Archway steel episodes.
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Levy personally sneaking around with a petrol canister in the dead of night to burn Archway Steel to the ground and end those wretched Gooners' attempt to block our glorious new stadium is the greatest thing he ever did for the club.
 
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Kosher Kid said:
I will always remember Levy for;

Taking away club membership, (merchandise discount), from season ticket holders.

Taking away cup matches, one by one, from season ticket entitlement.

Introducing a season ticket waiting list, while increasing the price of season tickets, and reducing the aforementioned benefits of being a THFC season ticket holder, while the THFC Supporters Trust, created under Levy's stewardship, watched from a safe distance and said nothing.

Removing senior citizen concession prices from loyal, long standing THFC supporters, many of whom had endured all of the above.

Introducing Category A,B, and C prices for 'Premier League' home matches.

Exposing all THFC supporters to Stubhub. Some became ticket pimps for the miser; some got ripped off.

Failing to increase the WHL capacity, from around 36,000, for around 18 years, despite the result of the clubs own internal review, during 2001, stating THFC needed to achieve an increase to at least 44,000, along with regular Champions League football, within 5 years.

The sacking of George Graham before an F.A. Cup semi final against Woolwich.

The failure to retain Campbell.

Rivaldo's letter.

The signing of Toda.

The sacking of Hoddle.

The subsequent Pleat caretaker period of 03 / 04.

The sale of Carrick.

The failure to retain Frank Arnesen.

The sacking of Jol.

The sale of Berbatov, Defoe and Keane.

The loan signing of Fraser Campbell.

The Ryan Nelson / Louis Saha window.

The sacking of Harry Redknapp.

The appointment of AVB.

The sale of Bale and Modric.

The 'Magnificent 7'

Franco Baldini.

Paul Mitchell's gardening leave.

The barren Poch transfer windows.

The demolition of WHL.

The sacking of Poch.

The hiring of Jose.

The failed European Superleague debacle.

The failure to appoint Conte.

The hiring and sacking of Nuno.

The cap in hand appointment of Conte.

The failure to sign Milan Skrinier.

The sacking of Conte.

Ange Postecoglu.

The sale of Harry Kane.

The best paid and longest serving Premier League chairman in history.

One of the 250 richest people in the U.K. in 2025.
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Many of those were good things including sacking many of the Managers which had the support of many fans.
 
WillWilliams said:
Eh??

The early 80s were easily our most successful era after the 60s and then Poch’s reign in terms of high league finishes.

How on earth did the 80s set us back 3 decades??
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Did you intentionally skip out the part where Scholar took over after the two FA Cups, then spend the club into oblivion - which set us back 3 decades.

FWIW, the average position of both Redknapp and Jol's tenures we higher than those in the 80s.
 
CJJ said:
Did you intentionally skip out the part where Scholar took over after the two FA Cups, then spend the club into oblivion - which set us back 3 decades.

FWIW, the average position of both Redknapp and Jol's tenures we higher than those in the 80s.
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If things had improved a decade and a half later how did it set us back three decades?

:porrohands:

The Levybot narrative has somehow traveled from fearmongering about doing a Leeds in the future to some bizarre Inception psyop that we actually already did a Leeds in the past.

What a wonderfully strange world we live in.

Also:

Irving Scholar 🤝 Ange Postecoglu

"Helming a doomed farce at Forest after getting binned out of Spurs"
 
CJJ said:
Did you intentionally skip out the part where Scholar took over after the two FA Cups, then spend the club into oblivion - which set us back 3 decades.

FWIW, the average position of both Redknapp and Jol's tenures we higher than those in the 80s.
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From 80/81 to 89/90 we either finished top 4 or won a trophy in 7 of those 10 seasons. The financial problems of the very late 80s and early 90s had nothing to do with the football side.
 
CJJ said:
Did you intentionally skip out the part where Scholar took over after the two FA Cups, then spend the club into oblivion - which set us back 3 decades.

FWIW, the average position of both Redknapp and Jol's tenures we higher than those in the 80s.
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So for clarity.

The three decades set back were the
90/00/10s
Or
80/90/00s

As the 80s were our 2nd most successful decade in terms of winning trophies and the 10s our 3rd for continuously being a high league position and our first ever European Cup final.
 
WillWilliams said:
So for clarity.

