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fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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Jose losing his head after the match in the car park against officials and throughout most of the match, so embarrassing really. Very glad we are not associated with him anymore.
 

Gbspurs

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Jan 27, 2011
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Bit like a microcosm of Mou’s time here. Being told “It’s ugly, but it wins trophies”, and then it doesn’t.
To be fair to Jose he won the conference last year and then got to pens in the Europa final. Coaches can't be blamed for losing a final on pens.
 

djhotspur

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Aug 31, 2021
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He lost to a manager in prison weeks before that final. He would’ve lost.
Did he or did the team lose it? Because they as per usual pathetically decided not to bother turning up to away games in cup comps as per usual
 

djhotspur

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Aug 31, 2021
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To be fair to Jose he won the conference last year and then got to pens in the Europa final. Coaches can't be blamed for losing a final on pens.
Considering he had to take his two main penalty takers off as Abraham got injured and Dybala was coming back from injury so couldn’t play the whole game
 

BAE

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Jul 6, 2015
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SO very happy for him, but it's also kinda heartbreaking since he really should have lifted a trophy or two with us. We were quite close to winning the league, the CL and the carabao cup when he was an integral part of our squad, too bad we always find a way to mess everything up.
Granted we made the finals, but those finals were so one sided it was embarrassing.
 

Bobbins

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May 5, 2005
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Not having a proper crack at the Europa League when we had an easily good enough squad to do so is pretty criminal.

One of the forgotten about Poch problems was his refusal to take cup competitions seriously in comparison to the league.
 

alfie103

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Jun 4, 2005
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One of the forgotten about Poch problems was his refusal to take cup competitions seriously in comparison to the league.

For me, I would imagine this mainly came from Levy. If he was told to take them seriously, even at the risk of losing a top 4 spot, I think he would have done.
 

Bobbins

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For me, I would imagine this mainly came from Levy. If he was told to take them seriously, even at the risk of losing a top 4 spot, I think he would have done.

I'm not sure about that. Poch regularly used to respond to questions that the league was the priority at all times. Some of his team selections were clearly designed to rest key players. Also, Son at left wing-back...
 

alfie103

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I'm not sure about that. Poch regularly used to respond to questions that the league was the priority at all times. Some of his team selections were clearly designed to rest key players. Also, Son at left wing-back...

Yeah, I think Poch probably did this as he was told by Levy that the league was the priority.
 

ernie78

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Jun 13, 2012
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Granted we made the finals, but those finals were so one sided it was embarrassing.
Erm…….the CL final wasn’t as one sided as the score line would let you believe, in fact
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Marty

Audere est farce
Mar 10, 2005
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Erm…….the CL final wasn’t as one sided as the score line would let you believe, in fact
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For all those shots we didn't create one single chance that actually looked like it was going in though. The penalty allowed Liverpool to sit back and just focus on denying us, so we resorted to sterile possession and pot shots.

It was a shit game.
 

TheChosenOne

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Dec 13, 2005
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For all those shots we didn't create one single chance that actually looked like it was going in though. The penalty allowed Liverpool to sit back and just focus on denying us, so we resorted to sterile possession and pot shots.

It was a shit game.

4 yes ago today.
Never watched and highlights/reruns..
Blanked it.
 
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