Tottenham thread

You may be right...would it be bad taste to make comparisons with citeh and Fukashima?

Lets hope you beat those foreign gits in the morning.

It's a tough act to follow but hopefully tonight's performance will be half as entertaining as last week's.

Gomes!

So the adventure ends, but it's been great - here's hoping for more next year!!

As the great Bill Nic once said:
"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high... so high, in fact, that even failure will have in it an echo of glory"

Today marks the 50th anniversary since you last won the league. Well played.

Another year of nothing for your rabble.  Well played.

And perhap(hopefully) a loss on Wednesday and they will slip to third and you will be above City.

Still will be below City on goal difference. Our equation is simple: Win everything and hope City focus on the FA Cup and drop more games than we do.

Once has to be consistent, and on their day Spurs can beat anyone.

Did you post this on DML? Almost identical post which then got nicely rebutted.

Are the BBer doors going to be open tomorrow morning?

Harry Redknapp has defended Arsene Wenger ahead of Wednesday's north London derby but he claimed the Arsenal manager has become one of the "biggest nutters" in the Premier League.

What a game, one of the most entertaining games I've seen, hard to argue with the result really...

We have a bloody tough run to finish with though, Chelski (a), Liverpool (a) and Citeh (a) of the remaining 6 games...

And not only to we trail Citeh by 2 points now, but also 12 goals...

Yeah, really great game! Shame Luka or Sandro couldn't take their chances to win it, but draw is probably fair...

It might well turn out to be a vital point gained, given the goal difference you talk about Dougie, but I think we'll need City to drop a few points along the way!!

We can do it!!

whats man city's run in like?

Better.  Much better.

It's definitely easier than ours, but Blackburn & WHam are fighting for their lives.

Today's point (hopefully) takes care of their waaay better goal difference - match their results + win at Eastlands = job done, easy!!

A win on Sat is a must - puts us above City... 

Just reading DML and there is so much angst and similarity to the Nix this season.

Season promised so much and while not being a write-off has largely been a struggle and one of just-acceptable but deflating performances.

WHL has been hard for the opposition to get three points, but way too many draws for us instead of wins.

UEFA was good, as were the NLDs (especially 20 Nov 2010), but otherwise not too much else to excite.

Roll on 2011/12 - a new striker and the return of our young uns from their loan spells this season.

... and a confirmed redevelopment in N17.

Effing ars%$#ole mut%%ha effin Man city monkeys!!

It's not City's fault that we bottled it (against all the W teams: West Ham, Wigan, Wolves, WBA, Blackpool)

Thats the past.
Please beat the following for me.

Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool.

Many thanks.

Those teams are no problem. It's Blackpool and Birmingham I'm worried about.

It is.

damn you spurs! sort it out. and damn you ghost goal! Who knows, might get lucky enough not to finish 5th on this form.

Gomes at his hilarious best again.

Gomes average, but piss-poor officiating. How can the linesman be 100% sure it was over the line, he wasn't in-line with the ball, so it's a guess at best...

Happy with how we played, even entertaining game, ruined (again) by poor work from the officials.

I heard this during a podcast during the week and I can't 100% recall it exactly, but it went something like this...

If you take the bottom 5 teams (who have generally been bottom or thereabouts for the whole season), in both home and away (except Blackpool who we have yet to play at home), so 9 games (27 potential points), we've scored 8, the top 4 have each scored 20 something...

Says it all really...

Unbelievable from the officials - Chelsea gifted goals at home again - really theFA should just give them the trophy at the start of the season if the want them to win it that badly.

Gomes deserved nothing less than to concede from that error. The guy is an absolute patient.

I'd have preferred to have beaten City and then have us lose the last 2 games for 6th spot. We can't score in normal games, so i suppose the park the bus mentality of City was always going to guarantee a result

A frustrating game to watch as a spurs fan - just about right for this season! Arry will say that he doesn't want Europa League football, so he'll be happy to finish 6th if we do, but surely the experience/draw of European football is better than not (not forgetting the money rewards).

There's a lot of "arry out" angst going around (not on here, but elsewhere) - I'm not sure that's the answer, but he has been found wanting a lot, and 1 win in 3 months (since AC Milan away, we've beaten Stoke, and that's it ) certainly doesn't help his case...

Here's hoping for a striker who can put the ball in the opposition's net in the summer!! 

There's not much money in the Europa League, but there are coefficient points at stake, and these can prove the difference between being in the second or third pot in the Champions League in following seasons, depending on how seriously you take Europa League.

Italian clubs adopted an approach of 'Europa League doesn't matter' in the last few seasons, and have now lost a spot in the Champions League from 2012/2013 season precisely because of that.

Don't you get a big wad of tv cash for being in the europa league?

paulm2011-05-11 11:52:47

Yep, this was more where my thinking was at with the money thing. Besides which, as a fan I will always want my team to finish as high as possible, and do as well as possible in cup competitions - success breads success after all. I've been to some great Europa League games at WHL in the past - the Seville q/f is probably my favourite game at the lane, even though we lost - and I know most fans would want their team to do well in that competition. That said, I've been to some shocking Europa games too, one where Gilberto made his debut for us springs to mind...

Not sure about how much TV cash there is for Europa League (but don't imagine it would be massive amount), but the prize money isn't anything to write home about, at least for the big clubs. These are the prize moneys for the 2009/2010 season:

1st qualifying round: �90,000
2nd qualifying round: �90,000
3rd qualifying round: �90,000
Playoffs: �90,000
Group stage: �1,000,000
Group match victory: �120,000
Group match draw: �60,000
1st knock out round: �180,000
2nd knock out round: �270,000
Quarter-finals: �360,000
Semi-finals: �630,000
Qualifying for Final: �2,000,000
Winning the Final: �2,000,000 + �1,000,000

Interesting list of the current association coefficients, which emphasise how important Europa League really is - Portugal have now gained an extra CL spot precisely because of the performance of their clubs in this season's Europa League. Romania had a big slide because their teams significantly underperformed in the Europa League this season(Hajduk eliminated two of them in the qualifying rounds).

For the Spurs, they currently sit 18th on the club coefficient table (which, if they'd qualified for CL, could have meant start from 2nd or 3rd pot depending on other clubs that qualified), but if they have no European football next season, they can't improve on their coefficient points, while pretty much everyone around them will. So if they qualify for CL next season, they could well be starting from the fourth pot, which could make qualification from the group very hard. So if you're a Spurs fan and think Europa League isn't that important, I'd think again.

F*ck.

DML blog is titled "Ain't no pleasing you". Gertcha!