The three decades set back were the
90/00/10s
Or
80/90/00s

As the 80s were our 2nd most successful decade in terms of winning trophies and the 10s our 3rd for continuously being a high league position and our first ever European Cup final.
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In the Irving scholar era the aim was to improve the stadium so that we could compete financially.

It took 3 decades to achieve that.

Why does everything have to be ELI5 when it's a spurs forum. I swear some of you are so hell bent on hating the former chairman that you throw all logic and reason out of the window.
 
Ballyhack Spur said:
I'm pretty sure a fan from every club in the land could write the same thing about their owners/chairmen.
Most of this was, at the time, in the best interests of the club, some of which is yes, annoying and was incredibly frustrating at the time, but you're dragging the barrel here.
How much would it have cost to increase WHL from 36 to 44k. Would that have been wise when in his head he wanted to build a bigger stadium in it's place.
"Demolition of WHL" Ok so stay in the same stadium and increase to 44 instead of what's there now, you're a lunatic.
There was no stopping the sale of Harry Kane, or Gareth Bale for that matter. failure to retain Campbell? Was he supposed to force him to sign a contract at gunpoint?
There is a lot in what you say but some of this is just making up stuff to make your list look bigger,
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I compiled a list of things I will always remember Daniel Levy for.

The point you are missing is that most of what is on my list is from the perspective of a supporter of the football club.

"How much would it have cost to increase WHL from 36 to 44k."
What does the cost of it have to do with me?

My observations were based on the results of ENIC's own audit of the club during 2001. It was ENIC who concluded that it was necessary that the WHL capacity needed to be increased to at least 44,000 within 5 years of 2001. Levy clearly understood that the demand for match tickets at WHL outstripped the supply. That is the only relevant point to any supporter of the football club; in my opinion.

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Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) Football Club is located in North London. The club is also known as Spurs. Tottenham's home ground is White Hart Lane. The club motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do).
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"Buchler, in his review, concluded that White Hart Lane's capacity should be increased from 36,000 to 44,000. Spurs already have preliminary planning permission to complete the work."

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Levy to run Spurs day-to-day

October 17 Daniel Levy, the managing director of Enic who bought Spurs from Alan Sugar in February, is set to take over the day-to-day running of the club.
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"Ok so stay in the same stadium and increase to 44 instead of what's there now, you're a lunatic."
Cheers. :nunothumb:

"some of this is just making up stuff to make your list look bigger,"

What have I made up?
 
CJJ said:
In the Irving scholar era the aim was to improve the stadium
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the cuntface wankstain bastard inept moron destroyed the shelf

maybe before your time

the sooper dooper property developer (aka in the right place at the right time and thinks he knows it all) managed to make such a ricket on the stadium that we had to sell Waddle just as Lineker was arriving

I'd rip that cunts head off and shit down his throat once I'd ripped his fingernails out and stuffed his balls into his empty eye sockets. Once he'd been roasted on a slow fire for a few days.
 
CJJ said:
In the Irving scholar era the aim was to improve the stadium so that we could compete financially.

It took 3 decades to achieve that.

Why does everything have to be ELI5 when it's a spurs forum. I swear some of you are so hell bent on hating the former chairman that you throw all logic and reason out of the window.
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Pardon...your a participant of other teams forums. Is that what you said?

Tom Cruise What GIF
 
White Van Jan said:
the cuntface wankstain bastard inept moron destroyed the shelf

maybe before your time

the sooper dooper property developer (aka in the right place at the right time and thinks he knows it all) managed to make such a ricket on the stadium that we had to sell Waddle just as Lineker was arriving

I'd rip that cunts head off and shit down his throat once I'd ripped his fingernails out and stuffed his balls into his empty eye sockets. Once he'd been roasted on a slow fire for a few days.
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What do you really think...?
 
White Van Jan said:
the cuntface wankstain bastard inept moron destroyed the shelf

maybe before your time

the sooper dooper property developer (aka in the right place at the right time and thinks he knows it all) managed to make such a ricket on the stadium that we had to sell Waddle just as Lineker was arriving

I'd rip that cunts head off and shit down his throat once I'd ripped his fingernails out and stuffed his balls into his empty eye sockets. Once he'd been roasted on a slow fire for a few days.
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I remember that with Waddle, Lineker and prime Gazza that team could have done something. Gutted when he left.
 
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