Hello, Spurs fan here, I'm laughing because I'm having this fantastic dream. You'll laugh too when I tell you that in my dream Spurs are second in the table with just 7 games left and you'll laugh even more when I tell you that we are chasing Leicester for the Premier League Title, yeah I know! The years of supporting Spurs must have finally got to me. It gets better, the England manager, in my dream, picks a young untried team to face the World Champions (Who else but Germany) and that team includes 4 Spurs players with a 5th on the bench. Dream or not we are 2 goals down inside 55 minutes but then, remember this is my dream, we come back with 2 goals from the young Spurs players and one from, wait for it, a Leicester striker. This must be pay back for 1970 when in the quarter finals of the World Cup in Mexico West Germany came from 2 goals down to beat England 3 - 2 in extra time. I remember watching that game in disbelief as nobody had scored 3 goals against England's rock solid defence for what seemed like a lifetime. No! leave me! I'm really enjoying my dream, I'll wake up soon enough and find us struggling in the EL and sacking yet another hopeless manager but until then! If only life was like that eh!
Love the piece reminds me of dreams many of us had when spurs introduced "pass and move" in 1949 when all the other teams were giving it wellies down the channels It took some developing on the mud pitches and miners boots Eventually Billy Nick gave us all sweet dreams in the sixties Watched it all from 49 through to the most exciting team since Bill N Goodnight and sweet dreams
In fact, this is just how it might be if the Sky 5 joined a European Super League We've had a preview We don't want it, do we?
Did your dream also involve a season where Man United were simply a shadow of their former selves with no pace, creativity or flair. Chelsea were struggling to get out of the bottom half and Arsenal fans wanted to sack their manager? Now what a dream that would be!
It's weird, I keep having a similar one as well, Spurf! I keep imagining that this young CB we signed from Sporting Lisbon last summer got thrown into the DM position at the start of this season and has become one of the best players in Europe in that role, then there's this kid we got from MK Dons in January 2015 who stayed there for the rest of that season and then came back to us in the Summer, funny thing is he's turned into one of the country's best players and brightest prospects in world football whereas one of our academy lads is leading the scoring charts in the world's most competitive and exciting league and is being recognised as one of Europe's top marksmen. Then we signed this back up CB from Atletico Madrid who was on loan at Southampton last year, he's only bloody gone and become the best CB in the Prem and helped get the best out of Vertonghen, Wimmer and our full backs while being supported by the French national captain in goal to ensure we have the best defence in the league, yeah that's it, Spurs with the best defence in the league . Though finally... And it gets better, have a load of this, we got this manager from Southampton last season, was probably most people's 2nd or 3rd choice to replace the outgoing Tim Sherwood. In his first year he started dropping players that had cost the club £26m, £20m, £15m etc all for untested academy players and somehow we ended up finishing 5th with the youngest side in the league, now we're sitting pretty in 2nd with just 7 games remaining and the players are really enjoying playing under him despite doing 2-3 training sessions a day! The fans seem to love him too! Us bloody Spurs fans, eh?! Always being delusional and dreaming of the improbable!
Either we are not dreaming or this article was written in an alternative reality... http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35912192
I do hope people on the PL board do not see the table with the Alli/Kane assist stuff in it, and show it to Arsenal87 ...
Part of the pride of being a Spurs supporter is how the club were the first to do so many things : - Amateur club to win the FA Cup - English club in the 20th century to do the domestic double (after a very long gap to the previous occurrence) - British club to win a UEFA trophy Like a football "pathfinder squadron" .
The significant drop in shot conversion rate is tremendously important imho. Last season I think most of us were in agreement that we had quite a bit of luck on our side; we regularly saw 3 shots on target all game yet somehow 2 went in. I think our ranking this season is more reflective of a reality where you're not at all reliant on luck, and can attribute your successes to sheer quality. I'd be far more nervous if, for example, we had the best shot conversion rate in the league - because insofar as we have improved defensively, so can everyone else - and then the only way is downhill. If we're entering April still contending the title despite having a bang average SC rate, the fact that all other statistics are going uphill suggests that the same will happen to SC rate next season, but from a position of quality rather than luck. What I'm trying to say in a long-winded fashion is: I'm damn excited for next season.
This sparked my imagination, so I created a short animation of him scoring a wonder goal based upon the idea: Bit far fetched, but it's nice to dream, isn't it?
Please no more! My wife has already had a heated argument with me about how I find that goal more attractive than her! This clip has a load of new angles that I've never seen before, which probably means another week on the couch for me
Couldn't agree more. The usual suspects will be spending big over the summer in the hope of improving their quality but it will take time for that to happen. We know only too well the problems of bringing in players and expecting them to perform and gel as a team from day one. We have to hit the ground running at the start of the season and scare the pants off all opposition. Spurs are in the ascendancy and we have to make that count.
People tend to remember the first, and the most recent. In football, there is a term used to describe people who cannot celebrate either of the above ...
...Rose's reaction about 3/4 of the way in...you can see he knows that he's just witnessed history in the making. And yes, I have just spent the last 20 minutes watching that clip on a loop. We've honestly got to the stage where we have friends over for a drink and the wife asks me to get the wedding pictures out, and I simply walk into the lounge with an iPad showing a series of stills and slow-motion replays of this goal. 'til death do us part, Dele, 'til death do us part.
1st to win 5 anyhoo i dont want to derail the delusional love in going on here, ill head over to the mouser thread and post my findings in a more welcoming environment
