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― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 21:01 (ten years ago) link
Lock thread forever if they lose in the CL qualification against HB Tórshavn or whoever.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 21:05 (ten years ago) link
them losing in qualification to the random european team schteeeve takes over is gonna be joeks.
i know tax evasion and robot dance and eurgh but of all the spurs teams I can remember, this is def. the one i'm ok w/ being (moderately) successful.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 21:20 (ten years ago) link
For decades the debate has raged about who, Spurs or Man City, are the biggest bottlers. Now we know.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 21:29 (ten years ago) link
oh I think that debate has only just started tbh.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 21:34 (ten years ago) link
i thought Arsenal ended that debate a while back
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Arsenal are still a big club.
― scrappy dyaoo (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 22:52 (ten years ago) link
There are two teams in North London.
Other big clubs who finish 4th in England: Everton, Newcastle, Leeds.
― mierda defensa ... no impedir ... espectador (onimo), Thursday, 6 May 2010 08:15 (ten years ago) link
Bottlers, Matt? Wasn't it just that we were beaten by the better side last night? I don't think the players choked at all - they gave it a right go, but weren't good enough.
Well done, Spurs.
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 6 May 2010 08:18 (ten years ago) link
^ the kind of thing that means I don't hate City, yet
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 6 May 2010 08:22 (ten years ago) link
Bottlers is one of the most overused bits of jargon in football imo but yeah I think Spurs had fourth place for a decent enough chunk of 09-10 for it not to be the issue at hand here
― Charged TBH (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 May 2010 08:50 (ten years ago) link
"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.
I guess so many of Spurs' standouts this season being old hands is belated redemption for the weakness of their digestive tracts during Lasagnegate.
― MPx4A, Thursday, 6 May 2010 08:57 (ten years ago) link
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
― scrappy dyaoo (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2010 09:05 (ten years ago) link
Yes, and some people accuse footballers of "lacking passion" when they're not up to scratch in a given game (or in general).
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 6 May 2010 10:14 (ten years ago) link
Some teams do lack passion. Newcastle last year were, player for player, easily good enough to stay up, they just didn't care enough.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 May 2010 10:17 (ten years ago) link
Adebayor, for both Man City last night (maybe in other games? I dunno) and whenever I saw him last season for Arsenal.
― scrappy dyaoo (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2010 10:18 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 May 2010 10:39 (ten years ago) link
The persistent talk of them selling Ireland just confuses ever more after a performance like that, it's true.
― Get fourth and multiply (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:13 (ten years ago) link
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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.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:19 (ten years ago) link
and yeah newcastle a prime example.
... Arsenal, this year
― Football's Flocking Home (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:21 (ten years ago) link
Well lets hope Spurs follow our achievements in being 1 of 3 teams to qualify for the CL every season for a decade.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:24 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aCRBiOhWuQw/R-hq74Wr9WI/AAAAAAAAAW0/Jz1xMOZdvRQ/s320/hulkwarrior3-wm6%28obsessedwithwrestling.com%29.jpg
― MPx4A, Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Get fourth and multiply (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:31 (ten years ago) link
wait, that picture holds like a million questions...
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Get fourth and multiply (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:47 (ten years ago) link
sam- yeah berbatov was supremely talented when spurs were bottom! don't understand where yer goin with that tbh.
― Get fourth and multiply (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:55 (ten years ago) link
i dunno tbh. not really up to thinking today.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 6 May 2010 12:48 (ten years ago) link
anyone done a list yet of who else might be in the qualifying pot? i vote martin lol reunion with ajax.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 6 May 2010 12:59 (ten years ago) link
vs martin jol in a one-off, vital match?
bring it on. we'll loan them jenas.
― Get fourth and multiply (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2010 13:08 (ten years ago) link
even luis fabiano is beginning to believe
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Friday, 16 July 2010 12:17 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 July 2010 13:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Friday, 16 July 2010 13:31 (ten years ago) link
L-R Spurs, Fabiano
http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/ultimateseason/files/2010/06/grease.jpg
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Friday, 16 July 2010 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Other way round isn't it?
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 July 2010 13:34 (ten years ago) link
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
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Friday, 16 July 2010 13:40 (ten years ago) link
Both sing the chorus but it's Danny doing all the chasing.
http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/gibson%20craig%20one%20that%20i.jpg
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)
― embrace the flopping? no thanks (onimo), Friday, 16 July 2010 13:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/resources/images/1362187/?type=display
― mizzell, Friday, 16 July 2010 14:33 (ten years ago) link
is it too much to ask that the sponsor's blue matches the rest of the kit?
