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Unreal. It was a vital moment and every spurs fan and player felt it. Yet the media were sickened so much so that they are trying to pretend it didn't matter.

The past few weeks have shown there is a very real bias against us. There is a tsunami of momentum against us since Christmas and especially since we sacked the media darling Frank. From the PGMOL, to the sky pundits all the way down to the rag journalists, the best story in football right now is spurs being relegated. They all want this so badly.

But they've messed up this time. Because articles like that is only going to unite the faanbase and players. I think we can all appreciate that we are on the same side again, and are against a disgusting agenda to relegate us.

We'll show the world this Sunday just how big a football club this is. We'll show every one of them that we are in fact way too big to go down! They won't know what's hit them on Sunday. For the first time all season, the fans are all behind the team again and the players will feel it on Sunday. We'll piss off the whole world! You won't even be able to hear the trumpet on Sunday. This will be the loudest the stadium has ever been.

COYS! ITS US AGAINST THE WORLD
 
Phil McNulty really is one of the worst...

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Phil McNulty really is one of the worst...

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I think he has changed the headline now because he realised he was being an utter cunt

It now reads:

Credit to Tudor - is he turning around Spurs side who looked lost?​



Still the same fucking crap though. I am amazed our TV licence money goes towards paying this cunts salary.
 
I think he has changed the headline now because he realised he was being an utter cunt

It now reads:

Credit to Tudor - is he turning around Spurs side who looked lost?​



Still the same fucking crap though. I am amazed our TV licence money goes towards paying this cunts salary.
In fairness, he wouldn’t have written the headline. An editor would have and probably didn’t watch the game
 
I think he has changed the headline now because he realised he was being an utter cunt

It now reads:

Credit to Tudor - is he turning around Spurs side who looked lost?​



Still the same fucking crap though. I am amazed our TV licence money goes towards paying this cunts salary.

I did actually raise a complaint about the 'bias' towards the club from the 'unbiased' BBC, but just got a meaningless dribble in response which was basically a crowbarred excuse for bias from a non-biased perspective.

"we recognise you may continue to disagree with our approach, and we'd like to thank you for sharing your concerns with us, which we've shared with the team at BBC Sport. This helps to inform decisions about our ongoing work."
 
All i fucking hear is how shit liverpool were how athleti were in 2nd gear. Bullshit athleti were pin of their collarlast night. Never any credit the cunts. Sick when we stay up

Some of our own fans are quick to jump on that narrative as well.

Not really incorrect though.

Give us a performance against Forest and then the narrative can correctly change, to Tottenham are capable of avoiding relegation for what that's worth.

Liverpool weren't bad because we forced them to be. They couldn't make simple shots and passes under little pressure.

Madrid just sat on a 2-3 goal lead and got the job done.
 
Not really incorrect though.

Give us a performance against Forest and then the narrative can correctly change, to Tottenham are capable of avoiding relegation for what that's worth.

Liverpool weren't bad because we forced them to be. They couldn't make simple shots and passes under little pressure.

Madrid just sat on a 2-3 goal lead and got the job done.

The narrative of Liverpool being shit and Aleti being in 2nd gear ignore the fact that Tottenham are also shit and missing a load of first teamers, it works both ways.
 
My reservations are based on those games being low expectation, low pressure.

Forest is big expectation, big pressure. Where we traditionally flop.

Liverpool away was big expectation and big pressure seeing as our rivals picked up points before us and going to a ground we traditionally don't ever get anything from we were expected to lose.

The arguments are one sided - we've been getting killed in the media and by our own fans for losing and playing shit and rightly so so those two performances deserve some sort of praise, naturally.
 
The narrative of Liverpool being shit and Aleti being in 2nd gear ignore the fact that Tottenham are also shit and missing a load of first teamers, it works both ways.

It is like we can't legitimately have a basis for being poor, and yet every other team is sh!t or playing within themselves.

The Forest game is rightly the most important, partly because it's the next game, but on whatever level, going into it with 3 or4 players to add to yesterday's squad, and 2 games without defeat, is positive.

No need for context or to belittle anything. Big things grow from small things.
 
Not really incorrect though.

Give us a performance against Forest and then the narrative can correctly change, to Tottenham are capable of avoiding relegation for what that's worth.

Liverpool weren't bad because we forced them to be. They couldn't make simple shots and passes under little pressure.

Madrid just sat on a 2-3 goal lead and got the job done.
I didnt see the Liverpool game so couldnt comment... but its very easy to say oh Madrid didnt try blah blah, but we pressed high, were on them like a swarm and forced them into countless mistakes and turnovers... you cannot ignore the shape and the press which made it very hard from them to play.
 
Liverpool away was big expectation and big pressure seeing as our rivals picked up points before us and going to a ground we traditionally don't ever get anything from we were expected to lose.

The arguments are one sides - we've been getting killed in the media and by our own fans for losing and playing shit and rightly so so those two performances deserve some sort of praise, naturally.

We didn't win either of those games but did have what looked like more encouraging performances.

Personally I think the Liverpool game expectation was to not let it become a cricket score, so not being 5 down after 30 minutes was looking good.

We deserve praise if we kill Forest. It's ok to take some confidence from those performances and I really hope the players do, but don't expect the wider football world (media) to be praising us after failing to win for 9 consecutive games.
 
I didnt see the Liverpool game so couldnt comment... but its very easy to say oh Madrid didnt try blah blah, but we pressed high, were on them like a swarm and forced them into countless mistakes and turnovers... you cannot ignore the shape and the press which made it very hard from them to play.
I've often seen us press higher and look more
committed in games we have been losing in this season but still come away the loser.

We did force more errors last night than against Liverpool, where they made their own unforced errors. So that's something.

I don't think Madrid had too much issue with letting us play. Their away form, our European home form, the scoreline all played a part in that.
When we did reduce the gap to 2 goals they came at us again. Could've scored a couple more themselves really but can settle for an incredibly easy near post corner header to put the game beyond all doubt.

The goals we conceded were not good from our perspective. The timing and nature of them too.
 
We didn't win either of those games but did have what looked like more encouraging performances.

Personally I think the Liverpool game expectation was to not let it become a cricket score, so not being 5 down after 30 minutes was looking good.

We deserve praise if we kill Forest. It's ok to take some confidence from those performances and I really hope the players do, but don't expect the wider football world (media) to be praising us after failing to win for 9 consecutive games.

Why do other teams get praised for beating us or taking points off us when we’re poor, yet when we do the exact same thing, it’s brushed aside or downplayed?

People have shifted their stance depending on the narrative they want to push. When it suits we’re a bad side so results against us don’t mean much but when we pick up points or put in strong performances suddenly the context disappears - It’s just inconsistent analysis.

And now suddenly Forest is the harder match out of the two and that's purely because of confirmation bias of how Liverpool played on Sunday, looking at the run in you would have put away at Anfield our most difficult fixture bar none!
 
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