I was buying a tea in a café and a gooner who I used to play football with said happy St- whatever the f*ck it's called day, I tackled him to ground.
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19th consecutive year finishing behind Woolwich.
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How can you say that? Recently they've finished ONE point ahead of us. This season, if we'd beaten them, we'd be ahead. Its close. They're on the wane.
different type of support at the lane then fella! ..
Sugar was a cunt.
Saved the club my arse. He didnt pump his hard earned cash into the club....he simply renegotiated the terms of a 20M debt with Midland bank, with massive help from the Trust.
He then took all the credit for it, before leading us into the worst footballing era in decades and hiring a succession of second rate managers....SEVEN in his 8 years at the club.
Saved the club my arse. He didnt pump his hard earned cash into the club....he simply renegotiated the terms of a 20M debt with Midland bank, with massive help from the Trust.
He then took all the credit for it, before leading us into the worst footballing era in decades and hiring a succession of second rate managers....SEVEN in his 8 years at the club.
It is charging mate
WHEN?!!????
well I'm not going to say 'if' and sound like a miserable old cunt!
got a feeling 21 is gonna be a good year
Obviously when Sugar took over we were one of the country's top clubs and the SKY explosion was about to happen. Despite Amstrad making nearly all of the satellite dishes somehow the club didn't seem to benefit. We regressed in an era where the gap between the haves and have nots expanded rapidly. We are still fucked from this now although obviously the 2 lotto winners were not an issue then. Sugar got our 12 point deduction and FA Cup ban over turned and signed Klinsmann and as far as I'm concerned that was his finest hour although we all know how that turned out. I'm not much of a fan of Levy but things are better than when he took over...
I sense I might be one of the slightly older members of the forum at 30 but I remember as a young angry 16 year old I was in the Paxton Road the night we got battered by Birmingham in the league cup under Graham. I am probably one of the few who was at the game because I think the attendance was only a notch above fuck all. But amongst those there the absolute VENOM in the crowd that night after the 3rd goal is something I will never forget. The whole second half was a verbal assault on Sugar. I know it got to him that night as he mentions it in his book. I think it was very shortly that SOS (Save Our Spurs) was set up with a basic mission to get Sugar out.
In answer to "WHY?????????" re singing for necks - well partly because things are not as bad but also because the Paxton Road obviously isn't what it was. And the trendy blocks of the Park Lane arn't even all that either. I can't think of anything that would get the aggression back of that night and the other games around that time. If Paul Coyte invited Sol to do a shit in the centre circle at half time it wouldn't provoke the same anger. That's how bad things were.
Edit: Here is the BBC match report from a primitive Internet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/worthington_cup/999084.stm
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Just looked and there were over 27,000 there for the Birmingham game....pedantic I know!
I enjoyed venting my anger at Alan Sugar that night - he deserved it. A loudmouth with little real idea about football and the direction to take the club.
That game was the final straw for a lot of people, Sugar had used up all of his chances and it was time for him to go. Appointing the Goonersaurus as manager led to some of the worse football I've ever had the mispleasure of paying to watch. It just wasn't Spurs.
Sugar was like a dog in the manger with Spurs, not interested in actually doing anything with the club but enjoying the control, publicity and power that being a club owner brought. His heart wasn't in it ultimately so it was relatively easy to push him out, I'm not sure it would be as straightforward to boot Levy and co out.
Looking back it makes Levy look amazing in comparison as we've achieved things that would never have happened under Sugar eg. Champions League. But Levy continues to make mistakes and the same ones as well so I think people are prepared to give him one more chance to get things right. In the back of people's mind is the thought that we might end up with some complete nutter as an owner...better the devil and all that.
I do think pressure needs to be applied otherwise Levy just thinks everything is OK and people are happy.
I enjoyed venting my anger at Alan Sugar that night - he deserved it. A loudmouth with little real idea about football and the direction to take the club.
That game was the final straw for a lot of people, Sugar had used up all of his chances and it was time for him to go. Appointing the Goonersaurus as manager led to some of the worse football I've ever had the mispleasure of paying to watch. It just wasn't Spurs.
Sugar was like a dog in the manger with Spurs, not interested in actually doing anything with the club but enjoying the control, publicity and power that being a club owner brought. His heart wasn't in it ultimately so it was relatively easy to push him out, I'm not sure it would be as straightforward to boot Levy and co out.
Looking back it makes Levy look amazing in comparison as we've achieved things that would never have happened under Sugar eg. Champions League. But Levy continues to make mistakes and the same ones as well so I think people are prepared to give him one more chance to get things right. In the back of people's mind is the thought that we might end up with some complete nutter as an owner...better the devil and all that.
I do think pressure needs to be applied otherwise Levy just thinks everything is OK and people are happy.
To be fair - how many football club owners actually do?
Yeah that's true. I suppose it's just that in those days before social media you didn't get to hear his opinions and just assumed that he at least had some idea. At least with the likes of Levy you don't get them piping up on twitter every time we concede a goal with 'This manager hasn't got a clue what he's doing #sacked'
Tan at Cardiff. Very clever bloke.
