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Pochettino: Spurs will learn from Leicester experience and be ‘professional’ in title race

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Tottenham’s experience of coming up against Leicester in the 2015-16 title race means they will remain humble this time around, says boss Mauricio Pochettino.

Spurs have made themselves potential Premier League champions this season after a sparkling run of form and sit above Manchester City in second, six points off leaders Liverpool, ahead of Saturday’s visit of Wolves. 

 

Many people still consider them outsiders and plenty of neutrals might prefer to see them finish top come May.

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That is in stark contrast to three years ago when they were going head-to-head with the people’s champions Leicester, with the general public all getting behind the Foxes as they embarked on a fairy-tale story.

But Spurs found that opposition teams were also rooting for Leicester, notably Chelsea, whose players went public with their opinion before they hosted Pochettino’s men at Stamford Bridge in a decisive game in the title race.

The 2-2 draw handed Leicester the title, but the game will be best remembered for the bad feeling between the two sides, where 12 players were booked.

That left Pochettino and Spurs with a bitter taste in their mouths, ensuring they will do things the right way this time.

“When you are professional you are professional, and some opinions you cannot make public,” he said.

“Because after you create a big problem like what happened at Chelsea, remember? That was more like a battle than a football game. Why did that happen? You know very well.

“That’s why it’s compulsory to behave professionally. We translate a lot of emotion to the people.

“When you make public some emotions or opinions when you are professionals, yes (it was annoying).

“Because if you are going to play after against this team you cannot say, ‘I prefer Leicester to win the league’.

“You have to play against Tottenham and Leicester and you are a professional. I accept it may be your feeling that you prefer Leicester to Tottenham but to make it public is different.

“That is what annoyed me and my players and our fans, for sure. But in the end, it’s normal.

“You have your opinion and think maybe it will be Leicester, with less budget and everything, it would be nice for them to win. And it will be a massive history and for the Premier League, it says that all is possible in the Premier League.

“It was an amazing history. But when you are involved and you give your opinion and after you have to play against Tottenham and Leicester, I think it’s not right.”

Despite the possibility of having the neutrals in their corner, Pochettino knows they will not get an easy ride.

“We are not going to receive a favour and nor will another club,” he added.

“But it’s true the season when Leicester were there, and only us were fighting to compete on the same level, of course the sympathy for Leicester was bigger than for Tottenham.

“That was the reality. But they won and they deserved to be the champions of the Premier League. But the sympathy of the neutral people was more for Leicester than for us. This is normal.”

 

 

 

Yes, yes but we won by 10 points, 11 above you.  You weren't really in it for the previous few weeks only in the media's eyes.

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4 minutes ago, siraaj_lcfc said:

ha ha ha. Shut the fuchs up. Spuds came 3rd in a two horse race. They're worse than liverpool honestly, wouldn't be surprised if both of them messed up this year.

For that reason I still think Man City will win it.

 

There is alot of hope in that comment but history and form would also suggest it.

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2 minutes ago, Matt said:

For that reason I still think Man City will win it.

 

There is alot of hope in that comment but history and form would also suggest it.

City will bounce back with a bang and hopefully put 6 past Southampton.  I wouldn't mind them winning again as long as Liverpool and Spuds don't win.

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They are going to be completely professional, and they are starting by self-declaring themselves in the title race then whining about how unfair it was several years ago that they had to play opposition that actually tried to beat them (conveniently forgetting Stoke, who rolled over and took a 5 goal pasting) and claiming that "everyone" wanted us to win, conveniently forgetting all their pals on Sky Sports, who went above and beyond to try to find any possible infringement by a Leicester player and blow it up into an INJUSTICE against Spurs, thus prompting that disgusting bit of match fixing that Jon Moss pulled off against West Ham, whilst Spuds were getting handball penalties when the ball hit Sterling's back and Delle Alli was punching people in the balls versus WBA while Sky completely ignored it - fortunately, NBC did notice and he was rightly banned.

 

They are still bitter about this, and not over it in the slightest. Big time bottling on the cards, especially if the media gets onto the whole "romance" of a Liverpool title after all these years.

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Executive Summary:

 

“It’s disappointing how much football people hate us on a national scale in relation to how much we think of ourselves and so this year we are going to much quieter about being in 2nd place and hope our own entitlement and arrogance issues don’t encourage others to make that their motivation to ensure we finish 3rd again.”

