What our opponents' fans are saying about us 17/18

[Ionman34]

If I remember correctly, Greaves was already drinking too much by the time he was sold. Just before he was sold, Spurs lost an FA Cup tie to Blackpool and he played crap together with a few others who had been seen drinking at a pub the night before. Bill Nic dropped them all and Greaves was never re-instated in the 1st team.

I've told this story on here before;
I met Greaves when I went for a drink at the Brookmana Park Hotel. It was run by Chivers then and the old man loved the bloke.
We got chatting to Greaves, who told us a story of how he'd been on the lash one Friday night and, worried that he might miss the match, parked his car at the ground and slept in it.
He woke up the Saturday, hungover, then banged in a hat trick!

The way he told the story had me in tears. His delivery of a story was as good as his striking ability. Love the guy.

 

[SandroClegane]

Its exactly this mentality that has seen us fail to get into the CL consistently. Please dont compare Atletico to us. Squad depths etc were different. We have not had a quality squad to compete in CL and premier league this season let alone be hamstrung by a competition designed to keep a certain group of clubs in the CL and the rest outside of that group.

You think we can do the EL/FA cup and genuinely go for the title with our squad depth. Grow up and stop calling posters losers. If the EL was played on Tuesday/Wednesday then i would go along with your thinking.

I would rather be out of EL than in it.

What about Sevilla? Have won it 3 years running and got into the CL Quarters this season.

 

[piedpiper]

After how many yrs? Look at man utd recent form....no EL.

 

[slartibartfast]

lol at all those guys wanting us to not take the EL seriously. If we're not good enough to compete at both leagues, then chances are we're not good enough to win one of them either. Throwing away the EL yet again would only risk bringing back that 'spursy' losers mentality fans of other teams insist we still have.

Do you guys want us to be like Leicester (wining the league once and letting that be it) or like Athletico (consistently challenging and competing against the monster teams in his league and CL until pretty much becoming one of them). Guess what, Athletico didn't reach that level by neglecting the EL ever. So please guys, fuck off already with that losers mentality... it will lead us nowhere.

A brilliant rallying post but unfortunately nonsense.
We cannot fight full strength on all fronts and realistically hope to achieve anything.
To suggest playing more games doesn't impact the leagues performances is just not true.
To be clear I have no problem trying to win the Europa BUT imo the problem is we dont do that. We play neither a weak team to get knocked out early or go full strength every game. What we do is play a half cooked 11 which is good enough to get us a long way ensuring we play catch up evety bloody sunday in the league. We take our starting 11 along for the ride so even if they dont play they're travelling all over the bloody place. We carry on doing this until we come up against someone half decent and get knocked out. By which time its had a detrimental effect on our league form to achieve what?? Fk all.
In the words of Yoda "DO. Or do not. There is no try."
You have to bare in mind we're not currently going for top 4. We're trying to win the bloody thing.
Does anyone really think we can go a long way or even all the way in the Europa league without it making a difference? If so then frankly you dont know what you're talking about.

Edit- Sorry but why is this discussion in this thread lol. Oops.

 

[ralphs bald spot]

But sadly, in the end he didn't and his good friend Jimmy Greaves joined him. They did a little dance after Jimmy scored on his debut against Joe Mercer's Shitty.

If I remember correctly, Greaves was already drinking too much by the time he was sold. Just before he was sold, Spurs lost an FA Cup tie to Blackpool and he played crap together with a few others who had been seen drinking at a pub the night before. Bill Nic dropped them all and Greaves was never re-instated in the 1st team.

I think the game at Blackpool was with West Ham I am pretty sure it features in his book he took half the team on the lash they lost 4-0 he retired soon afterwards its pretty infamous - with Spurs he was struggling and hadn't really recovered from Heppatitis and Spurs wanted Peters

https://www.westhamtillidie.com/posts/2014/04/08/nostalgia-series-the-blackpool-incident

 

[sunnydelight786]

Awwww, bless her.....

http://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/the-mighty-spurs-abu-dhabi-fc.20180/
Can the mods look at this please, and advise if reference to City as Abu Dhabi FC is a racist and/ or statement that could incite hate, seriously pissed off with this demeaning of our club!

 

[Sweech]

What about Sevilla? Have won it 3 years running and got into the CL Quarters this season.

Yeah and it took them 3 years to get anything going in the CL...

Not to mention look at their league position during all that.

This wasn't some instantaneous thing for them.

 

[VertongHen]

I just seen this on RedCafe,

"Need city to thump spurs this weekend. Much rather have 4 big clubs for England in the CL next season than small clubs like spurs and Leicester fecking it up again."

What the f***. He'd prefer his local rivals who Man Utd could leapfrog in the table if we beat to to beat us just because we're a "small club".

Some Man Utd fans are just so pathetic...

 

[Gb160]

Awwww, bless her.....

http://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/the-mighty-spurs-abu-dhabi-fc.20180/
Can the mods look at this please, and advise if reference to City as Abu Dhabi FC is a racist and/ or statement that could incite hate, seriously pissed off with this demeaning of our club!

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Thanks Preston, but who the fuck do these pricks think they are! God they are a detestable set of bastards!

Can only remember 1 decent Spurs fan in a multitude of shite, when i lived down south.
Knew loads too, as was born down there.

