Match Threads Pre Season - Leyton Orient vs Spurs - Match Thread - KO 3:00pm

[neogenisis]

Judging by you miserable pricks, we are going to lose pre-season then?

 

[Timberwolf]

I reality there's hundreds of 'em - League 2 players earn thousands a week - and it remains a ridiculous life.

Hundreds is still shockingly poor odds. Given the number of amateur clubs, academies, college football courses, etc. promising the earth to youngsters, trying to be a professional footballer is about as bad a choice as you can make career-wise unless you're freakishly talented, lucky and willing to work incredibly hard. That's not to mention the massive sacrifices you need to make from a young age: no/very little booze, training multiple times a week + matches, limited social life, strict diet, etc.

Apparently the average salary in league 2 is about 114k so pretty damn good, but it's a short career and if you get a bad injury you're fucked. Then once you're in your mid-30s when most careers ramp up, you're suddenly out on your arse with no other skills and a shit education. Some are smart and make investments, but you can guarantee a fair share of them are fucked over by agents, leeches and gold-diggers and are skint by the time they're 40.

And that's not even to mention the ones that give up their entire education to try and make it as footballers, only to spat out by the system as young adults at the age of 18-21 with zero other opportunities as they gave up on their A-levels to join some joke academy.

A miniscule percentage of people who try to be footballers have absurdly good lives like you describe, but the rest are pretty fucked.

 

[PLTuck]

Judging by you miserable pricks, we are going to lose pre-season then?

Go check out the youtube comments. It's hilarious. People saying we won't finish top half because we drew 1-1 playing our U20s for the most part in the first pre season match of a new regime.

Some fans really are fucking clueless.

 

[Rusta81]

Nile John looked decent I thought

 

[Timbo Tottenham]

Any highlights?

 

[Timberwolf]

Go check out the youtube comments. It's hilarious. People saying we won't finish top half because we drew 1-1 playing our U20s for the most part in the first pre season match of a new regime.

Some fans really are fucking clueless.

And if we'd won 4-0 those same clowns would be saying we're gonna to win the league.

Pre-season truly means nothing and the increased exposure of it is just going to feed into these absurd reactions. I still remember watching us beat Roma 5-0 under Ramos and thinking we were going to have a special season with David Bentley as our new messiah.

8 games later...

 

[PLTuck]

Any highlights?

Dele had a weird green one but I didn't see any others.

 

[Rob]

Any highlights?

The kids are all far more comfortable on the ball than half our first team. They all look a bit lightweight/inexperienced still.

 

[easley91]

Go check out the youtube comments. It's hilarious. People saying we won't finish top half because we drew 1-1 playing our U20s for the most part in the first pre season match of a new regime.

Some fans really are fucking clueless.

The same fans who will write off and **** on players nonstop while refusing to give those same players credit for any good work they do. Like Winks today. His part in the goal was quality. Yet I haven't seen anyone mention it, only that he needs to be sold.

 

[luRRka]

Any highlights?

Tottenham Hotspur on Instagram

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There's just under 2 mins highlights on spurs Instagram. That's all I've found so far

 

[BringBack_leGin]

The kids are all far more comfortable on the ball than half our first team. They all look a bit lightweight/inexperienced still.

I’d say Nile, Scarlett and Clarke would all develop in that aspect relatively quickly if they were given tailored exposure to men’s football at a high enough level.

 

[PCozzie]

Watched about 10 minutes of the first half and realised that I might have been anaethatised by football. Nothing to do with Spurs, or Orient, but I was just kind of staring at it. Could have been anyone playing. Kilmarnock v West Brom. North Macedonia v Belgium. Need more time away before the season starts. Cold Turkey.

Pic thread only for me now.

And the ITK thread obvs.

Who do we have next btw? Is it on Spurs TV again? What time?

Damnit.

 

[YB123]

The kids are all far more comfortable on the ball than half our first team. They all look a bit lightweight/inexperienced still.

