Have you ever read a book by Charles Dickens called Great Expectations ??
Hope you're right though....
I was more of a Bleak House fan
Especially Mr Tulking-Horn
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Have you ever read a book by Charles Dickens called Great Expectations ??
Hope you're right though....
I share your views regarding top three. I feel we definitely now have the quality to create a definitive gap between ourselves and fourth place, maybe even overtake Liverpool. Really looking forward to the season ahead.Would take a top 3 finish and a good run in the cups. Hopefully winning one.
Would be nice to see Lloris and Vertonghen get their hands on a trophy.
City win siverware because their second 11 are capable of beating most, if not all, Premier League club first teams, hell even their 3rd 11 would give teams a good game. That's why they will win the league again and that's why they will probably win both domestic cups again. Maybe even the Champions League as ell, who knows?City win the domestics because they are hungry for silverware....all silverware.
I think that plays the biggest part. If we took the FA Cup seriously, we would win it, and I dont see why it has to be at top 4s expense.
We could very realistically be champions of Europe right now with top 4, so I think winning a Carabou should be doable.
"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory"Have you ever read a book by Charles Dickens called Great Expectations ??
Hope you're right though....
Some people are a little tired of little old Spurs being satisfied to put up a good fight but ultimately lose though.
Eriksen certainly seems tired of it....why can’t the fans be then?
I think it’s very unrealistic to think that City are the only team capable of winning the Carabou while finishing top 4Difference to be tired and being realistic, City are miles ahead of everyone in terms of squad ability and squad depth and Liverpool are arguably still ahead of us.
This current squad 3-4 seasons ago would be odds on for the title but it’s currently around the 3-4th best. It also depends what you consider success, would 5th and a League Cup win do or would 2nd in the league be better?
We all want success but we are in a league that currently has a monster called the Sheikh Mansour Team.
You miss the point - the thread is headed "no excuses" and that's patently false ... there are plenty of perfectly valid excuses that will crop up, one of the most obvious ones is that City have a squad far better than either Spurs or Liverpool, that's not even up for debate ... 11 v 11 we can beat anyone, 25 v 25 we're as good as most but City with their endless wealth have simply more depth.
Of course we can win it all, and I'm sure we will be trying, but if we don't then to say "we've failed" would simply be wrong. We have massively overachieved in recent seasons that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep aiming for the very top ... however not achieving EPL or CL this season would not be a failure, that's simply not our reality.
City win siverware because their second 11 are capable of beating most, if not all, Premier League club first teams, hell even their 3rd 11 would give teams a good game. That's why they will win the league again and that's why they will probably win both domestic cups again. Maybe even the Champions League as ell, who knows?
That's what being owned by a corrupt oil rich country with an endless supply of laundered money can do for a club.
When the manager says it’s not worth winning the FA Cup because it’s just ego boosting and “where are Wigan now”, we’ll theres your “excuse”...
Where's Ossie Wembley ?
It was an absolutely appalling thing for a Tottenham manager to say and an absolute disgrace that the majority of the supporter didn’t call him out on it. This is Tottenham Hotspur and that is the FA Cup - it’s ingrained into our history. just imagine what Nicholson would have thought of that comment and our approach to the domestic tournaments.
Something has become very rotten at the club when all parties are simply content with a top 4 finish and a good run in one of the so called meaningful cup tournaments. Just when did so many supporters transition from being a supporter to a stockholder?
One criticism i do have of Poch(who i rate very highly) was his lack of a plan B.
Saturday we showed we have a plan B.That was a joy to behold.
The problem is that our plan B used to be our plan A.One criticism i do have of Poch(who i rate very highly) was his lack of a plan B.
Saturday we showed we have a plan B.That was a joy to behold.
if we had City's FA cup draw 2 or 3 years ago we'd have already won that trophy - their draw last season was dumb.Much will depend on the luck of the draw so I won't get wrapped up in the need for a trophy that much, league is still the priority no matter how much we fancy a parade down the high road,