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Dont be shit at football and you wont get booed
Are we though? Constant booing etc are a lot of pressure imv.
I think you’re probably right if we fall close to the last five places, but I think whoever is brought in will be in the same predicament within a similar number of games.
True enough, but it’s one of those chicken and egg things where the booing doesn’t exactly help improve confidence and hence the performance.
I can't argue with that, but my point/question is the players we have are under performing almost to a man and our squad isn't as bad as our performances and league position show, so why?
Spot on. The club have actively sought to replace legacy fans with new world customers. Funnily enough the latter behave like consumers not supporters. At £100+ pp for their day out (£4-500 for a family FFS!) they look at their experience quite differently.
Fine.Tottenham's starting back 5 (Vic; Porro; Cuti; VDV; Udogie) returned to selection availability on Thursday 6th March, 2025 when we played AZ Alkmaar away. VDV and Romero were unused subs and Porro came off the bench in a 1-0 loss (which was to be our last loss in Europe fwiw)
In the following 3 months of football, that Back 5 would never once start a Premier league game together.
In fact Romero and VDV would only start TWO premier league games together as a partnership for the rest of the league season despite being fit and available for all of them (those two games were Chelsea away and Forest at home in which both were subbed at half time!).
However:
That Back 5 would start every single remaining European game except the first one (AZ at home where Spence started for Udogie). Every single game on the way to Bilbao.
We played Danso and Davies regularly in the league with Romero and VDV on the bench.
If you can't see that this was a deliberate selection policy to give Tottenham Hotspur the best possible chance of progressing through the Europa League even at the expense of league position then I don't know what to tell you.
And we won. I can't guarantee you that. I was there.
You may not approve of the selection policy. You may not approve of prioritising the Trophy over Wolves away or Liverpool away (where we started Spence, Danso, Davies with Romero, VDV and Porro unused subs in a 5-1 thrashing) - but to deny it actually happened is quite bizarre.
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Ange’s suicidal tactics were fundamental in the lack of availability of the back five.Tottenham's starting back 5 (Vic; Porro; Cuti; VDV; Udogie) returned to selection availability on Thursday 6th March, 2025 when we played AZ Alkmaar away. VDV and Romero were unused subs and Porro came off the bench in a 1-0 loss (which was to be our last loss in Europe fwiw)
In the following 3 months of football, that Back 5 would never once start a Premier league game together.
In fact Romero and VDV would only start TWO premier league games together as a partnership for the rest of the league season despite being fit and available for all of them (those two games were Chelsea away and Forest at home in which both were subbed at half time!).
However:
That Back 5 would start every single remaining European game except the first one (AZ at home where Spence started for Udogie). Every single game on the way to Bilbao.
We played Danso and Davies regularly in the league with Romero and VDV on the bench.
If you can't see that this was a deliberate selection policy to give Tottenham Hotspur the best possible chance of progressing through the Europa League even at the expense of league position then I don't know what to tell you.
And we won. I can guarantee you that. I was there.
You may not approve of the selection policy. You may not approve of prioritising the Trophy over Wolves away or Liverpool away (where we started Spence, Danso, Davies with Romero, VDV and Porro unused subs in a 5-1 thrashing) - but to deny it actually happened is quite bizarre.
Yeah and it helped us a lot as we can see now. We're still the laughing stock of the PL and nobody cares that we won it outside of our club (and yes, it was great for me and of course I celebrated it. but still far below Amsterdam).
