Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

[jimmy1138]

Mir wär's als Arsenal fast schon peinlich, wenn man in die Champions League kommt, weil vielleicht irgendein verkappter Arsenal-Fan was ins Essen der Spurs gemixt hat.

Daher ist auf einen Arsenal Sieg in der Champions League zu hoffen, sonst kann man sich die Diskussionen ja vorstellen...

[Sthembiso]

Mir wär's als Arsenal fast schon peinlich, wenn man in die Champions League kommt, weil vielleicht irgendein verkappter Arsenal-Fan was ins Essen der Spurs gemixt hat.

1055524[/snapback]

aha, und woher weisst du das?

[jimmy1138]

aha, und woher weisst du das?

1055572[/snapback]

Erstens - genau lesen: ich habe von der Möglichkeit gesprochen, daß es sich so zugetragen hat.

Zweitens: just vor dem entscheidenden Match kriegen 10 Spieler von Tottenham eine Lebensmittelvergiftung - wer das nicht seltsam findet. Die Polizei ermittelt übrigens schon... Hoffentlich kommt nix raus bzw wenn sich der Verdacht unerwarteterweise doch erhärten sollte und Arsenal gewinnt nciht die CL - na dann gute Nacht.

[Joki]

gibt es den artikel über die lebensmittelvergiftung auch auf deutsch?

(auslöschung)

Let's not drag ourselves down to Arsenal's level

cl level?

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Blöd gelaufen, doch wir Jids sind stolz auf unsere Mannschaft. Fünfter Platz, jetzt noch 2 AV und wir sind die beste ENGLISCHE Mannschaft.

genau ENGLISCHE schön betonen, vielleicht fällt die niederlage dann leichter.

(jimmy1138)

Mir wär's als Arsenal fast schon peinlich, wenn man in die Champions League kommt, weil vielleicht irgendein verkappter Arsenal-Fan was ins Essen der Spurs gemixt hat.

blöd nur das sich das wahrscheinlich nie herausstellen wird.

(CarolusMagnus)

Trotz Allem ein für mich feiner Saisonausklang.

das meinst aber nicht ernst?

sei mir nicht bös', aber egal was da passiert wäre, von einem feinen saisonaisklang kann nicht die rede sein.

[Bretwalda]

Husch husch, wieder zurück in den Kindergarten

Edit: Auch an alle jugendlichen Gooners hier herinnen, die älteren haben es ja schon kapiert. Wir Yids sind Misserfolge schon gewohnt. Es passiert uns ja nicht zum ersten Mal, trotzdem stehen wir hinter unserem Club. Monat um Monat, Jahr um Jahr und Schmährufe und dergleichen machen uns nur stärker. Irgendwann kommen wir wieder, gewinnen die Meisterschaft und versetzen ganz London in Ekstase. Eine dumme Lebensmittelvergiftung stoppt uns vielleicht dieses Jahr, eine neue Nicholsonära wird kommen.

Viel Glück im CL-Finale, ihr werdets brauchen.

bearbeitet 8. Mai 2006 von auslöschung

[Joki]

das sagt der, der nicht mit niederlagen leben kann.

[Bretwalda]

Kennst wenigstens jetzt David Rocastle?

[Joki]

ja, ein typ der im dress der gunners euch ebenso nieder gemacht hat, wie es henry jetzt tut.

[Bretwalda]

Einige Facts zur heurigen Saison

40 Spiele

18 Siege

11 Remis

11 Niederlagen

54 Tore geschossen

40 Tore erhalten

65 Punkte

Heimbilanz: 12 5 2

Auswärts: 6 6 9

Liga Platz 5

Ligacup 2. Runde

FA-Cup 3. Runde

3-1 höchster Sieg gegen Charlton Athletic (h) und Portsmouth (h)

1-3 höchste Niederlage gegen Newcastle United(a)

Höchste Ligaplatzierung seit 1990

Wenigste Niederlagen seit 1978 (1996 auch 9 Niederlagen)

Höchste Punkteanzahl seit 1987

Rekordtorschütze Robbie Keane 16 Tore

5 rote Karten

Zuschauerschnitt 36,074

Höchster 36,247 Tottenham 2-0 Everton

Niedrigster 35,427 Tottenham 1-0 Fulham

Meiste Spiele: Paul Robinson (40)

13 mal ohne Gegentor

Teuersten Transfer:

Jermaine Jenas 7 Mio. Pfund

2 Siege gegen Portsmouth, Charlton, Birmingham, Man City, Everton

2 Niederlagen gegen Chelsea

Meiste gelbe Karten: Edgar Davids (10)

[CarolusMagnus]

das meinst aber nicht ernst?

sei mir nicht bös', aber egal was da passiert wäre, von einem feinen saisonaisklang kann nicht die rede sein.

