Still on for the treble then.
Good morning born again wireless enthusiasts. I trust you all rounded off your evening’s aural entertainment with a warming cup of Ovaltine and a fistful of mogadons.
In fairness to the radio johnnies they captured the mood perfectly .Their minds wandered towards anything that was more interesting than the game. The fact that the hot water boiler at the Brittania was kaput so no tea (how they yearned for milk and two shugs) and the early departure of gentleman sporting an comb over to rival that of George Roper’s.
So only 1500 odd Tottingham fans saw it. You happy few. A few reports have trickled in and they all match the misery we imagined when listening. The reality that a noble few are determined to gloss over is the fact that playing second string players makes for third rate viewing and in this case …abject failure.
It’s just not the Tottingham way. Just like grinding out 1-0’s aren’t either. I predicted 0-0 and did so with a heavy heart. Bloody Stoke ferchrissakes. But no, I am told it is good for us to give the yoofsters out.
Cod liver oil is good for you too and as it is equally grim on the palate the overwhelming majority folk avoid it like the plague.
I have to ponder where we could end up if we extend the logic on all this. ‘It’s only the Europa, it’s only the Carling, it’s just the FA Cup’… Having an old fashioned football is going out of fashion. Players want £200k a week and then are goaded at gunpoint away from their mansions; away from scantiliy clad hypnotizing hookers writhing on water beds with jelly beans nestled in their belly buttons, past fleets of exotic cars in order they ‘run about a bit’ …in a TV studio.
Eventually football matches will be decided . Presented by soulless lady-boys like Georgie Thompson and Ben Shepherd eyes glazed will host a game not dissimilar to Top Trumps. Maybe a quick fire question round.
‘Wayne, who was …Sir Matt Busby?!’
*silence the he grins awkwardly some dribble appears at the corner of his mouth* ‘Could do with a fag… errrr was him what did them adverts for the telephone in the 70’s?’
The camera cuts to Alan Hansen, ‘Noo, THAT’S shocking!’ *canned laughter*
Categories will include Boot Sponsor Value, Japanese Incontinence Towel Advert Revenues and Bodily Organ Upgrade Points reflecting that players have so much cash that they now opt to install better organs to enhance their game. You know, like those old computer driving games where you won cash on each race and could then upgrade your wheels or your suspension.
And so the Carling door shuts and what have we learned? Well, all those who are glad we are no longer in the competition have taken another step closer to a Top Trump Footy utopia.
Agree with you 100% H-H.
Sick & tired of this Sky-Murdoch-Generation with the attention span of a goldfish, banging on about 4th place…..and nothing else, as if nothing else f*cking matters.
I thought we were a big club that challenged and fought within every competition we entered/qualified for? Is that not the purpose of a professional football club? (the emphasis being on the word ‘professional’).
*Don’t agree with your comments about Georgie Thompson though, H-H…..he isn’t that bad a looking bloke!*
I see my strategy of only ever playing GDS in reserve teams is working out nicely among the people on here
I’ll show that Daniel Levy what happens when you sell one of my favourites like Crouchie
I think you’ve got more pressing concerns Mr Redknapp, like getting ready to do a bit of porridge maybe?
Or maybe gatting the Engalnd job as caretaker manager if Capello walks this week?
you really dont give a toss about us do you,bollux chops
For me it comes down to whether I want to see Tottenham win the league in my lifetime or not. I’m not SKY generation, my eyes have already seen cup glory, but they’ve never seen us win the league.
Unfortunately, you can all but guarantee that no club outside the top 4 will ever win the title again (especially if they lay their eggs in four different baskets).
Finishing top 4 isn’t the end destination, it should be the beginning of something better. That’s why I’ve been on a big downer about fucking up last year. It’s no good at all being a one season wonder, then being happy with picking up the odd worthless cup every 10 years. We shouldn’t be completely happy until the league title is ours. It’s called ambition.
“Unfortunately, you can all but guarantee that no club outside the top 4 will ever win the title again”
I meant if you’re not in it the previous season to attract the players and pay the wages.
Obviously no-one can win the title for finishing 5th or below. :pinch:
Theres nothing ‘worthless’ about winning a cup, but i agree with you about the league title. I know Twichy banged on last season about us being contenders for the title but since the inception of the CL all i’ve ever heard from the vast majority inside & outside the club is ‘we’ve got to get 4th’.
Surely if we aimed for the title from the outset and failed, we would finish in the CL anyway; and with that mindset not just for 1 season.
Surely if we aimed for the title from the outset and failed, we would finish in the CL anyway; and with that mindset not just for 1 season.
That’s what Redknapp should be telling the players. Who knows? Maybe he is. But there seems to be far too much curtailing of expectation coming from his fat trap for me to believe that.
No-one really expects us to win the league with the current side, but nearly everyone is fed up with having to keep hearing excuses about why we can’t challenge and how good the oppo are. Just do your best, keep it shut and see where we end up.
We’ll decide whether it’s been a good season or not. Last season was so frustrating because we could have easily finished higher. I don’t want to hear that it was our best season ever, because it wasn’t.
Agreed.
Also, why should mounting a genuine title charge deter us from competing in the cups?
We’ve done it before and successful clubs continue to do so nowadays.
Or am i just being plain greedy?
And a step closer to the Champions League.
I think a lot of the arguments about priorities start with the incorrectly dogmatic view that professional footballers cannot play more than once a week or they will become injured/tired/dead.
GOD FORBID THEY PLAY MORE THAN ONE GAME A WEEK!!