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Jennings , outstanding

Knowles , nice one cockerel chorus
Roberts , hard man
England , Welsh dependable
Naylor , meat man

Hoddle , the king
Ardilles, cultured
Ginola , rock star
Gazza, nutter
Bale, peak never seen anyone destroy teams in their own like this.

Kane , before it went tits up,
 
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What's your favourite spurs XI, not necessarily the best players but the ones that you have a connection with for whatever reason.

Lloris- an actually competent keeper during my life time.
Carr- yes walker is better. But I just loved him skampering down the wing and scoring ridiculous goals
King- best home grown player, talent wise, since hoddle
Vertonghen- gave his all and was absolute quality.
Bae- underated and loved his honesty

Modric- one of the few world class players I've seen play for spurs.
Simon Davies- was mainly shit but for some reason I liked him.
Ginola- sexy french god. Enough to turn you homosexual

Bale- superstar, those two games against inter would put him on this team by their own.
Kane- when was the last time we had a striker as good as him?
Klinsmann- changed the pl forever as the first massive foreign superstar. Loved his goals and his passion playing for a pretty shit team.
 
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Lloris
Woodgate Dawson Vertonghen
Lucas _____ King Dembele _____ Ekotto
Bale _____ Kane _____ Ginola
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  • Lloris has been the longest serving keeper in my Spurs supporting lifetime and by far the best, and has easily been good enough for far more successful clubs.​
  • Woodgate gave me the best memory I have of Spurs.​
  • Dawson loved us and put his body totally on the line for us with no shortage of characters usually making up for perhaps lesser ability.​
  • Vertonghen was a pleasure to watch, made defending beautiful, but also showed no end of passion and commitment to the club. The best Belgian centre back of the two in my opinion.​
  • Lucas ends up at RWB to avoid sticking Bale there or putting a slow centre back at RB in a bank 4, but he gets in by virtue of pulling off the most seemingly impossible feat I’ve witnessed and getting me to by far the biggest match of my lifetime. All been downhill since the 95th in Amsterdam for this club.​
  • King is probably the player I both identify with most here and also by far the best. Aside from his first few matches and last season at the club, even though he was broken, a truly world class footballer who was way too good for us for the entire time he was here. Only gets in midfield because I prefer him and all the centre backs to any central midfielder we’ve had.​
  • Dembele as he was a one man midfield for so long, and when he did have a competent partner it felt like we had 12 men. Also really took pride in representing us and our decline can almost be intrinsically linked to his body finally giving up.​
  • Ekotto because fuck me he was fun to watch, and though there was the odd brain fart I never actually felt uncomfortable with him on the ball. Really clever player too and, despite his ambivalence towards what modern professional football has become, he was still a huge personality,​
  • Ginola because but for him the entirety of the Graham era would’ve had me giving up on this club before I really got started. Magical footballers who played for the fans and deserved better than he was given.​
  • Bale because fuck me nobody can match him for getting you out of your seat with his outrageous feats of skill, pace, power and unpredictability, often all in one go.​
  • Kane because, even with last summers tomfoolery, is the player who fought the hardest to become top class, was proving the most people wrong and has given us the most consistent top class service of any player since Hoddle. Eriksen the one player who has a hat in that last ring, but I was telling people about Kane from long before he left our kids sides and I was preaching his future greatness to all who would listen after he’d made those initial appearances under Sherwood while others were overly fixated with his body, not his brain,​
Honourable mentions; Lennon, Anderton, Mabbutt, Klinsmann, Son, Keane and Defoe.

Sheringham had talked his way out of my affections over the years.
 
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Lloris

Perryman
Gough
Ledley
Vertonghen

Modric
Gascoigne
Hoddle

Bale
Kane
Waddle

Subs - Klinsmann, Teddy, Ardiles, Ginola, Roberts, Allen, Dembele, Walker

Something like that. Could swap a few of the subs in easily.
 
Ledley King =just immense

Benoit Ekotto = really liked him and his nonchalant persona whilst always giving his all.

Gary Mabbutt = Was young when he was in his prime but always remembered him being a likable guy who gave his all

Michael Dawson = Same as Mabbutt

Moussa Dembele = one of my favourite players of all time

Scott Parker = Rated him extremely highly

Darren Anderton = always liked him growing up

David Ginola = Genius

Jurgen Klinsmann = loved him


thats from the top of my head
 
Thorsvet cool
Carr brilliant engine.
King superb
Vertonghen superman
Zeige footballer
Modric uber footballer
Dembele unplayable
Hoddel peerless
Waddle classy
Gascoigne Balon dor level
Kane The all round striker

Lol midde four of prime, waddle Modric, Dembele Hoddel. That would own everything in front of it.
 
Picking players I have seen live & 4-4-2

Lloris,
van Den Hauwe, Mabbutt, King, Edinburgh, Ginola, Hoddle, Stewart, Waddle
Kane, Lineker

VDV almost pipped Kane ! Dembele is a far better player than Stewart. But had to go with Paul Stewart.
 
Jennings

Perryman, King, Roberts, Hughton

Taylor, Hoddle, Gazza, Galvin

Kane, Archibald

Subs
Eric, Gough, Ginola, Waddle, Falco.

Definitely not the best XI but all struck a chord with me and I've only included those I saw live.
 
Too hard to choose one particular XI but here are the players I would choose from:

Jennings, Lloris, Thorstvedt,

Knowles, Houghton
Vertonghen
King, Perryman, Roberts
Carr, Gough, Walker, Lee Young-pyo,

MacKay, Blanchflower, Dembele, Mullery, Mabbutt, Villa, Sandro, Carrick, Pratt
Ardiles, Modric, van der Vaart, Burgess,
Hoddle, Gascoigne, Peters, John White

Son, Ginola, Coates,
Kane, Klinsmann, Greaves, Lineker, Gilzean, Berbatov, Chivers, Archibald, Clive Allen, Keane,
Bale, Waddle, Cliff Jones, Lamela,
 
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All time (Straight 442 no positions etc just 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and 2 forwards)

Jennings/Ditchburn

Beal
Mackay
Burgess
Blanchflower

Roberts
Perryman
Hoddle
Jones

Greaves
Smith

So so many would go close - notable exceptions - Seed, Duquemin, Medwin, Gilzean, Chivers, Mabbutt, Ardiles.

We've certainly been very lucky to have such players at our wonderful club.
 
Can only go on players I saw hence I cannot put the god of Hoddle in and Gazza was just as I was starting to watch Spurs.

Lloris
Carr King Vertoghen Benny
Modric Parker Dembele
Bale Kane Ginola

Vertoghen might be my fav of the lot, most classy player I have seen on the ball for us and one of the most classy player in Prem history, as well as loyal to us, he could have gone Barca but stayed with us.
 
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