1056101[/snapback]

Ja, wenn du das sagst.

@Auslöschung: Nette Fakten, man dankt.

Wieder Gerüchte um Berbatov:

Berbatov to sign in 48 hours?

By Gary Walker

SPURS are reportedly set to sign Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov in the next 48 hours.

Several independent sources have claimed that director of football Damien Comolli and former Spurs cult figure Ronny Rosenthal, a football agent, were seen at Heathrow on Monday, awaiting a flight to Germany, where Berbatov plays for Bayer Leverkusen.

Tottenham have long been linked with Berbatov, who is 25, with an often quoted fee of £10.7 million.

Berbatov has scored 32 goals in 47 appearances for his country, after making his debut at 18 in 1999.

He scored five times in a UEFA Cup qualifying round thumping match against Constructorul for former club CSKA before joining the Germans for £1.2 million.

Berbatov has struck 20 goals in 33 games this season after getting 21 from the same number last season.

He has played in a Champions League final with Leverkusen, in 2002, and in the German Cup final the same year.

Any such move for Berbatov is likely to spell the end of Mido's time at White Hart Lane, with the Egyptian's loan move unlikely to be turned into a permanent deal.

[SpionKop]

40 Spiele

trotzdem Gratulation zu einer gelungenen Saison der Spurs.....vielleicht könnt ihr euch endlich da oben etablieren nach unzähligen Jahren in denen ihr in der Versenkung des Mittelmaßes verschwunden wart.

[goleador2000]

Sehr gut aus Liverpooler Sicht wenn sich die Spurs Berbatov holen...damit dürften sie den Kampf um Dirk Kuyt wohl aufgegeben haben und der Weg für den FC Liverpool wäre viell. frei an den Holländer ranzukommen ...wenn da nicht auch noch Chelsea wäre, die angeblich Interesse an ihm haben

Die werden sich aber hoffentlich via Vermittlung durch Ex-Manc Peter Kenyon "Van the man" holen...

[CarolusMagnus]

Der Ordnung halber auch hier:

The Club has sent the following open letter to Dave Richards, Chairman of the FA Premier League.

Mr Dave Richards

Chairman

The FA Premier League,

30 Gloucester Place

London

W1U L

9 May 2006

Dear Dave

Re: Protest and request for the match between West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur FC on 7/5/06 to be replayed

As you are aware, Sunday could have been a momentous day for our Club and our fans. It was the first time since the inception of the UEFA Champions League that we were in a position to qualify for European club football’s most prestigious competition. After such a successful League campaign, the excitement and expectation of our fans was simply enormous. Our match at West Ham was effectively a Cup Final.

However, we believe that our chances of success were significantly reduced by the exceptional circumstances brought about by the sudden illness of the majority of players in our First Team squad in the early hours of Sunday morning. In being given no viable option to postpone the match other than a 2-hour delay to kick-off, our players were denied the possible opportunity of competing in the Champions League, while our fans have been left with a sense of suspicion and injustice at the way subsequent events unfolded.

We contacted the FAPL early on Sunday morning and, after a series of conversations, the FAPL called for the England Team Doctor and the FAPL Company Secretary to attend our Team Hotel to assess the situation. We believed that the FAPL were examining the situation in good faith and were seeking to obtain all relevant information before coming to a decision. Indeed, in those early conversations the FAPL’s Chief Executive had given us every reason to believe the match could be postponed to allow our players some extra time to recover from a lack of sleep, vomiting, diarrhoea and dehydration. 

At this time, myself, Board members and other key decision makers joined the players at their hotel. Whilst waiting for the opinion of the England Team Doctor, who was yet to arrive at our Team Hotel, I was contacted from a distance by the FAPL and told that we had to play the game that day or suffer the consequences. This, by implication, may have meant a significant loss of points and the denial of participation in any European competition – a situation I could not sanction. This threat was made by the FAPL despite the fact that West Ham United, acting honourably and fairly as would be expected from that club, had consented to the postponement of the match provided that any re-match did not interfere with their FA Cup Final preparations.

The FAPL’s Chief Executive then said he would consider the match being delayed to later on Sunday evening, but unfortunately the Police would not sanction a kick off time beyond 5pm. Our medical staff advised that a delay of at least 3 hours would be necessary to have any impact on the players and therefore it was Martin Jol’s view that, in the absence of a postponement or a much later kick-off, we had no choice whatsoever but to proceed to play at 3pm. What puzzles us is why the FAPL were prepared to sanction a 4 hour delay but not a 24 hour delay. If the integrity of all matches kicking off at the same time was your primary concern, why sanction a delay of any kind?

