TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

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Lock thread forever if they lose in the CL qualification against HB Tórshavn or whoever.

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.

For decades the debate has raged about who, Spurs or Man City, are the biggest bottlers. Now we know.

oh I think that debate has only just started tbh.

i thought Arsenal ended that debate a while back

Arsenal are still a big club.

There are two teams in North London.

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

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.

^ the kind of thing that means I don't hate City, yet

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

"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.

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.

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)

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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

Korea trailing Qatar 1-0 with nine minutes to go. Fingers crossed.

We are all Qataris now.

He's coming home

The prodigal Son returns!

yesss

are Qatar good now? Assume they've gotten a few ringers in

Their top player and leading goalscorer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Soria

He has been playing for them since 2007 tbf.

They have less ringers than many European national squads tbh.

True. Let he who is without sin...

was gonna say!

fuck these personality vacuum idiots

Two FBs, three and a half CBs and defending like this.

every one of these men is a professional footballer what a pack of bad old days cunts

Hahahaha

never in doubt

Match-fixing levels of incompetence here.

trippier is the embodiment of joe harts brittle guts

a word for the bein commentary the worst i ever heard

think scraping a Europa place probably a higher priority than losing to Chelsea or United in the semi tbf

i wonder if man utd manager elect poch has spotted that kane or son arent out there to bail out his preferred method of stodgeball from centre back to dier

poch out

a word for the bein commentary the worst i ever heard

Jonathan Pearce ranting about Sanchez not understanding the significance of the cup/playing a team from London

IS THIS THE END OF POCHETTINO AT TOTTENHAM he screamed at one stage

this from trippier is the single worst performance ive seen from a player since

hmmm

gary doherty, maybe anthony gardner

that ahould be a pen

nah it was outside

like it even matters tbf

so like

is poch leaving then

because i dismissed it as silky buggers from press

but hmm listening in, it didnt have that ring to it

Almost every major club in Europe is potentially in the market for a new manager. I can see him leaving but a bidding war between Juve, Barca, PSG, Bayern, etc, wouldn’t be the worst way to lose him and there might be a few decent replacements circulating.

rumours in the Italian press are that Allegri is going to PSG and Conte is going back to Juve

big club with a small mentality

They seem to be kind of ashamed of being thought of as a big club.

thats a lot to hang on a cl final appearance lads

you could read the cl final as the culmination and ultimate example of spursing it

not that I do - just making a cheap easy dig tbph

can we get a name change

Eriksen wants out btw (google translate link)

yes i realise this

sell it all and offer poch a real challenge, eleven youth players and janssen

prove yourself

the days are long once again. the modules are being prepared for delivery. is it time for a transfer thread?

I would certainly think so

keeping it spurs related, villas-boas to marseille should be fun, especially if balotelli stays.

kinda gutted lfc didn't go for julian brandt and think max kruse would be a good option for spurs can play cf/#10 and is on a free transfer (he is 30 or so tho)

Eriksen has been playing at a level below what he's capable of for most of the season. Might have something to do with him playing 90mins of every game, including the cups, admittedly. Would be tempted to cash in but we can't really play without him and there is a lot to be said for a player who can keep up that kind of workrate without ever getting injured.

i think the midfield chemistry changing to allow sissoko to gallop into legend is of a piece with the fading of any consistency of sting eriksen or alli could bring and especially in kanes absence

hard to see which jenga piece you remove, if you have to move any

Justin Edinburgh rip

just saw that, very sad

Fuck, 49 years old.

when you see a healthy looking guy going at that age I think perhaps it's time to build my ikea wardrobe coffin. not meant in an arsehole way ftr but jeez.

i did not actually expect levy to change his style

i thought he would have to, in order to keep poch and to pay back the stadium fiasco and the lack of signings, i think he also knows now that preseason is a must

i just didnt think yknow he would actually change

looks like weve bought ndombele, early, for big bucks

65m doesn't buy you what it used to, and it's not that much considering, and a great signing, but yeah i didn't think levi's splash it out either

It would be a very good price in the current market given the competition for him.

Clarke from Leeds for £8.5m would also be interesting if that goes through.

poch rollin back into training day one sittin out top the sunroof with ndombele sessegnon de ligt mbappe and eh clarke and blaring out the woofers

https://open.spotify.com/track/05f8Hg3RSfiPSCBQOtxl3i?si=zh7RNYyXS9K3PH-6S0Xf6w

its getting to the stage where we might need to talk about troy