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Spurs Used To Be A Cup Side & I Used To Be 7lbs 8oz

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Here’s a question for you, a real poser. If Mauricio Pochettino was as magical as a legion of Spurs fans and the engraving on his BBQ would have us believe, then what does that make Mikel Arteta?

Poch had a squad that was – subject to treating domestic cup competitions with total destain – capable of routinely clocking in top four receipts for his paymasters and was lauded for doing so by many.

Yet Arteta arrives mid-season with a squad that very few fans outside the Arsenal fanbase would recognize if they sat opposite them on the tube, and the Spaniard wins the FA Cup and secures European football.

The ambitions of the two clubs are poles apart, as it became evident when the Arsenal players slipped into their celebratory shirts with the big number 14 on the back, to signify how many times they’d won that cup.

Spurs used to be a cup side. Which is about as helpful an insight as telling you that I used to be 7lbs and 8 ounces.

Daniel Levy talks about Spurs being sustainable, which is playing to those in the audience that recite ‘wouldn’t want to do Leeds’ to themselves like hail Marys, whenever the fear grips them (Leeds United went bust in 2007 and have been one of the very few football club’s of such stature on the planet to suffer such an indignity since then).

Spurs are to busy trying to look like a big club, that they have forgotten what it takes to truly be one.

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Tappaspur
Tappaspur
3 years ago
Reply to  Billy the yid

Poch is a rich “waste man. He knew the terms of the job, he could’ve told the truth and said I can’t work under those conditions my levy. Money made him keep that quiet

England Mike
England Mike
3 years ago

I cant forgive Poch for the utter disdain he showed and comments made on the domestic cups every season, he simply sacrificed them as if they had no meaning or value, which proved to me soon enough, the guy was a loser, his record in semi’s and finals for us says it all, nice guy but…….

Pail D
Pail D
3 years ago

Totally agree. Seen us win UEFA , 3 FA cups & 3 League cups. (1 as a kid). Why do we not aim for league titles & cups a bonus. This gas been all my life. Biggest underachievers ever. So much so that Poch is seen as a success.

BobbytheBrain
BobbytheBrain
3 years ago
Reply to  Billy the yid

During ENIC’s stewardship, Spurs have reached 4 League Cup Finals, 2 League Cup semi-finals and 5 FA Cup semi-finals plus the CL final. We have won 1 solitary pot in that time. There is not a winning culture at the club. It can’t all be on Levy. The managers and players have to be accountable. There is not a winning culture at the club. Hopefully Jose can change that. He is serial winner but he needs to be backed. We are treading water as a club. 6th in the league flattered us.

ministers cat
ministers cat
3 years ago
Reply to  DannyG

About where I am Dan. It’s not that I miss Poch it is more that I don’t understand all the negativity.
Look at the bloody tables while he was here.

James McKevitt
James McKevitt
3 years ago

We used to be a Cup team. I remember those days, great memories, Coventry 1987 aside, but even then it used to exasperate me that we never were serious contenders for a League title. Even then there was a clear limit to our ambitions.

Harry Hotspur
3 years ago
Reply to  mikey hughes

They’ve not had a direct nickel from me for ages, and it’s staying that way

mikey hughes
mikey hughes
3 years ago
Reply to  coys1882

Which is exactly why I now split my footballing allegiance between ENIC fc and Leeds Utd, just to stop myself from totally dropping out of football – that’s how disillusioned I’ve become. I find Leeds a breath of fresh air having owners/chairman that actually want footballing success and to bring back the glory days of the club. I can’t wait to see them in the PL where they belong. In direct contrast I fear that even with Jose at the helm next season will be the same old same old under our parasitic owners. Hate to say it but we will never see any footballing success under ENIC. They are scamming millions of Spurs fans around the world and it’s a disgrace. My advise would be don’t give them a penny.

coys1882
coys1882
3 years ago

Yes, it is galling in the extreme that a team as mediocre as Arsenal have been for the past 5 seasons, during which time we have routinely finished above them in the league, should yet still have won 2 FA Cups in that time period (in fact 4 in 9 years), whilst we have won sweet FA. Of course we have not won the FA Cup now for 30 years, a competition we used to proudly ‘own’.

