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I watched us play the best football from Spurs team in the 50 years I have been watching them.
We had a manager who you would actually like for a friend, who spoke of honour and loyalty and passion - and looked like it mattered.
To see some of the vociferous and obnoxious comments from some of the people who call themselves passionate supporters - and deride those of us who have seen too much change and liked what he served up - as happy clappers, as if it signalled a mental defect - was the saddest part of the whole affair.
I loved the guy, and I loved what he did to my Spurs team and I have no problem in saying that I am sad to see him go. I firmly believe that if he cleared out the cancerous dead wood - he would have turned things around.
And that would have made some of the insidious posters on here self combust, and that would have been my best reward.
Muchas gracias por todo lo que has hecho Mauricio, fue un privilegio tenerte aquí.
(apologies if its mangled Spanish - google translate!)