So it’s goodbye to the Lane and good bye from him, and maybe, good bye from him, him and him!
United can’t realistically get into the Champions League through fourth place and we just need a draw to achieve a runners-up position. United have bigger fish to fry and Jose may give many of his players some rest. Jose has to play 3 PL games between now and the Europa League Final so it’s anyone’s guess what team he will put out against us. We know that United will be without Marcos Rojo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Fosu-Mensah, Luke Shaw or Marouane Fellaini, and Ashley Young is a minor doubt. Sadly, Danny Rose won’t be fit.
It does feel a bit flat but the last thing we need is an exhibition match as our final game at home. We would have liked to have pushed Chelski all the way and, if it hadn’t been for Adrian’s boot stopping a Harry Kane goal on the line at West Ham, who knows? I hope the lads can go out there and enjoy the occasion and play without nerves or fear. We want to keep our unbeaten home run going and the Spurs fans want us to sign off from the Lane with a good win.
Last season we lost the plot so let’s make sure this season we end it with victories. I hope Walker gets the nod so he can play what may be his last game in our colours, and I hope we fans can give him a good send off. Poch will not let the players get ready for the beach just yet! This is all about compiling the best points total ever in the Prem – to prove what a class act we are and to ensure we go through the season unbeaten at home for the first time in our Premiership history! United have yet to win in London this season so we had better make sure we keep that record up.
I have found some of the write up’s and comments in the press after our loss at West Ham bordering on the moronic. If it wasn’t for Spurs there would have been no Premier League title race. We made this season exciting. West Ham are a sad act, they only have one ambition, to beat Spurs, that’s the sum total of their aspirations! When was the last time West Ham were challenging for the title?
In January Chelski were 9 points in the lead and it was a one-horse race…if it wasn’t for Spurs this title race would have been dull, predictable and boring – it was only our run of 9 wins on the bounce that got everyone talking. Punters and the papers would have had nothing to talk about without Spurs assault on the Premiership title. I don’t care how many people want to gloat or call us chokers. Without Spurs there would have been no run in worth commenting on. We have made this Premiership, and last season’s Prem, exciting, not just in this country, but abroad – the TV stations couldn’t get enough of us, and long may it continue. We were brilliant this season in the PL and we will be next season. Well done you Spurs! We have been the best team in the Prem for the last two seasons, the stats don’t lie.
Spurs have become the team to beat and that’s a compliment to Poch and the boys! 3 seasons ago we were 5th place fodder now we are a top 2 club and we have achieved that on half the income of the 5 teams around us and paying half the salaries! Zlatan Ibrahimovic gets over £300,000 a week while Eden Hazard earns around £200,000-a-week. (Nice yacht by the way Joe! 321 ft long, full size indoor tennis court, cost the same as the NLD. We know where your priorities lie Joe!) Still, when the NLD is built Joe Lewis is selling us anyway! Next season we are being tipped to go one better. To do that we have to build on the team we have got not let players go who have been central to our performance this season. It’s clear that both City and United are trying to acquire Dier, Alders, Rose and Walker. If the rumour mill is to be believed we will be watching the last game for Dier, Alderweireld and Rose as well. We have lost 9 players to United over the years; Jimmy Brown, Chris McGrath, Terry Gibson, Alan Brazil, Garth Crooks, and more recently Terry Sheringham, Carrick, Berba and Frazier Campbell. The truth is we will, in all probability, not be losing Alders or Rose or probably Dier but we will not be buying big either. No matter how much we will be linked to players like Isco we seem to be punting more for players like, Adam Smith, Bruma and Zaha. Poch wants players who are already playing in the Premiership in order that he can then switch them to our work ethic and work rate? However, whilst Premiership players may be great for the Premiership grind the CL is a different ball game altogether and therein lies the problem for Levy and Poch. Playing at Wembley is a challenge in itself. In addition, playing CL at the national stadium with nothing to change the game, sitting on the bench is something else!
We have to do three things next season to make sure we can win the Prem; add more depth to our squad and improve our bench; win more games away from home, and; learn how to beat teams who do the high press to us when the Liverpool’s and West Hams of this world hunt us down in packs. With regard to the CL…we need one or two quality players like Bale and VDV who can make a difference, how we do that I don’t know. DL has squished any chance of us buying big or paying big so, Poch has to produce a CL side that can at least get us out of the qualification stages. Monaco did it this season so did Leicester so why can’t we?
And the last word for our old ground. It was one shilling and sixpence to get in at the Worcester Road Gate when I was a boy and it was a tanner for a match programme. The prices may have rocketed, the teams may have changed and many managers may have come and gone but one thing has never changed, the fans! We may be leaving our old ground for the last time but we will always sing ‘Mighty Tottenham from the Lane’!
COYS!
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