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The Hateful Eight

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1882 said:
Maybe it was a lesson in over confidence... I heard some Spurs fans pre-match speculating which pubs we were gonna get for the FINAL... talk about asking for it!
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I can remember the week before that game, up at Sunderland, some yids were singing "que sera sera, put the champagne on ice, we're going to Wembley twice, que sera sera":lamelashock:
I never bet on Spurs and I bet on us to win that day (at very low odds, of course), and even my dad, who- genuinely- predicted we would lose to Newport and Rochdale, and who said "now I think we're good for a draw" just before the ref blew his whistle at Chelsea when we were 3-1 up, and not a moment before, predicted we would win.
 
For one reason or another, I wasn't able to attend any of these.

This is clearly a sign and I will now expect you guys to set up a crowdfunding page to ensure I get a ticket for the next semi to ensure our path to a victorious final.
 
SpursUltra said:
, and the devil looked like Liz Hurley in Bedazzled.... so many great scenes in that film.............. I digress.



No FA cup glory since..........

And now we reach 8 and 0. So how many of the 8 have you been to? Share your badges of honour here. Last couple I have given tickets away tbh. I think I’m suffering from PTSFS.

Mine read:

Wembley 1993
Old Trafford 1999
Old Trafford 2001
Wembley 2010
Wembley 2012

So who has got the f
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The original bedazzled is far superior with the great Peter Cook (spurs man) and Dudley Moore. The remake is a poor shadow and of course there is Raquel Welch a real screen godess .
 
1882 said:
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...shit, it's ME isn't it?
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I suppose I should make my confession...

Last Saturday was my 40th birthday, after a lot of deliberation I made the choice not to go because I didn't want my abiding memory of my 40th for the rest of my life to be of waiting in the queue to Wembley Park surrounded by Surrey Manchester United fans full of it.

I feel ashamed not to have gone but still a bit vindicated that I made the right call. For some reason the FA Cup semi final has become our albatross. Like the win at Stamford Bridge it will happen eventually but our form wasn't in the right place at the right time.

The thing is that some of those semi finals were a little easier to take. I thought the way we played against Chelsea, while a loss, you can say that we really had a good go at it, Saturday didn't feel that way, I felt we lacked urgency at times.

I know it's not much in the way of consolation but I went to the out with dinner close mates on Saturday, one was a Watford fan, who has never seen his team lift the FA Cup and is grateful to see his side survive in the league and a Sunderland fan who had every right to be miserable with the second successive relegation, I'm not saying that makes things ok, but it is not just us who experience disappointments and some are a fair bit more heartbreaking than ours, there is ultimately a real difference between not winning a cup and seeing how low you can sink.

In context this is a first world problem but the fact is that now (unlike some previous spurs incarnations) we are living in the first world.
 
78Spur said:
I know it's not much in the way of consolation but I went to the out with dinner close mates on Saturday... one was a Sunderland fan who had every right to be miserable with the second successive relegation, I'm not saying that makes things ok, but it is not just us who experience disappointments and some are a fair bit more heartbreaking than ours, there is ultimately a real difference between not winning a cup and seeing how low you can sink.

In context this is a first world problem but the fact is that now (unlike some previous spurs incarnations) we are living in the first world.
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I suppose there is the: "there's always someone worse off than you" argument...

Difference is, (apart from Newcastle/Middlesbrough fans) I didn't see the entire country apparently taking it upon themselves to joyously celebrate Sunderland's relegation!!

I'd LOVE for our latest FACSF defeat to have slipped under the radar, and for us to be able to deal with our frustration privately, lick our wounds and come back stronger (as i'm sure Sunderland will) WITHOUT the fans of the 91 other clubs seemingly making it their own personal mission to make jokes and memes at our expense!
I look forward to seeing how the FA decide to ridicule Chris Coleman for being partly responsible for taking Sunderland down... but I'm guessing they probably won't!

I guess it comes with the territory!
 
1882 said:
I suppose there is the: "there's always someone worse off than you" argument...

Difference is, (apart from Newcastle/Middlesbrough fans) I didn't see the entire country apparently taking it upon themselves to joyously celebrate Sunderland's relegation!!

I'd LOVE for our latest FACSF defeat to have slipped under the radar, and for us to be able to deal with our frustration privately, lick our wounds and come back stronger (as i'm sure Sunderland will) WITHOUT the fans of the 91 other clubs seemingly making it their own personal mission to make jokes and memes at our expense!
I look forward to seeing how the FA decide to ridicule Chris Coleman for being partly responsible for taking Sunderland down... but I'm guessing they probably won't!

I guess it comes with the territory!
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There are 2 reasons for this - Sunderland are beyond the point of ridicule to even the hardest hearted Newcastle fan, they are a picture of mismanagement and complete car crashery, they evoke pity rather than laughter. What was a stable Premier Club is now nowhere near that. On the other side Spurs have been very successful, when we go and beat the bigger teams we upset their fans, they think we all have delusions of grandeur and would hate to see us successful because then they would have think differently about who we are, that ridicule is basically relief.

Our loss isn't the end of the world, we have reasons to be cheerful and positive for the future but we're not there yet. Though I wanted to be wrong about the semi final, truth be told, had we won the FA Cup, the immediate response would have been from other fans 'come back when you've won the league', followed by 'the champions league' if we'd suddenly won the prem.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong in being disappointed, frustrated and outright angry by how we went out but it really is a painful reminder that we still have some way to progress. There are areas where we need to strengthen and improve on and though it's not always pleasant in terms of performance and expectation, we still need to enjoy the journey.

That doesn't mean we should be saying 'but the weather was glorious on Saturday', just that when we do put in a memorable performance we properly enjoy that too, the whole ethos of 1882 and TFC was 'going to Spurs should be fun', almost regardless of the football, while we've improved a lot since that point, it's sometimes just good to revisit your reasons for being there, in my experience of a first season ticket it's certainly not been a circle of untold hell, as a North Korean once said, I can't complain....
 
82 away against Leicester was my first away game, loved it, left my old man to go and stand right by the split down the middle of the holte end
87 away against Watford was a cracking day out
91 no words.....

after that i did Newcastle at OT and Woolwich at OT
 
Plenty of hard journeys home and shitty walks out of stadiums here. Cheating fucking Newcastle pissed me off the most I think. So glad they didn’t win it.

There has to be an argument however that our long term fanbase now are probably more mentally weak than the players. That’s a lot of football related pain to deal with.

Added to the FA cup I put Eindhoven and Sevilla. Walking into PSV I was so full of belief.
Walking out I was in sheer disbelief. Gomes that night.........
And Sevilla at the Lane - cracking atmosphere but just didn’t have enough.

Something will give - hopefully with Poch in charge and as many of us there as possible.
 
I did 5 of the 8, missed the last two as was in Malta for my mum's birthday each time. All I know is we need to break the spell, up to then we were pretty successful in semi finals.
 
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