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Every week this year the main crumbs of hope seem to come BEFORE we play. Teams around us lose or draw and I think 'Right! This is our chance!' And then we play OUR game and foul it all up.
That 94/95 Klinsmann season was one of my favourite at the time and I had a great time.
We finished 7th and lost a semi final 4-1!
I guess to finish off the season United lost the EL but Chavs won the Champions League while we stayed above Arse but lost out to West Ham in the league table. Yeh fucking shit.
I guess to me modern times is probably since I started supporting Spurs. That's about 30 odd years.
We've had much worse seasons. I do try to be positive as much as possible but this season is the first in a long time where I've become pretty disinterested the longer the season has went on.
I freely admit that I didn't make plans to watch the last few games, and only caught them if I was quite literally, doing nothing else. Just a complete disconnect.
I am glad we managed to squeeze into Europe, even if it appears to be the consolation prize. We didn't deserve Europe, not on your nelly, but I'll take it.
That we still finished above Woolwich is the only other slight plus from a season that promised so much. I still can't get my head around the fact that the same side who ripped many teams apart in the early days of the season was the same one who limped over the line in the end.
The amount of times we quite obviously threw away points over the season did my head in too. The football wasn't always great but in those games I think the fan base as a whole night have been more willing to accept that crap brand if we had held onto a lead a bit more often, I'm thinking West Ham, Wolves, Palace etc, amongst a few others. The different shine that those 'wins' may have put on our season cannot be underestimated.
Anyway, thank fuck it is over.
We've had much worse seasons. I do try to be positive as much as possible but this season is the first in a long time where I've become pretty disinterested the longer the season has went on.
I freely admit that I didn't make plans to watch the last few games, and only caught them if I was quite literally, doing nothing else. Just a complete disconnect.
I am glad we managed to squeeze into Europe, even if it appears to be the consolation prize. We didn't deserve Europe, not on your nelly, but I'll take it.
That we still finished above Woolwich is the only other slight plus from a season that promised so much. I still can't get my head around the fact that the same side who ripped many teams apart in the early days of the season was the same one who limped over the line in the end.
The amount of times we quite obviously threw away points over the season did my head in too. The football wasn't always great but in those games I think the fan base as a whole night have been more willing to accept that crap brand if we had held onto a lead a bit more often, I'm thinking West Ham, Wolves, Palace etc, amongst a few others. The different shine that those 'wins' may have put on our season cannot be underestimated.
Anyway, thank fuck it is over.
The question posed by the OP can only be answered by analysing the perceived outlook of the individual and will no doubt be influenced by the era when they were first introduced to the Tottenham drug.
Its even more difficult to discern at a time when we have all become armchair fans and experience the sense of detachment that goes with this inability to attend games in person.
We've all become telly addicts hooked on watching a second rate soap opera.....we know it isn't good for us but can't resist the temptation to tune in.
Its even more difficult to discern at a time when we have all become armchair fans and experience the sense of detachment that goes with this inability to attend games in person.
We've all become telly addicts hooked on watching a second rate soap opera.....we know it isn't good for us but can't resist the temptation to tune in.
And I still used to go hardly missing a game!
We've been in decline for at least a couple of years now, its all downhill from here. Once the sticking plaster that's Harry Kane goes its difficult to see how were going to be competitive again on an Enic budget.
Yeh looks like that
Tottenham Hotspur - Historical league placements
Diese Übersicht zeigt, mit welcher Tabellen-Endplatzierung der Verein Tottenham eine Spielzeit abgeschlossen hat und in welcher Liga er aktiv war.
Both were horrific, heart breaking endings to the season. This season started with such promise but the season has had a slow, painful death. This season has brought me less overall joy than any others in recent memory though. The style of play has been so poor at times and I really thought we would get a trophy.
Edit: I’ve also come out of the season with no hope or expectations for next season. I now dislike more players than I like for the first time. At least in the 90’s we expected to do badly and didn’t have Ramon Vega spouting off to the press about how he needed game time like Winks.
It's the hopelessness of the situation at the moment which makes it feel so bad because it's very hard to see an avenue to success. Beforehand we were generally always pushing forward, I used to think 'okay that was a shit season but I see what we're trying to do'.
I feel like the things we need to do to get back to success on the field are highly reliant on chance due to our shit recruitment and a ownership that are unwilling to change ... I can't take any solace in the fact that Kane may leave as I literally have no faith the money will be invested wisely, and then where will we be?
We have seen the team rise to the heights that were being touted by the club only now I realise it was mainly a ruse and we never intended to be that successful, we were sold a dream.
I feel like the things we need to do to get back to success on the field are highly reliant on chance due to our shit recruitment and a ownership that are unwilling to change ... I can't take any solace in the fact that Kane may leave as I literally have no faith the money will be invested wisely, and then where will we be?
We have seen the team rise to the heights that were being touted by the club only now I realise it was mainly a ruse and we never intended to be that successful, we were sold a dream.
It will be interesting to see what happens with season ticket and membership renewals. Will there be a big drop off or will people just grit their teeth and sign on again? I haven't renewed my membership yet, but I know that I will.
It’s close
You raise a good point. We were in, really, a false position when briefly top and had managed to grind out results.
When you consider that start and where we're finishing it shows just how fucking bad 2021 has been. Bottom half stuff.
The thing for me is that I really cared about those two events and was gutted and surprised at them happening but after Xmas this season the writing has been on the wall!
I said no straight away, 'cos I remember feeling in pain watching the AVB era... but you make quite a good case.... maybe it is the worst... I don't know... 
We had some good moments though and there was room for some hope for quite a lot of it... I'm not sure I even remember feeling hope under AVB...
We had some good moments though and there was room for some hope for quite a lot of it... I'm not sure I even remember feeling hope under AVB...
Agree with that we have more now with Son or Ndombele or Bale not just Kane. I don’t think though I have seen us as poorly coached as this season, our tactics under Jose were similar to my old youth team, sit back and hoof it forward without any obvious patterns of play. I suppose one defence of Mason has been there has been bits of football recently.