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Spudulike said:
We should all be used to it by now. There’s an ingrained hatred towards Spurs. When we fail, they lap it up. When we succeed, it’s never enough.
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doesn't bother me tbh...just amazes me how low their standards are.
For years I have used crap football journalism to teach my daughters that they should never blindly believe what they read or hear in the media without checking it out from other sources.
 
The general garbage level of lazy, biased hackery doesn't bother me as much as the back-stabbing punditry from mediocre players who owe their (limited) career success to the club!
Yes, Jermaine Feckin' Jenas, I'm talking about you!! <grr>
 
If it had been the other way round, and we had been above 'Pool all season and topped them at the death, we'd never have heard the last of it.
 
Spur of the Moment said:
The general garbage level of lazy, biased hackery doesn't bother me as much as the back-stabbing punditry from mediocre players who owe their (limited) career success to the club!
Yes, Jermaine Feckin' Jenas, I'm talking about you!! <grr>
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Hands up who else thought he was talking about Jamie Redknapp?

...or Danny Murphy?
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
Hands up who else thought he was talking about Jamie Redknapp?

...or Danny Murphy?
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Fair point on JR - but it was the inane narrative ramblings that JJ came out with yesterday that particularly annoyed.... (And Redknapps career didn't hinge on his time at Spurs)
Murphy has his moments, but isn't the worst.
 
From the BBC website review of the PL season by their Chief Football Correspondent:

Disappointment that no title challenge materialised - Spurs are not alone there - and should be even bigger disappointment that there is still no trophy after four seasons under their excellent manager Mauricio Pochettino. The Champions League last-16 exit to Juventus was a bitter pill to swallow but they are back for more next season. No-one can deny this team is progressing under Pochettino - but until they win something, questions will always hang over them. New home next season and still moving in the right direction.

McNulty's pre-season prediction: 6th

This sums up a great deal of what passes for football journalism these days. He predicted that we'd finish 6th as most critics did. Citeh scored a record number of points and only 1 club got within 20 points of them [United, 19 points away]. We played at a neutral stadium where most sides upped their game, as it was akin to their cup final. We finished third......and yet it was disappointing that we didn't challenge for the title?

It's just a load of old bollocks. On Spurs Community, they reproduced journalists' and broadcasters' 'expert pundit's' predictions. We made the Top 4 in 3 out of 28 predictions. So, about 10% thought we'd make top 4. 1 of them said second, 1 said third and 1 said fourth. That's a failure rate of 3.5% and yet we've disappointed?

We had a good season. The 'journalism' of McNulty and others is revisionist......it's also complete bollocks.
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
From the BBC website review of the PL season by their Chief Football Correspondent:

Disappointment that no title challenge materialised - Spurs are not alone there - and should be even bigger disappointment that there is still no trophy after four seasons under their excellent manager Mauricio Pochettino. The Champions League last-16 exit to Juventus was a bitter pill to swallow but they are back for more next season. No-one can deny this team is progressing under Pochettino - but until they win something, questions will always hang over them. New home next season and still moving in the right direction.

McNulty's pre-season prediction: 6th

This sums up a great deal of what passes for football journalism these days. He predicted that we'd finish 6th as most critics did. Citeh scored a record number of points and only 1 club got within 20 points of them [United, 19 points away]. We played at a neutral stadium where most sides upped their game, as it was akin to their cup final. We finished third......and yet it was disappointing that we didn't challenge for the title?

It's just a load of old bollocks. On Spurs Community, they reproduced journalists' and broadcasters' 'expert pundit's' predictions. We made the Top 4 in 3 out of 28 predictions. So, about 10% thought we'd make top 4. 1 of them said second, 1 said third and 1 said fourth. That's a failure rate of 3.5% and yet we've disappointed?

We had a good season. The 'journalism' of McNulty and others is revisionist......it's also complete bollocks.
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Well said, Brian
McNumpty is symptomatic of the problem - and even when faced with his own fractured logic won't admit his mistake. The narrative rules...... <doh>
 
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Tis trivial for a hack to accurately write the following :

Spurs have done better than nearly all of us expected.

The Wembley factor feared in August, had some effect,
but not to the level feared.

The CL campaign was very good, far beyond what was
predicted in September.

The FA Cup campaign was a stuttering affair due to the
squad rotation, but the SFs were reached.

