What have we got to be excited about?

[Spurger King]

Sport is shit at the moment

We're shit. The Ashes are shit. Even my village indoor Pétanque team got beat last weekend in a grudge match with the peasants from The Hooden on the Hill.

Its pop-a-pill time.

Still got England in the World Cup to look forward to!

 

[MattyP]

I'm excited by the prospect of Daniel Levy spending £20 to get the roof on the Shelf fixed so that it doesn't leak on me when it rains.

Knowing Teflon Dan, he'll package it up as him delivering on the promise of a new stadium and increase my season ticket by more than the standard double inflationary increase.

But hey, at least I'll be dry.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Still got England in the World Cup to look forward to!

Three defeats and we're out. It'll be like pulling a plaster off really quickly.

 

[Pimp_Spur]

Xmas day cos we definitely won't lose on that day

 

[Khilari]

No seriously, tell me, I'm really not sure anymore. I have never been this completely disillusioned with us.

Better results in the league?
Different players being played?
Guus Hiddink at our helm? Who knows. All I can say is, cheer up mate!

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Xmas day cos we definitely won't lose on that day

Fingers crossed Levy can spare the time to get around appointing a new manager, its his busiest time of the year, keeping Santa stocked with toys.

 

[RuskyM]

If we get de Boer or Hiddink my tune will change but I think we're going to somehow end up hiring this really successful in a foreign league type, a young promising manager with a hell of a moustache called Mr. Saob

 

[UncleBuck]

It's only six sleeps till we can put some carrots out for the reindeer....

 

[Kendall]

I've put the big red christmas stocking up on the wall. Previously I was 'never red' (as shown by the christmas hat avatar) but now I'm refusing to let Spurs dictate my colour scheme any longer.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Levy is Jewish so he won't buy Christmas presents so he will have more time to get a new manager.

Actually, no, I don't know what to look forward to.

 

[gibbospurs]

Jesus people, I have just watched extended highlights on sky, we lost. Sunderland beat Chelsea last night. I thought we played some good stuff for a change, our back four is makeshift ATM. I'm gonna try and stay positive until after the Southampton game. Saints won't sit everyone behind the ball and I think soldado will start, hopefully eriksen and lamella will get a start. Rose looked quality now back. X

 

[djee]

Ok. I was on holiday the weekend of Arry's appointment as manager. The entire evening before he was announced, I distinctly recall a very sorrowful conversation with a close friend and fellow Spurs fan bemoaning our horrendous league position and fearing the worst for the season. We genuinely could not envisage our beloved winning a game anytime soon despite the obvious quality in the squad. Tottenham Hotspur became the brunt of every other fans jokes as we failed to pick up more than 2 measly points from 8 games. It was awful. Perhaps like many here, I couldn't even bring myself to watch any sort of football on TV. Rock bottom with no obvious way up.

Within a few weeks good ol' Arry came along and helped us rise up the league - helped by a huge slice of luck against Liverpool and Arsenal - two games we somehow managed 4 undeserved points from but propelled confidence. 18 months later (or so) we had restored pride and somehow qualified for the CL and added VDV to our already talented squad. As I watched our team win at Milan from my seat in the San Siro I reflected on how times had changed so wonderfully for us; how football so cruel at times can taste so sweet.

Now, lets be clear, things are not wonderful for our club right now but all is not lost. Far from it. Yes tonight was another excruciating defeat and it would be too tempting to write of the season yet to do so would be to ignore how quickly football can change. We have a richly talented squad albeit one that is leaderless and believe that through a combination of luck, skill and passion we will see a brighter 2014. Let the other clubs laugh at us right now - I remember West Ham fans having a right old jolly after lasagne-gate but a few years later we were playing Madrid in the QF of the CL as they were messing around in the Championship. As football fans we have an incredible capacity to forget the pain and are eternal optimism will always have us dreaming of better and brighter things.

Chin up ladies and gents. All will be great next year...you have my word!

 

[sheringmann]

Pathetic, blaming players that havent played hardly.

I can only judge what I have seen. Thats true. What do you judge on?

 

[SamR]

Christmas and NYE?


Actually they get shitter as we get older...

This is bollocks...I blame the media! Burn the papers!

 

[dvdhopeful]

Sandro, Dembele, Paulinho, Lamela, Eriksen & Soldado as our front six excites me, on paper at least.

Leaving us with backups including Capoue, Holtby, Townsend, Lennon, Ade, Chadli, Defoe, Siggy - not too shabby, on paper at least.

 

[jambreck]

Unless we can tempt de Boer away, if we get a new manager they'll either cost a bomb and/or they'll be massively underwhelming. So when we don't give them enough time, or when Levy intrudes (I don't buy how so many managers simply "fall out" with him like it's their fault), we can go through all of this again in about 18 months. By which time, we might be irretrievably behind the top four in terms of both players & funds.

We look, to put it mildly, completely and utterly fucked.

We were supposedly "irretrievably behind the top four" when Levy took over. That proved to be quite wrong, even if it is still a struggle. We're unlikely to slip that far behind again as a consequence of our current, overstated troubles.

We've had plenty of setbacks over the past 10 years but we've bounced back stronger from all of them.

It seems to me that there has been a huge overreaction over the past few days. Doom mongering prevails. But there's nothing rational about it. Just emotional. We're feeling shit because we've been on the wrong end of a few bad and hurtful results. And we had started the season with such high hopes.

But most of the reasons for our high hopes are still there. We still have a squad that is the envy of all but four or five Premier League clubs. These players haven't suddenly become bad players. They will come good again. Maybe soon. We still have a club that, off the pitch, is steadily improving.

I've been through enough of these periods of so called crisis to know the genuine article from a blip. This is kind of analogous to a stock market correction. Share prices might temporarily decline. But if the underlying state of both the national and global economy is healthy, the upward trend will continue soon enough.

 

[TheHoddleWaddle]

Arsenal in the cup?!

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Winning the league this season!

 

[jambreck]

That was High Tempo rubbish. We didn't build up play, we didn't pass, we didn't create at all. Running at high speed end to end, crossing the ball in hope of getting it to a player in the same team is not creating chances and its not exciting. There was no method it was mindless end to end guff. I was bored.

I thought Sherwood deserved a chance hes been thrown in at the deep end and to be fair to him hes stepped up to the plate to give it a shot. But personally I think he bottled it and he looked out of his depth.

If I never saw us play that style again I wouldn't miss it.

Actually, in the first half, we had 72% possession. Even more than we generally had under AVB.

I dare say that that stat remained fairly constant until the team collectively lost their heads in the final 20 minutes.

 

[avonspurs]

What have we got to be excited about?...

David Cameron has predicted a Spurs win against the Saints.