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37 minutes ago, KFS said:

Haha why is he talking about the title again? Spurs will

ger nowhere near it AGAIN this year.

I don't like Spurs at all but I think they'll be near it. At the minute they're battering teams but it'll be interesting how they get on against Liverpool and Manchester City considering they lost those games earlier in the season.

 

I do like Poch but can't stand Tottenham.

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It is a about getiing experience in pressure situations just as we gained experience from our great escape to help us in our title win, Pochettino thinks that the way they crumbled in that season to finish third they can learn from that. the only problem with that is other teams around them have significantly strengthened whereas Spurs haven't. and yes everyone likes an underdog in a title race and he wants people to percieve Spurs as underdogs and thinks more neutrals will want them to win than say Liverpool or Man City.

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Spurs are very fortunate to be 2nd. Liverpool are six points ahead of them, and haven't even been that special for most games, if things carry on as they are they'll piss the league

Man City are 90% of the time absolutely unstoppable. They've hit a weird speedbump against Palace and us, but no doubt they will absolutely batter Saints tomorrow and get back to winning every week

 

Spurs have been good, but they're not good enough. The whole club just doesn't know what to do when winning is crucial, they've displayed that for the past few seasons. They also stank the fvcking place out in the Champions League and fluked their way out the group

 

Spurs to finish 3rd or 4th, Potch to fvck off to United in the summer and take Kane with him, they move into their new stadium and finish next season 6th. The fans moaning that they wanted to carry on playing at Wembley, claiming squatters rights. Tw ats.

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1 hour ago, davieG said:

Tottenham’s experience of coming up against Leicester in the 2015-16 title race means they will remain humble this time around, says boss Mauricio Pochettino.

Spurs have made themselves potential Premier League champions this season after a sparkling run of form and sit above Manchester City in second, six points off leaders Liverpool, ahead of Saturday’s visit of Wolves. 

 

Many people still consider them outsiders and plenty of neutrals might prefer to see them finish top come May.

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That is in stark contrast to three years ago when they were going head-to-head with the people’s champions Leicester, with the general public all getting behind the Foxes as they embarked on a fairy-tale story.

But Spurs found that opposition teams were also rooting for Leicester, notably Chelsea, whose players went public with their opinion before they hosted Pochettino’s men at Stamford Bridge in a decisive game in the title race.

The 2-2 draw handed Leicester the title, but the game will be best remembered for the bad feeling between the two sides, where 12 players were booked.

That left Pochettino and Spurs with a bitter taste in their mouths, ensuring they will do things the right way this time.

“When you are professional you are professional, and some opinions you cannot make public,” he said.

“Because after you create a big problem like what happened at Chelsea, remember? That was more like a battle than a football game. Why did that happen? You know very well.

“That’s why it’s compulsory to behave professionally. We translate a lot of emotion to the people.

“When you make public some emotions or opinions when you are professionals, yes (it was annoying).

“Because if you are going to play after against this team you cannot say, ‘I prefer Leicester to win the league’.

“You have to play against Tottenham and Leicester and you are a professional. I accept it may be your feeling that you prefer Leicester to Tottenham but to make it public is different.

“That is what annoyed me and my players and our fans, for sure. But in the end, it’s normal.

“You have your opinion and think maybe it will be Leicester, with less budget and everything, it would be nice for them to win. And it will be a massive history and for the Premier League, it says that all is possible in the Premier League.

“It was an amazing history. But when you are involved and you give your opinion and after you have to play against Tottenham and Leicester, I think it’s not right.”

Despite the possibility of having the neutrals in their corner, Pochettino knows they will not get an easy ride.

“We are not going to receive a favour and nor will another club,” he added.

“But it’s true the season when Leicester were there, and only us were fighting to compete on the same level, of course the sympathy for Leicester was bigger than for Tottenham.

“That was the reality. But they won and they deserved to be the champions of the Premier League. But the sympathy of the neutral people was more for Leicester than for us. This is normal.”

 

 

 

Yes, yes but we won by 10 points, 11 above you.  You weren't really in it for the previous few weeks only in the media's eyes.

That's what made you angry other teams going public. If it was the other way round we would of still won the league as what made us angry made us more focused on job in hand

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