Arsenal have been stomping all over poor old Spurs for a good while now - and of course, they've just been and gone and done it again, edging their rivals out of a fourth Champions League qualifying slot that for so long looked destined for White Hart Lane. The presence of Arsenal as Tottenham's neighbours, rivals and perennial bêtes-noires is a major obstacle to their chances of ever being regarded as a mega-club, a status Arsenal wear casually, as of right.... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rob-atkinson/spurs-whats-the-point_b_3331171.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Rob Atkinson. Stand up and take a bow son
Really, I have never met any set of fans who take themselves too seriously like the spuds. They are so prickly it is unbelievable. I could not believe the comments from Spud fans, attacking the writer, getting really irate over what is just his opinion. I really wonder is this what all those years of watching your neighbours win trophies does? We have not won anything in in 8yrs, you would expect them to be chilled, (I know I would, if I were them). They are so quick to give it the big'un when it looks like they are turning the corner, but whinge like a rat when they are getting a kicking. I met a mate of mine at a party last week, (been in hiding since the end of season, ignored my calls, text, emails) I had the misfortune of bringing up football, he almost beat me up, told me he deletes my mail without reading them ..... and He has better things to talk about than football....
I think one of the hardest things for Spurs to take is that they really have gone about their business the right way, but they just haven't gone about it quite as well or as successfully as we have. Our purple patch over those 5 years around the turn of the Century was re-invested into the club wholeheartedly. Spurs can't make up their mind what they want to do. Difficult to take, but maybe the right thing to do is to sell Bale, try and get 80M, and use it as a down payment on a new stadium. But they go in for half-measures. Arsenal get a lot of stick for "Selling their best players", but it is exactly this that is fuelling the club's rise. You can't have one without the other. Up until the 90s Spurs and Arsenal (and Leeds) were very similar in size and status. Management since then has made us what we are. When everyone starts tearing into the manager and the board, just remember they (and their predecessors) are the ones that put Arsenal into a position where we now expect trophies, even if we don't get them.
No worries. We cast a BIG shadow and it can fall on someone else if needs be It won't be the chavs though as they are likely to run away with the title next season
It's akin to 'small man syndrome'. A constant sense of paranoia and persecution from the bigger people around them. Spurs are like that angry little man in the pub who thinks the women find his faux bravado attractive, so he does it more and more and in the end he comes up against a bloke who gives him a proper pasting and puts him back in his place.
Really sums the typical spuds up. I wonder how citeh fans coped with decades of manure dominance. Remember a time when they (spuds) were irrelevant to our ambitions.... Really dont recall them being this angry.
No, but old enough to be someone who could invent stories about being a lawyer and a football referee
His latest incarnation is as a 17 year old blonde with big tits. I reminded him that I'd been telling him he was a massive tit for ages, but he spat his dummy out Which suggests that he probably isn't even 17 yet.
You are probably right there. Football changed a lot over the last ten years such that it is now really hard to make ground on the established CL teams. You cemented your place there at exactly the right time. We've done pretty well in finishing in the top 5 for four years running which we'd only done once before in the 60s. Interestingly, before Wenger, Arsenal had not done it since the 30s. Its not a good outcome in my opinion that football is so predictable now but too late to put the genie back in the bottle.
Things change. Just because there is a top 4 now, doesn't mean that there will not be a top 6 or a top 2 in the future. All kinds of things contribute to a changing landscape. The worst thing you can do is simply give up and expect things not to change. Is it hard to break into the top 4, absolutely, but I think in 20 years time, when people look back on Wenger's last 8 years at Arsenal, they are not going to think "Failure", they are going to think, "Genius", whatever the jibes Arsenal fans have to endure right now. If breaking into the top 4 was easy, every club would do it and it wouldn't be a top 4.
