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I wonder if this is how he interviews?
So Sol, what formation would you play if we hired you? 10 outfield and 1 keeper with some substitutes
Who would you have in goal? The goal keeper.
Would you sacrifice a Cup game for the league? Trumpets.
Decline. I want my jelly and ice creamIf a genie popped out of a lamp and said he could go back in time and make it so Sol Campbell never left spurs, would you:
a) Accept that reality knowing that Arsenal might not have their "stint" of glory, and we might have had our own, but know that in the future everyone associated with the club would have the embarrassment that is Sol Campbell, or;
b) Politely thank him but decline.
If a genie popped out of a lamp and said he could go back in time and make it so Sol Campbell never left spurs, would you:
a) Accept that reality knowing that Arsenal might not have their "stint" of glory, and we might have had our own, but know that in the future everyone associated with the club would have the embarrassment that is Sol Campbell, or;
b) Politely thank him but decline.
If a genie popped out of a lamp and said he could go back in time and make it so Sol Campbell never left spurs, would you:
a) Accept that reality knowing that Arsenal might not have their "stint" of glory, and we might have had our own, but know that in the future everyone associated with the club would have the embarrassment that is Sol Campbell, or;
b) Politely thank him but decline.
We’ve had plenty of embarassing players who were/are also heroes.
How many are exclusively associated with us? e.g. Gazza had several clubs, Hoddle was also very much Chelsea etc.
How many are exclusively associated with us? e.g. Gazza had several clubs, Hoddle was also very much Chelsea etc.
How many are exclusively associated with us? e.g. Gazza had several clubs, Hoddle was also very much Chelsea etc.
I wonder if we'll ever nick one of Arsenal's players in the future?
Mid-table clubs can produce one or two gems every few years, so you never know.
Meh. Never liked him.Gallas
Meh. Never liked him.
No way was Hoddle 'very much Chelsea'. The best years of his playing career were with us. He may have been player-manager at Chelsea for a few years but that doesn't create the same attachment as he had with us.
Since when was Hoddle "very much Chelsea"?
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He played a handful of games a Chelsea player/manager right at the end of his career and then became full-time manager for a couple of years after that, but in no way is he really associated with the club.
That's like saying Steven Gerrard is "very much LA Galaxy" or something.
From knowing the Chelsea fan's side of things, he is (in my experience, to pre-RA-buyout fans) on the same par as Redknapp was with us. You don't have to be at a club for a long time to gain an association. VdV is seen as being "Spurs", as is Friedel (who played more with Villa and Blackburn), Les Ferdinand. Loads of examples.
Look at how associated with the club Klinsmann is, when he only really ever played a season and a half for us across 2 stints.
Point is, you can watch TV and Glenn will be in the studio, and the ticker under him will say something in reference to maybe "Former Chelsea Manager" or " Managed Chelsea to FA Cup final in 1994".... or even references to his odd stint with England - so the sole association to Spurs won't exist for a casual football fan in the minds of the many.
The Gerrard comparison is ridiculous, as he played his whole career with Liverpool, then had one season at Galaxy. Hoddle played for another 8 years with 3 clubs and 200 games after Spurs.
If a genie popped out of a lamp and said he could go back in time and make it so Sol Campbell never left spurs, would you:
a) Accept that reality knowing that Arsenal might not have their "stint" of glory, and we might have had our own, but know that in the future everyone associated with the club would have the embarrassment that is Sol Campbell, or;
b) Politely thank him but decline.
Really chaps? We're debating, including showing all the workings out, whether a genuine Spurs (fan, player, manager) legend is actually Spurs?
Really?
Sometimes this place is proper weird.