SPURS ARE A TRAGIC FOOTBALL CLUB - Farsical piece on Vice

[Misfit]

Still a long way to go yet this season.

Yep. Mind the gap and all that.

 

[cheeseman]

"Meanwhile, up the road, Arsene laughs in his smug French way, having pulled the rug from beneath Spurs for the 17th time"

...whilst not winning any silverware for 9 years.

 

[CornerPinDreamer]

ah bless... a typewriter + 1/1000th of a monkey brain...


at least that Arse fan isn;t left to roam the streets like other mental patients

 

[riggi]

Chelmsford I think.

That's the big issue.

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

"Depressingly, Bale, Modric or van der Vaart would all still walk into that spot and improve the team immeasurably"

No s**t - we didn't want any of them to leave and sold them for a combined £130 million.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Hey man. Nobody can tell me that we didn't play breath-taking attacking football in '99. Sure, we lost more games than we won and conceded more goals than we scored but other than those minor details, we made teams tremble in fear at our prowess.

Our footballing landscape between 1990 and 2007 is a massive incredibly arid desert with a Nayim lobbing Seaman oasis somewhere in the middle.

 

[Misfit]

"Depressingly, Bale, Modric or van der Vaart would all still walk into that spot and improve the team immeasurably"

No s**t - we didn't want any of them to leave and sold them for a combined £130 million.

Nu-uh. Don't you remember. We practically shoe-horned them out of the door. We even had to get a restraining order on Bale.

 

[riggi]

"Depressingly, Bale, Modric or van der Vaart would all still walk into that spot and improve the team immeasurably"

No s**t - we didn't want any of them to leave and sold them for a combined £130 million.

Don't dignify it with a response.

 

[Misfit]

Our footballing landscape between 1990 and 2007 is a massive incredibly arid desert with a Nayim lobbing Seaman oasis somewhere in the middle.

I still remember watching that game live on the tellybox. I became a man that day.

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

Don't dignify it with a response.

Good point - sorry

 

[riggi]

Good point - sorry

Im having some soup at the moment.

 

[Misfit]

I had some minestrone soup for lunch. It was delicious. Little bit of parmesan on top and everything.

 

[kaz Hirai]

All the players we signed are foreigners from foreign leagues, it's a bit premature really to be making out as if they are all average/waste of money after less than 10 league games for the majority of them

 

[guate]

Interesting read and a lot of what is written is true, however what pisses me off is the mocking tone used to get their point across.

 

[spud]

We (along with Arsenal) have always tried to do things the right way.

Wash your mouth out with soap, young man!

The goons were, for the whole of their history until Wenger arrived, destroyers not creators of good football. They weren't called boring for nothing. And as for their off-field antics, don't even get me started. I strongly suggest that you take a look at their history instead of just falling for the risible 'class is permanent' banner that they have at the Death Star.

 

[yiddopaul]

Wash your mouth out with soap, young man!

The goons were, for the whole of their history until Wenger arrived, destroyers not creators of good football. They weren't called boring for nothing. And as for their off-field antics, don't even get me started. I strongly suggest that you take a look at their history instead of just falling for the risible 'class is permanent' banner that they have at the Death Star.

1-2-3 Back in the room...

...where was I?

 

[yiddopaul]

Wash your mouth out with soap, young man!

The goons were, for the whole of their history until Wenger arrived, destroyers not creators of good football. They weren't called boring for nothing. And as for their off-field antics, don't even get me started. I strongly suggest that you take a look at their history instead of just falling for the risible 'class is permanent' banner that they have at the Death Star.

I actually meant, doing things the right way in terms of business, building gradually. I couldn't agree more re. the playing side of the beautiful game. It is only relatively recently that they started to play football properly. We invented sexy footy in this country. Up until (again) relatively recently, we were the glamour club.

 

[spud]

I actually meant, doing things the right way in terms of business, building gradually.

In which case, my apologies. I just can't stand it when the fiction about those low-life twats doing things 'the right way' or being 'classy' is trotted out.

 

[teok]

Interesting read and a lot of what is written is true, however what pisses me off is the mocking tone used to get their point across.

I agree although it doesn't really piss me off. I think spurs are a great club to support because it's always exciting.

If you watch a film of a sports team they don't just win every thing or do nothing in a lowly position. They go through heart breaks and highs and lows and being within touching distance of glory only to lose out in crazy circumstances.

For spurs we are always either on the edge of glory or disaster and while other clubs might laugh at this it's a fun ride.

 

[nightgoat]

It's an entertaining read actually, if you can be bothered to pull your head out of your own Spurs arse for a second. There are uncomfortable truths in there unfortunately.

That nice line about "selling Elvis and buying the Beatles" is put into perspective - when you consider the midfield we had a couple of years ago, Elvis was playing with the Beatles in our colours!

That was a very good midfield five, but it's worth mentioning that of the five only Van der Vaart was heralded as a great signing at the times we bought them. Bale and Lennon were promising 17 and 18-year olds respectively, Modric was exciting but still had to prove himself in a top league. Parker was just what we needed at the time, but as we've seen didn't have much left in him at the top level. Take a rain check and see how the Eriksens and Lamelas turn out in a year or two.