- Apr 16, 2005
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Harry Kane has admitted that Tottenham Hotspur must prove they can get over the finishing line and win a trophy.
Read the full article at The Telegraph
Read the full article at The Telegraph
Conte was almost arrogant in not starting Hazard or Costa, yet it somehow paid off in the end. Why do our players and manager always have to learn the hard way, it's sickening, time after time, after disappointing time. This was our only realistic chance to win something and once again, we threw it down the drain. Next season will probably be a bit of a write off, due to the stadium factor. At least we'll all know where the F we're supposed to be playing our home games this week.
I'm a bit fed up with this 'stadium factor' thinking, it's a football pitch, the same as any other, a different stadium doesn't stop a team playing the way it normally would, it's a pathetic excuse.
You've never noticed that teams have a better home record than away record or that teams in a new stadium usually have a worse home record in their first season to normal?
If something consistently happens then it is not an excuse.
Well it will become an excuse next season if we're shit in our home games. We've played there enough this season and it didn't seem to bother the Chavs that much Saturday. The management and coaching staff should be able to get it into the players heads that the stands surrounding the pitch are inconsequential to the way they play on the pitch. It never bothered me whether I was playing at Pymmes Park, Enfield Playing Fields, Ponders End Rec, Albany Park, Broadwater Farm, or any other playing field, I was playing football!
But that has never been the case for any club. I doubt any team in history has an away record as good or better than their home.
The crowd do make a difference and I imagine the atmosphere away at Stamford Bridge is more intimidating and difficult than Broadwater Farm.
There you said it, it is the home crowd that makes the difference when a team plays away, Wembley will be our home ground next season and at least 90% of the fans will Spurs, so to me the actual stadium is not a valid excuse for not playing to the standards we've set ourselves in the past two seasons.
I have only said the crowd is one aspect.
We have seen time after time that teams playing at a new ground have a dip in home form in their first season. It happens pretty much every time.
It is a real issue and I expect our home form to be worse next season than it has been this year.
I expect Poch to drill it into their heads that he will not accept a dip and to use past examples as an incentive to buck that trend and prove it wrong.
You're kidding yourself if you think it won't make a difference. One of the issues with playing at Wembley, is that teams are turning up especially to 'win at Wembley', just for the novelty of it. I think one or two of our Champions League opponents said as much. This, coupled with the fact that our hardcore fans will be spread far and thin around a huge stadium, will create an atmosphere similar to that seen at West Ham games this season I reckon.
There you said it, it is the home crowd that makes the difference when a team plays away, Wembley will be our home ground next season and at least 90% of the fans will Spurs, so to me the actual stadium is not a valid excuse for not playing to the standards we've set ourselves in the past two seasons.