Imagine...
The teams come out, line up for kick off, but Spurs only have ten men on the pitch.
Then the stadium goes dark.
Glass smash.
Stone Cold's music hits and Harry Kane marches out.
1 point from 3 games.
1 minute from being knocked out vs PSV.
10 minutes from being knocked out vs Inter.
5 minutes from being knocked out vs Barca.
A VAR decision from being knocked out vs City.
1 second from being knocked out vs Ajax.
Just can’t get my head around it.
Ange says Tuesday night was the worst experience he's ever had as a football manager.
Because once he realised he'd got it wrong and fans were actually rooting for City he had a real anxiety that if Spurs took a hiding his integrity would have been questioned.
Mauricio Pochettino is simply the greatest manager we’ve had in my lifetime. Beyond that, he is a man of endless dignity and class. When he arrived, he said his objective was to make the fans proud of our club. He achieved that. The club has let him down.
5 things we learned from Liverpool 2-1 Spurs:
1) Ndombele should play every minute of every game.
2) Ndombele’s dribbling is lovely.
3) Ndombele’s passing is unreal.
4) Ndombele’s full of brilliant, cheeky flicks.
5) Ndombele should play every minute of every game.
I hear part of the reason for the stadium delay is because the construction team have wasted the last three days trying to work out how to do Dele Alli’s weird hand celebration thing.
Mourinho has had the best Harry Kane ever, prime Heung-min Son, a Gareth Bale homecoming and Ledley King on the coaching staff.
Do you realise how difficult it is to make things this miserable with all of that?
Micky is doing what I thought was the impossible job of filling the hole in my heart for a lanky, technically gifted, left-sided centre-back that gallops forward like a gazelle and finishes like a striker, left by Jan Vertonghen.
Just need to give him the no. 5 next season.
Never forget, Arsenal have played a disgusting rapist all season because it gave them a better chance of winning the league. Mikel Arteta kept picking him. His teammates kept celebrating with him.
All for nothing. They deserve this.
If Danny Rose wasn’t one of your favourite players once upon a time, you’re in the wrong sport.
Since Spurs are trying their best to shuffle him out the door quietly, I’m going to do a thread to celebrate some of the brilliant little things that made him the absolute best.
This. This is everything we’ve been missing, everything football should be. Everyone pulling in the same direction, watching football we can all get behind.
Thank you Ange.
I knew there was always a risk we’d be in trouble if Maddison, Romero or van de Ven got injured or suspended. I just didn’t think all three would happen at once.
Which, after all my years of Spurs experience, is probably on me.
Liverpool fans, I’m afraid you’ve been building up that karmic retribution for the past five years and you will be receiving absolutely zero sympathy from me.
Dele Alli is the perfect blend of hard work, talent, intelligence, and absolutely world class shithousery. A footballing genius, and you’re blind if you still don’t see it.
Personally, there is only one Argentinian who played a key part in Tottenham’s rise between 2015 and 2019 that I care about.
He has won a European trophy, and hates Chelsea. 🇦🇷
Harry Kane talking about how quickly time is passing has sent me into a bit of an existential crisis about how empty my life will feel once he’s no longer playing for Spurs.
🎶 And sooooo Japhet can play,
The Tottenham way,
He can play either siiiiide,
The goooooaaaaals fade away,
Don’t look back Tanganga,
You’re here to stay. 🎶
Favourite part of last night was Palace refusing to press and expecting Romero and Vicario to do something at 1-0 up.
You idiots, these are two of the most broken, chaotic minds on planet Earth. They will look you in the eye and stand on the ball for 90 minutes if they have to.
🚨 Sergio Ramos has decided to leave Paris Saint-Germain as free agent. He will not sign a new deal.
#PSG
“Tomorrow I will say goodbye to another stage of my life — and it’s a goodbye to PSG”, he announced.
Ramos, now available on free deal.
Nuno says that the Croatian three could be involved against Chelsea. The trio will train with the squad tomorrow afternoon after returning in the morning
#THFC
Dele Alli needlessly nutmegging a League 2 player in the last minutes of a finished FA Cup tie is the perfect example of why he’s a brilliant, evil bastard.
Powerful. Ginger. Perpetually angry for no reason. And now plays centrally. The Dejan Kulusevski transformation into Kevin De Bruyne is almost complete.
So many narratives smashed to pieces:
- Alli is in poor form
- Spurs can’t win away at the big 6
- Spurs are a one man team
- And of course, Spurs can’t win at Stamford Bridge
What a day.
Kane and Bale is just so much stupid, surreal fun. The two most iconic Spurs players of the modern era scoring and providing for each other. It’s ridiculous. I love it.
Lucas Moura’s Spurs highlights ranked:
5) Hat-trick vs Huddersfield
4) Old Trafford 2018
3) Every time he’s said coys
2) Amsterdam
1) Getting Nuno sacked
As far as I’m concerned, Richarlison is the Brazilian forward that scored a hat-trick in Amsterdam to take Tottenham to their first ever Champions League final.
The greatest Spurs player of a generation, who played with a passion for the badge greater than anyone I’ve seen. Multiple iconic North London derby moments and more than deserving of a statue. Sad to see MY captain go. Goodbye king.
Shame if Harry Kane leaves this summer too.
Juan Foyth just had his Ledley King moment, making a brilliant goal-saving tackle only for us to concede directly from the resulting corner.
He’s one of us now.
Mauricio Pochettino: "In the beginning, it was really painful to watch Tottenham’s games, really painful. Because when you feel a club is like home, it is not easy to split from this feeling." [The Guardian]
Happy Indescribable High That Can Never Be Matched That Ultimately Sent a Fanbase, Manager, Set of Players and Entire Club into an Irreversible Existential Tailspin Day, to all who celebrate.
5 years ago today, Tottenham came back from 2-0 down at half-time to win 3-2 thanks to a Lucas Moura hat-trick, the last of which came in the 96th minute.
One of the most engrossing games I’ve ever watched as a neutral.
Messi is probably underrated, isn't he? His greatness is normalised to the extent where being the top scorer in Europe and winning two trophies isn't seen as extraordinary as Salah having a standout season or Modric taking a dark horse to a final.
In the same night we’re going to get to give Bale the reception he was robbed of during the pandemic season AND boo Poch until he cries.
This has the potential to be an all timer.
The saddest thing has been watching a group that we’ve loved, that forced us to love them, fall apart with no tangible symbol of success (a trophy). It’s so hard to accept that a period full of so many happy memories is over and not coming back.
We’ve lost as many league games this season as we did in the Tim Sherwood season, but we’re third and in a Champions League semi-final.
Football is weird and stupid.
Angeball in 2024 has been so confusing. Every game is 80 minutes of pain, with 10 minutes sprinkled in of the most scintillating football you’ve ever seen.