posted Jan 25, 2008

What a great win and in such Emphatic style.
It will give us a great boost for Sunday, though Man U are on fire.

As for the gooners with sour grapes, we hear all this stuff about what a wonderful player Cesc Fabregas is and how he makes Arsenal tick. Was he not on the pitch for 70 minutes of the game on Tuesday night? Oh no ofcourse, NOW they lost 5-1 to a team superior to them on the night, it was "just the kids". What a load of rubbish. William Gallas? Alexander Hleb? Yeah they are just kids.
Arsenal will not win anything this season, and apart from financially, earn another fruitless expedition into the Champions League. Arsenal have gone as far as they can go, and that was two years ago against Barcelona. Spurs atleast are building for the next few seasons and have something to aim for.

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posted Jan 25, 2008

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posted 18 Hours Ago

thanks andy, lets hope you lot win the league and rub the gooners noses in it

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you and me both mate

and i can't believe how petulant arsenal supporters and supporters of other clubs are being. Its a great victory for Tottenham against their local rivals, why not let them enjoy it?

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posted Jan 25, 2008

yes...I agree with Aimee L... we stuffed them but Wenger's instructions from his board are surely to ensure that the 'enemy' qualify for the following year's Champions League and given he has every confidence by achieving that via the Premiership then I suspect he uses a high-profile competition like the League Cup to blood some youngsters...what a luxury.
Ramos has quite rightly expressed his delight and congratulations to his players but such a great success wasn't the result of his 'cup magic'. Martin Jol is entitled to some credit.
Rome was not built in a day...we must secure more wins against the 'big four' and we can judge the boys' progress under Ramos when we tackle MU in the Cup...further miracles are not beyond the grasp of Ledley and his cohorts but no silly 2 footed tackles please.
I wonder how many former Spurs players who having endured 9 years of failure against the 'enemy' must have sat down to the box this week only rise at the end of the match and scream "Yes!!!!!" There are a number of fair weather 'enemy' fans living near me here in south-west France and they have spent the past 2 days suffering my well-earned bragging rights.
Good luck on Sunday, I'll be watching and praying.

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posted Jan 26, 2008

The question put was: "Is this the beginning of a Spurs revival?"

In short: No.

Why? Because Spurs haven't really been in a slump. If you examine the record of the least three or four seasons, Spurs are and have been indisputably the fifth best side in the country. What has happened this season is that internal instability within the club, emanating most particularly from the quarter of the hapless and inept Damien Comolli caused a period of uncertainty and distracted the dressing room.

Had the club been on the skids, one can be certain that a coach of Juande Ramos' caliber would not have taken over the reins. What is more the arrival of Ramos has almost certainly stripped Comolli of any residual power he had left.

The Ramos era will be one of greater success. He likes his players to play the kind of cultured football so beloved by the Spurs' faithful. And what is more he is a better coach, with a more proven pedigree than Martin Jol. What Jol had was true passion for the club, as a whole. Sadly I don't think that is enough these days. What Ramos has is a head that's screwed on tight.

I remember reading a pre-season preview by The Deselected One (Jose Mourinho). In it he said he thought Spurs would be title contenders this year. That is a telling comment, since Mourinho is one of the savviest of footballing brains. I am confident that had it not been for the term limitations placed in his severance agreement with the Russian oligarch, then he would have relished taking over the hotseat at the Lane.

All of this speaks of a club with very positive prospects; a more than decent squad; I'd point to the emergence of Jamie O'Hara as evidence of that, and the kind of bank balance necessary to back the ambition of its fans.

Lilywhites hold on to your hats, the lift travelling up, will be going just that little bit faster from now on.

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posted Jan 26, 2008

It was great to get a win at last over Arsanul, we have been close a few times, if Ramos can bring the sort of entertaining football back to Spurs that we love to see it will make my day. Been living in Adelaide since 1999 & only get to see the boys play on Foxtel, but watching them tear Arsenal apart was a delight to see. Most of the Gooners so called kids would walk into any side in the Prem, so I believe it is just sour grapes on all the Knockers out there. Arsene still wanted to win the game given half a chance. The real test is if we can beat Chelski in the final. Keep up the god work & all the best against ManU on Sunday, can still remember watching the game when we beat them 1-0 at Old Trafford only for the ball to be scooped out & the goal not given by the linesman with the white stick.

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posted Jan 27, 2008

if tottenham whin today ill be the happiest fan in the world and if we win the carling cup we have found a succsessful manager (finally)

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posted Jan 28, 2008

Tottenham realistically are just a wannabee Newcastle, they think they are the 5th best, definitely not, it just hasnt happened for newcastle the last couple of seasons but that doesnt mean they are past it, look at the likes of owen martins, emre, duff, all these players are better than embarrising ones such as tainio defoe zokora lee, the tottenham fans need to get a grip

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posted Jan 28, 2008

khuledude:

You must have been at the sauce a little too long if your seriously suggesting Newcastle are a better football club than Spurs..lets compare like for like:

Owen v Berbatov, only one winner me thinks, Martins v Keane, ditto
Emre v Malbranque, ditto
Duff v Lennon, ditto

Each and every one of those Spurs players are more effective than those Newcastle players have been for their clubs and I'd hazard a guess that most sensible Newcastle fans would jump at the chance to watch them week in week and not the dross currently being served up..COYS!

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posted Jan 29, 2008

I think the Carling Cup is Spurs' one chance to get into Europe next season. The highest they'll finish is 8th and being a Spurs' fan, I can admit that.

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posted Jan 31, 2008

I just think its wonderful to see a Tottenham side who can achieve, who want to achieve, and who are achieving. For the last couple of years we have only gotten stronger. This season has gone down the pan for obvious reasons - the board, influenced by Comolli and/or whoever else, made Martin Jol's position untenable. Judging by our current style of play and team selection, its safe to say Ramos is at least a bolder manager than Martin was; time will tell whether he's a better man for the job.

At any rate, we're in a final at last, and not in the position we were under George Graham, where it was a case of "will we be able to snatch a goal and hold on?" This time around, we're playing Chelski, and we're going to Wembley with a strong sense that we can win, and do so entertainingly. This will be Ledley's first chance to hoist some silverware (Peace Cup excepted) and, win or lose, we deserve to be in that final.

The Arsenal's excuses are quite sad really, but I can't blame them - if the result had been reversed, I and all Tottenham fans alike would be clutching at straws to rationalise such terrible humiliation.

The players can take heart from this result, and indeed the 3-1 loss to United, which didn't reflect how well our weakened side performed against the best team in the league.

For a long time now we've felt we ought to be contenders, but had nagging doubts as to whether we we're really good enough. Now we know that we are, and on our day we can beat anyone.

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