So City have no history as well now, according to you? They won the old Division One exactly the same amount of times we did, along with 6 domestic cups and a European trophy in the pre-prem days.
At the end of the day your argument is illogical. Why do RM "piss all over the other clubs"? Tradition and history? That helps in terms of expectation and attractiveness to fans maybe, but in the modern era it is largely irrelevant.
78Spur
is right. It is down now to who pays the most when building a side that can challenge - and the fact is that history is not just what happened 50 years ago, but what happened yesterday and what happens as we go along. Players go to Real because they can pay stupid high wages, have the best players in the world and have a realistic prospect of decent trophy hauls. They don't go there because of the trophies Real won 50 years ago.
There is certainly an argument that the recent successes of Chelsea and Man City have been considerably helped by the financial investment. But games still have to be won and these sides still have to compete against other teams with good players or similar investment. So, from that point of view, their trophy wins are still trophy wins - and that constitutes a history. An inferior history because of they way these trophies were won? Maybe, but it's still a history. Oh, and I never said Chelsea were "bigger" than us. What I said was that they are
now a big club and they do
now have a history, whether it's been "bought" or not. It's simply stupid to bury one's head in the sand and pretend that they are still midtable minnows. Like it or not they are direct competitors and now have ten times the amount of fans we have - and seriously, how long have you been holding onto that? I think I said that about 2 years ago. Wow. Anything for an argument, eh?
The problem with a lot of Spurs fans is that they are stuck in the past, clinging onto this notion of us as a big club with a grand history. But the vast majority of our trophies and success pre-date the Premier League era. For the past 20 years we've done very little and do you know what it's taken to even get us to be competing for the CL spots? Inward investment from a portfolio funded by, yup, a billionaire. Investment in a new training ground and a new stadium has come directly from that - and it's all being done so that we can fill more seats and afford to pay the better players the bigger salaries. What's more it's pretty much the only way we can remain in contention for CL, and eventually the title, and stay in with a chance of creating new history for ourselves. The only difference between City, Chelsea and us in the modern era is that the level of investment that they have is more direct and higher than ours. But talk to a fan of another club with past glories such as Nottingham Forest and they will likely make the case that we are where we are because of a billionaire benefactor. In historical terms, they are a big club too. But it doesn't seem to be helping them create new history.
These may be uncomfortable truths for keyboard warriors and blokes in the pub, but the fact is that the football world of 50 years ago is lost to the past and isn't coming back. We have to accept the reality of the present and move with the times.
sammyspurs
