TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

Don't think the City players choked, but Mancini's tactics were pretty reserved in the second half.

But tbh either team were good value for CL spot this year ahead of Liverpool and boring boring Villa

"Bottlers" seems tied in to that weird desire to make out like footballers are morally deficient for not being good enough to win matches sometimes.

Yes, and some people accuse footballers of "lacking passion" when they're not up to scratch in a given game (or in general).

Some teams do lack passion. Newcastle last year were, player for player, easily good enough to stay up, they just didn't care enough.

Adebayor, for both Man City last night (maybe in other games? I dunno) and whenever I saw him last season for Arsenal.

They looked short of ideas in midfield as well without Ireland. You're not going to get much in the way of incisive passing with De Jong and Barry in there, especially compared to Modric/Huddlestone. There were times when Kolo Toure seemed like their best attacking midfielder.

The persistent talk of them selling Ireland just confuses ever more after a performance like that, it's true.

Adebayor, for both Man City last night (maybe in other games? I dunno) and whenever I saw him last season for Arsenal.

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Dunno... the guy did get shot at for playing football. He looked like he was kinda getting back to form before that. 'bottlers' to me are more about the Berbatovs and lol Bordeaux this season, when there is really no excuse why supremely talented top of the table types (lol hungover alliteration) just chuck it in for no reason.

and yeah newcastle a prime example.

Other big clubs who finish 4th in England: Everton, Newcastle, Leeds.

... Arsenal, this year

Well lets hope Spurs follow our achievements in being 1 of 3 teams to qualify for the CL every season for a decade.

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Adebayor hadn't been shot at while playing out his last 6 months in an Arsenal team that badly needed a leader from the front last season.

Maye those guys were actually gunners, ifyagetme.

Berbatov- another example of Ferguson's tactical shortcomings. Players either work or they don't, and if they don't then it's their fault.

wait, that picture holds like a million questions...

berbatov was supremely talented when Spurs were last as well tbrr

If Spurs had drawn with Man City and then lost to Burnley, that would have counted as bottling.

yep.

if jol had dropped robinson at any stage over 2 years, it wouldn't have been counted as bottling.

not rocket science- when you don't bottle you're not bottling.

beating city, arsenal and chelsea in the last 5 games to seal it is basically anti-jol/bottle stuff.

sam- yeah berbatov was supremely talented when spurs were bottom! don't understand where yer goin with that tbh.

fergie likes his players to huff and puff, berba was never going to fit in. the only successful stroller of the fergie years was Cantona.

i dunno tbh. not really up to thinking today.

anyone done a list yet of who else might be in the qualifying pot? i vote martin lol reunion with ajax.

vs martin jol in a one-off, vital match?

bring it on. we'll loan them jenas.

even luis fabiano is beginning to believe

Usually that's the sort of thing players say when they're trying to attract Arsenal's interest but hey, we're a Champions League club now.

well, in fairness it's only two weeks since we got not much more that a disdainful sniff from him, but we've gone and got our hair done in a metaphorical sense.

L-R Spurs, Fabiano

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Other way round isn't it?

eh i dunno i'm not really a grease fanatic tbh. but i don't think so. or did they both oh i don't know

Both sing the chorus but it's Danny doing all the chasing.

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The Craig McLachlan & Debbie Gibson version is probably more apt for a not big club.
(also note url mattscdsingles.com almost has a Spurs fan in it)

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is it too much to ask that the sponsor's blue matches the rest of the kit?

Is it just his shorts that come with the knee bandage or do they all get them?

oh dear

not feeling it :/

could grow on me, it's kinda german club team in style.

No you don't understand, Ledley's injury has got so bad he's got a job in a leisure centre.

Or maybe as a holiday rep.

shorts mightn't be helping but is top half don't fit on his bottom alf proper

Actually that shirt might be quite cool if it didn't clash massively with the sponsor. Any news on who our ground-breaking, innovative second sponsorship deal is with?

i like the home kit, more than the other 2 anyway

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hate that puma collar that uruguay et al had.

Why do we need another striker again?

