Totally agree about the Lance Armstrong analogy. Mind you, you have only come 2nd 5 times since 2004. And when it comes to actually winning major trophies, there's only 1 word for it:-Spursy
Watched the game on Sky last night-you were terrible. The moment that summed it up for me was this. About 85 minutes gone. You get a Corner. Usual corner-taker, Saka, has gone off with Dandruff, or some such. Declan Rice has (as usual) run himself into the ground. Any football fan can admire someone who gives his absolute best. Whereas Eze, who is probably more naturally gifted, has only been on about 5 minutes, and can't be arsed to run 5 yards to take the Corner. The look on Rice's face as he had to run 40 yards to take it instead was priceless...
I would say that you look like a team in crisis at the moment. Fortunately, you have been prescribed a visit to Doctor Tottenham...
Quick story about Colin (ctbn). I miss the old hippo pictures
I once mistakenly called him "cbtn". To which he replied, in his splendid Scots accent:-
"It's easy to remember, Phil. It is Colin The Bastard N..."
To be fair, he does bear a remarkable likeness to a hippopotamus.
As I'm sure you are aware, he & I are good mates & I love him to bits.
Away from his clown acting at the poker tables, he has a proper job with Network Rail or one of their CE contractors, he is a manager/supervisor for Permanent Way work - maintenance, upgrades, incidents etc.
Was due to retire this year but is going to work on for another 2 years. His health was bad 8 or 10 years ago but he seems fine now. Long may it last, he's a good man.
The Premier League has always involved bigger teams using financial muscle to get players. Eze this Summer was a classic example. Spurs are (financially) a far bigger club than Palace. So when we offered him £8 milly a year, Palace knew they couldn't compete. Then Arsenal offered £10 million a year, doing to us exactly what we were doing to Palace. Like it or not, it's the reality-for everyone (except, possibly, Real Madrid). It's an open secret that 7 or 8 of the current Arsenal squad cost more than Spurs have ever spent on a player. And 6 or 7 of the current Arsenal squad are being paid more than Spurs have ever spent on a player. Saka, for example, earns more than £5 million a year more than any Spurs player. Which is, of course, why Arsenal are in various respects a bigger club than Spurs.
Postecoglu was completely right when he said that, in some respects, Spurs are not a "big" club. There isn't a "big 6". There is a Big 5 financially-(in no order) that is Arsenal Chelsea Liverpool Man City and Man Utd. Spurs are the 6th biggest financially-but rather closer to the likes of Newcastle and Villa than the ones above them.
1 way anyone can readily see the difference is in the approach to bedding in players from other Leagues. As an example, Hincapie is being given time to bed in. The size of your squad affords the luxury of picking his games to bed him in. Would he have got that time at Spurs? I fear not.
The Press take what I term as the Jamie Carragher approach. Make 1 half-decent point. And then bang on about it endlessly, to the exclusion of all other relevant factors. Let's mention 1-the importance of the Ground. No-one would ever suggest that the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is anything other than a massive upgrade on the old White Hart Lane. For exactly the same reasons as the Emirates and Highbury. But-and it is a big but-the new polished grounds do not provide the febrile atmosphere of a Lane or a Highbury. That is part of the reason why Spurs have not been as good at Home. Or why, in Arsenal's case, what is probably the 2nd best funded side in the Prem has not won the League since 2004. At Highbury.
Incidentally, for those who have not seen them, the Tiny Desk Concerts, all of which are on You Tube, really are very good & feature some great bands.
Sadly, I'm not sure they are making any more, as they were on USA NPR (National Public Radio) & Mr Trump withdrew all funding for PBS & NPR shortly after taking Office.
But, as far as I'm aware, they are all still on You Tube, so a quick search should soon find them.
Gotta be the coolest 57 year old on the planet. Even Thewy (similar age) is not that cool.
Noel & Liam have entered the chat!
Back to the 90s, just like that
The difference is Damon has talent, so GTFO outa here with your Oasis bilge.
