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Match AZ v Spurs 6 March 17:45

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I'm starting getting myself done with this club, it's not the club anymore that I fallen in love with in the early 00's. Nobody except the hardcore fans seems to bother.

Agreed.

Spurs have been my life since I was 8. Attending since 12 (to 64 so far), going on my own from 16, going to away games home and abroad from 17. First tear up at 16.

Went to Ladies away games from 2012. Did mid-week U18 away games with 1882.

Been 6 times this season and apart from Elfsborg they have all been shit. Literally have to talk myself into going these days and only then to have a catch up with mates or fellow TFCers.

We are merely a corporate entertainment centre now. The football club finally died in 2019 after a long and drawn out illness.

I have been to Portadown, Lewes and Dagenham this season and they were all much more enjoyable days out at a fraction of the cost.
 
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Ahhhhh but we constantly hit Snooze

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...and now we're late for work, with a final weitten warning for our awful timekeeping!!
 
Well you were calling Arsene Wenger a person who abuses children the other day so based on that I think the answer is a massive yes!!

Say whatever the fuck you want!

Obviously it’s different because Wenger is Woolwich.

Vicario shouldn’t be getting abuse from his own fans but our problem is we are all so bitter from the experience of being Spurs fans we have started to self cannibalise and we target our own team worse than other clubs at times.
 
That passage of play around the half hour mark that started with Son ruining a promising counter by going for a shot instead of passing and having half of the team end up behind the play as a result, and ended with Parrott missing an absolute sitter on the other end has to be a new low. Even by the extremely low standards of this season.

We look like the end product of a novice FM player where all players are given forward arrows and nonsensical/contradictory instructions that constantly drag them out of position, which gets exposed as soon as something slightly goes wrong in possession. Bentancur the DM is a part time LB, while Bergvall the CM spends more time pressing the opposing fullbacks out wide than he does protecting the centre of the pitch. Not to mention fullbacks bombing forward and leaving vast spaces behind them all the time.

The cat has been out of the bag for quite a long time, it doesn't take a genius or arduous scouting work to figure out and counteract Ange's simple gimmicks at this point.

ignoring the defence for a moment that was ridiculous from son taking that absolute low percentage shot with the options he had during that moment
 
what a garbage performance, there was no fight. way too slow, i think a lot of that is down to the midfield. Maddison and Bentancur way too passive. Johnson and Son unacceptable from the lack of pressing, to the lack of attacking running.

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Obviously it’s different because Wenger is Woolwich.

Vicario shouldn’t be getting abuse from his own fans but our problem is we are all so bitter from the experience of being Spurs fans we have started to self cannibalise and we target our own team worse than other clubs at times.

We do love a bit of self abuse.

We probably need to practice more self love. Or maybe a bit of mutual appreciation.
 
In a moment of foolishness I started imagining what it would be like to win this competition. Part of the joy you'd normally get from it would be happiness for the players - e.g. I would have been so delighted for Kane, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Alli, Eriksen etc etc if we'd have won that Champions League final in 2019.

With this lot, who could you actually say the same about? Son (for historical reasons rather than recent performances), Davies (for the same reason). Maybe Vicario, VDV, Kulusevski at a push because they've been here a while and tend to at least put a shift in.

The rest of them? I just don't feel any sort of affection or care about any of them. There's no guts, no fight, no kind of sign they care at all about the shirt, and the vast majority aren't even very good. Maybe you could get away with it if you were a bit of a character (I'm thinking of the likes of Steffen Freund, Sandro, Lamela, who weren't the best players in the world but at least had something about them and showed they cared).

The vast majority of this lot are just proper unlikable, and that has to contribute to the apathy being shown by the fans currently.
 
The only saving grace is that in Europe at home, we are better and haven’t lost a home game in Europe since I don’t even know when!
 
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