One golden glance at what should be...... It's a kinda MAGIC
Queen could have written this song about Sunday for us Spurs Fans!
One Dream - The fact we have to beat the "best team in Europe"
One Soul - The Fans and the club
One Prize - Europe
One Goal - Win
One Golden glance of what should be - We were underdogs last year and again this year but Chelsea didn't take the game seriously last year Fergie seems to be playing his "kids" this time. Strongest team played = we should win.
And despite what people say about the League cup it is a Kind of Magic!
It is the best chance for anyone not challenging for top 5 honours in the Premiership to ensure European football.
Yeah the "Big Boys" use the Carling Cup to debut young talent and concentrate on the bigger prizes of Champions League and Premiership title. Other teams "CLAIM" they don't care and are more interested in League survival and a mid-table finish.
WE ARE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR!!
We finished 5th twice, won the cup once and have been playing UEFA Cup for the past 3 years.
WE HAVE NO EXCUSES!!!
We have players who teams in the bottom half of the league would kill to have yet we are in a relegation battle!
WTF is going on?
Martin Jol "lost the dressing room". I have it direct from a couple of players. Don't know the full reasons but there were a few personal differences between MJ and several senior players.
Juande Ramos never HAD the players. Pretty much from day one he seemed to go out of his way to alienate players starting from banning Tomato Ketchup on his first day in charge onwards and when the likes of Steed Malbranque (who was arguably our most consistant player for the final part of the season after last seasons cup win) had absolutely no contact with Ramos in preseason training and was summoned to Damian Commoli's office and the conversation goes as follows -
DC - We've had an offer for you from Sunderland
SM - OK, but I love it here and don't want to leave London
DC - I've been told by the manager you're not getting a squad number this season, if you don't leave you'll spend the year in the reserves.
You could as "Do players have too much power??" well that would be a different debate but if the manager loses the squad he has zero chance of being a winner!
You also see the other players Ramos didn't even give squad numbers too like Taraabt, Rocha and Dos Santos and you start to wonder whether Juande ever saw the full Spurs squad. Knowing our shortage of cover in defense, for instance, you'd have thought Rocha would at least get a squad number. Maybe he didn't like the looks of Taraabt or Gio but still why not give them a squad number? Did he basically miss a big lump of our squad/reserve players?? Unconfirmed rumours are that Ramos never attended a pre-season SpursXI game and actually was not aware of certain players as they were not training with the 1st team squad due to injury etc.
So for what ever the truth is reason the players never gave their all for Ramos. was it that they didn't like the way he treated their team mates or the way he dealt with certain transfers??
I don't care what anyone says to dispute this as there is no way on this earth that we would only have taken 2 points from a possible 24 otherwise. Let's all be honest here. Most of us at one stage or another have played school/Sunday Morning/Pub league football in our lives. If we really thought the manager's tactics were useless and we really wanted to win then we'd have a chat amongst ourselves, rearrange our tactics ourselves, win for ourselves and let the coach think it was his tactics that did it. I really can not think of any other reason why players that do nothing but play football and train for football all day everyday of their working week would not have got together and said "The manager is making wrong decisions, we need the win. We'll do this, this and that and let him take the credit!"
So then Harry's come in. He got a good little run in his first few games and then things went pear shaped. What happened? Was it a sudden drop in the need for the team to impress the new boss? Was it a realisation from other managers that Harry was going to play us the same way as he played Pompey? Was it that Harry's "forthright" comments after matches upset a few players?!!
I know several players that now have a new enthusiasm as Harry actually includes them in the squad as opposed to missing/ignoring them and a few in the reserve/academy that have now been given first team opportunities that they knew they'd never get under Ramos.
But on the flip side Redknapp appears to have come in with a "bonus" package based purely on us not being relegated. That'd be my guess anyway. Why else has there been so much concentrtion on league games compared to FA & UEFA games? OK we're only 5 points away from the drop zone today but with the squad we have and some decent management there is little or no reason why we shouldn't be unbeaten between now and the end of the season. Let's face it; we were the pundits favourites to break the top 4 before the season started and 4 weeks in we were at the bottom of the table and are currently only 2 losses away from relegation!!
Let's be brutally honest. Spurs have been mismanaged for about 2 decades now. No manager has been given any time to settle in for over 20 years!! Is it the fact that us fans have no patience or is it the fact that our current chairman is thinking with his season ticket holder head as opposed to his chairman of a football club head? Who knows!! But we are famous for fickle fans and more fickle boards of directors. What other club would have sacked a manager that finished 5th twice in two seasons so early in the next season because he had a bad UEFA cup qualifier game?
The same club, it seems, that would allow a subsequent manager to play a predominantly youth academy team in a UEFA cup knock out game. If Jol had been given a few more weeks and Ramos had never been brought in who knows where we would be now??
There is no Intertoto cup next season so if we don't win this weekend we need to pray for an unbeaten run in the league and few miraculous results going in our favour in order to finish top 7 minimum to get back into europe next season. And let's face it, as little as Harry thought of the UEFA this week, the club NEEDS european football next year.
We have a new stadium on the cards and a season ticket price freeze. We can't afford to lose approx £10 million that European football makes us.
Look at the news this week and see that Arsenal have only paid £20m back on their redevelopment loan for Highbury against the £130m they should have paid back by now. They invested in their new stadium the wrong way at the wrong time. They claim that this will not affect the club spending but they then also claim that if they can renegotiate the loan then they will make a profit the will be used to fund players.
Umm, ok so how much has Wenger spent on players since they announced the move to The Emirates?? Well he always claimed he did no transfers as he needed no players but it appears that as the Highbury Redevelopment had not reached expected profits then he had no money to spend after all!!!
Do we want something like this as a result of our new stadium??
We MUST WIN.
Queen called it a Kind of Magic. I say We Are the Champions and sorry Fergie but once again Another One Bites The Dust in their attempts to dethrone us as League Cup holders.
As far as the support of our fans v ManUre fans at Wembley. Give your best Mancs but We Will Rock You out of your seats. Yids are the best and the NOISEST fans in the premiership, we'll have noise meters on Sunday to prove it.
COME AND HAVE A GO IF YOU THINK YOU'RE LOUD ENOUGH!!!!