Jarvis has to be in the conversation though
That's spooky, Jarvis/Pulp are another, along with Damon/Gorillaz, I have happily rediscovered of late. It's light stuff but has aged well, & Jarvis always puts on a proper performance, with all the hand actions & strange oohs & ahhs. They've been around (on & off) over 40 years, & I think Candida has been there the whole time. She's so crippled with arthritis in her hands she can only play very basic note sequences, but it all works nicely & it's good that they've stuck with her, & unusual to see a lady in her 60's in a pop band. Hard to pick my favourite Pulp work but "Something Changed" is in the mix, & there's scores of versions of it on YT.
For any Pulp fans here, there's a thing on You Tube called "Tiny Desk Concerts" a sort of modern version of MTV Unplugged, The Pulp edition is excellent, with Jarvis at his theatrical best, Candida doing her repetitive note stuff, Webber hilariously cocking up a guitar riff, & Banks (drummer) using his chair as a drum. Well worth a watch, it's in my daily music mix.
Here you go...
I think Banks is playing a Cajon - a Peruvian percussion instrument.
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Even after 20yrs I still can’t post a YT link
As an aside, he could have used a Dube.
Oh I SEE, now it all makes sense.
Tiny Desk Concerts are "stripped down" but it made no sense to me that he seemed to have to make do with just a chair.
Heard you played the APAT at DTD the other week. I bust fairly early on day 1 and after a quick scan around a full casino, I couldn't see or hear you so decided to get on my merry way. Hope you faired better than I did.
Hi Carl, good to hear from you. All good with you & yours I hope.
Yes, I was there all weekend, & as there's such a large crossover between APAT & Sky players, was able to re-acquaint with loads of long-term friends & acquaintances, as well as buffoons like ctbn, aka Colin. As an aside, there's such a strong connection between Sky Poker & APAT I think they should get together & run a Series or whatever. Watch this space.
I managed a £510 cash in Friday's Bounty Hunter, but Saturday's Team affair was something of a humiliation tbh. I was asked to play for DTD - "DTD Degens" I think - and my late invite was presumably as they were short of players, as, myself apart, it was actually quite a strong team of serial cashers. 340 entries, of which 99 make Day 2, & they score points for finishing positions in the top 99. (1 point for 99th & so on). 8 players per team, of which only 3 of us (them...) made the second break, & just 1 made Day 2, which was a young lady. So that went well.
Sunday was the ROE which I had hoped to play, but I swerved it in favour of the DC Cash Game, which I did not want to miss as it only runs on Wednesdays & Sundays. That went well too....
DC cash is weird. Some nights I can sit there all night & dribble money, completely unable to make a hand, other nights it just seems that you make hand after hand. Same thing with the £2-£2 6 card PLO actually. I'm not convinced it makes sense to play, but it's enormous fun.
That was an interesting read. Nice mix of romanticism and realism, too.
As a lifelong Yid (won't catch any of us switching from Brentford), thought I would cheer you lot up before the North v South London Derby.
I was 1 of many who expected Frank to do well. Then I watched the Summer transfer window. We signed an entertaining show pony (Kudus) and 2 men with zero experience of the Prem (Kolo Muani and Simons). Good players, both, but the former will never be suited to English football, while the latter is trying ever so hard, while hoping next Summer to either play elsewhere or put on the 20 pounds of muscle needed. Presuming he doesn't want to be remembered as the new Bryan Gil
So. Do Spurs learn their lesson? No. We sign an Interim Manager (Tudor) with precisely zero experience of playing in or managing in England. He looks like a decent Manager. But what a time and way to appoint him. Can't sign anyone, no local knowledge, and told he's off in 4 months time. Meanwhile our last Assistant Manager (Heitinga) who had local knowledge from Spurs and Liverpool, as well as Managing Ajax, is shown the door.
The first goal at the Weekend is going to be important...
Morning Phil. A nice balanced Post, or at least for the most part...
I should apologise that there's no dedicated Spurs thread so you've had to find a way to post it on the Arsenal thread. Generally speaking, we only have dedicated Club threads for the big & successful teams.
well, a 1474 megapixel sensor doesnt exist at the the moment, and doubt if it ever will.
remember kids, the megapixel number is no guarantee of quality. The rest of the optics contribute just as much. Often the really high mp numbers can introduce a lot of noise into the picture, especially on the very small sensors on point and shoot cameras.
Not too sure about this. Give it 5 years and there'll be one somewhere.