 

[ralvy]

A brilliant rallying post but unfortunately nonsense.
We cannot fight full strength on all fronts and realistically hope to achieve anything.
To suggest playing more games doesn't impact the leagues performances is just not true.
To be clear I have no problem trying to win the Europa BUT imo the problem is we dont do that. We play neither a weak team to get knocked out early or go full strength every game. What we do is play a half cooked 11 which is good enough to get us a long way ensuring we play catch up evety bloody sunday in the league. We take our starting 11 along for the ride so even if they dont play they're travelling all over the bloody place. We carry on doing this until we come up against someone half decent and get knocked out. By which time its had a detrimental effect on our league form to achieve what?? Fk all.
In the words of Yoda "DO. Or do not. There is no try."
You have to bare in mind we're not currently going for top 4. We're trying to win the bloody thing.
Does anyone really think we can go a long way or even all the way in the Europa league without it making a difference? If so then frankly you dont know what you're talking about.

Edit- Sorry but why is this discussion in this thread lol. Oops.

I'm sorry, but you will find that taking all the competitions seriously will only make us an stronger team (which, in turn, should enhance our chances of winning the league). The only way we can hope to win the league against such fierce competition as the one we're facing this season is by having a squad strong and motivated enough to compete against them.

Taking important competitions such as the Europa League and the FA cup seriously give us the golden chance to fully settle the right mentality among the members of our squad who currently are not part of our top starting 11. If they really feel like they are being picked by the coach/manager to actually fight for important things, then that should help their self confidence and mentality a hell lot, so that when we need them in the league because Dembele did his hip again, or because Kane twisted his ankle, then they will be fully ready to fill in for them and maybe give us good chances of winning. But if these players feel like the only times they are being picked for the starting 11 is because the coach wants to get eliminated from the competition more easily, well... just imagine what kind of message would that print on these players heads.

So, what does it mean taking these competitions seriously? Well, IMO, it doesn't mean playing pretty much the same starting 11 every three days. What it means is rotating that starting 11 smartly... so that each team Poch decides to line up has realistic chances of winning every game (unlike what he did at Dortmund last season).

 

[absolute bobbins]

Awwww, bless her.....

http://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/the-mighty-spurs-abu-dhabi-fc.20180/
Can the mods look at this please, and advise if reference to City as Abu Dhabi FC is a racist and/ or statement that could incite hate, seriously pissed off with this demeaning of our club!

Gawd I love TFC

 

[The1AnOnly]

http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/the-fans-are-bigger-at-spurs.326501/
Pochettino comments really touch a nerve lol might I add City, founded in 1880, are two years older but Tottenham have won three more major trophies.

 

[Woodyy]

http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/the-fans-are-bigger-at-spurs.326501/
Pochettino comments really touch a nerve lol might I add City, founded in 1880, are two years older but Tottenham have won three more major trophies.

Can't believe most of them think City are bigger, they've spent as much time outside the top flight as they have in it. Smaller domestic trophy count, smaller European trophy count.. About a quarter of their domestic trophies have come since they've been buying success as well so they hardly mean anything..

 

[Col_M]

What am I missing?

An invitation to a @Houdini cheese and wine party. You don't want to go near that cheese!!

 

[Col_M]

I just seen this on RedCafe,

"Need city to thump spurs this weekend. Much rather have 4 big clubs for England in the CL next season than small clubs like spurs and Leicester fecking it up again."

What the f***. He'd prefer his local rivals who Man Utd could leapfrog in the table if we beat to to beat us just because we're a "small club".

Some Man Utd fans are just so pathetic...

He's obviously a fan who started supporting United in the last years of SAF. Knows his football from Sky and Daily Mail

 

[Qualsonic]

An invitation to a @Houdini cheese and wine party. You don't want to go near that cheese!!

Fuck knows what he'll do to the quiche

 

[guiltyparty]

Bullshit from them, obviously

We're doing our best to tempt fate here tho. They're right, we always get carried away. All the press this week has been about city being the underdogs, and the fans are lapping it up.

Get to fuck, they are! At home?! I don't care what the result was last season. We've just become a bit of a bogey team for them - it takes a lot more than that for a power shift. You don't spend millions from a bottomless Saudi pit, appoint the ex Barca/Bayern manager and get to call yourself the underdogs.

With Chelsea/Man City/Arsenal/Man Utd we are the underdogs, whatever the media narrative. It's simple maths - not just the vast money, but all have won stuff in recent history.

Liverpool I think you can argue we're on a level with at this moment in time, as we've been superior for years even tho they've won stuff not that long ago & have way more money. Certainly I'm more disappointed when we don't beat them than the other 4. Everyone else, we're the favourite. That's not tricky to comprehend.

This is all being set up by the media for us to lose and we're kind of walking into it. Keep our powder dry, just keep going, best way to shut mouths is action.

Nothing achieved yet

 

[mark87]

I just seen this on RedCafe,

"Need city to thump spurs this weekend. Much rather have 4 big clubs for England in the CL next season than small clubs like spurs and Leicester fecking it up again."

What the f***. He'd prefer his local rivals who Man Utd could leapfrog in the table if we beat to to beat us just because we're a "small club".

Some Man Utd fans are just so pathetic...

And also, man city are not a big club, they're a rich club. Pathetic comment.

 

[ryantegan]

Winning the EL would guarantee CL.

"Winning the EL would guarantee actually winning something

People underestimate the importance of that" - Nick Deweels RAWK



EDIT*

Realises this is the hardly the right thread

 

[guiltyparty]

Oh and for new City fans browsing: between 1983 and 2001, you were relegated from the top division 4 times and went down to the third division as recently as 1999

You even have your own entry on the Wikipedia page for "yo-yo club" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo_club

So next time you say we're clinging to ancient history maybe re-evaluate your fairly recent past