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Fattynomates said:
Newcastle are a big club, its just there Rivals are Sunderland, so they get a free pass from other fans, as we are a London Club we are rivals with all the London Clubs, which i'm including united in as well as the majority of there fan base are southerners!
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They have a large local support due to being a one club city, but otherwise they're no bigger than PNE and other clubs that had success in the first half of the 20th century.

"The club's most successful period was between 1904 and 1910, when they won an FA Cup and three of their League titles." Their last notable trophy was in 1955.
 
Airfixx said:
Only certain ones though, presumably.......
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Petty little men going to be petty little men...
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Airfixx said:
They have a large local support due to being a one club city, but otherwise they're no bigger than PNE and other clubs that had success in the first half of the 20th century.

"The club's most successful period was between 1904 and 1910, when they won an FA Cup and three of their League titles." Their last notable trophy was in 1955.
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Exactly. They're the smallest "big club" there could ever be. Villa and Everton are way bigger than Newcastle, their misfortune is only that both Liverpool and Birmingham are two club cities. You could argue Leeds are bigger than Newcastle.
 
Darnswim said:
Exactly. They're the smallest "big club" there could ever be. Villa and Everton are way bigger than Newcastle, their misfortune is only that both Liverpool and Birmingham are two club cities. You could argue Leeds are bigger than Newcastle.
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I would argue Leeds are bigger. I live just South West of London and know quite a few Leeds fans. Don’t think I’ve met a Geordie before
 
Don Corleone said:
No I agree and i have said 1 league cup in 23 years is pretty abysmal for a club of our size, but Everton and Villa are also big clubs terribly underachieving. Both never get in Europe and never win trophies. I just like to understand why Spurs are so universally ridiculed? On social media mostly, but just in general. Our trophy history recently is terrible i get that and trust me, I’m one of the biggest advocates at criticising us for that, but we are champions league regulars. Surely people should be applauding this? Considering we ain’t an oil club. Just baffles me why Spurs in particular are hated and laughed at.
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I don't think the majority of fans ridiculing us via social media give two fucks about oil club or not. In fact, I'm fairly certain the only people who do care about oil clubs are supporters of clubs like us that are in that low end of the elite who are being punished because we don't have the ability (or want to in some fans eyes) to compete with them financially.

Most of the people giving us shit are supporters of one of the doped clubs anyway.
 
Shadydan said:
Posted this in the Leicester thread but I guess this thread has more traffic



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On a related note about that season, I found this fella to be very honest in his assessments.

Remember him being asked who was the best team he faced that year.
Replied 'undoubtedly Tottenham, and that we were very lucky to get anything from the game at WHL.' If I remember correctly we were all over them, ball wouldn't go in.
Then they got a corner near the end, our two CBs bumped into each other allowing Huth to loop a header over Lloris.
That game alone would have been a 6 point swing.

Ref gave a penalty to West Ham at Leicester; cue uproar, with Brady and Gold getting threatened and ref then being heavily pressurised to give Leicester a ridiculous penalty at the end; probably a Vardy special.
Teams thought they could beat Leicester even near the end and didn't give them the respect they would have given perennial title challengers. Most ridiculously, they'd often be trying to win near the end of a game, and leave Vardy one on one on the halfway line.
Sky changed 4 of our games on the trot to Monday nights, after Leicester had played.
Poch was glad next season when Ranieri admitted that everything went for them. Helped also by the lack of a Derby or Forest to do their best to stop them, in contrast to us where Goons, Chavs, Hammers had their season's highlight in taking points of us.
 
mick derry said:
On a related note about that season, I found this fella to be very honest in his assessments.

Remember him being asked who was the best team he faced that year.
Replied 'undoubtedly Tottenham, and that we were very lucky to get anything from the game at WHL.' If I remember correctly we were all over them, ball wouldn't go in.
Then they got a corner near the end, our two CBs bumped into each other allowing Huth to loop a header over Lloris.
That game alone would have been a 6 point swing.