Thought exactly the same. They are technically ahead of our first team players.

Wanted to add, I am getting more and more concerned with Bergwijn's progression. He doesnt even look to take the man on. I know he has lacked confidence but new manager, new ideas..should it be happening?

 

[whitesocks]

Fagan-Walcott - an unfortunate double-surname of 2 villainous characters.
One worked in a filthy slum, that was slowly sinking into a sewage/rubbish pit. Got kids to do his work for him. Stole a living really.
The other a well known Dickens character.

Hope he had a great game.

 

[Barrd10]

Hundreds is still shockingly poor odds. Given the number of amateur clubs, academies, college football courses, etc. promising the earth to youngsters, trying to be a professional footballer is about as bad a choice as you can make career-wise unless you're freakishly talented, lucky and willing to work incredibly hard. That's not to mention the massive sacrifices you need to make from a young age: no/very little booze, training multiple times a week + matches, limited social life, strict diet, etc.

Apparently the average salary in league 2 is about 114k so pretty damn good, but it's a short career and if you get a bad injury you're fucked. Then once you're in your mid-30s when most careers ramp up, you're suddenly out on your arse with no other skills and a shit education. Some are smart and make investments, but you can guarantee a fair share of them are fucked over by agents, leeches and gold-diggers and are skint by the time they're 40.

And that's not even to mention the ones that give up their entire education to try and make it as footballers, only to spat out by the system as young adults at the age of 18-21 with zero other opportunities as they gave up on their A-levels to join some joke academy.

A miniscule percentage of people who try to be footballers have absurdly good lives like you describe, but the rest are pretty fucked.

Come on they all have enough time to train to have a career afterwards the if they can be bothered. They really aren’t hard done by. They play football not save lives. I love football and would have loved to do it as a job which they do. But also they get paid a vast amount of money too Good luck to them but they aren’t hard done by.

 

[RickyVilla]

Fagan-Walcott - an unfortunate double-surname of 2 villainous characters.
One worked in a filthy slum, that was slowly sinking into a sewage/rubbish pit. Got kids to do his work for him. Stole a living really.
The other a well known Dickens character.

Hope he had a great game.

 

[Bobbins]

Hundreds is still shockingly poor odds. Given the number of amateur clubs, academies, college football courses, etc. promising the earth to youngsters, trying to be a professional footballer is about as bad a choice as you can make career-wise unless you're freakishly talented, lucky and willing to work incredibly hard. That's not to mention the massive sacrifices you need to make from a young age: no/very little booze, training multiple times a week + matches, limited social life, strict diet, etc.

Apparently the average salary in league 2 is about 114k so pretty damn good, but it's a short career and if you get a bad injury you're fucked. Then once you're in your mid-30s when most careers ramp up, you're suddenly out on your arse with no other skills and a shit education. Some are smart and make investments, but you can guarantee a fair share of them are fucked over by agents, leeches and gold-diggers and are skint by the time they're 40.

And that's not even to mention the ones that give up their entire education to try and make it as footballers, only to spat out by the system as young adults at the age of 18-21 with zero other opportunities as they gave up on their A-levels to join some joke academy.

A miniscule percentage of people who try to be footballers have absurdly good lives like you describe, but the rest are pretty fucked.

OMGI'mjustsayingfootballershaveamazinglivesstopreplyingtomeFFS

 

[Shadydan]

Same thing are said every year when it comes to preseason

 

[Cochise]

I missed the match today. If anyone knows where I can find it please send me a DM.

 

[DenverSpur]

That’s not quite true. Most players don’t go on to be coaches or pundits- they don’t need to because they have earned enough money to retire by 20.

Unfortunately quite a few suffer from depression when the football life is taken away from them and lose all their money on booze, drugs and gambling. Many retired people suffer from depression because the focus of their life is missing. Imagine how much harder that is when you retire in your late 20s or early 30s. No matter how much money you have you need a purpose or focus in your life or the boredom will lead to depression and a downward spiral.