Fascinating stuff lands on my desk every day and thought from TheFrosties this is worth your consideration.
I’m fairly confident that given the amount of possession CFC had in the first half, our players would have possibly felt the pressure from our home supporters, and we may have conceded more.
What I do hope, is that every supporter can now learn from the match as a whole and see what can be achieved… Jose quite clearly changed his tactics and formation in the second half to combat Chelsea and got the result – if anything without the supporters in the ground, this is given both Jose and all of us a real opportunity to see how he operates and for us to understand his approach.
It may not always be pretty but it might well be effective. After all we won last night and everyone is smiling and happy!! I’m not so sure about the home changing room janitor though!
HH says:
This is a great point about fans influence, and I’ve vented my spleen on the usefulness of Spurs fans endlessly. Ideally we all want to be wowed by our club’s performances, but surely not to the point whereby they achieve nothing.
It’s always revealing just how many supporters primarily want to be entertained. This may sound like a nutty thing to say, but in truth, it’s just another pacifier, another corruption of language to excuse losing.
If you want to be entertained, get yourself sat down in front of a big fat Italian opera.
If you want professional sports, that’s up the hall on the right and that’s where the object of the exercise is to win, opposed to garner the occasional round of applause.
I don’t believe the crowds at modern football are the 12th man any more, most of them are too busy eating, drinking, taking selfies or filming other fans with their devices to have even an ounce of their own skin in the game.
Last night was a spectacularly un-Tottenham thing to witness. We didn’t buckle and we didn’t whimper out. Remarkable times, but I won’t be buying as DVD, I will however be hoping the fans are locked for long enough to give The Special One enough time to effect the changes he needs to, without people who don’t know much about football deciding if they’re going to cheer their team on or not.
So we’re his cargo pants!
The problem with fans is they have no patience and instantly judge, to be fair, It was an almost a nondescript performance first half which I couldn’t understand what the plan was, but thankfully they only managed a single goal advantage. Looked so much better after the break and the players seemed to know what they were doing, and with commitment , so the result should do their confidence a lot of good.
………………..”from fit young men who are
extremely wellaccordingly compensated for their efforts”We did struggle, but crucially stayed in the game after conceding early.. This is what title winners do.. Grind out results when not playing well. Digging deep when tired and losing. Refusing to lose. Even messi and ronaldo can’t be amazing every game.. Considering the amount of games we have been playing, and no striker until late on, that was a marvellous team effort I thought. Even Ndombenchnomore was running, and managed his second 90 mins in two weeks. Good stuff.
Whether there were fans there are not, no fan could be happy with that listless, clueless first half.
The 5Live commentator summed it up as, Spurs are chasing shadows here, they can’t even get close to the Chelsea players.
The minimum I expect is 100 per cent effort from first minute to last, not whenever you happen to feel like it. I don’t think that is too much to ask from fit young men who are extremely well compensated for their efforts.
Frank’s body language was a car crash!
One lump or two?!
Well said H…. Watch the penalties again. Watch Maureen and Frank. Polar opposites. Our gaffer was happy, relaxed, smiling, looked like he didn’t give a monkey. This seemingly spread to our players… Frank in comparison looked fidgety, tense, and nervous….. Penalties have to be easier without fans there too. Far less pressure….. Loving Maureens mind games too. “Sacrificing’ against his old club Chelsea? Not a chance.
Well, you know what they say, if you pay peanuts … 😉
I would imagine that the natives would have been decidedly restless by the end of the first half. The vocalisation of that frustration, and dare I say it, their sense of entitlement I suspect would have become a corporate ear worm for the players, adding to the pressure they were already under. More encouragement than vitriol is what is required.
Apologies for the slow start today. Broadband currently being expedited by the PG Tipps chimpanzees.