There were a fair few matches late in Bill's reign where it didn't feel to me that we were bothered about winning the League. Heresy I know....
Bill Nick is Bill Nick and we will probably never see his like again. Football in this era is not the same as football in 60s & 70s, The game has moved on Greaves and Gilzean were permanently pissed, the game was played on mud in the winter, and defenders regularly pole axed strikers and the ref just waved play on and in that era everyone took the cup seriously then again very few clubs had a squad of 25 to choose from. Last season we reached the semi final and we picked pretty stromg teams from the 5th round onwards and even in 3rd & 4th we had a number of 'first teamers' in the side. This season in the 3rd round only 2 premier league sides made fewer changes than we did they were Liverpool & Everton so we know why that was. I want to win the cup this season, I really do, we as fans all do - But 4th place and the champions league is now important to the club. The gooners loved winning the cup again last year but they would rather have been 4th in the league.
More like none. I've got the programmes for the 1971 and 1973 League Cup Finals. The squad photos had 17 players both years and there were only two differences (Ray Evans for Tony Want and Ralph Coates for Alan Mullery). Evans came from the youth system so Coates was our only signing in two years!
I might be on my own here but I would sacrifice 4th place for the fa cup or dare I say it champions league winner.next season we will be back home where we belong and our future is looking rosy .personally I don't think it will be hard to attract top players to spurs next season champions league or not who wouldn't want to play in that magnificent new stadium. Just my opinion I'm 57 and old school a lot of you younger fans might disagree .
I half agree in that if it turned out like that I wouldn't be disappointed. But if we rested players for league matches before cup ties and dropped points that left us fifth I would be well pissed off
I know where you are coming from but I think barring injuries we have the squad to cope with having a go on all fronts.correct me if I'm wrong verts has played every game in the league and has been outstanding this season so I don't buy the players are tired thing. Players would rather play than train.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger allegedly has serious concerns about the temperament of 28-year-old Borussia Dortmund forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Not as many as we have, Arsene, if Pierre seriously thinks that moving to the Hemorrhoids Stadium is a good career move!!
I think this is where the directors were thinking to remove Bill (who was still fuming over our (?) fans performance in that 2nd leg cup final) and replace him with.......Arsenal's Terry Neill,which eventually helped us into Div 2. I can still remember Neill turning up in a yellow Jag.Typical Arsenal stunt. I don't think that went down well with the fans.Our players had got old together,most of them and Pat was let go to...........! Poor old Keith had to pretty much start from scratch.........and then he took a trip down Argentina way.......
Sorry chaps, I would love to win FA Cup, and always will. It is special. I also think top 4 is important. However, the new stadium deserves Champions League football. I am 59 years young but still dream. The best way to open the new stadium would be defending the CL trophy. For that reason and that reason alone, and probably only for this one season, I would be prepared to dump the FA Cup in favour of the other two competitions. If we were to go out to Juve, then perhaps a rethink, but as it stands, we have as much chance in Europe as anyone. The mousers (to their eternal credit), showed how to beat Citeh at the weekend, go head to head with them. We've beaten Madrid, albeit not the greatest Madrid side of all time, we've knocked out Dortmund and Barca are not invincible. I for one think performances at the same level could take us all the way. Wembley hoodoo, what Wembley hoodoo? Make it fortress Wembley I say and then take that attitude all the way to Kiev on the 26th May 2018. Which, by the way is a very good day for Tottenham, on the 26th of May 1900, Spurs received their first ever Champions Trophy, the Southern League Shield. History often repeats itself. As and aside, we won the FA Cup the following season. Wouldn't it be nice......
There was an interesting article published yesterday on clubs' incomes based upon a UEFA study... http://www.espn.co.uk/football/blog...ancial-gap-below-top-clubs-uefa-study?src=com ...that indicates that there's an enormous and widening financial gap between Europe's 'Top 12' clubs [the PL's 'Big 6', Barca, RM, Juve, BM, Dortmund and PSG] and the rest. What's the major cause of that gap? Sponsorship and commercial incomes. Sponsors don't care if we win a cup when compared to the exposure in the CL. If we want to consolidate our position in the elite group of clubs, we need regular CL entry. The prize money's great but the sponsorships are where it's at....Sorry, 'The Game's About Money'.
A summary of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's season-long descent into Anelkaishness. * During the summer he was publicly angling for a Big Move™ which (obviously) didn't happen - but that didn't stop him from doing things as low-rent as posting a video on Twitter almost literally begging Milan to sign him * When the aforementioned Big Move™ failed to materialise, he started batting his eyelashes in the direction of the Chinese Super League * With no Big Move™ happening and him apparently getting cold feet over a move to China, he signed a contract extension with Dortmund - then began moaning to anyone who would listen * As well as moaning, he's breached club discipline at least twice this season, with him missing a team meeting last week, while back in November there was another unspecified breach of discipline which may or may not have involved him showing up at Taurine FC Leipzig's training ground and filming their training session * As if that wasn't enough, his father's been spouting off on social media all season long, culminating with a post where he took offence at a journalist describing the entire situation as an "affenzirkus", a term which means either circus or charade, but he decided to use the literal translation of "monkey show" - which he used to make a direct comparison between BVB and Hitler (even though Dortmund never used the word in the first place) while saying that Germany was heading back to the ways of the Third Reich * While his diva behaviour is hardly anything new and it's been a long-term problem at Dortmund, clearly everyone at the club has had enough with his mates in the team publicly telling him to stop acting like such a bell end. His solution? Decide a move to Arsenal might be worth it, because at this rate none of Europe's top clubs would touch him with a fifty foot pole.
Gideon must be on holiday, as today's Standard had a scathing double page spread detailing how (Morata and Rudiger aside) the Chavs' summer signings have been various degrees of shambolic this season.
Personally, I don't see Morata as a raging success. I wouldn't be too surprised to see him leave this summer along with Conte. The usual Chelsea manager departure would seem to be on the cards again. I've given up on the Norwich game. The attempts to put in a back plate on the South Stand has seen a lot more action and entertainment. Addendum: Back plate successfully in. Just as well, there's 3 low loaders waiting on the High Road with pitch trays on them. 2nd Addendum: It's back out again. Should be time to shake it all about soon.
