It's so depressing being a Spurs fan...

[Sir Henry]

Depressing ? Absolutely, but this is nothing compared to like 10 years ago, where I literally wanted to take my cock and balls and ram them in a blender nearly after every game.

Ok weve not won anything, but this period is really enjoyable comparing. Weve made a lot of progress.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.

Boethius.

 

[alamo]

Agreed, thank god our squad which didn’t win anything last season is deemed strong enough to go on and win everything with no further investment needed.

True. We are such skinflints. Not like we have just spent 100s of millions on the best stadium in the country or anything.

 

[shelfboy68]

The thing is it’s taken us 26 years of PL to slowly draw in the big boys, and we have had to do it without being massively backed. If FFP had been brought in, and something silly like a worldwide wage cap/transfer limit then who knows what might of happened.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Scohlar set us back big time at the most important time in the history of football, though the 2 other things things didn’t help, Hillsbourgh and the Hysell. All seater football has killed the passion compared to what I remember and the ban from Europe football didn’t help (I do think the hysell was final straw though).

Edit: another knee jerk thread

Maybe your right but I think that the sugar years took us way into west ham territory that's how bad it was and yes levy is probably trying to raise the profile again but I think it might be too late.
Patience is all well and good but the football landscape keeps changing and I get the feeling we are slightly tunnel visioned into a certain way of doing things whilst even the lesser clubs now buy big and offer decent wages it just narrows down our operating field.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Depressing ? Absolutely, but this is nothing compared to like 10 years ago, where I literally wanted to take my cock and balls and ram them in a blender nearly after every game.

Ok weve not won anything, but this period is really enjoyable comparing. Weve made a lot of progress.

I was at WHL the day we got relegated
'there used to be a football club over there'
Scholar
Port Vale

v

Regular CL football
A manager we all love
A team we should be proud of
A new stadium
A dwarf in the boardroom highchair

Chalk and Cheese(room)

 

[DogsOfWar]

There are 89 teams below us in the league pyramid.
Most will never see a cup semi.
Most are battling pisspoor finances, playing shithouse football, in genuinely dodgy stadiums.

Our glass is not actually half full, it's 95% full, but then you have to look at the whole picture.

 

['O Zio]

People who think being a Spurs fan at the moment is depressing must just be bandwagon fans who only started supporting us when Poch took over to be honest.

For my entire life we've been at best a mid-table club with the occasional cup run and the odd shock win against one of the big teams to celebrate. To be bitching and moaning now because we're "only" third in the league, "only" making it to the first knockout round in the CL, and "only" making it to the cup semi-final is just fucking embarrassing to be honest.

If you don't like it you can go back to being an Arsenal / Man Utd / Chelsea / City fan or whichever bandwagon takes your fancy this time. for fuck sake

 

[fluffybunnyuk]

Losses hurt. Especially semi-final losses. 2008/9 we finished on 51 points... and in the 40s on a couple of times. Recently we're at 70+ points/season typically and right now, potentially another 80+ season. Despite the injuries, the lack of new senior players, we play good football, and win much more than we lose. Thats a good thing. Like all things its cyclical so enjoy it while it lasts.

 

[fluffybunnyuk]

And as others alluded the trophy thing is rubbish. Back in the day there was a bigger chance of clubs winning trophies, nowadays because wages,doping financially very few clubs even get a sniff at a trophy.

On an aside i think thats starting to come to an end , clubs are starting to live within their means. Its probably the real reason just like arsenal we dont have lots of new transfers. I think Levy would invest, the sign he hasnt means theres probably some kind of financial restraint against it. Kane and friends have increased wages, it wouldnt surprise me if we're up against that limit, and need to grow the club more. That'd explain the big new shiny thing in tottenham.

