Is the wrong way the right way?
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 2:27PM For arguments sake (we all know it's fantasy) let's say someone outside the current Top 4 manages to gatecrash one of the CL positions, sneaking in and remaining there not just for a single cameo season but for several years. Cementing their place as one of the Sky Sports favourites.
Obviously, with this new-founded success comes various welcoming bonus additions courtesy of eager to please referees, the suddenly soft-hearted FA and the usual drivel from the media that aids their stature further.
Let's say it happened to us (stop laughing).
Do we start to embrace a team of c*nts, justifying every obvious cringe-making cheat ethic as something that's a necessity? You need to be arrogant and you need to be hypocritical. Add to the mix thousands of glory hunters joining the ranks doing their utmost to prove they are loyal fans and have been since the beginning of time by wearing various assortments of club merchandise including three scarfs and a tracksuit, preferring to savour the moment via snapshot on their mobile than share true emotion that comes with a goal celebration.
I'm wondering, is there any hope of bucking the trend?
There was another stand out moment for me in the Chelsea v Spurs game, other than that penalty decision that did not go our way. It's a two-parter, with the first part starring Drogba. You might know him from various football incidents such as 'My losing battle with gravity' and 'Losing Gravity II - Gravity wins again'.
The Drog, dying on the ground, is left there while Spurs move forwards with the ball. Chelsea fans protest at their crippled brethren who is desperate for treatment meaning the good attacking position attained results with the ball kicked out of play. Keane doing the 'right thing' even though it's up to the ref to stop the game. Play resumes and Spurs do not receive the ball back. Part two sees Ledley King turn and fall to the grown in agony, pulling up knowing full well he wont be getting back up again to take part in the game. So what do Chelsea do? They continue with their attack and almost steal in with a goal.
Of course, some might point out the goal scored in the 2006 season at Highbury where two gooners crashed into each other and Spurs played on with Davids playing in Keane for 1-0. Play acting on the part of both of the Arsenal players. But a true wannabe Top 4 reaction from Spurs.
"Fuck 'em"
More of the same please in future. No point waiting to get into a CL position. Just play like you're there already.
Ta.
Reader Comments (107)
Breathtaking, that's all you can say about these come-backs of yours, breathtaking. Preceded, of course, by the words/sentiments: 'If only they were/Chance would be a fine thing/We should be so lucky.'
They have a kind of....how can one put it, a sort of majestical seal, by apppintment to HRH, J-O-J is hereby licensed as a right royal twerp and to practise being a twerp over the airwaves, not that he needs, being an expert, any practice.
Gooner Jake, throw off the shackles of stupidty, abandon your many crutches and in a biblical moment, walk without a puerile insult or an empty gesture or a Yah, Sucks, Boo support, or even your mainstay, an expletive.
You can do it, just believe!
Position yourself in front of a mirror and repeat as many times as you have clutched at straws in woefully thin posts: 'I must stop being a dork', 'I must stop being a dork', I must stop being a dork', etc., etc., etc.
man man , i missed the banter between fans when i was in the states but it is getting ridiculous now guys - cliffy you are obviously a very articulate person but stop feeding him the replys he needs to feel good about himself behind his pc screen after a day of getting bullied at school (btw i grasp the irony in trying to stop the banter and having a go at him at the same day ... )
lets be the bigger man here all rigth mate
By the way : filthy is the real deal as anyone who follows this blog would know by now
and on topic : Nah Spooky ! including the 'smart and professional decisions' as blatant cheating , not returning the ball and the epileptic style of play that comes with being a so called world class striker is just not the Spurs way. Good attacking freeflowing football and combined with a sort of melancholic , melodramatic (borderline arrogant) type of fans
That's the spurs way
belgian spur, great advice and funnily enough, I'd half expected old gooner to have responded to my last posting - I won't come out with any silly, sarcastic reason as to why he hasn't - but I'd already decided to call a halt, too, to responding any more. Like all Spurs fans, I'd imagine, it's the love of our team that I want to focus on, and what I reckon is one of the greatest tradiitons in English football, our great history of trying to play the game in a beautiful way.
I still remember us getting a player, from Leeds of all clubs, I think it was, Terry Yorath, and he just wasn't the sort of player who should ever have played for us, not because of his level of ability - let's face it, we've had quite a few who shouldn't have played if that was the sole criterion - but because of his style and general approach to the game. He just didn't fit in, anymore than Graham should ever have been our manager. And I think if I remember rightly Yorath left the club critical of its playing style. He couldn't conquer us and what it must mean when a player puts on a Spurs shirt.
So, Gooner Jake, this is goodbye. One of my best friends is an Arsenal fan and it's good to discuss the game properly with him, to admit that Arsenal have played by far the most attractive football most Spurs fans would surely have seen them play, under their manager, Wenger.
Be the prodigal son, return to your Arsenal home and leave us Spurs' fans or fans of Spurs, if you prefer, to dream our dreams of our great club.
Well said Cliffy, bowing out with a bit of decorum....
LMAO. Yeah if by "decorum" you mean "a tacit admission that GoonerJake was right all around", then yeah, that was a pretty sweet way to bow out.
Amusing of course that all the Spud brigade immediately take his side. Apparently I'm on a wind up when it was me who wanted to discuss the real issues brought up at the start of the discussion all along. I guess someone people just love poems and talking about "apostrohpes". Each to their own LOL.
Intellectual on-line hooliganism. Love it.
If anyone knows where I can read some let me know.