― mizzell, Friday, 16 July 2010 14:34 (ten years ago) link
Is it just his shorts that come with the knee bandage or do they all get them?
― embrace the flopping? no thanks (onimo), Friday, 16 July 2010 14:35 (ten years ago) link
oh dear
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Friday, 16 July 2010 14:36 (ten years ago) link
not feeling it :/
― Just what is she studying? ABSLOLUTE STUPIDITY? (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 July 2010 14:36 (ten years ago) link
could grow on me, it's kinda german club team in style.
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Friday, 16 July 2010 14:38 (ten years ago) link
No you don't understand, Ledley's injury has got so bad he's got a job in a leisure centre.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 July 2010 14:38 (ten years ago) link
Or maybe as a holiday rep.
shorts mightn't be helping but is top half don't fit on his bottom alf proper
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Friday, 16 July 2010 14:41 (ten years ago) link
4 or 5 national is quite a lot compared to most European countries that only have the title and the cup.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 27 July 2020 14:35 (six months ago) link
I'm only counting League, FA Cup, League Cup and any European titles.
Take a similar period when I was a kid (1973-80) and there 14 teams winning a domestic or European honour (and this was despite Liverpool appearing to win everything!). It's a bit of an elite shut-out now.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 27 July 2020 15:36 (six months ago) link
Juventus have just won their 9th title in a row, Bayern are on 8 in a row, PSG have won 7 out of the last 8 titles, Real or Barca have won 15 out of the last 16 titles.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 27 July 2020 17:41 (six months ago) link
Carabao cup tho
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 27 July 2020 18:46 (six months ago) link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8584391/Tottenham-offered-chance-sign-Watford-captain-Troy-Deeney-Jose-Mourinho-seeks-cover.html
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 August 2020 10:24 (six months ago) link
I'd prefer one of the Bournemouth lads despite their problems this season, they're younger and could perform better with improved service. Plus I don't think Deeney is physically well suited to spending large amounts of time on the bench. But nearly anyone will do right now.
Would prefer an up and coming European prospect but I guess their price tag would be prohibitive for us at this stage. And very few higher tier strikers would agree to playing second fiddle to Kane for most of the season.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 2 August 2020 10:29 (six months ago) link
I don't think Deeney is physically well suited to spending large amounts of time on the bench.
Let's not beat about the bush, he's a fat bastard. I think Mou has realized his trolling isn't having much effect on opposition managers anymore so he mostly concentrates on trolling Spurs fans these days.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 August 2020 10:37 (six months ago) link
You know it's quite strange that Amnesty Are demanding more stringent tests for the Premier League than from the Government on Arms sales, Kate Allen was a representative of Haringey council, that's Tottenham.... Spurs war by proxy. pic.twitter.com/K6vrQVRU4I— Graham.Watson (@GrahamWatty) August 6, 2020
For shame lads
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:16 (six months ago) link
Højbjerg has signed.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 18:23 (six months ago) link
Manchester City are preparing a £40m bid for England and Tottenham midfielder Harry Winks, 24
O_o
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 15 August 2020 07:48 (six months ago) link
Winks is one of the players I was thinking would benefit from playing alongside Hojberg, allowing him to play the game he should be playing rather than continuing to entertain the notion that he's a defensive midfielder. But Mourinho just isn't the manager to develop that game.
We've probably planted this story in order to generate some interest so hey.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 15 August 2020 10:04 (six months ago) link
Winks seems willing but I’m not sure he’s good enough to justify keeping him as anything other than an occasionally-used squad member.
Milan are rumoured to have agreed a price for Aurier but are mulling over whether his ‘exuberant character’ makes it a good idea.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 15 August 2020 10:56 (six months ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53803874
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Monday, 17 August 2020 09:11 (six months ago) link
Let’s hope Gazzaniga stays fit. In retrospect, it’s a shame they didn’t sign Pau Lopez after his loan.