 

[thebenjamin]

• Gary Doherty
• Chris Perry
• Oyvind Leonhardsen
• Stephen Clemence
• Willem Korsten
• Alton Thelwell

 

[newbie]

last night trying to put two kids to bed and one was being a fucking nightmare whilst watching the game, the first half was not good i missed the second goal, but i came back down and thought do i watch this we have no chance I will be so upset the rest of the week if we loose, then I thought man up its spurs, second half what a performance, yes we lost but feel proud our players could fight so hard and showed such passion. I thought we were going to turn it around the second half.

Yes we have ups and downs but Fulham and Last night i feel proud to be a spurs fan, i have fallen back in love with Danny Rose, i think he is amazing not as a player but as a fighter, Winks has stepped up.

 

[Nebby]

Champagne football on a lemonade budget.

Until that changes, we will need to be exceptionally lucky with our youth development program.

 

[scat1620]

Without weighing in to the debate in this thread on either side, I'd just like to second the motion that anyone who tells a fellow Spurs fan to support another team is a prong.

 

[Lighty64]

Maybe your right but I think that the sugar years took us way into west ham territory that's how bad it was and yes levy is probably trying to raise the profile again but I think it might be too late.
Patience is all well and good but the football landscape keeps changing and I get the feeling we are slightly tunnel visioned into a certain way of doing things whilst even the lesser clubs now buy big and offer decent wages it just narrows down our operating field.

Not being funny but every team below us bought players, and some spent a fortune, but not one of those players I’ve thought, wow we missed out on him.

Lesser clubs have to spend to stay in the PL, we need a bigger stadium to stay near the top. We lost last night because of our injuries, if we had bought players in the summer in the areas we needed, it wouldn’t of meant we still wouldn’t be suffering an injury crisis, and no guarantee those signings would of settled or improved us.

 

[Nebby]

I was at WHL the day we got relegated
'there used to be a football club over there'
Scholar
Port Vale

v

Regular CL football
A manager we all love
A team we should be proud of
A new stadium
A dwarf in the boardroom highchair

Chalk and Cheese(room)

Indeed. The pain of relegation cannot be understood unless you experience it first hand. A cup loss gets forgotten very quickly. Relegation is a gift that keeps on giving.

Oh yeah, and let's not forget that but for the Gazza money (and Lazio's unbelievable show of faith and honesty), we were two weeks from going out of business thanks to some incredibly poor chairmanship. And we also somehow swerved certain death by keeping the Maxwell's out of the club.

 

[Lighty64]

I was at WHL the day we got relegated
'there used to be a football club over there'
Scholar
Port Vale

v

Regular CL football
A manager we all love
A team we should be proud of
A new stadium
A dwarf in the boardroom highchair

Chalk and Cheese(room)

You forgot to add 2 things

The interweb
And
SpursCommunity

Though in your view not sure what section both should be in, in this twitter world we live in

 

[Dougal]

JFC how disrespectful to people that actually have depression.

Its a game, if it effects you so hard, take a step back.

You sound like my mum.

‘Mum, I’m starving!’

‘You’re not starving, think about those poor children in Africa’

Don’t judge me, I grew up in the 80s when Bob Geldof was everywhere and so was Ethiopia.

 

[Lo Amo Speroni]

So i decide that from now on I am going to support Oil Money cos they win trophies. Trouble is as soon as they play Spurs guess who i want to win. Your club chooses you not you choosing your club. It is what it is so embrace it.

 

[Tucker]

I’m not at all depressed being a Spurs fan at the moment. The first half last night got to me a bit, but that was mainly because I hadn’t seen us play that badly in a long long time. Even when we were shit we had a cutting edge with the likes of Ginola, Teddy, or Ferdinand. We just had nothing for 45 minutes last night.

The second half restored my faith.

But even if we hadn’t dragged it back round, this is only temporary. Injuries happen, form dips, that’s football.

We have one of the best teams in England, other teams genuinely fear us these days. That’s nothing to be depressed about.

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Depressing - No
Frustrating as fuck - absolutely

Every time we get close we manage to find a way to fall short.