Writer: Hot Tottingham
The fantastic irony in all this (especially when I still keep reading slurs against the clubs owners lack of player spending over recent years); is that it’s after two transfer windows of zero spending, we finally reach a CL final.
A further strange irony is that so much of the ongoing talk is also about many of our top players possibly leaving this summer. And this is most ironic to me, because I’ve been reading on here for many years now that without CL football all together, we would never keep the likes of Jan, Eriksen etc. And now after 4 continuous years of CL participation, culminating into a final, the talk is still often concentrated on how the hell can we still keep them if they are not given yet more money for their services and akin to what our main rivals pay. Well, it turns out that not even so much as a Carabao Cup triumph was necessary for many players to remain at Spurs and/or to receive even greater pay than they have done. How so?
So, even if as a supporter one still feels that Levy and the club are not and have not been doing the ‘footballing’ things in the right fashion all these years, it would suggest to me that as far as many of our players are concerned, they have had the opposite view and are (and have been) quite content to be at Spurs, with or without a trophy and/or a higher basic wage.
And I will repeat this certain stat once more to highlight this; Spurs have on average the most ‘loyal’ players of all PL clubs. Meaning that we have more players that generally stay longer than at any other rival club. And in spite of what we may say or think about our owners and of their supposed inability to run things properly. How so?
Or perhaps we have been just plain ‘lucky’ all of these (ENIC) years. As I keep reading on here and elsewhere, that we are real ‘lucky’ so ‘n’ so’s to be in the top 4 of the PL and in this CL final this season.
Maybe we are just ‘lucky’ to have the very good players we do still have? It may also be by pure good fortune that we have a top ‘o’ the range training ground and an amazing brand new stadium. And quite possibly, we have been indeed, very ‘Lucky’ to get away with paying the players peanuts for so long and also, exceptionally ‘lucky’ that we (by chance) happen to have a more than ‘lucky’ manager…
People may speak of their own sense of a sober pragmatism, constructive criticism, realistic outlook and simply “telling it like it is” when it comes to both Spurs and football in general. And yet it turns out that it’s probably just luck and minor miracles that will win the day, after all. (Or so the self-proclaimed realists have recently been saying on here.) Well I never did!
Up the ‘lucky’ Spurs!
Lucky if we win. Unlucky if we lose?
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