Our next issue was team selection. Martin Jol and his staff, having originally selected their squad of 17 players for the match, were then left in the invidious position of choosing between starting the match with their original 17 players, 10 of whom were feeling very unwell, or drafting in Reserve Team players, the majority of whom have not played for the First Team this season or are untried and untested at First Team level. In any case, having ended their season, our Reserve Team players were scattered across various parts of London and the South East, would not have been prepared to play in a Premier League (or any other) match at such short notice and would rarely, if ever, have played together.

This was an impossible position for our coaching staff to find themselves in on the morning of what was our most important match for many years. Playing a make-shift, inexperienced and ill-prepared team in such a high profile game could have turned the match into a farce, resulting in an embarrassment for the players, the coaches, the Club, our fans and the Premier League competition as a whole.

To add insult to injury, the FAPL’s announcement that our game would not be postponed was made live on Sky TV from the pitch side at Highbury. In light of the obvious sensitivities and the competition for 4th place between Arsenal and Spurs this was, to say the least, an unfortunate choice.

We simply do not understand why the FAPL failed to appraise itself of all of the facts before turning down our request that the fixture be postponed under rule E 13.4. We were surprised that the FAPL’s Chief Executive did not make the short journey from Highbury to the Team Hotel at Canary Wharf to assess such a serious issue first hand. We also fail to understand why the England Team Doctor, having been sent to the Team Hotel, was not even consulted before an announcement was made (in fact, he did not even arrive at our hotel before the decision was made or even before our players had to leave the Team Hotel to travel to Upton Park for the match). As a result we played the game with players who were unwell but who were desperate not to let their fans and colleagues down. Clearly, our governing body put us in an impossible situation and gave a significant advantage to Arsenal in competing for that 4th position.

With this in mind we contacted those Premier League Chairmen and Chief Executives we were able to locate to establish what fellow members feel is an appropriate way forward given the unorthodox decision made by the FAPL prior to receiving objective information on the situation. We now have confirmation from a majority of Premier League clubs that they would support a replay and in similar circumstances would expect the game to have been postponed. This is a gesture made by fellow clubs which supports the Charter’s aims of running a professional league in a manner in which all of its member Clubs are treated equally and in a professional, fair and objective way. Additionally, from comments made by Sepp Blatter in the media in the past 24 hours, even FIFA would support the idea of a postponement provided the match was played on or before 15 May 2006.

We therefore formally request that you order that the game be replayed.

It is regrettable that we have been put in this position, but we feel let down by the FAPL’s abdication of its responsibility to consider the request for a postponement fairly and after due consideration of all relevant factors. Where such significant commercial and competitive interests are jeopardised it is only reasonable that our governing body ensures we play on a level playing field and supports us by making decisions based on the facts of the situation which has to include all relevant information. We feel sure that the FAPL, along with most reasonable minded people, would not have wanted such a controversial outcome to the final day of the Premier League season. Furthermore, the FAPL was inconsistent in its approach in being prepared to consider the kick-off to be delayed but not allowing the match to be played on a different day.

Finally, whilst our primary concern here is for our own Club, the situation we find ourselves in highlights what could have been an even bigger issue for a Club facing relegation from the FAPL. Similarly, it is hard to believe that, faced with an identical issue on the morning of a Champions League Final, a club would not seek a postponement (with the opposing team consenting) and that, given the importance of such an occasion, such a request would not be granted by UEFA in the interests of fairness and good sporting practice. In our view, and regardless of the outcome of our case, the FAPL’s decision making process and lines of communication in such a situation need thorough and urgent review in order to ensure that no other club is similarly disadvantaged in the future.

Yours sincerely

DANIEL LEVY

Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur

Ich mag den Mann. Er hat einfach große Klasse.

Hier nochmal Levy:

Following today's decision to refuse our request for a replay of the Wet Spam game, Chairman Daniel Levy writes an open letter to supporters.

Dear Supporter

The Premier League has today rejected our request for a replay of Sunday's match against Wet Spam.

We are disappointed, but not surprised. We continue to feel justifiably aggrieved at the course of events and remain convinced that the game should never have been played. If the loss of over half a selected squad to an inexplicable illness in highly suspect circumstances does not warrant the postponement of a match, then I can only despair at the state of our governing rules.

