Now I love Tottenham Hotspur as much as anybody, but I just feel we, as fans need to put things into perspective.
With certain events over the past two seasons, and comments made by professional footballers lately I think we need to assess ourselves as a club and where we stand. We have high hopes for our club, and so we should; great finances, stadium development, exciting signings and a great manager. But we do need to remember we aren’t an established “Big” side, our average position over the past 10 years is 10th. I am not trying to put a downer on things, but when you hear professionals like Eto’o and Vela saying Spurs are a mid-table club” etc, they are not entirely wrong.
From my time on football forums one thing I noticed about our fans (apart from the very high league predictions!!) is that they take player’s actions to heart. Hossam Ghaly. He has been known to cause trouble in the past etc, but he always gave 100%, he scored a few goals and played well in our midfield. Then came the day where he had an absolute shocker, and it was. So he got subbed off after being subbed on and threw his shirt in disgust. So why do all our fans get the idea that he “took his Spurs shirt off and threw it on the floor in front of the fans to disrespect the club” Some of the things I hear are mental, it was a spur of the moment thing. I play tennis as well as football and when I play crap I throw my racket, I think most people react to their own mistakes etc and that is all Ghaly did. So we all went mad at him and he hasn’t played for us since. But does nobody feel that he could have provided some bite into an under-performing midfield in our first half of the season? Because I am sure he would have tried his heart out, and performed at least as good as others did.
The same has been with Chimbonda, like his agent says; he was never substituted before, and to be subbed off in a Final… when youre losing and you havnt actually done much wrong yourself; well I know I would be angry. Yet suddenly all the Spurs fans hate him…even though in later games Robbie keane has gone mental when being taken off (when he hasnt scored and we are winning) Yet not so much as one article has mentioned him… No disrespect to him, he will be a Spurs legend.
Chimbonda always gives 100%, he has played across the whole back line and done a half decent job yet we, as fans race to turn against him. Now we are set to lose a talented player. I would like to thank him for his hard work and great performances over the past two years, as much as we should have kept him, he will leave this summer and I don’t blame him.
I just feel that although we all love the club… we need to put things into perspective…. High pressure matches are going to cause outbursts, like people have in the everyday workplace; you have to crack on and get on with the job in hand and not dwell on the past… We didn’t do this with Ghaly or Chimbonda and I feel we are losing out because of this.
We are heading in the right direction, and We need to keep this going, but we cannot call the coming season a failure if we fail to finish 4th, it wont happen overnight. I hope we can, more than anything… but lets just stick behind the WHOLE team and progress together.
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Gregory Coupet – With Cerny moving to QPR and Robinson looking set to move (middlesborough bound I think) I feel if the reports linking us with the French international are true then we should make a move as soon as we can. His age is of no importance as long as he can still do the job on the pitch; and like David james; he seems to be getting better with age. I feel even if we only get a couple of years from him, he would be a great signing and a proven keeper. If this is not possible then I feel Joe Hart should be our next target, still young and proven in the premier league.
Richard Dunne – Voted Manchester City fans player of the year for the past four years, Dunne is a must. With the latest news being Harry Redknapp confirming interest in the Republic of Ireland star, I feel we should do what we can to beat Portsmouth to his signature. Look at what we can offer compared to Portsmouth.
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After getting back from work, I was mildly excited for tonight’s match because of certain situations, I thought Dean Ashton would be getting his long overdue England Debut, I saw exciting prospects such as Tom Huddlestone and Gabriel Abonglahor which I honestly thought would feature tonight. So to my dismay, I switched over to BBC one and saw the line-up 
Now I want to know if you guys agree, but was it not one of the mistakes Mclaren made that he didn’t experiment enough in friendlies, and then when players were under-performing in qualifiers he didn’t know where to turn. Take the final game, he waited till the final game of qualifying; where we had already been thrown a lifeline, to play Carson in goal.
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The race was certainly eventful, and after hitting the barriers early on after describing parts of the track as a “river”; Hamilton managed to hold out for a defining victory.
The race was full of excitement, being the famous road trac; it is hard enough and with Massa leadig a Ferrari one-two off the starting grid, it was only ever going to be a wet track that could have a big effect. BMW’s Robert Kubica drove superbly to come home second in front of Felipe Massa. Raikkonen was out of contention after serving a drive through penalty for not having his tyres fully fitted before the 3-minute time limit which left Hamilton, Kubica and Massa looking strong.
