So was Bill Nick wrong or has the Champions League devalued the second tier tournament that is the Europa?
I’ve been pondering this issue as I firmly believe that a good few Yids have not only been angered by the whole ‘IdiotGate I & II’ business, but the shortchanged feeling that the absence of Champions League football has filled their hearts.
One minute they were trading bragging rights blows with the big boys, the next they’re back in their box and facing the wrong end of an 18 game tournament usually haunted by the likes of Fulham and now the illustrious Blackpools and Brums of the world.
Let’s not fill another page with Arry’s a ****. Maybe he is, I don’t know the man. But what I do now is we’re in deep, maybe far deeper than those merely on a salary. Europe is something to be cherished and a platform to exploit.
It needs to be managed right or it’ll deteriorate into a The Three Stooges sketch with lots of charging around, bumping into each other and cartoon violence as we implode. The teams fielded need to be comprised of teams that are capable of wearing the shirt, but not at the expense of the Premiership campaign.
I rather snidely referred to this approach as incorporating the scraps a week or so ago, but if you look at our squad there is enough depth there. Sure, hopefully we’ll sell a few that have been loaned in the last term, but with those that we don’t surely they’d revel in tackling the Europa? I’m sure Levy & Co wouldn’t be against these ‘grey men’ raising their profiles and perhaps the value of their stock?
Some supporters need to examine just where they stand. Missing out on Champions League is a crying shame, but we reached the quarter finals with our first go at it. There is no Easy Street here and it’s down to everyone from the bloke listening on half naffed radio in Kuala Lumpur to the seen it all season ticket holder to the men on the pitch to rise to the naffin’ challenge.
Wanting us to finish 6th was the equivalent of a spoiled child wanting nothing at all if it can’t have another ice cream.
To paraphrase Harold Shand in The Long Good Friday, “What I’m looking for is someone who can contribute to what Tottenham has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more than crying over spilled milk , know what I mean?”
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Europa is the PONY cup, CL has fucked up football
Monsieur (or madame)felching, you are a master of the pithy one liner.
Or is it that your internet access always restricts you to about 10 words before it crashes?
Agree with you re CL. Its a money magnet and devalues everything else by comparison. Its not even for Champions.
I’d still rather win something than glory in 4th place.
I remember the club winning the UEFA in the 80s, a proud moment. I also remember the chancer sending out a weakened side when we should have been chasing glory. You cannot take these cups seriously with a clown in charge
everyone else seems to be in favour of sending out weakened sides in Europe instead of chasing glory so the question is :- does the chancer go for glory or do what the clowns want ?
You can consider missing out on CL as a crime if you take into account that we just needed a proper striker to boost our chances.
But participating in an international championship is a must for any club that wants to be considered as big and ambitious specially for a club that wants to join Europe’s elite and it was absent from the international football scene for some time.
To become today a great club you need to attract good and ambitious players
as well ambitious and wanted to attract international interest investors.
By participating in the Europa cup, a club increases its popularity,
can attract those players who for different reasons couldn’t participate in the CL
and can attract international investors.
Such a competition can be also used to gain international experience.
Spurs should always try to be among the international elite and should always
have the ambition to participate in international competitions.
That marks a club as a great one.
Id like to think that arry would use other players than the 1st 11 in the ewwwjoka league, but u can picture it now” theres 30 odd thousnad people comin to watch us tonite” i cant play the kids, etc etc etc, and then on sundays , after failing to beat wolves at the lane for the 3rd year in a row, “all the boys are knackered, they only played grasshopper zurich on thursday” bollocks. we all know it, say it aint so?
The Europa league is becoming the new Eurovision.
But doesn’t doing well in that help rankings for the CL?
Yes, will make a big difference. Might be the difference between us being seeded 2nd, 3rd or 4th next time we do get into the good company of CL.