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Corny pile on!!??!!

*jumps, lands on top of ts

The problem is Spurs think they're a big club, whereas they're just a slightly better Everton. Leicester know they're not big. We knew last year was a once in a lifetime opportunity and we took it; we're unlikely to play Champions League football ever again, so we grabbed it with both hands. Spurs choked on both - they think they'll get another shot, they won't...

Top of the League. Enjoying the long term prospect.

And actually quite enjoying the lack of fixture congestion.

Harsh. But fair.

When was there anything for which one could not blame Arsenal?

Punctuation required.

Paul Stewart's come out on being abused by a coach as a kid now. Article doesn't specify where, but probably Blackpool:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/22/paul-stewart-sexual-abuse-coach

Hope that was a rattle in your pocket... 😬

Nah you beat us fair and square, that league was yours to lose rather than ours to win...

This x 1,000,0000,000

Any scratches or dents made to any silverware in the past ten years.

You had your chances, not taking anything away from the Foxes heroic title win but, you were leading the chase and you dropped too many points... Hard cheese, old man...

Best chance you're gonna get in a looooong time! 😘

We will.
Bright future, new stadium, yadda yadda yadda.
Light at the end of the tunnel for me is that despite our position in the league and the fact we've drawn too many games, and the disappointment of slipping out of the champions league is that we still haven't played as well as we can. I want to see us put a run of games together where we play as well we did last season, and then see where we shake out at the end of the season.
Still think we've got top four in us and another go at making the knockout stages.
Will be interesting to see whether the sheriff goes for the Europa or goes all in for the league?

Or gets sacked by Levy in the interim.

I thought Arsenal lost it. Spurs were never really in the race but you managed to come in last in a one horse race for second place. I'm sure the gooners are still gloating about that today.

Massive bedwetting.

Why you sold Chadli is still beyond me but I'm sure the baggies on here appreciate him. I reckon he's the type of player that could have turned a few draws into wins and losses into draws.

I shot the sheriff...

In the games that really could have mattered towards the end of the season, when you went ahead and then gave it up - West Brom, Chelsea - Pochettino was a bag of nerves on the touchline and struggled with the pressure, and you could see that spread to the players on the pitch like a plague. I'm not sure he's got what it takes.

Corni has romanticised about him far too much to give up on him now.

I'd say he's got as much to learn as the players. Third team he's managed, only been doing it for 7 years, he's gaining his experience, just as the players are. He'll be better for it.
How he and the team respond to this setback is important.

@jaw
if you're going to regurgitate that tired old Barney Ronay line, at least get it right and cite your sources...
Selling Chadli was a monetary and coaching decision, too many faces, not enough spaces.

Thought we would miss his scoring, but Son's start to the season made us forget that.

Anyway every team goes through a bad/sticky/misfiring patch, hoping this is ours and we'll break out of it, starting with the Chelsea game..

anyway as you were back to your liverpool/man u baiting

oh no you don't

Come on let's concentrate on another team for a while. Just to mix things up a bit.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-the-sunk-cost-fallacy-makes-you-act-stupid.html

Interesting graphic showing correlation between players' earnings and success in the group stage of the Champions League. Noteworthy that Leicester, for all their inexperience, top their group both in points and pay. Tottenham are the only real aberration.

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The first example of the fallacy is, itself a fallacy, "plate waste" can be recycled through in-vessel composting or anaerobic digestion. Couldn't be bothered to read the others after that clanger.