It is true that Poch devalued the domestic cup competitions, but he still greatly over-achieved in the league and in consistent Champion’s League qualification he delivered what his paymasters required, despite being hampered by a lower net spend than almost every other team in the EPL. Consequently, one doesn’t have to look far to see the main culprits whose fingerprints are all over this abject dearth of silverware. It is of course ENIC, Lewis and Levy’s property investment business.

Manifestly ENIC cannot be described as a football management company, as that is not its main focus, nor is it in any way encumbered by a lack of success on the field of play. If one examines the financial statistics, from the likes of Deloittes, we are now routinely listed among the top 10 wealthiest clubs in world football. Clearly to ENIC, this metric of shareholder value, is the ONLY one that matters, as we are the sole club in the top ten of world football that never wins any trophies.

The bottom line is this. Levy and Lewis are not in any way committed to winning anything on a football field. One trophy, in almost 20 years of ownership, bears testimony to that fact. COVID 19 will only exacerbate the lack of financial commitment to the nominal, footballing, side of ENIC’s operations. Consequently, until ENIC are extirpated from ownership of our great club, we will regrettably remain a footballing irrelevance, condemned to chronic under-achievement by our peers and rivals who actually aspire to win things.

Urbane Sturgeon
Urbane Sturgeon
3 years ago

Podge took us to runners up position in the Prem & CL while not being backed properly at the 6th highest spending club in its division, and delivered some memorable matches & footy. He and the players were pretty bloody extraordinary. The margin between total bloody Spurs heroes forever or bitching about their failures is very small. We’re about to see what Maureen can do with the same or similar business model.

mikey hughes
mikey hughes
3 years ago

Very true H, you and i have been saying it for years but the fanboys just wouldn’t listen would they? Well in the words of Nigel Farage “You aren’t laughing now”. It won’t matter who our manager is, the problem is and always will be our pimps; ENIC.

Lilywhite without the II
Lilywhite without the II
3 years ago

Poch did what his bosses asked him to do…it comes from the top, but Poch was also complicate in not getting a cup..it will be interesting viewing to see how Poch does in another club…..the question now is did Jose really think he could win something under Levy and with this squad, or did Levy and Jose “use” each other as the timing was right for both of them….
If the Southampton midfielder does not join the team in 2 weeks after their break then we will already know how this summer will play out and Levy’s intent…

Jose wanted Europa, he will now have 2-3 games a week in September so lets see if its the same players wasting our time scrapping a win in Kazakhstan then losing at the weekend to Fulham..

Phil Pres
Phil Pres
3 years ago
Reply to  Billy the yid

I wholeheartedly agree

DannyG
DannyG
3 years ago

I don’t get all the Poch bashing. He was a brilliant manager for us, but things went sour and we had to move on. He’s in the past. I don’t think about him any more. But every other day there’s another Poch article! Seems so harsh given he was the best manager we’ve had for donkeys years.

We all want to win trophies and hopefully Jose can deliver something. I’m fully behind Jose. I don’t always enjoy the football as much as I did under Poch but I’m happy to have a serial winner at the helm. If we can’t win anything under him then we really are doomed.

Billy the yid
Billy the yid
3 years ago

The harsh fact is that basically throughout them lots ‘demise’ they have continued to win. This isn’t on poch. We have won 1 Cup in the whole of levys stewardship. Poch was the for 25% of that. Why not point the finger where it needs to be pointed? There’s one constant through this trophy drought and it ain’t a manger. Did rednapp treat the cup with disdain losing to the football gods of pompey? It’s on one man and until people tell him he’s the problem he will carry on regardless

Billy the yid
Billy the yid
3 years ago

And you want to blame poch for that? Grow up. Boss says get us CL that’s what he does. Sick to death of blame poch for everything and this rent boy is the saviour. Poch didn’t work in wuhan before you start

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