Walthy I too love the club and always will BUT as with many on here it is at times not the manner of the defeat it is the style of play that pisses me off...
I like others have sat and stood through the leaner years and relegation as well. Highs and lows and rollercoasters is and may always be our lot.
However for me if the price of our current consistent top4 position is to play slow tippy tappy backwards and sideways boring ineffective styles with possession being the main aim, then I will bemoan the result, style and disappointment.
I have always supported spurs and will continue to as it is in my blood, but I want to be excited and enthralled by passages of play that funnily enough we did see a few seasons ago. High tempo pace aggresssion, and real desire, I see no smiles on our players faces, no real delight, no joy ....it is if they have had all that knocked / trained out of them
This all translates to the supporters and terraces and sites such as this....come on if most of us on here are totally honest the current style is abysmal and bores one to death. The other night I was screaming at the TV when we had won free kicks in their half and then passed the ball backwards to build the slow labourious attack again...FFS where is the aggresssion?
I look forward to us LOOKING FORWARD, not backwards in our play again!
I was working in Millbank the season we went down, under Burkinshaw, I went to virtually every home game that season, I met a guy from Glasgow I knew from work there purely by chance, he was a Celtic supporter, and when I asked him why he was coming to The Lane he told me he'd been round all the teams in London and Spurs were the ones that played the most exciting football, no matter that we lost more than we won, we had Alfie Conn, Glen Hoddle, Pat Jennings, Steve Perryman, Ralph Coates, John Gorman amongst others, so it wasn't a bad team/squad. But we had lost Chivers, Peters, England and Gilzean who were the spine of the previous season's team.
I remember Hoddle, almost right in front of me, trapped in the corner by the flag, facing it, three opposing players blocking him in, right on him, he had no room to move or barely breath, so what does he do, he juggles the ball on his foot, kicks it over his and their heads, WALKS through those three players, catches it on his foot before it hits the ground and off he went.
I also remember Alfie Conn doing the Klinnsman splash dive when we scored.
We had some exciting players back then and played good looking football but still went down. Then we went on to win three cups in 81 and 2. So all is not doom, gloom and despondency as some would have it. We just play horrible looking football and have got pretty much as boring as Le Arse of late, but I am sure that once we have everyone fit, are in the new stadium and have a couple of good signings in January we will be playing nice exciting, attractive football again.
