What gave you more pleasure?
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How can there be any doubt that winning a cup gives more pleasure. For me at least, the joy is greater at winning a cup than even coming 2nd in the EPL. Who would care if we get into the CL and doesn't win it the next year? Only winners have their names engraved on some silverware for posterity to read about.
AW?
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Hear fucking hear!
And the rest but i like the Bill Nick bit the most.
I missed this post, so thank you A&C for quoting it and bringing it to my attention.
I can't rep you Stoof so i'll give it to A&C instead. And the rep too.
And let's not forget that after that last game with the lasagna we were a fucking laughing stock.
paulspursman
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Lasagne season ended in such dissapointment so much so that even this seasons inconsistency hasnt brought yet at least. Cup is a clear statement of what we can do
PYiddy
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has there been more memorable games than this season though? I feel as though i have seen more iconic games this year that will be remembered for a hell of a long time than past seasons
1: 4-4 vs villa. just an insane night altogether
2: 6-4 vs reading. The last half hour was like watching basketball. 7 goals in 23mins!!
3: 1-2 Getafe. not for the right reasons, but has there ever been a sacking that has been handled like that? Being at the game was surreal, getting all the texts saying BMJ was a goner, when he was just sitting over there!!! completly forgot about the game while it all was unfolding.
4: 5-1 L'arse. Need i say more. best ever game at whl. without a doubt.
5: 2-1 Chavski Won a cup. nuff said
There has been a hell of a lot of lows this season, but those 5 games have made it a very stand-out season for me, ending with the most amazing day at wembly, and the warm glow of happiness which i had for a good 2 weeks after the game.
1: 4-4 vs villa. just an insane night altogether
2: 6-4 vs reading. The last half hour was like watching basketball. 7 goals in 23mins!!
3: 1-2 Getafe. not for the right reasons, but has there ever been a sacking that has been handled like that? Being at the game was surreal, getting all the texts saying BMJ was a goner, when he was just sitting over there!!! completly forgot about the game while it all was unfolding.
4: 5-1 L'arse. Need i say more. best ever game at whl. without a doubt.
5: 2-1 Chavski Won a cup. nuff said
There has been a hell of a lot of lows this season, but those 5 games have made it a very stand-out season for me, ending with the most amazing day at wembly, and the warm glow of happiness which i had for a good 2 weeks after the game.
General Levy
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Also, the fact that season hasn't finished yet and Arsenal can possibly win the ECL and EPL.
I mean, if they won both, would this be a great season???
I mean, if they won both, would this be a great season???
lukespurs7
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as a whole the lasagna season was better, i just remember say when Keane scored that goal against arsenal at highbury and i celebrated it like we'd just won the league, it was a fantastic season as every game mattered, results seemed to go our way the whole of that season until the last day. We didn't play that nice football mind and looking back on it this season will be remembered more and we'd rather have more seasons like this one because we would be winning things however both have their ups and downs, the lasagna season we went out 1st rnd in both cups and no uefa cup involvement. but yea can't beat that keaneo goal at highbury if only henry hadn't of equalised things could be so so different 
Tickers
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You see, this attitude irritates the fucking shit out of me.
Arse are our greatest rivals, and that's important, but they do not - or should not - define our season. That's small time.
We've had a bad league season because we're 11th, not because Arse are 2nd. If they were 15th we'd still have had a shit league season. Because we haven't achieved what we wanted to achieve.
We've had a great cup season because we won one, not because Arsenal haven't (yet).
I can't speak for everyone, but I'm a Spurs fan first and an Arsenal hater second.
As for the original question, this season shits and pisses all over every other season in our history when we didn't win a trophy. Trophies are what counts.
As usual, Sir Bill put it best: "If you don't win anything, you have had a bad season."
This season of course. Its a no brainer beating Arsenal 5-1 in the semis and out playing Chelsea was fantastic there are many memories that will stay with me,one of the best was zokora bursting through the Chelsea defense and having a chance to win the game and unfortunately blazing over the crossbar :lol:
lolw points this season, getting thrashed 4-1 by Birmingham city, terrible form in the league( which as lead to friends teasing me about relegation) and the loss to PSV on penalties.
lolw points this season, getting thrashed 4-1 by Birmingham city, terrible form in the league( which as lead to friends teasing me about relegation) and the loss to PSV on penalties.
N10toN17
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You'd have to be mad to choose a trophyless season over a trophy winning season, ask any of our players which one they preferred, ask a great man like Bill Nic the same question, it's about winning trophies and placing winners medals on the mantlepiece, a very simple no brainer and yet so many have voted for a 5th place finish? wow fucking wee.
