37 out of 40 trophies in the past decade have been won by teams with more resources than us. You do know resources doesn't just mean money right?
The fact you can’t acknowledge that overwhelming statistic shows your bias. Hum hum, you're talking about bias? What is it they say in France? Oh yeah...l'hospital qui se moque de la charity?
The one criticism I would agree with you on is the Europa league and Conference league where we should have done better when we’ve been involved. We’ve underperformed in those competitions (we’ve often underperformed in domestic cups too when you look at who has knocked us out). Funny how you bracketed the domestic cups...
I have clearly stated the lack of a coherent and appropriate football strategy is a strong and valid critique of Levy. We agree on that. So you agree Levy has made mistakes, big ones, leading to us being in the shite today, mocked by many in the media and at other clubs...but still you support him and want him to stay on as chairman? Confused much? I'll tell you this: you run any other business and make as many mistakes as Baldy has done at Spurs, you wouldn't last a month. He's committed many a sackable offense.
But the FACTS are that we have overperformed relative to your resources in 10 out of the past 12 seasons. That is staggering overachievement. So while we are both frustrated, the results have been better than we should expect most seasons. You know Ricky Gervais? Watch that bit in one of his shows about people mistaking their opinions for facts
To focus on the 3 times in the past decade when a team with less resources has won a trophy shows how ridiculous your argument is. I'm no math wiz, but 30% is not a small share. What's ridiculous is you not understanding that many smaller clubs reached a big final since 2000, some going as far as winning the bloody thing...and we didn't. All the other big teams did, but we didn't. Ah yeah, gotcha, gotta be about resources. Or and luck. Course it is.
A team with less resources than us has never won the league cup in the past decade.
A team with less resources than us has won the FA cup twice in the past decade.
A team with less resources than us had won the league once in the past decade.
The fact this happens so infrequently is all the evidence you need for how tough it is and how far the odds are stacked against us. The league win by Leicester was incredible at the time and everyone agreed it was a historically improbable event.
It’s a shame we haven’t had the luck needed to win a trophy over the past decade… and it’s true that two other teams have had that luck… but on average we have performed significantly better than both of those teams over the past decade. We just haven’t had that bit of luck needed. Here it is...when all else fails, blame it on Lady Luck. It's not Levy and his pisspoor strategic management, it's luck. It's not the shitty managers (picked by Levy) we've had, it's luck. Outrageously bad players? Nah not their fault...bloody luck ain't it.
