The fact is and its a bitter pill to swallow. When the likes of Roy Keane is on Sky Sports giving it large about us always folding, lads its Tottenham and all that he is bang on, and that's what hurts the most -if you let it.
You keep referring to the Poch years but we bottled every big match under him, we lost semi finals, finals, we threw away a 2 goal lead at Chelsea and came 2nd to fucking Leicester.
We always fluff our lines, we are mentality weak as fuck. And I don't see it ever changing.
So you got two choices, denial, which seems to be your go to. Or acceptance that we are Spursy and embracing the meme which is the option I'm going to go with.
Because life is too short to let this shower ruin your weekends, I actually pissed myself laughing at the Deluxe thing, the club and players 100% deserve it this season.
I don't see it as either of these options. In all of those games, you mention we were beaten by the best side i the country at the time (or they were the perhaps 2nd best with some major advantages going in their favour.
Chavs won the league, so were good but also had no European football to contend with so was a major advantage to them. In the Semi-Final they also had all the luck go their way with long-range worldies and they dived for a pen (the same player did exactly the same thing in the Final and got a 2nd yellow and was sent off and they lost as a consequence!)
Leicester won whilst also not being in Europe, they were knocked out of every cup comp early too, plus lets be honest the decisions that went their way were more than a tad fortunate. They don't have to navigate a bitter rival doing all they can to stop them either, we have THREE! I loved that season I thought we were fucking fantastic.
I've already given my views of CL above, but the journey to the final is probably my most memorable moments I've ever had as a Spurs fan, (I've seen us win FA Cups, League Cups, UEFA Cup, well I was locked outside the stadium) I'll cherish those games, there are different contexts to them, different moments in my life all great but all different experiences for different reasons.
The only game I went into with an elevated expectation was FA semi vs Man U, I thought we were miles better than them but on the day that wasn't the case.
I love competing at the pointy end of the season, I think we have to be playing well (playing good intelligent, attacking football) to have us arrive at the end of the season with a shot at something. I do think we deserve some luck with who we get drawn against, whilst we are up against some very good sides (City, Man U, Chavs etc) and it is likely that a final you will have to beat one of them, I look at what these teams have also had when they won their FA Cups relegated Villa, relegated Watford, a shitty Woolwich, a mid-table Liverpool, A relegated Sunderland, Stoke. These are all of City's Cup wins just as an example.