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The Arrogance of Spurs

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by tj_hammer, Dec 16, 2013.

  1. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Godzilla probably does. He's kinda tall.

    ...although if he took one look at Liverpool, he'd probably think he'd been there already and stomp on to Manchester instead.
     
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  2. Sharpe*

    Sharpe* Senior Member

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    Have a look at the mousers thread, put yourself in our shoes, and you'll understand where I'm coming from.
     
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  3. No Kane No Gain

    No Kane No Gain Well-Known Member

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    Low midtable? You're relegation fodder currently. Good job knowing what you are :D

    Who's said we were title challengers? Seriously? The only ones I've heard mention it since the start of the season was the pundits and opposition managers looking to put the pressure on.

    Sure some fans at some point hoped that we could become contenders with this new squad but I don't know anyone that expected it.

    See this is the point you guys keep missing. Just because we laughed at you guys when time after time you thought you were going to overtake us doesn't mean we were looking down our noses at anyone. We might as well all be Rotherham fans we'd still have found it funny that you came on our board each season and talked yourselves into thinking you were better than "small" teams like Spurs every season only to fall quite a distance short.
     
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  4. El_Bando

    El_Bando Can't remember, where was I? Forum Moderator

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    best thread of all time

    The 1st line though is very spooky.

    TJ = Nostradamus
     
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  5. Swords Hoopster.

    Swords Hoopster. Well-Known Member

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    I wouldn't worry about it. Have a look at their Board. They're doing it AGAIN. Talking about winning the Premier League title <doh>
    You'd think they'd have learned their lesson after getting it wrong 20 years running? But no. Rather than slowly building and having realistic expectations, they're getting all carried away again. And this only a couple of weeks after being taken apart by HULL!

    It must be in the Scoucer's DNA to keep living in the past when they was once a huge Club.
     
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  6. BajanSpur

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    Not Levy's fault..

    He issued a clear mandate as to what was expected of the manager and supplied the funds to assist him.

    He does not man-manage the squad. He does not pick the team, make the substitutions or provide the tactics.

    The job was not too big for Andre but at the end of the day, he got his own arse the sack.

    It is perfectly normal for Mr Levy and the faithful fans to expect better.
     
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  7. Sharpe*

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    Honestly yid you just make it up as you go along.

    It's there to ridicule us as we've nosedived and you have taken over in past years and a chance to bring out prehistoric stereotypes of us.

    Its not there as some sort of counter measure to us ridiculing you lot. Is there anything on our board to suggest this? Complete falacy mate and you know it.

    Unfortunately yesterday that arrogance and general pisstaking was made to look pretty silly.
     
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  8. Sharpe*

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    Think you'll find there is a thread about keeping our feet on thd ground.

    We know where we are as a club. 4-6 th.

    Nice story though.
     
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  9. No Kane No Gain

    No Kane No Gain Well-Known Member

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    No, I never said it was. It's there because we all enjoyed laughing as you guys built yourselves up to keep falling down again and again. You don't remember the cross board threads back in the day? Well we do and since then you've been on here to gloat everytime something goes badly for us. Take last year, you were laughing at our poor side at the start of the season... then we finished comfortably above you. Go back another season, it was the same. And the one before that. It's not stereotyping and it's not based on old jokes about your support, it's what happened. No one was worried about you ridiculing us because everytime you tried to it bit you on the ass a few weeks later.

    Anyway, enjoy your time in the Sun, hopefully we'll have sorted ourselves out by the end of the season :)
     
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  10. Swords Hoopster.

    Swords Hoopster. Well-Known Member

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    Fair enough pal. Only winding you up. :emoticon-0150-hands
     
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  11. The RDBD

    The RDBD Well-Known Member

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    Mousers finishing below a small club like Spurs who don't know their place, for 4 consecutive seasons,
    and with no CL to console themselves with either is very painful, Not having the most domestic league titles
    won security blanket to cling to worsens it. God knows what happens if Everton finish above
    them for 4 consecutive seasons.
     
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  12. Oh, come on! No one's looking down their noses at anyone, least of all you, Mr Kebab Man.
     
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  13. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Apart from those in the top jobs, 90% of managers would love to manage this squad. International players in abundance and despite the fact we've suffered some horrible defeats along with god-awful performances, we're still in a half decent position. 7th in the league, QF of LC and 100% record in Europa so far.
     
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  14. bigsmithy9

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    tjhammer.

    Blimey,he's better than Basil Fawlty.Blimey,he IS Basil Fawlty!
     
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    As a watford fan I feel your pain lads. We've been getting called arrogant all season by fans of sleeping giants when not one of our fans said we'd be getting promoted this season - we all knew we may ahve over achieved last year. I read some of the threads on here a lot as it's one of the better Premier league boards for ahving a decent cross section of fans from other clubs. I don't see much of any arrogance on here to be honest.

    I suspect we're both in for a bit of schadenfreude over the next few days - it'll be someone else's turn soon enough.
     
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  16. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Not really, Basil Fawlty was funny.
     
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  17. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    no, they're not arrogant, that's why the most voted for manager in their 'who will be next', is Hiddink, they actually think they are a club that Hiddink would consider, and Capello. Really?
     
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  18. Swords Hoopster.

    Swords Hoopster. Well-Known Member

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    Alf, last I heard Capello was favourite at 11/8. Someone must be backing him
     
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  19. pabird

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    Understand the hammers have 40,000 half price seats going for the opening match (new? stadia) against Doncaster
     
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  20. bigsmithy9

    bigsmithy9 Well-Known Member

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    Remember what Blanchflower said? Let 'em in free and charge 'em to get out!
     
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