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Diego said:
Not really, they have been almost as **** as us.
No wonder Chelsea have walked the league, just like Leicester last season there has been no pressure on them.
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2013-14: 1st compared to 7th
2014-15: 2nd compared to 4th
2015-16: 4th compared to 5th
2016-17: 3rd or 4th compared to 5th or 6th

I believe the phrase they might want to start using is "Mind the gap"
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
2013-14: 1st compared to 7th
2014-15: 2nd compared to 4th
2015-16: 4th compared to 5th
2016-17: 3rd or 4th compared to 5th or 6th

I believe the phrase they might want to start using is "Mind the gap"
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Not at all, if you want to gauge your success by the way we have played the last 4 seasons then by all means feel happy <ok> :emoticon-0100-smile
 
BobbyD said:
Hmmmm.... I wouldn't say Spurs bottled it but it did feel like this was a typical spurs opportunity lost. You guys had finally pulled us back in and even if you weren't going to reel us back in you were going to give it a bloody good try and push us to the end.

From being no where in the race (10 points behind) you were looking imperious going into the FA cup semi. You were playing attractive football, you were smashing teams apart at White Hart Lane and even though you were 'Struggling' (last minute goals against swans and a eriksen special against palace) you were winning your away games and still creating loads.

Chelsea were wobbling. Still winning but not totally convincingly (no clean sheets in like 10 until against everton) and after the Palace loss, you could sense Conte was worried in the United match. Like in the spurs match he froze when he should have been changing things up and he wasn't the same animated self that he normally is (maybe he was ill like supposedly the rest of the team). Even i was worried that i put a hedging bet on Spurs to win the league

First up you lose the FA semi which might have played a part but its one of those games, between us that they are always pretty tight and theres no one team dominating another (in terms of chances)

So up against West Ham which you knew would be a hard game in terms of the rivalry, but you were in good form and West Ham are pretty poor this season with only 1 real threat in lanzini. You should be expecting to beat them but even if you don't at least dominate them. You didn't (fortunately for us) and you didn't even batter their goal even when you went behind. Obviously everyone is entitled to days off (we were shocking at United, didn't make a scratch on them but they are a top 6 side and we lost to palace even though we absolutely battered them) but it was just the lack of fight back when falling 1 down. That lack of a ideas to come back against West Ham in a pivotal game that would have put massive pressure on us as the gap would have been 1 point was the most "spursy" thing about it.

Who knows what would have happened if the lead went down to 1 point as we all know pressure breaks some players. It happened to Conte as a player and from being elected champions to then potentially bottling the a giant lead as well as only being 1 point ahead to a team who didn't look like dropping any points would have been something to really play on the players minds as they know 1 or 2 more mistakes could cost them.

All in all though you made a good fist of it and an achievement even make a 'Title' race of it when no one was expecting it, not the least from Spurs anyway
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I agree with a number of others that if there were one thing I would have done differently this year, it would have been the FA semifinal. I wish we would have put out our strongest team in the hopes we could have kept playing our best football. Tbf, Chelsea started with Hazard and Costa on the bench, I believe. Away to Liverpool and West Ham were also strangely poor efforts. But, all things considered, I'm very pleased with what Spurs did this year, especially the quality of play and the way we gave WHL a magnificent send-off.
 
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Quite an honest, humble assessment from a man we've taken much pleasure in deriding. Certainly not as embedded up his own backside as his nemesis across the city.

Deep down, I do worry about a resurgent City next season. True, Pep has made some horrendously bad misjudgments this season, but they probably have the best array of attackers in the league and have limitless resources. If he has truly learned the harsh lessons of the PL, they will be a force to be reckoned with. Arsenal and Liverpool don't scare me, the two Manc clubs do.
 
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