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Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by ShelfSideSpur, Jan 27, 2011.

  1. PowerSpurs

    PowerSpurs Well-Known Member

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    Correct. You need someone who has £5b spare and doesn't require any sort of return on it other than football success.
     
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  2. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    It's incredibly simple. We want better management.

    In the last few years,we’ve pissed £700m away on mediocrity and a bunch of coaches who have been ill-suited and/or ill equipped to do anything but fail...

    ...and there's no sign that the board have a single idea how to stop the rot.

    Fans pay the highest prices for poor management and steadily worsening results.

    Boo!
     
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  3. Billy The Spur

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    You can try and and downplay it if you want, but there was two or three thousand actually.
     
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  4. Billy The Spur

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    We don`t need £500m to make a difference, just a chairman with half an idea about football, some scouts who know what they are doing and some sporting ambition from the top will do.
     
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  5. PowerSpurs

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  7. PowerSpurs

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    It's not the 1960s any more. Every club has data on every player in 100s of leagues. The best ones are well known and generally go to the clubs with most money. Of you have the sixth most money then you will generally have the sixth best team and will rarely win anything. This is true everywhere.
     
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  8. Left on the Shelf

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    I cannot recall which thread it was on, but remember talk about Brennan Johnson being like Deli.
    The **** he is! Johnson is not a bad lad and has a knack for scoring a few goals, but he is no Deli. Not even close!

    https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ABQDduEBg/
     
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  9. PleaseNotPoll

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    The most miraculous thing about that goal is that Eriksen actually headed the ****ing ball.
     
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    <laugh>

    But that's some collection of goals.... headers, long range strikes, overhead kicks, tricks and flicks.... the lad had everything! Such a waste - just hope he is in a better place now.
     
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  11. humanbeingincroydon

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    Bring on the zombie apocalypse

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  12. humanbeingincroydon

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    This is why Luca Williams-Barnett is getting hyped up, he has such Dele energy

    For example
     
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  13. Billy The Spur

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  14. PleaseNotPoll

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    "ENIC have to sell!" They don't though, do they? Quite the opposite, in fact.
     
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    IMHO that is the problem as I have long stated.
    Uncle Joe has very little personally riding on Spurs attaining PL/CL glory.

    I do ponder how Levy might operate if Uncle Joe departs this world.
     
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    He's already given up his stake in Spurs/ENIC to his kids, I believe.
     
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  17. PowerSpurs

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    I find myself surprised by people being stressed by watching football but it does explain the anger exhibited by a few on here.
     
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    I mean the language they use to describe the Korean fans in the stadium is another explanation...
     
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  19. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    ...or you've not lived the lives they/we have?

    To some, football is everything...or very close to it. Not everyone comes from a place where there is love, support and care.

    I've had some of that experience. Football and Punk became everything - good and bad. Whilst I've been lucky to find happiness in other things subsequently, my teenage self is still identifiable in my response to what I loved then...and I mean LOVED.

    So, for me, going to the match was a participation event, not an entertainment. I was ecstatic and hopeful and miserable and despairing and angry (not racist or homophobic). I could no more keep silent and politely appreciative than I could fly there and back...I'm not sure if I could have changed, even if I wanted to, which I never did.

    Vive la difference! It's what makes the world go round.
     
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  20. The RDBD

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    My anger is for repeated mistakes when the stakes
    are high and the margins of error are so small.
     
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