but that was a good result for us that chelsea won..yes im deluded and all that no doubt but i feel as though we can threaten city still..had we won..i mean had thier been a proper ref at our game yesterday then we would potentially be 4 points off top with a game in hand...the table looks just perfect for us i think after 14 games...the top is very very catchable.........all depends on if we are in the mood to go for another amazing run COYS!!
imagine how important it will be that city lost at least a point tonight when we win the league come may
I didn't want a draw, I wanted a City win. It was a bad result for us tonight, a wet and miserable finish to a wet and miserable weekend of football. It meant all three of our rivals for a top four spot won, while we lost. We are now 4th and Chelsea have renewed self-belief. We are still not title contenders, and face a really difficult slog to get that 4th spot.
Looking forward to our game at WHL fellas, you were unlucky yesterday and if we both win next weekend it will be a brilliant match. Shame it's a Thursday though!
Cheer up Ghoddle10 ffs. If we had beaten Stoke and City had beaten Chelsea i bet you would have been harping on about how we are title contenders. Its the same situation now except Chelsea are back in the race. We won't win the league. Anyone that seriously thought we would do it the first time we even resembled challenging is living in cloud cuckoo land. Just enjoy the wonderful football we are playing. If we finish 5th then we finish 5th.
Ghoddle your over dramatic reactions and quite poetic articlesof your love of football and hurt that we havent won the league do amuse me in fact many a time i have even thought that your an arsenal fan and you like emphasisng the fact that we wont win the league again in the 20 or so years you have got to live....yup i do wonder at times...nevertheless you are a funny chap
DM - having supported Spurs for well over 50 years I can assure you that I am NOT an Arsenal fan Glad I am entertaining, I do wear my heart on my sleeve and it gets easily bruised there To some extent I use this forum as a bit of therapy to help me work through the massive lows I suffer when a result and event such as the Stoke match comes along. I hope I don't bore people too much, and all I ask is that people aren't rude to me, even if I (unintentionally) annoy them. I am very aware that I've lived the majority, probably the vast majority, of my life, and it is one of my dearest wishes that I see my beloved Spurs win the title again before I die. And when an opportunity arises like the Stoke game, and that opportunity is then so cruelly stolen from us, it does knock me for somewhat more than six, though I accept I do over-react at times. As Michel Frayn so famously wrote and John Cleese so memorably said, 'it's not the despair that kills you, it's the hope' (slight paraphrase there). Anyway thanks for being understanding DM. And to quote Pope, 'hope springs eternal in the human breast'. So IF we do beat Sunderland, we will finally be in the title race, however briefly, assuming the game isn't already beyond Arsenal by then. So then the cycle of pain, hope, despair and maybe even ultimate joy can begin in earnest Cheers again DM for being a good sport over my tantrums
you can tantrum all you like..everybody has a role to play and your 50 plus years of following a team earns you the right to have a rant and rave whenevr you wish...my bloody 29 years of following spurs have earnt me the right to semi moan...but you sir...can burn White hart lane if you want and if we ever win the league i shall dedicate it to you and your like!!!! enjoy your ranting..i think the rest of us do
Cheers DM and I hope in due course you can celebrate 50+ years in your time with our great club, and that by then we have at least two more title trophies in the cabinet
Ghoddle, I've always enjoyed your posts, agree with you the great majority of the time, and understand perfectly about the downside of rooting for a team. Like Yanks in general, I've had diverse experiences of fandom in different sports--but the one I cut my teeth on was the Chicago Cubs, who have now gone 102 years and 4 months without a championship. But who's counting? I'm now alarmed to find myself caring as much as I do whether a football team wins or loses. I do tell myself, as spurf says, that the main thing is to enjoy how beautifully Spurs are playing (most of the time). Lots of teams win championships in lots of sports, but the way Spurs played against, say, Aston Villa, will stay with me longer, I think, than winning a title. Also, great John Cleese quote. I think you have to have experienced a certain level of hell to find that out.
Good stuff RWB and I take your and others point about enjoying the way we play. You'll probably remember I've been eulogising our team's performances for months now, so no real danger of forgetting that on my part Best of luck to the Chicago Cubs in your title quest, and I'm on a more even keel now so can go back to appreciating our team again on Sunday. It was just that I saw a glimmer of silverware and grasped for it, foolish me
Well Ghoddle I am pleased to see you are calmer now. I have read a lot of comments on here and I too get very emotional about the team I have supported for 48 years now. I have on other posts said how I admire how Spurs play and I do hope your team comes out winning a trophy this year. I am a season ticket holder and a lot of us hope we continue to improve the way we play. I saw the game on Sky again today and yes agree that Spurs should at least have got a point. The referee and linesman were poor to say the least. However, I do feel that Stoke have been done by refs in other games. I amn sure it will even itself out but we were lucky! I wish Spurs and their fans the best of luck for the season and hope that it is only a few of you 'hate' Stoke! The only team and manager I have absolutely NO time for are your neighbours ArseNIL! Cheers
Hi LDL, I just say it how I feel. I only felt we had a chance of a tilt at the title if we beat Stoke, we didn't so we don't, ATM. However, IF we beat Sunderland then yes i'll feel we're in a title challenge. Should City then beat Arsenal then I'll feel that chance has gone again and so on. You can be more sanguine, because Utd almost always in the Prem era have been title contenders, for us it's a very fragile thing. In fact I don't think it's happened yet. That's why I'm so nervy and fragile about it all. Just a realistic shot at the title is something I haven't seen for 25 years or more, now there is a glimmer on the horizon, but it's not there yet. For me, if we get within four points of the leaders and there's at least 15 games to play, then we're in it to win it. However, 7 points behind with a game in hand doesn't cut it for me, still too far away for us. It wouldn't be too far for Chelsea or you or Arsenal, you've all been course and distance winners, we haven't even made the top three places yet. Massive difference, to my expectation levels at least. I want us right close to the leaders before I start seeing that winning post.
TKP, yes I've made my peace with that game now, it will always hurt a little and a helluva lot if it proves crucial to our season, but time to move on. As I've said elsewhere ,the admirable words of your fellow fan 'The Welsh Mourinho' have helped get me a better perspective on the situation, plus of course dear old 'Time the great healer'. Thanks for you wise words too, I hope Stoke can find a better style as the years progress and I can see them in a better light, but I already see fans like youself and WM in a good light now, and that's nice to feel. Fans have to support their team, right or wrong, to a great extent anyway, so no hard feelings from me to those Stokies who so passionately leap to their club's defence. I do it on a daily basis.
this is not the Ghoddle10 appreciation thread..he is not dead..he said he has nother twenty years left with us
i think Ghoddle thinks we are doomed lds...no chance of us coming to any good since we got mugged on weeknd am i right GH i think im going to wear GH's hat for a moment ohh bolox i see us losing redknapp and appointing Pulis as his replacement..and Modric will leave and joi...ohh fk this im taking it off again!!
