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Fattynomates said:
Fair enough, horses for courses I guess - maybe for me its the memories of the first game I went to there with my Old man as well but I loved it for all the reasons you mention , it was a proper Old School stadium!
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Definitely think there's pros and cons to both, remember the excitement when going to the old place while walking through the building site while the new stadium was taking shape around us.


Would think mine would be Martin Jol was a bigger influence for me than Poch, the push that he gave the club was massive bringing European football back and should of been the CL as well.
 
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Starks said:
Nope, most definitely a Spurs fan with the club in my blood. First game was new years day, 4-1 win over United back in 1996 and been hooked ever since.

The only thing me and you differ in is the fact I want to be entertained.

I could have quite easily decided to go and be a Man Utd fan in 1996 instead. They were winning things left right and centre.
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Zero ambition, should have been a Man Uts fan.
 
Sean said:
Definitely think there's pros and cons to both, remember the excitement when going to the old place while walking through the building site while the new stadium was taking shape around us.


Would mine would be Martin Jol was a bigger influence for me than Poch, the push that he gave the club was massive bringing European football back and should of been the CL as well.
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With you on bmj being a bigger influence- both on and off the pitch. Don’t think I’ve loved a manager like that bar El Tel (and I was a kid then though did bunk off to go to the high court). Always hated the way he was treated - that deserved a ‘Levy out’ more than anything since frankly. Loved that we always welcomed him back as fans - even at what ended up being Redknapp’s last game- bmj was embarrassed as we wouldn’t stop! He made me fall in love with football again.
 
randombere said:
With you on bmj being a bigger influence- both on and off the pitch. Don’t think I’ve loved a manager like that bar El Tel (and I was a kid then though did bunk off to go to the high court). Always hated the way he was treated - that deserved a ‘Levy out’ more than anything since frankly. Loved that we always welcomed him back as fans - even at what ended up being Redknapp’s last game- bmj was embarrassed as we wouldn’t stop! He made me fall in love with football again.
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The LC that Ramos won was Big Martin's trophy as far as I'm concerned..... Not to mention finally bringing us back to Europe.... BMJs influence is so under-sold...... If Levy had not done the dirty on him when we he did; he may well have been with us for years longer; through the Redknapp-era and took us to the CL himself.

Would love to meet him one day; if for only a few minutes to show hm love.



Levy's biggest sins never happened in or around the trf market: BMJ, Stratford & Furlough.
 
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Airfixx said:
The LC that Ramos won was Big Martin's trophy as far as I'm concerned..... Not to mention finally bringing us back to Europe.... BMJs influence is so under-sold...... If Levy had not done the dirty on him when we he did; he may well have been with us for years longer; through the Redknapp-era and took us to the CL himself.

Would love to meet him one day; if for only a few minutes to show hm love.



Levy's biggest sins never happened in or around the trf market: BMJ, Stratford & Furlough.
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Yeah and can't remember any fans back then wanting Jol out as well.
One of the most surreal days was the game when jol was sacked.
 
Airfixx said:
The LC that Ramos won was Big Martin's trophy as far as I'm concerned..... Not to mention finally bringing us back to Europe.... BMJs influence is so under-sold...... If Levy had not done the dirty on him when we he did; he may well have been with us for years longer; through the Redknapp-era and took us to the CL himself.

Would love to meet him one day; if for only a few minutes to show hm love.



Levy's biggest sins never happened in or around the trf market: BMJ, Stratford & Furlough.
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Maybe we should get hold of the cup to correct it! I think we partly ended up with Ramos after Seville beat us in the Europa. That game was pretty mental - singing 4 goals, we only need 4 goals as they came out from halftime (my memory says 4 but might have been 3?)

Yeah Stratford and furlough are great Levy out calls too - as are Mourinho and Conte. With you on would love to meet BMJ - closest I got was going past him on the escalator on the way out of the Opus presentation at the Dome.
 
Sean said:
Yeah and can't remember any fans back then wanting Jol out as well.
One of the most surreal days was the game when jol was sacked.
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Totally different vibe back then..... Far less internet influence. Much less brat-ishness from the fans.

I couldn't attend that game cos of some form of family biz..... I remember finding out that evening and being totally gobsmacked.
 
Here's an opinion that upset a lot of people when I let it out a year ago:

Skipp is not a good player. He's cut from the same block as Winks and Mason. He's below average athletically and at most mediocre technically. People like saying that he's good defensively: he's not. He's a yellow card magnet and he fails tackles as often as he succeeds, he doesn't have the strength to win duels or the mobility to cover ground. Our team collapsed the moment he became a regular last season.
He gets slack because he's "young" academy player. Except that he's 23 in a month, a year younger than Rice who went for 100m to Woolwich. He's about to be 23 without having a single good season at the top level, do you know how many players like that go on to have a successful career? A rare few.
 
Airfixx said:
The LC that Ramos won was Big Martin's trophy as far as I'm concerned..... Not to mention finally bringing us back to Europe.... BMJs influence is so under-sold...... If Levy had not done the dirty on him when we he did; he may well have been with us for years longer; through the Redknapp-era and took us to the CL himself.

Would love to meet him one day; if for only a few minutes to show hm love.



Levy's biggest sins never happened in or around the trf market: BMJ, Stratford & Furlough.
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Come on mate, that's a nice sentiment and all but he managed us for one round of that competition. Ramos was the manager for 5 of the 6 fixtures we played in that Cup that year...
 
Herclueless said:
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Come on mate, that's a nice sentiment and all but he managed us for one round of that competition. Ramos was the manager for 5 of the 6 fixtures we played in that Cup that year...
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I say that on the basis of what he'd built with that team so far; not that JR didn't win the all important matches..... That was his BMJs and he did virtually nothing to have it taken away.
 
Airfixx said:
I say that on the basis of what he'd built with that team so far; not that JR didn't win the all important matches..... That was his BMJs and he did virtually nothing to have it taken away.
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I see what you're getting at but honestly, I don't believe we would've won that trophy had he been kept in charge.

I was just looking through the fixtures of that year to check that I hadn't misremembered how many LC games he took charge of, and the league form was even worse than I'd thought!

That said, this is a thread for unpopular opinions I guess...
 
Herclueless said:
I see what you're getting at but honestly, I don't believe we would've won that trophy had he been kept in charge.

I was just looking through the fixtures of that year to check that I hadn't misremembered how many LC games he took charge of, and the league form was even worse than I'd thought!

That said, this is a thread for unpopular opinions I guess...
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