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I'm off to the Winchester to wait for the whole thing to blow over.
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Never ever in my exended years of supporting this club has it felt as shambolic.

Dump your load if and as you see fit, but amy notion of laughing at any other club at the current time, just seems the absolute height of hypocrisy.

It can be closed if we find a glimmer of hope from the rot.
The glimmer of hope is that no matter how bleak things might seem , we've still got Daniel Levy

A beautiful man and a father figure to large swathes of the fanbase

He will get us through this

COYS
 
Burn this thread with napalm. There are plenty of other threads in which to vent about the team, the club, the ownership etc.
A thread like this is a goldmine for shit diggers and whilst we can & should criticise, don’t give other fans a reference thread to aim for.
FFS.
Edit- this must be the only forum where threads are created for the sake of creating threads.
 
I've seen so many gifs taking the mickey, and from Spurs supporters! There's only so much I can take, and I have to admit the current situation is getting me down.
Can't laugh at anyone else at the moment.
Yes we have been through tougher times since I've started supporting us, but I think, due to social media and blanket TV coverage, it seems worse.
 
Dont mind having a pop at club if were doing shit. Couldnt laugh at us though. My mate said something a few years back that made me laugh. If he got shit from rival fans he would send them home with a headache winding them up about their team. Found that amusing.
 
Just cos we are shit don't mean I can't call other teams shit when they also shit the bed.

Just because I smoke doesn't mean I can't admit you shouldn't do it 🚭
 
We’ve been far worse than this in my lifetime.

That’s a fact.
Fair mate.

This thread is simply to expel some air. I get zero pleasure from laughing at other clubs whilst it feels we are in the mire.

It's a bit like laughing at someone who has been shot more times than me.
I can still take the piss out of other clubs. It’s all banter..as a Spurs fan you need a thick skin because we’ve been the banter club for decades. Shouldn’t stop you enjoying it when rival clubs fuck things up, because they will do.

Don’t stress it too much.
In my lifetime

Ardiles
End of Ramos
Gross

All clearly worse, imv. Then we've had a few rudderless/weird periods like Santini and Stellini, but they were so short it's hard to judge.
We've definitely had it worse results/league position and football wise...
But sadly, we've chosen to be shit in the Gen Z/Alpha era of WIN AT ALL COSTS,
...nowadays the league is lost in mid-September if you've dropped more than 2 points!
Losing as many as we have was pretty much oat for the course in the mid-90s!

But we didn't have the xG brigade with their heat maps, which NOW reminds us JUST how nonsensical the game is becoming... We're 3rd highest scorers, languishing in 15th position!

Then there's this 'newly invented wheel' obsession with NUMERICAL positions (he's a 6, an 8, a false 9) ...the irony is that back when we had numbers 1-11 on the pitch, you pretty much KNEW everyone's position by the number on their BACK!

Now we give players numbers that have no numerical position attached to them, and yet we obsess with where everyone plays all of a sudden!

That #42 is a natural number 6!!
The false 9 is wearing #37


Stockpile clubs like Chelsea and Man City will be into 3 figure shirt numbers soon!!

It's fucking MENTAL!

The modern game is being SO micro managed, that ANY discrepancy to the system or loss of form is MAGNIFIED for all to see! Yet not so long ago, we had Pedro Mendes SCORING at Old Trafford for ALL to see... Except ONE man... and yet we were told just to get on with it!
IMAGINE if that'd happened the other way round... We'd still be in mourning 24 years later!
The fact they only brought in Goal Line technology years later, and NOTHING to do with that goal, tells you where WE are in the football food chain.

We're in it somewhere... tere, but not THERE if you know what I mean?

Once upon a time, trundling along in mid-upper table + a decent Cup run = a good enough season...
Now it's a sackable offence!!!

I've been at it for 47.5 years now. ENIC have been here for approaching 24 years; which is virtually the half way stage of my unique Spurs journey.

77 - 01 my eyes saw the glory of 81, 82, 84, 91 & 99.

They also saw cup final defeats, in 82 & 87.
cup semi final defeats in 82, 87, 92 93,95 & 99.

01 -25 my eyes have seen the ENIC glory of 08.

They have also seen cup final defeats in 02, 09, 15, 19 & 21.
cup semi final defeats in 01, 07, 19, 22,

Tells you everything.
My Eyes Have Seen The GORY!!!

FIXED!
 
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My 2nd season following Spurs was the first time I experienced the type of vibe we are currently on.

78/79

Burkinshaw was up and down that season. Woolwich hit us for 5 and Liverpool lumped us 7-0. We rode it out and it turned out lovely by the time Keith quit in 84.

The next period I didn't enjoy was 87 / 88 under Venables. I have stated before how I feel Venables set up problems for Spurs further down the road, in the early 90's, due to the team / squad he built / dismantled during this period.

93/94 was a nightmare after the promise of 92/93. Oldham away was the low point that turned out to be a high point.

95 - 04 was the decade of despair but Spurs still manged to win a League Cup in 99 and play in a few semi finals and finals along the way. The Gross year was the all time low. Paulo Tramezanni's debut, away at Wimbledon, was my own personal low point.

Since 04 the lows for me were Juande Ramos, post League Cup win, AVB after Harry and everything since Poch was sacked.

This has been coming for 5 years.
What about Tackleberry (Santini) that was like having a barbed wire colostomy
 
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