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The pride I feel
Well it's now Wednesday morning and for the first time in two days I've woken up and the first thought into my head has not been the loss the at the Eithad Stadium ... Sad I know some may say, that with all the injustices going on in the world and that concerns for family should be foremost , my thoughts should be with the millionaires that kick a ball around on a field and yet it is so.
This morning I'm fine with it all, actually I was fine with it all when the bent, Mr Webb blew his final whistle at around 3.30pm on Sunday January the 22nd, 2012. But I don't mind admitting that, at the time , I was pacing up and down the living room cursing the Football Gods for what they had just served up to me and the Spurs family.
The cat had long since departed the building , he knows me to well , in fact even the fishes in the aquarium were all nervously huddled together behind the model shipwreck that I had placed in the tank last summer . The ManUre missus was at work and the house was empty apart from this crest fallen Spurs fan .
In half an hour , the Woolwich Goons were to kick-off their game and their inevitable defeat would but surely cheer me up.. Well no , it didn't take that long ...
I lit up a roll-up and walked into the garden and ran over in my head at what I had just seen ..
We had taken on a team that had been bankrolled to the tune of a near billion pounds in the last three years . To put it into perspective, our team was put together financially, at less than a quarter of our Sunday's opponent's total loss, just for last year!
We had competed against a team who's home record thus far this season had smashed all previous League records .. I have been watching football for 40 years now and never before can I recall any of the championship winning teams doing the same , not at Anfield , Highbury , Old Trafford, Elland Road or Stamford Bridge...
Played 10 , won 10, goals scored 31 , goals conceded 4 .
Some may point to the fact that they'd lost their last two cup games on home soil .. However in their defeat to ManUre they were down to 10 players for a near 75 minutes and still very near got a richly deserved draw. The Liverpool loss in the Carling cup was put down to the fact that it were their first game without Kompany and Yaya Toure who was with the Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations AND David Silva. It was described by their manager as their worse performance in his time there and I agreed it were an abberation that wouldn't soon happen again. Besides, they were due to play a much bigger game on home soil in ten days time..
And what a big game it was . We went there third in the league taking on this obscene project that has totally disregarded any form of financial fundamentals. A project that makes the Abramovich Chav investment look rather pauperized and yet we stood toe to toe with it. I were upset in the manner of our cruel defeat , our customary conceding from a corner just as much as JD's miss at the death. But by the time I stubbed my cigarette out, my pride in Tottenham Hotspur Football Club was still burning bright and it shall remain forever so.
When Citeh came to WHL earlier in the season and thumped our sorry asses 5-1 we regrouped and went on a great run winning ten of our next eleven games so I'm here hoping the players use this painful result to go on a similar run ... The faint hope we could win the league was always a faint hope but there is still so much to play for.
I'm hoping Yids all around the globe still believe as I believe in our players , I believe they can do it...
COYS!!
"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory."
Billy Nick..
P.S. this is a THFC positive vibe thread , please add your positivity . Moaning comments stay away! ...
COYS!
Well it's now Wednesday morning and for the first time in two days I've woken up and the first thought into my head has not been the loss the at the Eithad Stadium ... Sad I know some may say, that with all the injustices going on in the world and that concerns for family should be foremost , my thoughts should be with the millionaires that kick a ball around on a field and yet it is so.
This morning I'm fine with it all, actually I was fine with it all when the bent, Mr Webb blew his final whistle at around 3.30pm on Sunday January the 22nd, 2012. But I don't mind admitting that, at the time , I was pacing up and down the living room cursing the Football Gods for what they had just served up to me and the Spurs family.
The cat had long since departed the building , he knows me to well , in fact even the fishes in the aquarium were all nervously huddled together behind the model shipwreck that I had placed in the tank last summer . The ManUre missus was at work and the house was empty apart from this crest fallen Spurs fan .
In half an hour , the Woolwich Goons were to kick-off their game and their inevitable defeat would but surely cheer me up.. Well no , it didn't take that long ...
I lit up a roll-up and walked into the garden and ran over in my head at what I had just seen ..
We had taken on a team that had been bankrolled to the tune of a near billion pounds in the last three years . To put it into perspective, our team was put together financially, at less than a quarter of our Sunday's opponent's total loss, just for last year!
We had competed against a team who's home record thus far this season had smashed all previous League records .. I have been watching football for 40 years now and never before can I recall any of the championship winning teams doing the same , not at Anfield , Highbury , Old Trafford, Elland Road or Stamford Bridge...
Played 10 , won 10, goals scored 31 , goals conceded 4 .
Some may point to the fact that they'd lost their last two cup games on home soil .. However in their defeat to ManUre they were down to 10 players for a near 75 minutes and still very near got a richly deserved draw. The Liverpool loss in the Carling cup was put down to the fact that it were their first game without Kompany and Yaya Toure who was with the Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations AND David Silva. It was described by their manager as their worse performance in his time there and I agreed it were an abberation that wouldn't soon happen again. Besides, they were due to play a much bigger game on home soil in ten days time..
And what a big game it was . We went there third in the league taking on this obscene project that has totally disregarded any form of financial fundamentals. A project that makes the Abramovich Chav investment look rather pauperized and yet we stood toe to toe with it. I were upset in the manner of our cruel defeat , our customary conceding from a corner just as much as JD's miss at the death. But by the time I stubbed my cigarette out, my pride in Tottenham Hotspur Football Club was still burning bright and it shall remain forever so.
When Citeh came to WHL earlier in the season and thumped our sorry asses 5-1 we regrouped and went on a great run winning ten of our next eleven games so I'm here hoping the players use this painful result to go on a similar run ... The faint hope we could win the league was always a faint hope but there is still so much to play for.
I'm hoping Yids all around the globe still believe as I believe in our players , I believe they can do it...
COYS!!
"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory."
Billy Nick..
P.S. this is a THFC positive vibe thread , please add your positivity . Moaning comments stay away! ...
COYS!
if we did, it would be the greatest achievement in modern day football would it not ? 
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