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So we stumbled still incredible proud of this team one of my favourite seasons and a big future ahead of this team
That is exactly how I see it..to lose the title with Chelsea players and fans gloating for the next 10 years would have hurt so much more..
They are gutted they can't be credited for stopped my us win the league..
Look, this has been the best season most of us can remember. The players and everyone involved in the club can be nothing but proud.
This team will learn a lot from this season and come back even stronger. Never in my lifetime as Spurs fan have I witnessed a brighter future..
we left ourselves way too much to do. even if we had won today.
we never really got that close to Leicester or put any real pressure on them.
2nd will be amazing. it will be still tough to get. Chelsea away will be tough & saints are much better than WBA.
but I am confident of us sealing the runners up spot.
Just need to regroup & not get too down about it all.
In our heads we are all making out we were a lot closer to winning the title.
its a strange one. we will probably almost always finish ahead of Leicester for the rest of our lives.
but they will have experienced winning a title. whereas we most likely won't ever know what its like.
common sense tells you its much better to be in our position rather than a 1 season wonder.
BEST team & season in my lifetime so far.
We have a very likable group with a bright future.
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Remember when we used to post our desired lineups in match threads and argued endlessly over them? THose were the days!
Kane brace, Rose belter 3-0 to the Totnum bois
Kane brace, Rose belter 3-0 to the Totnum bois
Spurs v West Brom Preview
It’s getting a little difficult for me to find the motivation for examining this upcoming game from an analytical stand point. It’s much more tempting to take a more poetic and rhetorical angle on our current situation in the style of Spooky's excellent recent piece "Serenading Spurs".
Maybe it’s the brain mushing intensity of the title race getting to me. Maybe it’s the unimpressive negativity of the opposition ahead. Or maybe it’s a growing acceptance that Spurs are now at a level way above the four teams we have left to face that we needn’t be so mindful of them. That we are now in a position where my preview can be summed up in “We’ll play our game, it’ll be great and we’ll win”. Okay maybe not quite so brief:
In recent games against Stoke and Liverpool we played a shape much closer to it is on paper. Eriksen high and on the left. Alli central but still a midfielder. Dier and Dembele tied together and both equal distance between defence and attack. I think that’s because in both games we played very directly, somewhat counter attack, and for that needed well defined defensive roles that allowed us to create two banks of four.
The idea that Spurs would simultaneously have less of the ball than Stoke and win emphatically is laughable when taken from the perspective of the last 5 years.
A large part of that is because Stoke are still tied to the reputation they garnered underTony Pulis. Well now Pulis is now at West Brom and while he hasn’t turned them into the Stoke team he had he is trying to.
They will set up deep and narrow with the intention of frustrating us. They will attempt to impose theirselves on us physically. They will attempt to nick one on the counter by utilising the individual talents of Sessegnon and transfer target Berahino. And they will hope that target man Rondon will cause us problems. But I’m fairly confident they won’t. Not least because, for once, the opposition had to play on a Thursday night and we are the team with the full week’s rest/training. This confidence still feels so unnatural but it’s not undeserved.
Against Liverpool and Stoke I wrote out our line-ups in the 433/3421ish shape that Pochettino has gradually moved us to throughout the season and I was wrong. But I’m doubling down. West Brom will sit back and invite us forward and so Pochettino will likely instruct Alli and Lamela to operate almost as forwards with Eriksen coming deep into the space to dictate our play.
Expect errors in my West Brom line-up. Rotation across a packed schedule and an uncertain XI makes guessing them a challenge.
In Spurs team news Clinton N’Jie is fit. Distance makes the heart grow fonder and some Spurs fans are becoming very excited by the return of a winger who, although very promising and exciting, has produced fairly little so far and as Pochettino put it “there are other players in front of him” in the squad. N’Jie’s Lennon-esque pace off the bench could prove worthwhile between now and the end of the season but I doubt that will be the case against Pulis’ West Brom.
Coize
It’s getting a little difficult for me to find the motivation for examining this upcoming game from an analytical stand point. It’s much more tempting to take a more poetic and rhetorical angle on our current situation in the style of Spooky's excellent recent piece "Serenading Spurs".
