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Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa

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  1. Citizen Kane.

    Citizen Kane. Well-Known Member

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    Saw a comment on social media that sums up Son imo:

    "Son's entire career at Spurs and indeed its significant successes and overwhelmingly positive memories, can be credited to the fact that he was always the support act. The backup singer.

    Now that the lead singer has left, Son has been thrust into the spotlight. He isn't comfortable there. He isn't comfortable wearing an armband that only emphasises his new position as the main man.

    Son is best when he plays Robin. He was never meant to play Batman. As a footballer he has gone into hiding, snatching at shots and failing to get past even the worst defenders. He desperately wants someone else to step into the spotlight in his place, but none are forthcoming."
     
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  2. PowerSpurs

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    I didn't support hiring Mourinho and the timing of the sacking was non-optimal too. Levy is nowhere near perfect and neither is Ange but no other Chairman has come close to what Levy has achieved.
     
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  3. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    What has he achieved?
     
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  4. PowerSpurs

    PowerSpurs Well-Known Member

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    Getting a mid-table club to the CL final, multiple CL appearances and completely overhauled the infrastructure to enable the club to continue to grow.
     
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  5. Billy The Spur

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    Levy has achieved feck all, the most unsuccessful chairman in this clubs history, even Sugar had a better strike rate and he was garbage too.
     
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  6. Billy The Spur

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    A perfect example of a fan who supports the regime and not the football club.
     
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  7. PowerSpurs

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    Every other club who were in the same region of the League as us when Levy took over has done worse. The issue is that we had fallen so far behind on money and infrastructure that it was always going to be a long road back. We are a long way along it. Villa, Newcastle and Everton are years behind.
     
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  8. PowerSpurs

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    I only support the regime because they understand the best way of improving the football club which is by increasing revenue by every route possible until we overtake the five bigger clubs. We are having a struggle even when spending more than £100m of extra revenue. Imagine what the squad would be like without it.
     
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  9. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    So essentially after 24 years he's taken a side from 10th-12th to an average of 6th and won a League Cup. It's a decent job but it's nothing to massively brag about. Plenty of owners have built/ are building better infrastructure at their clubs too.
     
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  10. PowerSpurs

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    It's miles better than anyone other than Man City have achieved. Each of Arsenal, Man Utd and Chelsea have declined slightly over the same period.
    Which better infrastructure?
     
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  11. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Those three clubs you've mentioned have still had far better sporting success than us in the time period.

    Better infrastructure as in teams are building bigger and better than what they previously had. Levy overseeing our new stadium isn't unique, many clubs have been and are doing the same.
     
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  12. PowerSpurs

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    Of course they did, they started miles ahead of is.
    The infrastructure everywhere else is nowhere near what we have
     
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  13. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Well I guess he can win the "best infrastructure" award then. That's what the fans really care about.

    Interesting how many sides are starting to finish ahead of us these days though. Villa are on course for a third straight season, Brighton are on course for making it two in three, I mean at the moment over half the league will be finishing above us. We've had head starts on many of them, have the amazing new stadium and somehow just seem to be going backwards.

    And the scariest thing? If we didn't luck out producing one of the world's best strikers and somehow keeping him for almost a decade, the position we're now in would've been a regular occurrence over the last 5-6 years.
     
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  14. PowerSpurs

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    How would you have brought in more revenue if not through improved infrastructure? The Academy was something else that Levy built and Levy could have decided to sell Kane and didn't. Something else he gets no credit for.
     
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  15. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Build a stadium, just like many other clubs have done… you just tried making it sound unprecedented as if no club has ever built a new stadium or training ground.

    Kane never pushed for a move, thankfully for us but foolishly for him. Had he done so just like Modric/ Bale/ Berbatov where they essentially requested to leave and even refused to train, Levy would’ve sold before he actually did - and when he did sell him he got a terrible deal, £100m for the best striker on the planet was a joke, 1 year left on contract or not. And that £100m has gotten us nowhere too.
     
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    Not yet
     
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  17. bigsmithy9

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    I keep wondering if there is anyone at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium who really knows how to put a team together starting with a proper PL defense.Renaming our ground might work wonders also.I kind of remember a ground that scared a lot of teams a while ago.I think it was called White Hart Lane!Come on you scouts,get the bloody lead out!
     
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    This
     
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  19. humanbeingincroydon

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    Usually it was our fans who were scared of going to White Hart Lane
     
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  20. bigsmithy9

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    Recently,yes.But then I'm old! I remember the Glory,Glory,Days and wonder what the hell's happened.Perhaps our management should be running waste management not a football club!
     
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