- Feb 10, 2016
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In short, in my opinion, modern football, modern football media and the likes of worldwide arse kissing of Pep Guardiola, has caused lots of fans including plenty on here of sounding like spoilt, entitled fans.
Football is about winning games. End of. I know we as spurs fans feel an attachment to 'the game is about glory' and not boring the opposition. But I've not time for a lovely performance if we don't win.
Take yesterday, I thought first half we were decent, second half poor. We could've played an open flowing game and still not won. Its an away draw at tough place. On the back of not conceding a goal against City, Chelsea and Arsenal and gaining 7 points from them games. And folk are still moaning.
It really feels like so many fans today literally expect us to win every game. Anything less is not good enough. Drawing away at Palace isn't champions form...blah blah blah. Its nonsense.
Playing the way we play - deep solid block and extremely effective counter has seen us hit a very good run of form in a period many expected us to falter. We are top of the league. Yet some still moan. 'Absolute garbage ', 'fucking boring Jose', 'absolutely clueless', 'he'll ruin this team'....all from some of our fans, when we are top of the league and have won the square root of fuck all for years.
People have been brainwashed that 70% possession and playing out from the back is the flagship way of a proper team. Its complete bullshit. We did it under poch and have zero to show for it. We're now playing a far more pragmatic way which has seen us stay top of the league for the second week but its still not enough for some.
Some on here even say 'if we didn't have Kane and Son we'd be fucked', 'they're saving Jose'. If city hadn't had De Bruyne and Aguero (and Kompany before that) they'd be the same. If Liverpool hadn't got Van Dijk and Allison they'd be the same, irrelevant of how potent their front line is. Thats football.
I think the players have bought in to the mentality Jose requires. Its called a winning mentality. Some of our fans and even media don't get it. I swear some of our fans would rather we played an attacking flowing game and not win games, than kill a team on the counter and be happy to defend (like against Arsenal last week).
If we were mid table then some comments would be completely valid. But we're top and have looked incredibly comfortable in the recent games against big teams. We've won nothing years and years. Let's embrace being top and picking up points however they come. There's a long way to go but I've seen nothing in games against our challengers that has me scared.
Football is about winning games. End of. I know we as spurs fans feel an attachment to 'the game is about glory' and not boring the opposition. But I've not time for a lovely performance if we don't win.
Take yesterday, I thought first half we were decent, second half poor. We could've played an open flowing game and still not won. Its an away draw at tough place. On the back of not conceding a goal against City, Chelsea and Arsenal and gaining 7 points from them games. And folk are still moaning.
It really feels like so many fans today literally expect us to win every game. Anything less is not good enough. Drawing away at Palace isn't champions form...blah blah blah. Its nonsense.
Playing the way we play - deep solid block and extremely effective counter has seen us hit a very good run of form in a period many expected us to falter. We are top of the league. Yet some still moan. 'Absolute garbage ', 'fucking boring Jose', 'absolutely clueless', 'he'll ruin this team'....all from some of our fans, when we are top of the league and have won the square root of fuck all for years.
People have been brainwashed that 70% possession and playing out from the back is the flagship way of a proper team. Its complete bullshit. We did it under poch and have zero to show for it. We're now playing a far more pragmatic way which has seen us stay top of the league for the second week but its still not enough for some.
Some on here even say 'if we didn't have Kane and Son we'd be fucked', 'they're saving Jose'. If city hadn't had De Bruyne and Aguero (and Kompany before that) they'd be the same. If Liverpool hadn't got Van Dijk and Allison they'd be the same, irrelevant of how potent their front line is. Thats football.
I think the players have bought in to the mentality Jose requires. Its called a winning mentality. Some of our fans and even media don't get it. I swear some of our fans would rather we played an attacking flowing game and not win games, than kill a team on the counter and be happy to defend (like against Arsenal last week).
If we were mid table then some comments would be completely valid. But we're top and have looked incredibly comfortable in the recent games against big teams. We've won nothing years and years. Let's embrace being top and picking up points however they come. There's a long way to go but I've seen nothing in games against our challengers that has me scared.