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Remember getting 37000000 disagrees for mentioning our bench is absolutely garbage.
One thing I'm feeling as I sit here reading every update to this thread is absolutely gutted.
Twice this season I've felt this gutted, first at the Chavs the other week and now here I am again.
Don't ever remember being this gutted in a single season that's also been a point of so much pride and hope.
Twice this season I've felt this gutted, first at the Chavs the other week and now here I am again.
Don't ever remember being this gutted in a single season that's also been a point of so much pride and hope.
Go and slit your wrists you sad fuck.. Only show up when there's bad news.
£60,000,099 then.
The fuck are you doing to yourself? Just punch yourself in the face for an hour.
I'd get fucken binned for some o the shite youse cunts get away with.
I think this is the thing that got to me yesterday. I try and stay calm, but I really can't take much more of "next year".
For the sake of one point. One fucking point, we would have finally had a little bit of bragging rights.
I don't care for those people who say we are too worried about Woolwich. After I watched us get destroyed at Highbury 20 years ago I've wanted to be able to stick it to them just once...and again it's gone.
A month from now logic will return and we'll realise how good 3rd spot is. But right now heart is ruling head.
Worst league I can remember, other than Fergie being manager and RVP on fire United where dog shit, worst Fergie team since when he originally took over the club.
Leicester on this season's form would have spanked that league, the all round football that year from everyone was appalling.
Even this season with it being a 'weak league' Liverpool are in EL final and City got to the semi's of the CL.
It's a cop out when people say Leicester won because of a weak league, they have very good players and a good if boring gameplan. Chelsea have won the league many times like that.
This. In a nutshell. Fucking fucking wankers. I was embarrassed, yes embarrassed and ashamed to be walking around London in my spurs top and spurs jacket yesterday. Regret especially wearing the jacket as I couldn't get away with hiding my shirt! The amount of shit I got from random passers by on my way back from the bill nich to Victoria station yesterday was unreal. Had to hide at the back of a weatherspoons for ages until my bus, and on that bus were several gooners, a couple of chavskis and a watforder.
I blame the playeds for that fucking humiliation - too many on holiday or protecting themselves for the euros. Surely some of them must have known how much it would have meant to us to finish 2nd. Not ashamed to admit that I cried, silently, all the way home. Even the gooners took pity on me
I don't know how to express myself today - I want to jump off a bridge......but also feel the need to maintain the facade that I'm happy with our season.
Having calmed down a little since Sunday, there were 3 main talking points I think
1- that first half. It was as poor as I've seen Spurs for a very long time
2- their penalty at 2-1. We had them down to 10 men, were beginning to take shape, & the ref falls for the most blatant dive. I still think we would have got the point we needed had that not been given.
3- going 3 at the back to try & claw it back. It was a crazy move. It's as though 4-4-2 isn't allowed any more under any circumstances. Not keeping a back four left us open to Benitez's counter attacking set up.
But overall, once we went 3-1 down, it was desperate & always likely to end in a hammering because we had to go for goals & quickly. It's just a shame that the players didn't go out in the first half & put on a performance.
I've felt pretty disgruntled since Sunday evening, but the hangover is fading now. Time to look forward to the summer. And then we go again, hopefully with a stronger attitude, more experience & a few new players to offer legitimate competition in areas where we are lacking or have none.
1- that first half. It was as poor as I've seen Spurs for a very long time
2- their penalty at 2-1. We had them down to 10 men, were beginning to take shape, & the ref falls for the most blatant dive. I still think we would have got the point we needed had that not been given.
3- going 3 at the back to try & claw it back. It was a crazy move. It's as though 4-4-2 isn't allowed any more under any circumstances. Not keeping a back four left us open to Benitez's counter attacking set up.
But overall, once we went 3-1 down, it was desperate & always likely to end in a hammering because we had to go for goals & quickly. It's just a shame that the players didn't go out in the first half & put on a performance.
I've felt pretty disgruntled since Sunday evening, but the hangover is fading now. Time to look forward to the summer. And then we go again, hopefully with a stronger attitude, more experience & a few new players to offer legitimate competition in areas where we are lacking or have none.
Sunday was my Ex-wife's birthday. Fucking witch. I blame that cunt.
last 4 games summed up for me
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NO MASON IN STARTING 11.
Right. Enough fatalistic rhetoric about this match... we came up short today against a very good Southampton side who put their only two shots on target away and came to sit back and counter.
We're going away to a shit Newcastle team who might already be relegated by the weekend. I have faith that our players would want to make amends for being beaten at home against them (oh and Rob Elliot who singlehandedly kept them in the game that match won't be playing this one through injury).
Emotions, and the way achievement can be perceived, is unfortunately guided by the momentum of the time. We've had a crappy set of results recently, and this has meant that our best ever Premier League finish and guaranteed CL football is overshadowed by fear of being caught next weekend by the scum.
Well it's still in our hands. The football gods can be horrible at times, but perhaps this is all setting us up for a glorious finale to a great season.
Being Spurs means never doing anything the easy way...
We're going away to a shit Newcastle team who might already be relegated by the weekend. I have faith that our players would want to make amends for being beaten at home against them (oh and Rob Elliot who singlehandedly kept them in the game that match won't be playing this one through injury).
Emotions, and the way achievement can be perceived, is unfortunately guided by the momentum of the time. We've had a crappy set of results recently, and this has meant that our best ever Premier League finish and guaranteed CL football is overshadowed by fear of being caught next weekend by the scum.
Well it's still in our hands. The football gods can be horrible at times, but perhaps this is all setting us up for a glorious finale to a great season.
Being Spurs means never doing anything the easy way...
If we don't finish above Woolwich after all this I'm jumping off the fucking Tyne Bridge after the game. These players owe us that much.
Newcastle - where dreams go to die, fitting really.
I specifically said that there's a case for discussing Mason and his place in the side and even the squad. That wasn't my point. Not that I'm surprised that you understood nothing of my post.
Rather my point was that no matter what anyone of us thinks about him right now, making him a scape goat in turning the selection for Newcastle primarily about not selecting Mason, is way out of line. Someone who's, in spite of your off topic arguments, one of our own and has given his all every time, he's taken the pitch, deserves more respect than that.
If you feel a certain way about Mason's performances that's fine and all, but in a season where (to varying degrees) homegrown players with heart and attitude has gotten us where we are, those players deserve imho to be discussed with some respect, even when the opinion happens to be negative.
Leave that simplistic scape goating to the Adebayor's of this world!