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diving header werent it? I rememer Woodgates scoring the winner in 2008 with his nose better.
But would you hand on heart say you will remember it over when Moura scored in the last second of the Ajax game when all is said and done?
Or do you honestly think people outside of long time Spurs fans 'remember it' , which seems to be really important for some people? I honestly dont know who the current FA cup champions are.
I’ve been following Spurs since 1975, I remember them all, the good times and the terrible ones.
I remember 1977 watching us go down to Sunderland at home to get relegated like it was yesterday. I remember Perryman lifting FA and Cup Winners Cups. I remember Hoddle virtually owning the goal of the Month competition, I remember almost seeing my club disappear through bankruptcy. I remember days of the most godawful Football but great banter in the terraces during the 90’s and better part of the new millennium.
The memories are all there, but the standout ones are the cup final wins. Playing poorly or not, the feeling of euphoria when the final whistle goes and you have Won a trophy is second to none, because you’ve climbed the mountain and you have that on record forever.
What makes me laugh here is the revisionism about the Amsterdam night. Absolutely the feeling at the end was wonderful, but that’s not the point you guys are making is it. You are going on about winning in style, dominating the game etc. Yet we were second best both at home and in Amsterdam to that Ajax team, we just finished the rare chances we had, something that JM is being knocked for on here.
In conclusion, you really don’t know what you’re talking about.
You talk about Spurs having a certain style of play, well that style was abject rubbish with the odd flair player thrown in for about 20 to 30 years. Before that we had Burkinshaw’s team that played with flair.
Between him and Bill Nic we were... Ordinary. A bit of flair here and there, but nothing to get you off your seat.
So over the last 60 or so years, we’ve had very little of this “particular style” you speak of. The odd bit of entertainment, but nothing really memorable other than the Cup wins. You talk as though the Pochettino way was the Spurs way, yet the narrative was that he revolutionised the way we play, and we only really had that for a season, maybe 2 at a stretch. Burkinshaw’s Spurs had some great games in the 80’s, but it’s the cup final nights that stick in the memory. Entertainment is fleeting, trophy and title wins are historic.