Maybe it’s the brain mushing intensity of the title race getting to me. Maybe it’s the unimpressive negativity of the opposition ahead. Or maybe it’s a growing acceptance that Spurs are now at a level way above the four teams we have left to face that we needn’t be so mindful of them. That we are now in a position where my preview can be summed up in “We’ll play our game, it’ll be great and we’ll win”. Okay maybe not quite so brief:
In recent games against Stoke and Liverpool we played a shape much closer to it is on paper. Eriksen high and on the left. Alli central but still a midfielder. Dier and Dembele tied together and both equal distance between defence and attack. I think that’s because in both games we played very directly, somewhat counter attack, and for that needed well defined defensive roles that allowed us to create two banks of four.
The idea that Spurs would simultaneously have less of the ball than Stoke and win emphatically is laughable when taken from the perspective of the last 5 years.
A large part of that is because Stoke are still tied to the reputation they garnered underTony Pulis. Well now Pulis is now at West Brom and while he hasn’t turned them into the Stoke team he had he is trying to.
They will set up deep and narrow with the intention of frustrating us. They will attempt to impose theirselves on us physically. They will attempt to nick one on the counter by utilising the individual talents of Sessegnon and transfer target Berahino. And they will hope that target man Rondon will cause us problems. But I’m fairly confident they won’t. Not least because, for once, the opposition had to play on a Thursday night and we are the team with the full week’s rest/training. This confidence still feels so unnatural but it’s not undeserved.
Against Liverpool and Stoke I wrote out our line-ups in the 433/3421ish shape that Pochettino has gradually moved us to throughout the season and I was wrong. But I’m doubling down. West Brom will sit back and invite us forward and so Pochettino will likely instruct Alli and Lamela to operate almost as forwards with Eriksen coming deep into the space to dictate our play.
Expect errors in my West Brom line-up. Rotation across a packed schedule and an uncertain XI makes guessing them a challenge.
In Spurs team news Clinton N’Jie is fit. Distance makes the heart grow fonder and some Spurs fans are becoming very excited by the return of a winger who, although very promising and exciting, has produced fairly little so far and as Pochettino put it “there are other players in front of him” in the squad. N’Jie’s Lennon-esque pace off the bench could prove worthwhile between now and the end of the season but I doubt that will be the case against Pulis’ West Brom.
Coize
Doesn't stop people saying it though!
I suppose it's like saying the Crowd is like the 12th man... technically, we're not...
a) Because it would breach FA regulations by fielding an ineligible player(s) when the rules clearly state a team can field only 11, not 12 players ...
and
b) there are thousands of us, so we would technically be the 36,012th man! It would be carnage... 36,000 people running around a 112 x 80'something yard rectangle... it would be like the Eaton Wall Game!
I rest my case m'lud!
What are they doing with the other 3 fingers?
Love that Stoke vs Spurs thread on foxes talk lol. You guys been bantering them there?
On topic, if we play like we did last night, it should be another comfortable win. Just hope no players pickup a knock.
I would love to play Leicester in the form we are in at the moment. I reckon we'd stick 3 past them easily. We are the team no-one in the league wants to play.
You do realize anything less than 4-0 for us is nail biting...
Anyone laughing at Spurs' achievements this season is a complete cunt and not worth wasting ur time worrying about.
We've won 9 of our lay 12 matches in this run in and no other fucker in the league has come close to challenging Leicesters lucky season so what have they got to laugh about?
It's frustrating beyond belief that it's ended on a game like last night but considering the leagues going to be won by a team playing exactly the same way it's like it's just written.
What's annoyed me most (as I probably never really thought we'd have the luck to catch them) is last night was a massive 3pts in the securing top 4 and practically wrapping up 2nd or 3rd. I just hope our boys get over the disappointment quick enough to fire on all cillenders against the chavs.
I think the way the rest of the league and media have treated us in this title run has been pretty disgusting and I hope we take some of that as fuel for the last few games/into next season.
Cunt.
You may have a point.