However, in exceeding expectations there were
opportunities for Spurs to have soared even higher
(the CL 2nd leg against Juventus, the FA Cup SF) .

So in summary : job done but opportunities missed.

END.

Unless, of course ...

https://www.not606.com/threads/hack-watch.336393/page-71#post-11735914
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
From the BBC website review of the PL season by their Chief Football Correspondent:

Disappointment that no title challenge materialised - Spurs are not alone there - and should be even bigger disappointment that there is still no trophy after four seasons under their excellent manager Mauricio Pochettino. The Champions League last-16 exit to Juventus was a bitter pill to swallow but they are back for more next season. No-one can deny this team is progressing under Pochettino - but until they win something, questions will always hang over them. New home next season and still moving in the right direction.

McNulty's pre-season prediction: 6th

This sums up a great deal of what passes for football journalism these days. He predicted that we'd finish 6th as most critics did. Citeh scored a record number of points and only 1 club got within 20 points of them [United, 19 points away]. We played at a neutral stadium where most sides upped their game, as it was akin to their cup final. We finished third......and yet it was disappointing that we didn't challenge for the title?

It's just a load of old bollocks. On Spurs Community, they reproduced journalists' and broadcasters' 'expert pundit's' predictions. We made the Top 4 in 3 out of 28 predictions. So, about 10% thought we'd make top 4. 1 of them said second, 1 said third and 1 said fourth. That's a failure rate of 3.5% and yet we've disappointed?

We had a good season. The 'journalism' of McNulty and others is revisionist......it's also complete bollocks.
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Spot on. If we had a disappointing season, then what sort of season did the pundits have?
 
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The days of Brian Moore are long gone! Even Jimmy Hill made sense and so did Kenneth Wolstenholme and Barry Davies........aaaahhhhh! Those "good old days!!!!"
 
The hack narrative, now, is that Poch will “commit to Spurs for one more season amid interest from Chelsea.” This is according to The Sun.

Where have they got that from - that he’ll give us only one more season?

Oh, yeah. That’s right. They made it up.

It doesn’t even make any sense.

Are Chelsea going to appoint a new manager for only one season, and tell the next bloke “you’re only here until Poch becomes available mate!”

Imbeciles.
 
Hoddle Is A God said:
The hack narrative, now, is that Poch will “commit to Spurs for one more season amid interest from Chelsea.” This is according to The Sun.

Where have they got that from - that he’ll give us only one more season?

Oh, yeah. That’s right. They made it up.

It doesn’t even make any sense.

Are Chelsea going to appoint a new manager for only one season, and tell the next bloke “you’re only here until Poch becomes available mate!”

Imbeciles.
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The main reason to declare it false is why would Poch tell the Sun what he's planning. If he announced he's here for 1 year then we'd be better off sacking him now, he'd be a dead man walking.
 
I don't see MP committing to 'one more year'. It's not him. He's spoken of working as if he was going to stay for life but knowing that it could end at any time

If he loses faith in a project, like he did at Southampton, then he'd just go. If he and Daniel Levy can't agree on where to go from here, or if DL had any inkling of MP entertaining Chelsea, the one outcome that seems least plausible is the one that The Sun suggest. Neither man would hesitate to walk away. Again,, it's complete bollocks.
 
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Hoddle Is A God said:
The hack narrative, now, is that Poch will “commit to Spurs for one more season amid interest from Chelsea.” This is according to The Sun.

Where have they got that from - that he’ll give us only one more season?

Oh, yeah. That’s right. They made it up.

It doesn’t even make any sense.

Are Chelsea going to appoint a new manager for only one season, and tell the next bloke “you’re only here until Poch becomes available mate!”

Imbeciles.
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A few weeks ago the Narrative was Harry Kane would give us "one more season" before leaving.

Recycling headlines doesn't help the environment, y'know...
 
Hoddle Is A God said:
The hack narrative, now, is that Poch will “commit to Spurs for one more season amid interest from Chelsea.” This is according to The Sun. Where have they got that from - that he’ll give us only one more season? Oh, yeah. That’s right. They made it up. It doesn’t even make any sense. Are Chelsea going to appoint a new manager for only one season, and tell the next bloke “you’re only here until Poch becomes available mate!” Imbeciles.
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The amazingly creative Sun headline reads "One Maur Go". Seriously? :emoticon-0173-middl <doh>
 
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