He was on a right rant there and it cut out
When nice lads like Big Ange do it, it seems genuinely endearing.
Whereas it appears staged and forced with the likes of Klopp.
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The way the spurs fans have gone after Ange has been utterly despicable and not at all surprising
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They ran Conte cos he didnāt play the Spurs way. This fella is the epitome of the Spurs way and that want him out 
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ANGE promised a trophy in his second season. He will deliver
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Whatās Big Ange whinging about now? Is he getting all precious again that weāre not grateful that heās secured top flight football for a 48th consecutive season and the 16th place in the league heās guided us to.
If he gets you champs lge football it will be some going
The UEFA Cup now is a Farmers Cup tournament. The fact that itās 15 -v- 16 from the English Premier League in the final, both having their worst domestic season in half a century or so, says it all.
This is a level that Big Ange is comfortable enough at though. Heās out of his depth in the English Premier League, but the UEFA Cup now is more like the Great Barrier Reef League or the League of Scotland. We beat some crowd of Norwegian fisherman from the Arctic Circle to get to the final last night. Thatās after negotiating the likes of Qarabag, Ferencvaros. Galatasaray, Elfsborg, Hoffenheim and AZ Alkmaar already on the Cup run.
We beat Man U home and away in the league this season for the first time since 1989/90. Beat them in the Milk Cup as well and Big Ange is unbeaten against them as last season, we beat them in the League at home and drew at Old Trafford. We really should be winning this final. We probably wonāt though. Paul Scholes made the point last night, itās a final. Man U know how to and generally win finals. Spurs donāt. Youād be foolish to disagree with Scholesey on anything really.
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the europa league is the cup EPL teams can win
they struggle in the champions league
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English Premier League representatives have won the European Cup twice this decade, with two different clubs as well. No other country has won it more in that time span.
England top of the all important UEFA coefficient rankings as well.
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Tradition and the badge are effectively a two goal headstart for Yanited in the final. Spurs need to channel the energy of upstarts Villarreal who triumphed over Coach Oleās charges in the UEFA Diddy Cup a few years back against all odds.
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Weāre winning this. Big Ange ALWAYS wins a trophy in his second season. Heās going out in a blaze of glory as a UEFA Cup winner, just like General Burkinshaw in 1984.
A 20th league defeat of the season as we lose 0-2 at home to Crystal Palace. Donāt think we are going to break the magic 40 points this season.
16 v 17 in UEFA Cup final and a place in the āChampionsā League at stake for one of these Champion teams. The glory of it all.
You could still get the same reward as the team that finishes 5th and have over 60 points
The team that didnāt win anything, what about it
Itās akin to the likes of Cork dropping down to the Christy Ring Cup to break a duck and win a bit of silverware in hurling. If it comes our way, weāll take it and the fact that it bizarrely brings European Cup football next season. A reset and a proper manager needed for next season though.
Itās looking like weāre going to record our worst league record over the course of a season in the 143 year history of the club. When we were relegated bottom of the table in 1976/77 we lost 21 of 42 league games. Already this season weāve lost 20 out of 36. The only thing keeping us up is the fact that the relegated trio of newly promoted clubs from last seasons have posted a combined haul of 54 points between them, the worst ever performance from relegated sides in the history of top flight English football.
But Cork are one of the most successful counties in hurling history. Spurs had a bit of tradition of success in the early 60ās and 80ās but theyād be more comparable to Waterford in hurling terms. Also the Christy Ring has been the 3rd tier for about 7 years now. Spurs are in the final of the 2nd tier comp. Itās not as difficult to win as it was when ye won it in its heyday in 1984 but itās still a decent enough achievement.
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Spurs beat Drogheda United and Bayern Munich enroute to tie final in 84
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It may be the second European competition but with the proliferation of places in the āChampions League for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and even 5th place in a āchampionsā league, the concentration of nearly all the top players in a handful of the big Western European leagues and the collapse of the old Eastern Bloc powerhouse clubs, itās a vastly diminished tournament from what we won in 1972 and 1984.
That 1984 run was just epic. I was at all the home games. We were 4-0 up against Feyenoord in one of the earlier rounds, before a bloke called Johan Cruyff pulled back a consolation goal. They had a young kid Ruud Gullit in their ranks as well.
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Aside from Red Star Belgrade and Steau Bucharest were there really that many crack Eastern European outfits? Dinamo Tbilisi made a cup winners cup final I think against an East German crowd but that was about it?