Pervis Estupiñán is being linked. Excellent season at Osasuna and far too good to be heading back to Watford.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 17 August 2020 10:25 (six months ago) link
lol massive signing
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:47 (six months ago) link
His neck is genuinely disconcerting. How have I never noticed this before?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:16 (six months ago) link
It’s the same size and width as his head.
it's possible that Head and Shoulders causes head shrinkage
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:17 (six months ago) link
Joe Hart, in the Dining Room with the Lead Piping... pic.twitter.com/Ekt1ecEOPl— ⚽️442oons⚽️ (@442oons) August 15, 2020
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:55 (six months ago) link
When, if ever, did you start thinking Tottenham were a bunch of cunts?
https://ibb.co/f0Q93B1
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 06:19 (five months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/25/all-or-nothing-tottenham-hotspur-finds-jose-mourinho-leaning-into-the-lens-documentary-amazon
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 06:21 (five months ago) link
excited to find out whether the Matt Doherty stories are true
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 06:39 (five months ago) link
*Delete* 😬 #WelcomeDoherty ⚪️ #COYS pic.twitter.com/dNRuGv6DTI— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) August 30, 2020
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 30 August 2020 11:43 (five months ago) link
Eriksen rumoured to be up for sale already.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 30 August 2020 12:33 (five months ago) link
Doc improves Spurs imo but i'm cool with us moving him on tbh, assuming we replace him with somebody younger and more mobile
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 August 2020 12:36 (five months ago) link
the usual eejits in the Express and Star are prophesying the usual disaster tho
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 August 2020 12:37 (five months ago) link
watched the first couple of episodes of the Amazon Spurs doc
Jose is really quite endearing when he's turning on the charm (although you can sense the darkness lurking just out of frame)
also Harry Kane is the least inspiring man alive
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:10 (five months ago) link
in a field where Michael Owen has lived and worked?
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:11 (five months ago) link
Owen is only "alive" in a theoretical sense
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:13 (five months ago) link
✓
Schrödinger's footballer
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:21 (five months ago) link
lol
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:27 (five months ago) link
Getting knocked out of the Europa League by Plovdiv despite a full strength squad.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:28 (five months ago) link
Plovdiv down to nine men. Do they have time to make it 2-0?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:34 (five months ago) link
Ok, 1-1 now.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:35 (five months ago) link
2-1 Spurs, never in doubt, on to Macedonia.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:50 (five months ago) link
Might get through to the next round after all
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54237123
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 09:59 (five months ago) link
No idea how we managed to get through with that bizarre lineup but Spurs were legit good in the second half.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 20:48 (four months ago) link
Or rather incompetent in many ways but purposeful and energetic. Chelsea were awful.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 20:54 (four months ago) link
Literally any striker will do at this point but nothing I’ve seen of Carlos Vinicius suggests he’s much good. He struggled at Monaco and had half a decent season in the Portuguese premier league before dropping off. I guess he’s the best they’re likely to get on loan with four days to go though.
Inevitably, like Gedson, he’s represented by Jorge Mendes.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 1 October 2020 08:43 (four months ago) link
Doherty too
― Number None, Thursday, 1 October 2020 09:43 (four months ago) link
I'm curious as to how long Mendes and other agents can get away with representing both managers and players, particularly when some of the clubs are PLCs. As long as they don't make Spurs take up Gedson's €50m option to buy, it'll probably be a while though.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 1 October 2020 10:06 (four months ago) link
Tottenham's hopes of agreeing a new contract with forward Son Heung-min, 28, have been boosted after the South Korean joined the same agency as manager Jose Mourinho. (Talksport)
However, Mourinho says that will have no influence on Son's ongoing contract talks. (Star)
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 29 October 2020 09:21 (three months ago) link
Hadn't realised how close Son and Kane were to becoming the most productive goalscoring partnership since the dawn of time (ie 1992). That's kind of insane seeing as it only really feels like they've clicked together this year. I suppose Dele was supposed to play that role, if Mourinho has done one thing that Poch would never have done, it's turning Kane into a consistent, high-level provider rather than expecting him to be on the end of everything.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 October 2020 09:42 (three months ago) link
I suppose now that Solskjaer is good not bad that explains why Poch is off to Zenit St. Petersburg. That and getting paid a gazillion roubles a year.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:49 (three months ago) link
Shanghai SIPG in 2022, Marseille by 2024.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:52 (three months ago) link
new clues into officer suicide:
Officer Liebengood was a Tottenham Hotspur fan like myself. We’d always talk about Spurs. He was such a kind person. I always enjoyed chatting with him in the hallways.This is just so heartbreaking.R.I.P. Officer Liebengood. I’ll really miss our convos about Spurs. https://t.co/i2frW0FBaO— Jason Donner (@jason_donner) January 10, 2021
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:30 (one month ago) link
Well i mean if he survived avb....
― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:36 (one month ago) link
maybe just the cumulative weight
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:38 (one month ago) link
This is Tanguy Ndombele’s world and we are just living in it pic.twitter.com/srupN1XIFB— ☔️ (@thfcrueben) January 26, 2021
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 05:01 (four weeks ago) link
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