Ref gave a penalty to West Ham at Leicester; cue uproar, with Brady and Gold getting threatened and ref then being heavily pressurised to give Leicester a ridiculous penalty at the end; probably a Vardy special.
Teams thought they could beat Leicester even near the end and didn't give them the respect they would have given perennial title challengers. Most ridiculously, they'd often be trying to win near the end of a game, and leave Vardy one on one on the halfway line.
Sky changed 4 of our games on the trot to Monday nights, after Leicester had played.
Poch was glad next season when Ranieri admitted that everything went for them. Helped also by the lack of a Derby or Forest to do their best to stop them, in contrast to us where Goons, Chavs, Hammers had their season's highlight in taking points of us.
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I thought it was an open secret that everyone wanted Leicester to win the league that season for the fairytale, I remember the Swansea match towards the end of the season where their manager didn't play a striker and they got beaten 4-0, also Fabregas and Hazard openly coming out and saying that they didn't ant Tottenham to win the league before our match with that, should have been done for bringing the game into disrepute. Everything was conspired against us to lost the title and even Clattenburg himself admitted that he allowed the players to lose control in the battle of the bridge and didn't ref it properly.
 
mick derry said:
On a related note about that season, I found this fella to be very honest in his assessments.

Remember him being asked who was the best team he faced that year.
Replied 'undoubtedly Tottenham, and that we were very lucky to get anything from the game at WHL.' If I remember correctly we were all over them, ball wouldn't go in.
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We easily had the best of it. Kane hit the underside of the bar with Schmeic nowhere about 5 mins before their goal. Typical defending - their CB's all over us at corners. The FA changed the penalty rules before the start of the next season and - would you Adam and Eve it - they had loads of penalties given against them, so many that they were in the relegation zone and Tinker sacked. 2 in the first game I think.

2 seasons in a row we were up against teams with no Europe. LCFC threw the League cup early on, and then ditto the FA cup, against us. Poch annoyingly played full strength teams in EUFA cup and blew an easy 7 pts at least.
 
I don't think we ever really put Leicester under any serious pressure in that season we may have thought they would blow up but we were generally a few points behind them as far as I can remember .I know everybody wanted them to win and I think they got some handy points but still we weren't good enough overall .
 
People take football way too seriously when children on social media wind them up over Tottenhams history.

The reason Everton and Villa probably don't get it in the neck like Spurs do is because the Spurs fanbase don't help themselves most of the time. Full of awful over the top takes and grossly overestimating the team.

I still remember Spurs fans online celebrating how for 2 years we were statistically the best team in the league, yet won nothing.

I remember when we were a pretty popular little second team under Redknapp. Alot of neutrals quite liked us. We didn't overestimate the team and its standing, we played great football and we got on with it. Nowadays, we're pretty much despised because a lot of the fans feel we have some sort of divine right to win something like we're owed it and others sense that I imagine.

Eirher way, no one should truly give a fuck.
 
Is anyone even excited about possibly getting CL qualification next year?

I used to think it would be a springboard to exciting signings and success. Clearly we want nothing more but the cash and an attendance medal
 
Steed_Train said:
Is anyone even excited about possibly getting CL qualification next year?

I used to think it would be a springboard to exciting signings and success. Clearly we want nothing more but the cash and an attendance medal
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Yeah.

Champions League games are great. Love the music and it's better than Thursday night away games at Qarabag.

Edit: Actually prefer CL to English football these days.
 
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Steed_Train said:
Is anyone even excited about possibly getting CL qualification next year?

I used to think it would be a springboard to exciting signings and success. Clearly we want nothing more but the cash and an attendance medal
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I would swap a couple of fa cups last year and this, instead of finishing fourth. It makes fuck all difference to our club because we don’t treat it as a springboard to future success. Quite the opposite in fact, we treat it as having made it when in fact it should be the prerequisite and first step to success.
 
Dippers are not tearing up any trees, but they have picked up 10 points from 12 in last 4 league games, with 4 consecutive clean sheets. They’ll be 3 points behind us if they win their game in hand and we still have to go to Anfield.
 
Brian Fantana said:
I would swap a couple of fa cups last year and this, instead of finishing fourth. It makes fuck all difference to our club because we don’t treat it as a springboard to future success. Quite the opposite in fact, we treat it as having made it when in fact it should be the prerequisite and first step to success.
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Exactly this. Last summer showed that we aren’t willing to put in the necessary work to fill the deficiencies in the squad even with champions league football. Makes no difference.
 
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