In going ahead with the match, I trust you will appreciate that we chose the only safe option that would guarantee our already hard fought for place in European competition - and that, in making this request to the Premier League, we have fought to right an injustice.

I should stress that our purpose in taking this request to the Premier League was two-fold: Firstly to seek the replay we feel we rightly deserved, but, equally important, to highlight these wholly inadequate and ambiguous rules that fail to regulate such incidents. The Spanish Football Federation allowed for the postponement of an Atletico Madrid game earlier this year due to the illness of players. Keith Lamb, Chief Executive of Middlesborough, has previously referred to the 'incomplete' nature of our rules and called for the Premier League to review them, so that no other club would ever be faced with this situation again. We are therefore the second club to call on the Premier League to urgently review their processes and rules in this regard.

We are continuing to vigorously investigate the cause and origin of the illness. We shall leave no stone unturned in this quest. I know it may be extremely difficult to conclusively prove, but I am determined to, at the very least, establish whether or not this was a deliberate act of sabotage, striking at the very heart of the spirit of the competition. If there is a price to be paid, I shall look to ensure that it is paid. Additionally, if we do find any proof of foul play, we will bring this matter back to the FAPL without delay and will expect them to launch an immediate investigation in the interests of the integrity of the competition.

I have received many emails of support from you, our fans, welcoming our stand on this lack of fair play and I thank you for those. A recurring theme is the pride you all felt in our 'heroes' on the pitch on Sunday and that you are looking forward to our return to Europe. It has been a great season and we should refuse to let this mar the achievements of it and the optimism with which we will now greet the new season.

Bulgaria's Berbatov Signs with Tottenham

Sports: 10 May 2006, Wednesday.

Bulgaria's top striker Dimitar Berbatov has joined the ranks of UK's Tottenham Hotspur, media reported.

Berbatov, who played for German Bayer Leverkusen has signed the contract with the Spurs on Wednesday.

Reports say that Tottenham's sporting director Damien Comolli had agreed to pay GBP 10.7 M (close to EUR 16 M) for Bulgaria's star player. Reports that Arsenal might outbid the Spurs proved unfounded.

With 16 goals scored in the Bundesliga this season Berbatov attracted attention from several clubs outside of Germany.

The hefty sum that the UK team paid for Berbatov makes him the most expensive Bulgarian soccer player. Before he was towered by Valeri Bojinov, for whom Italian Fiorentina paid EUR 13 M.

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=63267

Hmm...

Sonst stehts nirgends.

[CarolusMagnus]

NACH 6 JAHREN LEVERKUSEN

Perfekt! Berbatov wechselt zu Tottenham

Von ALEXANDER HAUBRICHS

Leverkusen – Jetzt ist es amtlich: Dimitar Berbatov verlässt Bayer Leverkusen. Der bulgarische Superstar wird bei den Tottenham Hotspurs einen Drei-Jahres-Vertrag unterschreiben.

„Wir haben es nicht mehr in der Hand. Aufgeschreckt durch das Interesse anderer Klubs sind die Spurs der geforderten Summe sehr, sehr nahe gekommen“, sagt Leverkusens Sportchef dem EXPRESS. Heißt: Die Bedingung für die Ausstiegsklausel ist erfüllt, der 25-Jährige Torjäger kann aus seinem bis 2009 laufenden Vertrag aussteigen.

Noch zu Wochenbeginn hatten Arsenal London und Manchester United (EXPRESS berichtete) mit einer Verpflichtung Bernatovs geliebäugelt. Der Bulgare selbst hatte lange auf ein Angebot eines echten Topklubs gewartet.

Angetrieben von seinem Berater Emil Dantschev ließ sich Leverkusens Goalgetter (20 Saisontore) von den Spurs überzeugen. Bereits am Tag nach dem Saisonfinale wird er an die Themse fliegen und sich seine neue sportliche Heimat anschauen. Am Dienstag wird er dann offiziell auf der Insel vorgestellt.

Völler: „Es ist verständlich, dass er nach sechs Jahren Leverkusen mal etwas anderes sehen will. Aber es tut uns schon weh, so einen Klassemann zu verlieren.“

Jetzt muss Bayer handeln. Denn für Stefan Kießling (kommt aus Nürnberg) sind die Fußstapfen Berbatovs noch ein wenig zu groß.

http://www.express.de/servlet/Satellite?pa...d=1143448107154

Hmm...

[ante jazic]

also ich kann mit dem berbatov gut leben...selbst als er noch jede chance furchtbarst verstolperte, hat man gesehen, dass er klasse hat...