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The race for second place.

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Spursdem said:
We got to that point through insane form, which simply couldn't be continued. As I said, we'd have had to have done something never before achieved in elite football history.

We got reasonably close (Never within a win) but we were never in it because Leicester never let us.

What we did didn't matter in the end. Nothing we could have done would have.

We didn't lose it, Leicester won it. Pushing that 2 horse bullshit is what the Scum, the Chavs and the Pikeys do. You wanna join that clique, so be it.
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If you want to use the Horse race analogy, then we were in the pack, had a strong finish but had started from too far back to catch leicester.

We could have won all our remaining games from January onwards but we would still not have won it.

The real chokers were Woolwich and city who were ahead in the race at some point but allowed Leicester to pass them, spurs were never in front at any point.

All this media bollocks about a two horse race grinds my gears, a lazy media narrative to enhance the fairy tale and deflection from other clubs fans of Chelsea, Woolwich and city who all faded away, or in the point of Chelsea, just refused from the go!
 
mikes01666 said:
No need to buy into media 'bullshit'. I can think and come to my own opinion. It was a two horse race. Us and Leicester.

You present data from Weeks 16 and 20. How about Week 30 and 34 which is the period I was referring to. Is this now a two horse race?

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And after 34 weeks

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...all that emotional energy I expended from about March onwards (after we took Stoke apart - from memory) was wasted? And I thought we could win it!

Anyway it doesn't change the need to get 76 points as of now. As Rafa would say... Fact!

Same side as Monday. 0-1 will do.
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This doesn't really prove anything. Other than after 4 games, we gained zero ground.
 
Chucklevision82 said:
This doesn't really prove anything. Other than after 4 games, we gained zero ground.
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You're right, it doesn't prove anything, other than from about Week 30 on, it was strongly indicating either us or Leicester.

Up until it was mathematically impossible, I believed (hoped?) we could win it. Leicester's ability to win their games 1-0 proved otherwise.

Presumably in that Feb/March period all you lot had given up hope?

Going back to the original post

"I am absolutely unconcerned about top 4. It was wrapped up weeks ago.
We aren't Liverpool. We aren't giving up a 5 point gap in the last 2 weeks of the season."

No, it wasn't wrapped up weeks ago, we don't need to rely on Liverpool going on a bad run, we're quite capable of doing it ourselves (see earlier posts).

Other than myself and my son, the family are Spam, Woolwich, Manure and victim supporters. We got "third in a two horse race" shoved down our necks after the Newcastle debacle and Woolwich took second place. It hurt. I don't want a repeat this season so... at the risk of repeating myself: 76 points etc, etc (see earlier posts).
 
mikes01666 said:
Other than myself and my son, the family are Spam, Woolwich, Manure and victim supporters.
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Brutal man- you need to set up a gofundme for emotional damages!
I lived in a house with all Woolwich fans (friends) for a year. They had a bottle-opener with "Henry scores!" sound fx. Kinda wanted to murder the lot of em on Totteringham day that year!

If we beat Brom on Sat, we'll really heap the pressure on Pool, and maybe even see em collapse all the way through to the CL final!
 
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I know. They're coming over for the CL final (I've got the biggest telly!). Any response to a Real goal and my wife will extract my nuts via my nostrils. I'm planning an illness.

On the bright side, Woolwich lost.
 
GG1882 said:
Totally agree, another boring recycled media narrative.

-There was 20 horses that started that race.
-Leicester were the rank outsider who had the run of its life
-Spurs were expected to run well but nobody would lump on them.
-Woolwich were a short money favourite who fell at a fence 3/4's into the race. The jockey falls off and the horse goes on to pip Spurs on the line. The records will state that the Woolwich horse did not finish.

I don't understand what's so hard to grasp. There was plenty of horses running for first place, Spurs were just the team that stayed the distance.

Neighhhhh
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Why the long face?
 
paddygspur said:
Still on

Congratulations Chris Houghton
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Like I said a while ago, if the south London wanderers could have beaten manure at 'home' last week, we'd have been favourites for second right now.

As it is though, if we win our next two, Thursday night presents us with a very difficult choice - Wham to win so as to give us the right to win our last game and secure second place, or Wham to lose and possibly get relegated???

I guess we could be happy with either result..... so let's win the next two and enjoy
 
Put WBA behind us. Prepare for Newcastle. It's still in our hands no matter what happens tomorrow.
It's at times like this that the team needs our support, not criticism.

As a side note the Premier League will be a far healthier place without WBA and Stoke.
 
This really is now make or break. Two home games to come. Newcastle & Leicester. The only positive I can take from the result today, (having not seen the match as I was playing in a cup final - lost on pens 5-4 if anyones interested) is that this can be the final catalyst to finish the season strongly and claim that 4th place. Thats about all I've got.
 
Needed to beat Chelsea to help maintain our hopes of a title win back in 2016 and now Leicester are going to repay the faith by beating us on the final day so that Chelsea beat us to the Champions League places. You're not a fucking Spurs fan if you don't think that's happening.

Luckily, Pochettino has changed the mentality of the season following our capitulation that year.

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