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Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Dinamo Zagreb

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by PleaseNotPoll, Mar 10, 2021.

  1. crackerman jack

    crackerman jack Well-Known Member

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    I don’t think anyone disagrees with you and on paper we have everything in place to be successful. We just have completely the wrong manager!
     
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  2. PowerSpurs

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    Managers are a bit like players, most of them are average and the odd one or two make a difference. Levy has made lots of mistakes but fewer than most chairmen.
     
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  3. BluefromBridgend

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    And that is what is so terrible. He has sucked the passion out of one of the most passionate groups of support in the country.

    I really think he has no understanding of what football means to a club's fans.
     
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  4. crackerman jack

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    Do we have to play the league cup final? Don’t even want to put myself through it.
     
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  5. BluefromBridgend

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    We all know what his tactics (or lack of them) will be on the day.
     
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  6. PleaseNotPoll

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    Ajax are winning comfortably. I wonder how Ten Hag feels about the Premier League?
     
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  7. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    Lasagne all round?
     
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  8. humanbeingincroydon

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    Everton was what he considered attacking football, as there was attacking

    Tonight was nothing. Tonight was a wasteland of football - except for our right flank, that was a slaughterhouse
     
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    Sore comes to mind but ****ers is much better. For God's sake,sell Kane and buy a new defence before we get relegated!!!!
     
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  10. humanbeingincroydon

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    Villarreal 2-0 up on the night and 4-0 up on aggregate

    Foyth's probably going to receive a few text messages asking him what it feels like
     
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  11. BajanSpur

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    Can't sack Jose. Let's Jose sees the light and sacks himself.
     
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  12. PleaseNotPoll

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    Pre-match reactions to the team selection, just in case anyone thinks that nobody saw this **** coming.
    There were no positive ones in response.
     
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    What a shower of ****.
     
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  14. humanbeingincroydon

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    Hojbjerg was suspended, which guaranteed at least one of Winks and Sissoko would start

    Frankly we may as well have named Jamie Bowden in the squad, if that was him boarding the flight, although with our right flank reverting to tissue paper again he'd probably have had his development set back three years if he came on
     
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  15. SpursDisciple

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    Sums it up

    Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BT Sport: "If I forget the last minutes of extra time, where we did something to get a different result and go through, in the 90 minutes and first half of extra time was one team that decided to leave everything on the pitch.

    They left sweat, energy, blood. In the end they left even tears of happiness. Very humble and committed. I have to praise them. On the other side, my team. I repeat, my team. They didn't look like it was playing an important match. If for any one of them it is not important, for me it is.

    "For the respect I have for my career and my job, every match is important. For every Tottenham fan at home every match matters. Another attitude is needed. To say I feel sad is not enough. What I feel is much more than sadness. I just left the Dinamo dressing room where I went to praise the guys and I feel sorry one team is not my team won the game based on attitude and compromise. I feel more than sad. That is it.

    "Football is not just about players who think they have more quality than others. The basis of football is attitude. They beat us on that. I told the players the risk of playing the way we were. It happened because I believe the players only realised it was at risk when they scored the second."

    More from Spurs boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BT Sport: "I never like the feeling of some guys in football that say 'I won, they lost'. For me, 'we won, we drew, we lost'. I didn't run away from that. I am disappointed for a difference of attitude of one team to another. I feel sorry that my team is the team that didn't bring to the game not just the basics of football but the basics of life, which is to respect our jobs and to give everything.

    "Sad is not enough. I totally respect everything that somebody connected or not connected with the club says about us tonight. I think we have to accept the problem is if some accept in the positive way in the sense of feeling hurt or ashamed with the critics. Another story is if you don't care or feel it. That is a much deeper problem. I don't need external critics. I feel deeply hurt with what happened with my team.

    "I can only apologise to the Tottenham supporters. I hope they feel the same way I feel. Today is live or die and in this moment we die. In some other matches I have the same feeling. Until the last day of the season we have to try and do our best."
     
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  16. crackerman jack

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    <laugh>
     
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  17. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    Resign then, you ****ing fraud.
     
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  18. Roo

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    we’re that ****, even if the city players have the lasagne we’d still get beaten.
     
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  19. paultheplug

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    We all knew what was coming, but like rabbits caught in the headlights we all just sat and watched our own slaughter
     
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  20. PleaseNotPoll

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    He's right about the players, but he's the manager. It's his responsibility.
    I'm happy to put most of the blame on him for it, but they deserve criticism too.
    They had a **** attitude and they should be better than that even if there's nobody running the side at all.
     
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