21 May 2013 00:37:16
Hi all,
I am a lifelong spurs fan in my forties who visits this site daily and has done for a about a year I suppose.
What puzzles me after a year of reading the banter and rumours in here is" how old are most of these posters"?
Main reason for me wondering this is due to a huge majority of posters feeling the team are underachieving.
Now if you are old enough to have witnessed the the double winners from 6061. Then yes comparing this team to the double winners they are underachieving.
But for everyone else ditch the rose tinted glasses. Bar the occasional cup run or triumph it has basically been 30 years of frustration as a spurs fan.
We have had some outstanding players in my time as a spurs fan but never an outstanding team.
Now I genuinely think we are very close to having an outstanding squad not just team.
The last 4 years finishes are better and more consistent than any thing in my life time.
For the first time as well we have a team that truly can beat anyone in the premier league.
As proved this year time and time again.
Like everyone else here yes I agree not all is perfect we need a few additional players to make our outstanding team an outstanding squad.
Way too many levy haters in here, I think he has done a superb job since he took over, people forget our main rivals have at least 15,000 more capacity than spurs.
Would anyone here really want alan sugar to buy him out, now that really would be a huge step backwards.
Once the new ground is built and we are playing there I genuinely things will get better.
Shane69

1.) 21 May 2013
In my mid 20's. I don't post half as much as others but agree that the last 4 years have been amazing.
Before this my fondest spurs memories were the kinsman's 1st and 2nd coming.

2.) 21 May 2013
The feeling of underachievement is more around the sense of missed opportunities rather than poor performance. Certainly if you compare our results and performance of the last 4 years against that of a decade ago then it is worlds apart. We rarely beat the top 4 (this year P8, W3, D2, L3) and a top 8 finish was seen as a good season (which we've done better than since the Ramos days).

Now that all said our weakness has been glaring for a few years. Ade papered over the cracks last year but we really need a CL level ST if we want to get CL football as the Premiership is so much more competitive. And if you look at how slim the margins have been the last 4 years then there is a real belief (including amongst myself) that a £20m striker bought 3 years ago when we got into the CL could have got us over the line in the last 3 campaigns and paid for his own transfer fee in CL money.

Yes, sure, he gets more stick on here and other places than he really should considering the team that has been built under his watch. But he hasn't finished the job yet.

3.) 21 May 2013
Shane69 - at last a proper tottenham fan and a great post couldn't put it better. Now 5th is failure to sum. I remember finishing in the top half was brilliant. What a job levy has done.

4.) 21 May 2013
In my 50's and they wouldn't be buying Levy out!

5.) 21 May 2013
Exactly, well said.

Jimbo (21)

6.) 21 May 2013
I am sorry but I completely disagree,
I am in my mid 30s and can still feel disappointed, surely its a personal opinion. Also you don't have to have lived and seen the 60s team to know about it, surely part of being a true spurs fan is to engulf yourself in our history and want to see our team of today do as well as the 60's teams. I am not saying that finishing 5th is a failure because it isn't, how can surpassing our PL points total be considered a failure, the failure comes into it when other teams that we are striving to overcome are out there improving and moving on, whereas we seem to sit still and rest on our laurels.