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the kids'll be all over it by October, you'll see

seeing my first spurs match tonight in NJ. got seats 5 rows behind their bench, what should i yell to Arry and the lads?

guys is there a 2010-11 premiership thread yet or

think the thread title has to go to committee first, so it should be ready in January.

vuvuzelas make for noisy neighbors: man city won't be on dis ting

Yell abuse at the team non-stop, basically - Harry once sent a particularly abusive fan on as a half-time substitute

that's pretty great.

awesome

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/18/rodrigo-bentancur-tottenham-seven-match-ban-comments-son-heung-min

in other what i shouldnt have done on my summer holidays news are the fa investigating/charging enzo fernandez about his singalongs?

no thats nothing to do with the fa

ffs

Amici, Tottenha est.

closest they’ll get to a trophy this season and fucked it. lovely stuff

Tel is as flimsy. Awful peno too

“Tottenham is a good team but Man City is another level,”

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Selling last year’s top scorer for £15m less than they paid for him seems like strange business, despite his shortcomings.

i bet he looks top drawer for palace haha

imagine thinking you bought palace's best attacking player, only to not get him and then to have them replace him with your last top scorer.

CRYSTAL PALACE ARE NOW A BIG CLUB?

Let this be the final word on the matter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyx18287k9o

I feel like you have to have overachieved and done great things with the budget you did have before you get to moan about a club not spending enough

sorry to see that we appear to have got this sorted

Igor Tudor has left Tottenham Hotspur as interim head coach after just 44 days and seven matches in charge.

It is going to be Dyche, isn't it? Anyone else would be foolish to take it whereas he is the relegation specialist.

In the absence of Bigface Sam, yes probably

lol just realised why this thread was revived

gotta say, and it might just be me, but anybody who posits Dyche as the answer to anything nowadays needs a wake up slap

Slim pickings though as it has to be someone without a club surely? As who is going to give up their current job for what is almost certainly going to be only a seven game gig?

Ange in.

xp yeah there might be reasons of grim inevitability that mean it happens, but there's still an unfortunate number of people who think he's got some sort of special answers no matter what squad he ends up shouting at

I don't necessarily think Dyche is brilliant or whatever, I just think they don't really have any choice for the reasons GP offers. And he can prob hammer together a difficult to beat shit team in a way that others can't. The idea of bringing in De Zerbi at the moment is like using a grenade to quench a fire.

xpost he is average but I guess relegation firefighter is a specific role and he has some success there? I guess that's the debate here, whether it's a distinct task or role for the relegation situation.

Please take Robbie Keane so he doesn't come to Celtic.

i'm really not so sure he can take any old bunch of players and teach them to effectively park the bus in the space of a week or two. and i feel like maybe when he's had some success with this in the past he's at the very least had a January window to exert some kind of influence on the squad. basically i feel like is rep is exaggerated and that there's little reason to assume previous "successes" are a guide to how he'll perform at any new job

Yeah it's defo not a certainty. I guess I wonder is there a kind of base level of shitball that makes sense when a team is in total freefall and if it's not a skill to coach it it might be more a case that it's just about hiring someone who is shameless and spent enough to implement it.

lol now that's a good theory

lol like the final lowering of expectations which may be psychologically necessary!

Or you can do what we've done and appoint a manager for the Championship, skip the middle phase

expectations unlowered

De Zerbi?

yep. apparently not formally a done deal yet but as good as

maybe he'll get mason greenwood in for the championship campaign

there would have to be a reliable base level of individual fight, pride and professionalism for dyche to work

the manager doesn't matter

sacking frank was justified if you think doing terribly is justification

not so much if doing terribly is the only possible level of performance managing a pack of cunts like these

the managerial blame lies, ofc, with that clown postecoglou.

the uefa tinpot winning squad should have come home to a mass tranfer listing not a fucking tour bus. they were never going to snap back into caring about trying in the league. never seen a man have such a cancerous effect on a group of players.

good luck thfc

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van Hecke, VDV, Vuskovic, Danso and Senesi (assuming Romero and Dragusin leave) would be an oddly stacked roster at CB given the failings elsewhere. I wonder if the plan is to sell Micky.

presume not to take in vuskovic this year and see how vdv settles

but yeah could be in anticipation of him wanting out also (wouldnt blame him but also wouldnt have been hugely impressed with how he handled all that was fucked at him either)