- Dec 8, 2005
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Not the players, not the staff, you lot. We all know Spurs fans are the ficklest of the fickle, but over the last few weeks even my jaded and calloused brain has been shocked at the bile and absolute guff being spouted on here, if i was told in the summer that with 4 games to go we'd be in with a great shot of 4th and a slim shout at 3rd, I'd be pleasantly surprised. Yes we've imploded a bit, we've seen some poor performances in comparison to how great we were this season, but it's not terminal, we're far from in 'crisis', stop being so bloody dramatic.
We've been spoilt, we were tipped as title contenders, it was silly but we actually had a very slim chance, we couldn't take it (who knows what could have been if we took points at the Etihad), but while the title challenge fizzled away, what it left seems to be an awesome sense of entitlement and expectation. What started as 'we could get champions league if we're lucky' turned into 'we should be challenging the elite, despite the gulf in finances', we aren't going to become one of the big guns overnight, it will go well, it will go badly, but we have a chairman who is looking at the long game and a team who can beat anybody on their day, we beat AC Milan last year, anybody remember that?
Don't get me wrong, i don't like Redknapp, never have, but then i don't like Mourinho or Fergie either, no matter how you feel about them you cannot doubt their talent or the fact they get results. Lets not forget, this season we have played some of the best football I've seen a Spurs team play, Redknapp was our lord and saviour, you cant argue that he hasn't been hugely responsible for dragging us out of our perennial mediocrity, i don't know if anybody knows but we had taken 2 points from 8 games when he came in, that's true that is. Nobody saw such a dramatic slump coming, nobody knows quite how the England debacle has affected things, so how about you stop pretending like you've always hated him and this was obvious and he's the worst thing that's ever happened to anyone ever. We could be Aston Villla fans, we could be West Ham fans, hell we could be Darlington or Portsmouth fans, grow up and notice how good we have it, you all make us look like the millionaire who whines about how crap his life is because his Aston Martin has a broken tail light.
We've only just fallen out of the champions league spots for the first time in ages, we've got some of the most talented players we've had in years, talent doesn't just disappear, it will come to the fore again, we don't need dramatic changes, not yet. There is so much to play for, yes we've lost a few games we shouldn't have, lets not forget how many other big clubs have fallen to QPR over the last few weeks (and the fact it clearly wasn't a free kick, but the whole victim mentality was overplayed last week, cant do it again). Yes, its been crap to watch, it's been frustrating, things have gone wrong and we shouldn't have lost such ground on those around us, but it's the reaction of the fans which is making us look like a laughing stock, you don't know how good we really have it.
Have you lot forgotten what it is like to be Spurs fans? We never do anything the easy way, that's what makes it sweeter when we finish the roller coaster on at the top. You want consistent boring victories? Be a Celtic fan, go watch Real Madrid, if you cant take the rough patches without resorting to baying for blood or spazzing out like a retired Major reading the Daily Mail, pick another team, hell, pick another sport. We can do this, nothing is broken, its just a little dented.
TL;DR- Stop behaving like spoilt children and put the toys back in the pram long enough to support the team for the biggest 4 games in a long while.
We've been spoilt, we were tipped as title contenders, it was silly but we actually had a very slim chance, we couldn't take it (who knows what could have been if we took points at the Etihad), but while the title challenge fizzled away, what it left seems to be an awesome sense of entitlement and expectation. What started as 'we could get champions league if we're lucky' turned into 'we should be challenging the elite, despite the gulf in finances', we aren't going to become one of the big guns overnight, it will go well, it will go badly, but we have a chairman who is looking at the long game and a team who can beat anybody on their day, we beat AC Milan last year, anybody remember that?
Don't get me wrong, i don't like Redknapp, never have, but then i don't like Mourinho or Fergie either, no matter how you feel about them you cannot doubt their talent or the fact they get results. Lets not forget, this season we have played some of the best football I've seen a Spurs team play, Redknapp was our lord and saviour, you cant argue that he hasn't been hugely responsible for dragging us out of our perennial mediocrity, i don't know if anybody knows but we had taken 2 points from 8 games when he came in, that's true that is. Nobody saw such a dramatic slump coming, nobody knows quite how the England debacle has affected things, so how about you stop pretending like you've always hated him and this was obvious and he's the worst thing that's ever happened to anyone ever. We could be Aston Villla fans, we could be West Ham fans, hell we could be Darlington or Portsmouth fans, grow up and notice how good we have it, you all make us look like the millionaire who whines about how crap his life is because his Aston Martin has a broken tail light.
We've only just fallen out of the champions league spots for the first time in ages, we've got some of the most talented players we've had in years, talent doesn't just disappear, it will come to the fore again, we don't need dramatic changes, not yet. There is so much to play for, yes we've lost a few games we shouldn't have, lets not forget how many other big clubs have fallen to QPR over the last few weeks (and the fact it clearly wasn't a free kick, but the whole victim mentality was overplayed last week, cant do it again). Yes, its been crap to watch, it's been frustrating, things have gone wrong and we shouldn't have lost such ground on those around us, but it's the reaction of the fans which is making us look like a laughing stock, you don't know how good we really have it.
Have you lot forgotten what it is like to be Spurs fans? We never do anything the easy way, that's what makes it sweeter when we finish the roller coaster on at the top. You want consistent boring victories? Be a Celtic fan, go watch Real Madrid, if you cant take the rough patches without resorting to baying for blood or spazzing out like a retired Major reading the Daily Mail, pick another team, hell, pick another sport. We can do this, nothing is broken, its just a little dented.
TL;DR- Stop behaving like spoilt children and put the toys back in the pram long enough to support the team for the biggest 4 games in a long while.