This Weekend's Fixtures (25/26 Jan)

[Marc Overmars]

Spurs.

13 defeats out of 23 is a joke. Even with their massive injury list you can’t be that easy to beat.

They must be waiting to see what happens with the cup semi final before ditching Ange because they’re genuinely heading for a relegation battle at this rate.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What upside do they have currently?

[Niall_Quinn]

What upside do they have currently?

They once went 2-1 up against us for 15 minutes? Not to be sniffed at.

[Niall_Quinn]

Spurs.

13 defeats out of 23 is a joke. Even with their massive injury list you can’t be that easy to beat.

They must be waiting to see what happens with the cup semi final before ditching Ange because they’re genuinely heading for a relegation battle at this rate.

Nah, unfortunately they won't go down. Too many really terrible teams in this league for that. Same with Utd. 20 years ago both those sides would be bottom with zero points. But not in this league of mercs.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Villa 1-0 West Ham, Ramsey.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Rogers.

West Ham are in for a pumping it looks like.

[Niall_Quinn]

Nah

Don’t get me wrong if by beating an opponent meant us getting The title and Spurs finishing 4th, I’d be all for that without losing a second of sleep

But for me top 4 as an achievement shows the perverse nature of football currently, and it’s simply not enough to want to play any part in Spurs winning a major honour.


Go back to 1991, if we weren’t already cantering to the title and we put out a weaker side against that lot in the semi finals I could have lived with that because the league is a bigger prize.


But going for top 4 which guarantees nothing when it could hand your hated rivals the title….the upside is just not enough

Cash - they are all playing for cash. Not the shirt.

Am I wrong?

Can we think of a single player who is so invested in his club he'd forgo the crazy wages, get a part-time job and supplement his earning with the privilege of the pennies he earned from playing for his boyhood heroes? That doesn't happen anymore and our society is 100% poorer for it. Not like I'm saying there weren't greedy bastards back then who though, lovely, this silly fool is playing for the shirt, more cash for me! Yeah, they were there. But I'm talking about the relationship between the player and the unwashed fan who does silly things like turn up n the icy rain to shout, GO ON [fill in name of local boy who they knew from the pub].

Okay, the world has moved on. We can't have that anymore because corporations have decided we need to do something different that unfortunately rips away the deep bonds and replaces it with the profit incentive. Realism, right? The acceptance of an evil cunt's agenda when nothing was broken in the first place. Get realistic, accept the world for how it is, stop harking back to times that can't possibly exists because (in the scheme of evolution) we are suddenly different creatures? Sorry, not buying. Fuck them and fuck them all. I know what shit stinks like because I have my own shit to compare it to. I woudn't grab it up and offer it as a great leap forward. I'd be to embarrassed in case intelligent people saw right through it. Trouble is we are short on intelligent people.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Trouble is we are short on intelligent people.

Funnily enough I had that thought when reading your diatribe which I’m not sure even how much it related to anything I was discussing, and wasn’t just you using as an excuse to plant your world view/rose tinted view of the past.

I wouldn’t take it personally. I have that feeling when talking to most people here.

But I’d have as much interest as buying into whatever “Utopia” you aspire to as I would signing up to those online games that pretend you can win $50 by just playing on them for ten minutes.

I don’t remember a time where football wasn’t a commodity. I was born a month into the season when clubs started wearing corporate sponsors on their shirts. I think trying to pinpoint any one moment in time where greed wasn’t a factor and fans not encouraged to buy into that greed and then suddenly it all changed is utterly arbitrary.

The difference as far as I can ever distill from your homilies is that you believe that clandestine forces operate in order to change human nature from its intended purpose. I think avarice is a key component in human nature especially in a world of scarcity

[Letters]

Nah, unfortunately they won't go down. Too many really terrible teams in this league for that. Same with Utd. 20 years ago both those sides would be bottom with zero points. But not in this league of mercs.

Yeah.
They’re too far above the relegation zone to get sucked in.
And actually I wouldn’t actually want them to go down, I’d miss their hilarious ineptitude. There’d be a danger they could actually win the Championships.

But holy shit how are they this hopeless?
What’s that, Leicester? In freefall are you?
Dr Tottenham will see you now

WHL much have broken the Guinness World Record for booing volume today

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mings' knee looks fucked.