Exactly! I love Spurs because we have always gone out on a limb to play attractive, exciting football. If we have any reputation, at all, it's for playing the kind of football that fans want to watch and that good players love to play.
Yeah. We are disappointed in that, must be similar to having your best season in living memory, and your rivals having an absolute nightmare, yet still being above you. I guess we have lots in common.
It might be better if Mackems didn't comment on this article. Any positive feedback about poaching O'Neill is likely to result in 'hands off, you arrogant bastards' retorts, whereas negative ones will result in the tired ****e that we've already seen.
AFC had a very bad start, but then got back into their stride. I would say they are having a nightmare season, since they are exactly where their fans would have expected them to be. Also, the season isn't over yet. RvP looked tired, today, and it's little wonder they lost. We'd said all season that they are a one-man team. When is doesn't play well, their whole team falls apart. Newcastle, on the other hand, had key players leave them this season, whereas Blunderland were building key players. There is no excuse for your two sides' relative positions in the league. None.
Can we not turn this into a Spurs v Sunderland thread, please? There'll be plenty of time for that when we play each other.
To some extent, the Spurs v Sunderland theme is going to enter into the debate, because Sunderland are the team that we would be in danger of becoming, should Levy make the fatal mistake of bringing in MON.
What! would MON be bringing the Stadium of Light with him to save Levy a few quid on the building project.
Exactly! I love Spurs because we have always gone out on a limb to play attractive, exciting football. If we have any reputation, at all, it's for playing the kind of football that fans want to watch and that good players love to play.[/QUOTE] I'm assuming, anyone of O'neill's talent would know this., Surely anyone comming in would not want to play outside of the strength of the current squad., I also don't think he'd be fool enough to ring-in wholesale changes., He might just have the nous required, to add a bit of guile to our style of play,. thus making Spurs harder to beat in the big games., you know, the ones that really matter....
There seems to be a reoccurring theme here, spurs fan suggests average manager of a north east club, general view is "thanks but no thanks" and then we get the geordies and mackems throwing a tantrum because we don't rate their managers! And the northerners would have you believe "we don't care what you lot think"...go figure!
You missed out a bit, Boss. They also get annoyed if anyone suggests that we should go after their manager. Go figure.
I'm not so sure, Bajan. Managers, generally, seem to be set in their ways, and go about their job to a plan or a method. Most of the top managers can be recognised by the way they set up their teams and by the tactics they play. Some on here were saying that Mourhino would be too defensive (based on that one game they played against Barcelona, to win the CL), and yet you think MON would change his method to fit in with the Spurs way? Of the two managers, I'd trust Mourhino to have the more flexible methodology, and I'd expect MON to be more set in his ways. Do you remember the football we played under George Graham? I think MON would get us playing the same way.
Look, I hold out little hope of us getting Mourhino (not because I think we are too small a club for him, but because if he made himself available he'd have money thrown at him like it was confetti by clubs far less scrupulous than us, and we wouldn't get a look in. I'd even expect his former Russian employer to try to get him back on board with the lure of double the cash he was given the first time round. That's not to say we can't dream a little.
If i'm proved incorrect over Jose, I would be over the moon as I want us to actually win trophies and get some steel to our play, plus his football isn't as bad as some claim but we both know it won't happen!