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31 people are, apparently.
Bus-Conductor
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Good question. To be honest I enjoyed last season more than the previous season. 2005-6 was a good season, we signed some great players who moved us up a gear principally Davids, Lee, Jenas, Stalteri. We didn't always play grreat football and ground out many results but I will be hard to forget the way we fucked it up - and I don't just mean the last day - and getting fucked over on te last day by the two teams that would enjoy fucking us over the most was gut churning. It managed to take some of the gloss of qualifying for UEFA. I was left with a slightly deflated feeling all summer.
The following season thanks again to some good signings (mainly Berbatov, but others chipped in too like Zokora etc) we started to play even better football, went on some really good cup runs and despite a terrible start recovered to qualify well for UEFA again. A better season.
The altruist in me wants to say that a good league position is far more worthy, and I've always believed that more or less. I'd even advocate ditching the UEFA place in the LCup for an extra, hard faught, place in the league. But I've got to be honest. How many football fans are going to get to sit in the gods at the new wembley and watch their side outplay one of their fiecest rivals, the most expensive team assembled, a team we had only beaten twice in 20 years, in game that would validate our whole season and make such a huge difference to the next season.
That day was right up there with my very best memories of spurs. I still can't decide whether it was as good as being at wembley for the 81 replay. It was that fucking good.
For me, it's easy, watching us beat Chelsea at wembley pisses all over westham and arsenal laughing their nuts off at us on the same day in the previous biggest game we played.
The following season thanks again to some good signings (mainly Berbatov, but others chipped in too like Zokora etc) we started to play even better football, went on some really good cup runs and despite a terrible start recovered to qualify well for UEFA again. A better season.
The altruist in me wants to say that a good league position is far more worthy, and I've always believed that more or less. I'd even advocate ditching the UEFA place in the LCup for an extra, hard faught, place in the league. But I've got to be honest. How many football fans are going to get to sit in the gods at the new wembley and watch their side outplay one of their fiecest rivals, the most expensive team assembled, a team we had only beaten twice in 20 years, in game that would validate our whole season and make such a huge difference to the next season.
That day was right up there with my very best memories of spurs. I still can't decide whether it was as good as being at wembley for the 81 replay. It was that fucking good.
For me, it's easy, watching us beat Chelsea at wembley pisses all over westham and arsenal laughing their nuts off at us on the same day in the previous biggest game we played.
Even though I voted for the Lasgna season I enjoyed being at the victory against Chelsea more than any of the other Wembley appearances of the 1980's which I did attend .
Watched the 1981 replay with my late Dad on telly who was a pretty critical sort .
Can hear him now bemoaning that Ricky Villa had kept hold of it too long and a second later screaming "what a goal!" .
Turbo
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being as the question asked what gave more pleasure I answered the Lasagne season. As a whole being fourth from Christmas to the last day of the season there was a lot more positives generally that year with a high expectation the team very very nearly delivered. The cup run this year aside the rest of the season has been shit. With the expectation of top four demanded by the board, the whole Jol incident and bad press over those weeks. We have also lost more times in Europe this year than all the other years we have been in Europe put together. All in all this year has given plenty of crap.
If the question was would you take a League Cup over being fourth for most of the season then I'd most definitely choose the cup but that year gave me more pleasure as a whole, hence my vote.
If the question was would you take a League Cup over being fourth for most of the season then I'd most definitely choose the cup but that year gave me more pleasure as a whole, hence my vote.
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I think at might be worth reminding a few of the more strident Cup-preferrers here - I shall call them the anti-pasti - that coming 5th TWICE in the current premiership IS WINNING something nowadays.
The expression 'Best of the Rest' annoys me greatly.
I hate the fact that the gulf between the larger clubs and the minnows is growing exponentially.
It is sad that we will never again see a team of QPR's size run Liverpool to the last day of the season for the league title. [I know QPR are now rich as Croesus but that makes my point rather than contradicting it].
But, with things as they stand, being the best club in England other than the mega-rich Four is quite an achievement.
And we managed it two years on the trot, too.
Be proud. Stand tall. For you are Yids.
COYS !!
The expression 'Best of the Rest' annoys me greatly.
I hate the fact that the gulf between the larger clubs and the minnows is growing exponentially.
It is sad that we will never again see a team of QPR's size run Liverpool to the last day of the season for the league title. [I know QPR are now rich as Croesus but that makes my point rather than contradicting it].
But, with things as they stand, being the best club in England other than the mega-rich Four is quite an achievement.
And we managed it two years on the trot, too.
Be proud. Stand tall. For you are Yids.
COYS !!
