DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
Can I just say how astounded I am at the hate S'oton have for us, judging by what goes on in their dark, dripping den over at Saintsweb? Liverpool strip them of four of their players, nary a sound. United poach their best left-back, not a word. Spurs take their manager (who himself stated that he had no wish to be at St.Mary's post Cortese), and they're all running around gathering pitchforks and screaming bloody murder whenever we try to go for whatever good players they have left after United and Liverpool are done with their puny wash of a club.
And what's even more eternally surprising is that they sincerely believe that they're on par with us, if not better. We're run by a mediocre tightwad and an absentee billionaire who sadistically forces us to work with whatever we generate: they were financed up through the divisions by infusion after infusion given to them by their own, far more generous billionaire owner ,and were run until recently by an apparent visionary who supposedly inspired such loyalty to both himself and his visions for the club that the whole place nearly unravelled after he left. We're renowned as a club that bottles it at crucial moments and as a cup side more than a league team: they have no such constraints to operate under. Our peak (reached between 2010 and 2012) is now far behind us, while they're barrelling on with all the forward momentum they have.
Theoretically, given such advantages, a club 'on-par' with us should have left us in the dust as they marched onwards. And yet, even after the best season they've ever, ever had in the Premier League.....they still finished below us. Two places below us. They've won absolutely nothing of note since their FA Cup win in 1976 (and they then have the nerve to taunt us about our far more recent cup drought), and our trophy cabinet dwarfs theirs by comparison (I think that FA Cup is the only top-flight trophy they have to their names). Even with our mediocrity, and our miserly, self-imposed austerity, we're still ahead of them, and have been for the entirety of the Premier League era (and their history).
And yet...they're on par with us?!? So level with us that a player or manager moving from Southampton to Spurs would be a 'sideways step' at best, and a downwards move at worst?
Where does this hate come from? I have no delusions about our place in the football world (although I do feel that we're voluntarily constrained by the stupid way in which we're run), but we're infinitely better than they are, and I'm sure they know it deep down: it's only this extreme dislike of THFC that gives them head-rushes about what they are compared to us. Don't get me wrong, I wish them well as a club: I hope they succeed, and start building the history that would enable them to eventually move past us, if they're capable of such a feat. But these delusions their fans possess about already having moved past us or being a better place for footballers to go to than Spurs ( ).....why?
Is it because of Hoddle?
And what's even more eternally surprising is that they sincerely believe that they're on par with us, if not better. We're run by a mediocre tightwad and an absentee billionaire who sadistically forces us to work with whatever we generate: they were financed up through the divisions by infusion after infusion given to them by their own, far more generous billionaire owner ,and were run until recently by an apparent visionary who supposedly inspired such loyalty to both himself and his visions for the club that the whole place nearly unravelled after he left. We're renowned as a club that bottles it at crucial moments and as a cup side more than a league team: they have no such constraints to operate under. Our peak (reached between 2010 and 2012) is now far behind us, while they're barrelling on with all the forward momentum they have.
Theoretically, given such advantages, a club 'on-par' with us should have left us in the dust as they marched onwards. And yet, even after the best season they've ever, ever had in the Premier League.....they still finished below us. Two places below us. They've won absolutely nothing of note since their FA Cup win in 1976 (and they then have the nerve to taunt us about our far more recent cup drought), and our trophy cabinet dwarfs theirs by comparison (I think that FA Cup is the only top-flight trophy they have to their names). Even with our mediocrity, and our miserly, self-imposed austerity, we're still ahead of them, and have been for the entirety of the Premier League era (and their history).
And yet...they're on par with us?!? So level with us that a player or manager moving from Southampton to Spurs would be a 'sideways step' at best, and a downwards move at worst?
Where does this hate come from? I have no delusions about our place in the football world (although I do feel that we're voluntarily constrained by the stupid way in which we're run), but we're infinitely better than they are, and I'm sure they know it deep down: it's only this extreme dislike of THFC that gives them head-rushes about what they are compared to us. Don't get me wrong, I wish them well as a club: I hope they succeed, and start building the history that would enable them to eventually move past us, if they're capable of such a feat. But these delusions their fans possess about already having moved past us or being a better place for footballers to go to than Spurs ( ).....why?
Is it because of Hoddle?