THE NIGHT OF MIXED FEELINGS

Jesus Christ.

I've supported Spurs since the mid 1970's and that's forty years.

In all that time we've never been champions and haven't been since 1961.

Imagine my broken heart when this year we manage to best every team that's ever been above us only to be pipped at the post by a team that's never been above us?!

Are old rivals Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester Untied, Manchester City and Liverpool all finish below us in the same season. But we still haven't won that elusive Premier League title?!

I'm pleased for Leicester City though and I can't think of another team I would rather have won it outside of Spurs.

Hmm had things gone differently Leicester is an area I could have moved home to? But it didn't go differently, at least not yet.

It's nice to see someone out of the normal ones to win it, though technically Manchester City are still not really 'normal' and only started winning recently.

But then this note reminds me that we have watched yet another team in a long line sneak up and run away with the title that are not the norm and not as big a club as Spurs. Everton, Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City and now Leicester City unless I've missed any.

On the plus side we have finished higher than the highest I've ever seen them finish before, and if memory serves me correctly it was third place and in 1985? If I also remember correctly and more bad luck for my team, English teams were banned from European football back then?

So we couldn't profit from the games that would have allowed us to build upon the team.

Still we finally got higher than that. If I was cynical, yeah despite my miserable blog posts and negative outlook (hey, I didn't start all this, they did lol) I won't state it will take another thirty years to win the Premiership! Believe it or not.

Unless our manager leaves or is, as normally happens, or is stolen by another club, looking at you Real Madrid and Man United, and they use him to win it, I think we'll win it soon.

Same applies to all of our players.

But you would have to be mad to leave, especially for another club ... well provided Mauricio Pottecino, Poccetino I never remember lol, stays! He had got to such a good place at Spurs he would be mad to leave too!

You can't just walk into a club, even a giant one with massive pockets, and succeed. Not straight away, though he came close this time I have to admit, though it's the second season.

Spurs can only improve and as everyone states, including Claudio Ranieri and other pundits have stated, it will be nigh on impossible to repeat that success at Leicester City. Even finishing in the top four the next time around would be a surprise.

Unless of course that still the money spending and stars just going where the money is had had its time and burnt itself out.

It is odd how fans expect so much and even being successful is not enough for them. I heard Arsenal fans rear demonstrating over Arsene Wenger not challenging for the Premier League title for too long... except...they are third!! Third?! Not challenging for the title by finishing third?

I'm thinking Arsenal fans are disrespectful and not very smart?

Even I have to admit to the brilliance that had give on at Leicester City and I always thought Claudio Ranieri was and is one of the best managers in the world.

I thought Chelsea's owner, Abramovich, was an idiot, well is in a number of ways, for getting rid of Claudio. I always hoped he would end up at Spurs and he has proved me right in the best possible way.

If my old footballing friends are reading this ... I fecking told you!

I was disappointed in Mauricio Potteccino's appointment and I could not have been more wrong about him if I'd tried! Though admittedly i one nothing about him but a manager who was in charge of a Championship side, second tier? Seemed mad. But he priced me wrong, is an extremely good manager and if he repeats what he just did and betters it, next year, he would have proved himself one of the top two or three managers in the world. Never thought I'd ever day that about him!

Only Guardiola going to Manchester City could end up being better than Poccetino and Ranieri.

So Arsenal fans? You want rid of Arsene Wenger? I hope you get your wish because I would be a lot less worried about an Arsenal team without Wenger for the foreseeable future!

I'd only be worried about Guardiola, Ranieri and possibly the special one at Manchester United, unless he's lost his sparkle and not so special any longer? Five games into next season should give us big clues?

So we came second? A shame and hats off to Leicester City for what they achieved and a hearty well done.

I do actually feel pretty confident that we might actually end the over fifty year wait and actually win it next year or the year after?

Provided the manager stays, of course. Though it's possible if Man Untied poach Mauricio we could end up with Jose? Not necessarily a good thing in my eyes but if it happens I hope he proves me wrong.

Leicester City win Premier League title after Tottenham draw at Chelsea - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35988673

NO LONGER A FUNNY OLD GAME

Well will you look at that? Below! In the link! The cost of football matches?! Lol!

Yup for the first time I can recall and only taken five years of being in what is in essence a recession... no deppresion because that is his everyone feels deep down despite the brave faces.

Odd that the cost of football matches now comes up after years and years of things constantly getting further and further until an extremely distant orbit!

Everyone I know was talking about this for 5 years before the recession even officially started! It was a topic of an old mate of mine who departed London and I have not seen nor spoken to for 3 years now!

I really do not like Esther McVey, her voice! Never in my life have I ever heard a politician sound so insincere while also managing to speak in a way to make it sounds like her mind is saying..

'yeah the British public are all half-wits, they will but this bull and I will just keep making it sound like we have done miraculous things for over 4 years when we have done fucking nothing at all proving that those we pointed the fingers at are not to blame but no matter... they are all just half-wits! '

I digress. Yuck!

Anyway... yes! So the cost of a football match is apparently outstripping the cost of living?! Really?! You spot this now?!

I am a supporter of one of the biggest names in football and the Premiere League. Yet is the biggest name not to win the Premiere League or previous First Division since 1961 where they were the greatest team in Britain. They have won plenty of FA Cups and held the record for many years. We also had the first £1 Million signing and have had several of the biggest names in football for years. Oddly we are one of the few teams, strangely Everton being the other one, that did not have done rich buyer come along and buy the best team! A la Chelsea and Manchester City. Oh and Liverpool. Newcastle United to a degree and Blackburn Rovers. All have won the title after having a large input of cash. Yet my team have never managed this and I never dreamed back in 1978 when we were in the Second Division and beating Bristol Rovers 9-0 that in nearly 40 years time that English Champions weeks have still ended us?!

Yet when I think about it, which I did recently because there was talk of the team being sold, I was never sure that I would be happy if my team bought the title?

My team has had names like Klinsmann, Gascoigne (who I met once), Ginola, Lineker, Hoddle, Waddle, Greaves, Blanchflower, Mackay, Archibald (first Million pound signing), Jennings, Crooks, Clemence, Keane, that Bulgarian... ooh Bebratov (knew it started with 'B') and many others I have not thought of. Oh yes that Welshman ... Terry Yorath! Of course I mean Gareth Bale! Oh yeah and the Argie trio of Osvaldo Ardiles, Ricardo Villa and Diego Maradonna! Yes he did! Look it up! Osvaldo testimonial years ago! So there! Lol!

Of course it is Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur. A team whose fans have suffered in recent decades despite the list of great footballers.

In fact there was this talk of limiting teams to view much money they could spend on players and link it to his much they earn. I thought how typical this would be and that after this all any premiere league team could spend is about three pound seventy five after all the greedy players have been paid.

That reminds me of how I laughed when I saw the richest footballers in the world campaigning for lesser footballers who are not being paid! Well YEAH! Maybe if you were not all receiving a weekly figure many do not see in their entire lives which had only helped force up prices or property, cars and other things and left your supporters skint?!

Yeah but then I guess naivety comes into play when your looking for that rush or escapism? A bit like gambling then, eh? You pays your money and take your chances. But what happens when the huge costs are only rewarded with misery most weeks?! Lol. Empty seats at a fair few low table teams!

Not really this for the sport and not really fair is it? In fact I think there is an argument for football boot being a sport because sport means a level playing field. It is anything but in recent times. Both on the pitch and in the seats. But then look at FIFA?!

Ticket prices outstrip cost of living http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/29614980