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Match The Bodø Affair: The Mighty Tottenham vs Bodø/Glimt of Nordland - 2000hrs 1st May 2025 - UEFA Europa League Semi Final Leg 1
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“It’s just a temporary cash-flow problem. Honest!”*
* 2001-2025 and continuing…
Nicholson.
Burkinshaw.
Pochettino
Big Ange is on the cusp of joining a very exclusive club. So let the haters hate.
Quarter final you could buy a ticket on the day. Semi final sold out in two hours.
The fans are speaking with their feet.
Time to believe.
Bizarre first paragraph.
How have we been lucky in the EL?
We’ve been absolute shit in the league games. No defending that.
But we’ve earned our trip to the semis of EL.
Lucky we haven't actually played a good team. Frankfurt are the best we've played and they missed 3 or 4 absolute sitters in the last game.
There just wasn’t many decent sides in this to begin with, Frankfurt, Lazio, Bilbao and Lyon were the 4 best sides outstanding outside of England - ourselves and Bodo have knocked one of those out each so on that basis we do deserve our semi final slot, as do Bodo and United. Bilbao are still the best sides outstanding outside in it I think
A poor player who should never have been brought in last summer but a player who has been treated badly by the manager. Doubt he minds too much though, he’s on a very good wage and seems a decent professional chap so is probably just getting on with things and turning up for training.
Yes. It’s a great example of why the teams dropping into the competition from the CL was never fair. Gives these other clubs a chance of silverware.
We’ve been pretty fortunate with the teams we’ve faced and some of the results. AZ, Hoffenheim, Rangers for example. Frankfurt was a decent performance overall. But we had some luck to get to that stage.
We're one of the strongest teams in the comp on paper and have been favourites to win it, getting to the Semi's is not a symptom of luck, it's just that the competition isn't strong as it usually is - the fact that we've played in 2nd/3rd gear all season shows you that.
There is a chance but Ange unfortunately won't do things differently and maintains, "The Boys Played Well. We did alright". It would be like discussing USA politics without mentioning Trump.
Read the posts below. They pretty accurate. No sense in repeating. At the end, scorelines determine if you deserve anything. Our league position shows exactly what we deserve. The EL flatters Us Big Time
I’m hoping that after each of the next three Europa League games that we don’t hear, “we controlled the game”, rather… we won.
Remember back to some of the EL games. We were dogshit in a lot of them. Lets not pretend that this EL run has been great. Plus any enjoyment so far has been nearly sucked dry by our league form. Any other year we are in a serious relegation dog fight.
In that regard, I think it's also fair to say we are here, so let's wait until we lose before we start citing so called good teams.
The irrefutable fact is that we are in a semi-final of the second (by far) European competition, and facing an opponent we should be capable of overcoming.
It's up to this wispy set of players to shut up the detractors.
I agree with you about the shitty EPL form... but going back many seasons, 37 point would have kept Spurs up (as I pointed out in a post a couple of weeks ago).