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GeorgeGraham said:
That’s utter revisionism. We were 15 years removed from being a big club when ENIC bought us. We were a mid table club for the entirety of Uncle Alan’s tenure.

We hadn’t cracked the top three since 89 when we were miles off the top two and hadn’t mounted a real league challenge since the Clive Allen team of 86 — easily my favorite season.

We had a little ‘purple patch’ in the early 80s with those FA Cups 80/81/82 and decent D1 finishes.

I went to just about every match in the early 80s and loved that club. We played excellent football but were still considered a cup team. If you look at the FA Cup draws for those Cup winning seasons then we got great draws — I don’t think we were drawn outside of London until we went to Hillsborough to play Wolves in the semi-final (a frightening day that foreshadowed tragic events).
Realistically, that period was the last time Tottenham can reasonably be considered ‘a force’ and even then I think it’s a bit of a stretch.

On the other hand, my Dad’s Tottenham — he followed religiously through the 50’s and 60’s — were a true force. The City of their day. Domestic champions and champions of Europe and, as importantly, innovators of the game.
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15 years is now nearing 40 years under these incompetent blood suckers
 
GeorgeGraham said:
So what part of my assessment is wrong given that you disagreed or was that a fit of pique?
Don’t care about the ‘x’ at all, I’m just interested to know what you think was actually wrong.
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We were 15 years removed from being a big club when ENIC bought us. We were a mid table club for the entirety of Uncle Alan’s tenure.

Factually, this is correct (titles etc) but in terms of being an ambitious, big club we still were at that point - albeit hopelessly mismanaged by Sugar. We could have quickly been pushed back into the big club bracket if someone other than Levy and his frugal chancers had acquired us then
 
GeorgeGraham said:
That’s utter revisionism. We were 15 years removed from being a big club when ENIC bought us. We were a mid table club for the entirety of Uncle Alan’s tenure.

We hadn’t cracked the top three since 89 when we were miles off the top two and hadn’t mounted a real league challenge since the Clive Allen team of 86 — easily my favorite season.

We had a little ‘purple patch’ in the early 80s with those FA Cups 80/81/82 and decent D1 finishes.

I went to just about every match in the early 80s and loved that club. We played excellent football but were still considered a cup team. If you look at the FA Cup draws for those Cup winning seasons then we got great draws — I don’t think we were drawn outside of London until we went to Hillsborough to play Wolves in the semi-final (a frightening day that foreshadowed tragic events).
Realistically, that period was the last time Tottenham can reasonably be considered ‘a force’ and even then I think it’s a bit of a stretch.

On the other hand, my Dad’s Tottenham — he followed religiously through the 50’s and 60’s — were a true force. The City of their day. Domestic champions and champions of Europe and, as importantly, innovators of the game.
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Can you please keep your Pro-ENIC / Anti-Spurs propaganda over in the relevant thread please.

You have a habit of polluting every thread with this nonsense
 
Zomb said:
You are wrong about the big club part though, proper shit your trousers statement. We were a big news story - long gone under this speculative fucking bastard. Weird, introverted strangler ‘it’s difficult to win’….. fuck off, tosser
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I get that you think not challenging for a title in 20 years and spending a full decade mid table somehow makes Spurs a massive club and a real force, so much bigger than Villa.

Old Etonians: massive club, storied history.
 
Airfixx said:
Absolute bollocks........ Our FA Cup win in 91 was the last vestiges of the so-called glory glory era and even that was 7 years after our previous trophy.
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Still competing and a bigger drawer than now. Could
sign big players, back page headline seller

Were bestbsupported London club then, third now
 
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Zomb said:
Debatable
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No. Not really.... If you were able to debate it with any substance you would have already.

Zomb said:
but certainly regressed our standing under the current thieving tyrants
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Rubbish. We were fucking crap when they arrived......

...............Then the dodgy petro dosh arrived and left the mid and lower table teams even deeper in the mud.


"Thieving" - Sort yourself out.... It'd have been proven by now if this was true.

"Tyrants" - Sort yourself out.
 
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Airfixx said:
No. Not really.... If you were able to debate it with any substance you would have already.



Rubbish. We were fucking crap when they arrived......

...............Then the dodgy petro dosh arrived and left the mid and lower table teams even deeper in the mud.


"Thieving" - Sort yourself out.... It'd have been proven by now if this was true.

"Tyrants" - Sort yourself out.
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I didn’t say we weren’t crap, Sugar was even more clueless than Levy but he at least showed ambition
 
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