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so in the past 7 years, the team who won the title won the cup in 4 of those years?

 

The argument was the finalists didn't have their seasons affected, not the winners - and that's where Diego's latest attempt to pretend he isn't a boring ****poster fell apart

Case in point, look at the table for 2017-18: the Sheikh Mansour Team won the league at a canter, finishing 19 points clear - and the other finalist, Woolwich, finished in 6th on 63 points, a full 12 points off the CL places. What really stands out is the flattest point of the Nomads' season, where they picked up six points out of 21, was between 14th January - 4th March. You know what else took place in that period?

10th January/24th January - Season Killer Cup semis
25th February - Season Killer Cup final

And what really sticks out is there's no other competitions that can be blamed: they were knocked out of the FA Cup in the third round at the first time of asking after fielding a weakened side, and the Europa League didn't restart until 15th February after the group stage finished on 7th December

 

Any team who loses a final mid season is bound to be affected.

Obviously I’d love to see Spurs win any trophy (even the League Cup) but if you get there and lose the final then it’s understandable to struggle mentally afterwards

 

Winning the thing doesn't tend to help either, as teams often mentally check out because they already Won Something even though there's a third of the season to go, for example...

2008: Spurs
2011: Birmingham
2012: Saltypool
2013: Swansea
2016: The Sheikh Mansour Team
2017: Man Utd

Also, has anyone seen the schedule that UEFA's dreamed up for their competitions starting next season?
Wednesday: stupid tournament nobody asked for
Thursday: Europa League
Saturday: Champions League

...errm, what? I can see a hellish fixture list for teams coming from that, especially for a week where a CL team is playing an EL team given the Saturday CL games would require a midweek game...but an EL or STNAF team can't play midweek as they're playing Thursday or Wednesday respectively

And if you think that looks bad, look at the criteria for qualifying

Playoff Round
La Liga: team who finished 6th
Bundesliga: team who finished 6th
Serie A: team who finished sixth
Ligue 1: team who finished 5th
Premier League: Season Killer Cup winner
Europa League: lose in the play-off round (5 from the Champions Path, two from the Non-Champions Path)

Third Qualifying Round
Eredivisie: team who finished third
Primeira Liga: team who finished 4th
Jupiler League: The fourth-placed team of the play-offs I and the first-placed team of the play-offs II played two matches by home-and-away matches to determine the Europa League play-off winner. The winner will qualify for the second qualifying round of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League.
Super Lig: team who finished third
Russian premier League: team who finished third
Ukrainian Premier League: team who finished third
Austrian Bundesliga: team who finished third

I need a lie down after that...

 

Hopefully we are never bad enough to qualify for it. Arsenal v Chelsea in the first final and the winners bragging about a trophy.

 

What really needs to happen is one of the G14 clubs gets stuck in it

Imagine the scenes when Man Utd/Saltypool/Woolwich are complaining about their fixture backlog because they were due to have a run of fixtures against teams that qualified for the credible competitions

 

How you keep tabs on all this stuff is beyond me! Not just this post but so many others where I often have never even heard of the player/team referred to. Even with the vast data base on the net it must take some doing and time. Do you go to work wonder?

 

Chelsea or Barnsley at home in the League Cup if we beat Orient.

 

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B-b-b-but Everton show ambIShuN!

Also...

 

@BitterSpursHater

Is there any way you can dimension or slice/dice that data/stats to
show that Spurs are NOT a well run "business of their own account" ??

As requested : no.

 

The Premier League broadcast selection process for the first weekend in October has now been completed, with our fixture at Manchester United moving to Sunday 4 October, kick-off 4.30pm.

The match will be shown live on Sky Sports.

 

A Man Utd match picked for Sky? How unique...

 

Reported that Hojbjerg has a slight ankle knock , what's the odds on 3to 4 weeks out ?

 

Let's see if Jamie Bowden is given a squad number anytime soon...

 

He's out for two months with a knee injury, so White's probably more likely to step up.

 

Nice of the club to offer a way to learn which Twitter accounts need muting...