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Optimistic Spurs fan. UEFA B coach. Head of Content Partnerships at The Independent. #COYS & Old Wilsonians FC
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That willfully ignores 18 months of awful league form. At least be honest enough to recognise there’s another side to the argument.
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Can you name one, or are they just different people?
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Or maybe there is more than one English pundit, and that both views are widely held, and neither is entirely unreasonable.
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I’d be happy to see him stay on, but there seems to be a collective failure to see the glaringly obvious other side of the argument.
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Less than 40 points in a league season is a very compelling argument for change
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I’m unsure if I’m in or out, but I think ‘reaching 40 points’ and ‘turning up to league games thinking we might have a chance of winning them’ might be reasonable expectations, and an improvement on this year.
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I agree. I have a feeling the club will be more ruthless than most fans would have been. It’s possible that will save writing off next season in October, but it will also leave a massive ‘what if…?’ & a huge stick for every pundit to beat him with whenever it once more looks to have gone wrong.
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Let’s hope you’re right.
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There is a problem with this though (looking ahead). The job is about more than one tournament, and if he repeats the trick and gets it just slightly worse than he did this year, we get no trophy and relegation.
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Quite right. I’ve been really surprised by those who seem to think 100% that the cup totally legitimises the worst league campaign for decades, or thinks winning it means nothing and he needs to be sacked (normally with no suggestion of what next). It’s an incredibly hard decision.
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That’s way too binary. Any other season and our league form gets us relegated.
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It is lazy and you could equally compare him to Ferguson, who only stayed because he won the FA Cup in 1990. However, there’s no getting away from the fact that the league campaign was a disaster and no other manager in spurs recent history would’ve got away with it.
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I’ve done a massive u-turn on Ange since the final. I couldn’t see how the league form could/should lead to anything but a change. However, the vibe has shifted, and I agree that a reset would chuck that all away. How the club manage the recruitment this summer will be key.
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Thanks for sharing. Beautiful, honest and uplifting.
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I’m tempted to take my boots on Sunday. Not sure they’ll get a team out at this rate 🤣
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The first one I went to was the League Cup in 1982. We lost to Liverpool. The first one I took my son to was in Madrid. We lost to Liverpool.
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I thought the same when I saw it live. Freed from desire is the worst (it used to be We are the Champions). Every cup celebration in the world now looks and sounds exactly the same. Leave it to the fans.
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It’s incredible isn’t it. I’ve watched that goal about 300 times in my life and it’s almost invisible to the outside world. History loves a winner. (And what a winner it was).
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What’s the argument for keeping him?
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It was soooo bad today. We won’t care if the result in the cup final goes our way, but it won’t hide the cracks in the summer.
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I’ve had a season ticket for 35 years. Still didn’t have enough!
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We are sixteenth in the league
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Unless you outline who/what replaces Levy I’m not sure that’s answerable.
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And change-for-change-sake is fraught with risks. A change of strategy is required without doubt. Whether an ethical, stable and genuinely competitive new owner exists is very much in question.
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We may think that, but he’s paid to know better.
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You can wonder, however, why we’ve risked 2 of our most important players when it was obvious neither of them were ready, and will now possibly both miss another month of football. That is on Ange.