European Glory - Who's For it?

MrsGrey

whupathman said:

guess poch is staying then

I'd been thinking he might feel he's paid his debt and can leave for pastures new and a bigger transfer budget, without being criticised. And Spurs will get a big compensation fee.

chicagohammer

Not a great game but overall I am happy with that result, There was a really great close up of Kane and I knew it was then safe to turn the Telly off :biggrin:

whupathman

MrsGrey said:

whupathman said:

guess poch is staying then

I'd been thinking he might feel he's paid his debt and can leave for pastures new and a ==== transfer budget, without being criticised. And Spurs will get a big compensation fee.

fixed it for you

SuzanneClaret

I don’t like Liverpool either but...

Never ever on a Saturday night whilst at a party have a longed for Monday

baracks_a_hammer

If Spurs had won it would have meant a side which had lost 19 times in the season would have been crowned “Europe’s best” which for me would have been a bit of a farce. Liverpool 100% deserved winners.

Vorselaarhammer

Wouldn’t it be nice if the teams in the Champions league final had actually won the league in living memory of anyone that was actually on the pitch...

Terrible start to a game with the Pen and the game only got worse..

Both all English finals were rubbish...

Surrounded by Liv fans telling me I should be happy for them...

I found myself wanting Spurs to score...

And Joshua lost...

Hammerex

They may well have been all English finals, but what concerns me is, how many
English players were actually playing.

alderz

For Spurs 6 of the 14 were English (Trippier, Rose, Winks, Alli, Kane & Dier). For Liverpool it was 4 (Trent, Henderson, Gomez & Milner) and they had Robertson who is British.

Arsenal and Chelsea was a different matter. Mainland-Niles was the only starter, but Willock and Barkley came off the bench.

I think Spurs particularly are pretty good at getting English players in the side, and Liverpool and Man Utd aren’t bad either. City have a few (Sterling, Stones, Delph and Foden)

MrsGrey

Thing is, all these clubs(like all in the PL) have to have the English (home grown) quota in their squads ... but how many times are they starters? (Thinking here of the info alderz gave about Arsenal + Chelsea.)


So for me, the answer isn't to increase the quota size - you are just rewarding mediocrity. If they are good enough, they'll get signed/picked ahead of foreign-born players.

Pearces_Left_Foot

Liverpool were the first team to lose 4 games during the cl campaign and still win the trophy spurs had also lost 4 before the final

SuzanneClaret

Oh what an enjoyable little walk through campus I've had this morning.

Accidentally bumped into a few Spurs fans (admittedly I had to go through two security doors)

BubblesNeverDies

Suze - you lucky, lucky person, you

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Kuchinghammer

Wondering why, when Liverpool had already scored a goal, in the 5th minute their fans started booing when Spurs had the ball? It almost made me want Tottenham to equalise :whome:

whupathman

Off to Madrid tomorrow, offering to look for Kane’s scoring boots for a spud at work whilst there, so ungrateful some people

PrestonHammer

Apparently the gocompare bloke bought a fake ticket for 7 grand. He should have gone to the comparethemarket website.

thornburyiron

My son went to the game. He had 2 VIP tickets just behind the Spurs dugout and by 6 pm Saturday they were going at €28,000 but he couldn’t sell them because his passport was linked to the ticket although he didn’t have to show his passport when he entered the ground.
A Spurs fan, who had paid £3,000 for his ticket had it stolen and reported it to the police with a photo of his ticket. They gave him a form which he took to the ground and he was allowed in but kept on the concourse. Just before kickoff someone sat in his seat, not known if it was the thief or someone who had bought it off him, and he was promptly arrested and escorted out.

Bazshuayi

Which proves yet again that its a crime to support Spurs (or at the very least, poor judgement :whistle: )

ASLEFshrugged

Sorry, like supporting West Ham or being ginger, supporting Spurs is mostly hereditary.

Most of them are born with it and should be pitied. They think they're a big club but they're not....

There is no cure, just a lifetime of endless expectation based on the belief that they were once good when Jimmy Greaves was around but even then they couldn't quite manage more than a season of success.

So glad I'm a Hammer without all of that baggage, my therapist would be quids in

BubblesNeverDies

What Aslef said - ditto :biggrin:

chicagohammer

True, much happier being a hammer, it is far better to know in your heart of hearts that you are going to underachieve :hug:

Bazshuayi

Thats why 'secretly' supporting Liverpool as a West Ham fan has its fringe benefits :run:

chicagohammer

:nonono:

Fortuneseeker

Baz,

You kept that fact well hidden last season! :whistle:

Bazshuayi

I can do subtle too :biggrin:

Bazshuayi

I've realized that to become more of a Liverpool fan, I need to delve and immerse myself in scouse heritage and humor... However, the strangest thing happened earlier (slight drum roll)....

I was minding my own business, slightly daydreaming, and the words 'You dancing? You asking? I'm asking, I'm dancing' came into my head!

Maybe the transition is deeper than I first envisaged :hmm::puzzled:

#Liverbirds (just in case you forgot or are too young to know)

imagelost

Bazshuayi said:

I've realized that to become more of a Liverpool fan, I need to delve and immerse myself in scouse heritage and humor... However, the strangest thing happened earlier (slight drum roll)....

I was minding my own business, slightly daydreaming, and the words 'You dancing? You asking? I'm asking, I'm dancing' came into my head!

Maybe the transition is deeper than I first envisaged :hmm::puzzled:

#Liverbirds (just in case you forgot or are too young to know)

And say
Thaa,dooo,dat,down,their,don’t,thaa. In scouse vocie

Expat_Hammer

'ere, who's knicked me 'ub caps :whistle:

Cuz1

Giza job, I can do that

grey_til_I_dye

You'll need to practice this, which is a phrase which is frequently used at the end of sentences:

burrigonicht