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Matt1882 said:
I think I was losing interest in football until Martin Jol

I certainly had little interest in spending my limited money on going to games in the Graham and Hoddle era. Santini had me excited as he was doing well with France and Arnseson was signing everyone.
Then the football started. Errrrgh. Ok, perhaps we looked harder to beat than the days where Newcastle and Chelsea were scoring 6 & 7 against us.

After a weird start where we went 3 down to Charlton in Jol's first game, we nearly got a 3-3 out of it. Then the ding dong 4-5 derby after. What a game. I've always maintained, that is one of the greatest games in football history and, given the fact we had fuck all to lose, losing it wasn't awful for once. A boring loss to Villa came (who were a bogey side until then really)
Then we won 5 in the bounce. I don't recall ever winning 5 in a row as a Spurs fan until then.

I wasn't fully back in but I was back to watching the games on TV live rather than being a bit "meh"
The next season was gripping. Fucking Lasagne.

I think I was more gutted when it was becoming obvious Jol was done than when it was obvious Poch was done.

I wonder what would have happened to Jol, Levy, Arsneson etc if we'd have won that last game against Spam and got that CL spot then.
Chelsea had just won their 2nd title so were on the up. We'd have kicked Arse out of the CL for the first time since Wenger arrived and prevented the whole 25 years in a row or whatever it was. City were years away from being formed.
That always feels like the biggest lost opportunity. And nothing will ever convince me it was an accident they all got ill.
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Jol got WHL rocking again and football became fun for the first time in years.
 
meaningless-friendly said:
My memory might be playing tricks,but I remember us on a decent run under Francis and it was around November or December, had a chance to go top of the league by beating Bolton. 2 nil up, we drew 2 2 in the end and never got up there again.

Again, I might be remembering it wrong, I will stand corrected if so.
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you are almost correct (2nd) - and worse than that, if I recall correctly, Gudni Bergsson scored the equaliser against us!
 
shempz said:
you are almost correct (2nd) - and worse than that, if I recall correctly, Gudni Bergsson scored the equaliser against us!
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I remember being at my brothers house as an excited 14 year old and genuinely believing we had a chance.

And yeah, threw that away and fell away the rest of the season IIRC.
Although tonked United 4-1 on NYD shortly after.
 
Matt1882 said:
I remember being at my brothers house as an excited 14 year old and genuinely believing we had a chance.

And yeah, threw that away and fell away the rest of the season IIRC.
Although tonked United 4-1 on NYD shortly after.
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Yes - the 4-1 NYD victory stands in my memory. I recall I had what you could probably describe as a pretty good NYE celebration in Marylebone with my cousin and mates. I'd already agreed to go to the Utd game with my mate (it was the season before I had a ST). However, the next day I was not in the best of condition - threw up about 3 or 4 times on the way to the ground. Managed to hold it until half time, when I proceeded to throw up another couple of times.

Wouldn't change a thing though.
 
shempz said:
Yes - the 4-1 NYD victory stands in my memory. I recall I had what you could probably describe as a pretty good NYE celebration in Marylebone with my cousin and mates. I'd already agreed to go to the Utd game with my mate (it was the season before I had a ST). However, the next day I was not in the best of condition - threw up about 3 or 4 times on the way to the ground. Managed to hold it until half time, when I proceeded to throw up another couple of times.

Wouldn't change a thing though.
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Pedant that I am… 4-1 was vs United I think.

Still, a bunch of wankers in red.
 
Mrs Perryman said:
I didn't know that about Barmby! IIRC, she was a bit older than him. Bloody women (yes I can say that!) - we lost le Tiss because his then wife didn't want to come to London, and that marriage didn't last, either!
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Yes. His mrs wanted him to move back up North. When he was at Boro Vic Anderson was Robsons number 2 and was having an affair with Barmbys mrs.
 
Instead of rank, I'll put some into categories:

Top 3 Best:

1: Poch (Best football, established us as a top 4 side, got us to the CL Final)
2: Jol (Brought hope back to the club)
3: Redknapp (Got us to the Champions League)

Bottom 3 worst (1 is worst):

1: Gross (Almost got us relegated but saved by Klinsmann, players hated him,
2: Santini (Most tedious football of any Spurs manager even Mourinho & Nuno).
3: Ramos (Aside from the League Cup win we were utterly woeful under him)

Most Disappointing: Hoddle
Most Unlikable: Mourinho
Most Out of Depth: Nuno

Also Jol holds a special place for being the one who brought hope back to the club.
 
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Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
I'm not sure this is true. Fun but I think is a conflation of a few different stories.
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From an article in the guardian 2004

Barmby faces up to home truth | Football | The Guardian

<p>One of the game's great misfits is looking for fulfilment at his home-town club,says <strong>Jamie Jackson</strong>.</p>
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The family feud occurred when Barmby, then 19, married Mandy Telford, a divorcee seven years his senior, in a Hull register office in 1993, having met the former Blind Date contestant two years earlier in a local nightclub. On the wedding day, the rift made the front page of local newspaper the Hull Daily Mail , under the headline 'Offside!'.
'Nicky has made his decision - he has done it on his own. All I can say is that we do not approve,' his father, Jeffrey, a former Hull City reserve, was quoted as saying. Although he said he was unsure how the dispute would affect their relationship, he probably did not anticipate not speaking to the son, whom he had guided through junior football in Hull, for several years.

Pretty bad if she was also getting rattled by Viv Anderson
 
Barmby arrived at Goodison Park from Middlesbrough in October 1996 following a miserable spell with Bryan Robson's Middlesbrough. Before that he had suprisingly left Tottenham where he made his name and became an England regular at age 22. However, the arrival of Juninho at The Riverside stadium heralded the beginning of Barmby's loss of form and lack of first-team appearances. Rumours of his wife's infidelity with a member of Robson's management team abounded and Barmby's availability was made known, at which point Joe Royle stepped in to make the midfielder Everton's record signing at £5.75m.

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