Chris Marshall

A Dad. Family and Spurs; Can't smile without either of them! Ex-Royal Navy. licensed FA level 2 (newly retired) coach of @longlevensafc U18s. play golf too

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

@MrCracknell 👏👏😂

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

😂

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

Spurs trying to hijack the Fernandes deal lol! It's like a puppy trying to take a bone from a lion

[The Footy Feed @TheFootyFeed]

Have to feel sorry for Spurs losing 1-0 after having this overturned when it was given. If that was Arsenal, it would never have been overturned…

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

All together, always

[Jack @tehTrunk]

All together, always.

[Jack @tehTrunk]

I truly believe that the club’s failure to back the Pochettino project, to build around one of the most talented groups of players we’ve probably ever had, fundamentally broke the soul of everything. ENIC showed who they were at that time, and have never suggested otherwise.

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

@PaulHitsheet Oooft!!

[Return of the Shelf @ROTS1882]

“Levy would have sorted this mess”

The same Levy that had this club nose diving since 2018? That watched us finish 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 4th but didn’t then try and win the thing when he had a generational squad, the same Levy that is praised for his revolutionary thinking and business acumen by taking the only route possible to significantly increase gate receipts by building a new stadium for a club with a massive fanbase in central London TEN YEARS AFTER ARSENAL showed it added £3m per game to the bottom line, the man that sold our stars and didn’t reinvest, that obsessively focused on breaking the system by trying to prove that he could succeed with a more “sustainable” model, that waxed lyrical about net spend but underpaid on wages significantly, the same bloke that smacked a corporate section in the middle of our “white wall” without telling any supporters groups, the man who systematically tried to eradicate our fan culture when we left WHL as he hunted for a new affluent fanbase, the man who put prices up to the point we have the most expensive seats in the country, removed senior concessions, wanted to move us to Stratford until stalwart fans blocked him?The same bloke who brought in an unqualified Scott Munn who screwed up the youth system and medical functions, the man who flipped from manager to manager with no strategy, no vision, no investment to succeed? The man who gave watches celebrating getting to a final, watches he didn’t even pay for he linked up via a sponsorship deal? The man who didn’t sign a player for over a calendar year?

That bloke who would have sorted this mess? That one?

This is his mess.

[Andy Creed @cyberistia]

Thomas Frank’s time at Tottenham Hotspur has been horrendous and it is hard to argue that he has shown anything close to being up to the job.

What makes this worse is the revisionism that has crept in around Ange Postecoglou. Largely because of the Europa League win, his tenure is now being softened in people’s memories. But the reality is that much of his time was also poor. Performances were erratic, the defence was a mess, and there was little sense of long term progress. A trophy should not be used to airbrush away months of underachievement.

When you step back, Spurs have effectively wasted at least five years. Probably more. You can trace it back to the final Conte season when everything started to unravel, through managerial churn, poor recruitment, and now into the current mess. And it does not stop here.

Next season is already compromised. Why? Because whoever comes in next is almost certainly not going to be an elite, transformational appointment. They will inherit a squad full of decent but limited players and will be asked to improve them, stabilise results, and somehow restore belief. That is not a quick fix. That is a slow, grinding process that takes time, and Spurs do not have a track record of patience or coherent planning.

Now look at this from the supporter’s point of view.

If you are a season ticket holder paying well over a thousand pounds a year, which most are, you are already five thousand pounds down over that period. Add travel, food, and drink and you are comfortably closer to ten thousand pounds. That is before merchandise, bringing children along, or treating matchdays as full family outings. If you do away games as well, add several more thousand on top.

It is entirely reasonable that many fans will be twenty thousand pounds or more out of pocket over those years to watch a consistently substandard team. Not because football is unpredictable, but because of repeated, avoidable failures in managerial appointments and player recruitment.

Yes, there is a social element to going to Spurs. For many people it is about routine, community, and shared experience. That matters. But it does not negate the financial reality, or the sense that loyalty is being taken for granted.

The club does not treat supporters like partners. They treat them like customers. That has been painfully obvious for years, and it was crystallised by the episode where a fan paying around twenty four thousand pounds a season confronted a member of the Lewis family. The response told you everything you need to know. They are far too removed to care.

For them, the money keeps rolling in regardless. For fans, the emotional and financial investment keeps rising while the football goes nowhere. That imbalance is at the heart of the current apathy. Not anger anymore. Just numbness.

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

This 👇

[Return of the Shelf @ROTS1882]

This is a manager hired by Daniel Levy to take an underpaid, underfunded, untested squad and try to do more with less. A manager known for scraping together mediocre success through negative football at a club with absolutely no pressure with players who aren’t at the top level. Since his arrival, he has looked completely out of his depth. Every word that comes out of his mouth seems to downplay the club. He appears to believe the task at Tottenham is the same as at Brentford, and that the cultural transformation required here is something he’s already done before. He’s coated off the fans on numerous occasions and somehow sees positives in what has been a truly horrendous period for us. He doesn’t get what it takes at this level, he has not understood the club at all, he has no idea who we are, what we expect or why we are angry, he simply hasn’t got a clue.

On the pitch, this squad looks worse and worse, losing at home to relegation fodder, no desire, no belief, no basics, no structure, no tactics, no anything. It was an unbelievably short-sighted appointment. Sacking a manager with the squad on his side for someone the polar opposite stylistically was an extraordinary decision. After 20-plus years of poor decisions, Daniel Levy’s legacy is there for all to see. It’s time the new CEO started selling his vision and project not just to the fans, but to a manager capable of delivering success at this football club.

If he’s sacked in the morning it will feel far too late, get out Frank.

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

Am beginning to think this is one bit of green land that should no longer be under Danish rule #COYS #TOTAST

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

@markgoldbridge If you’re out fishing 🎣 tonight then congratulations… you got a load of us .. but come on!! 😂😂😂

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

Joke
#NEWSPU

[Mari | ❀༉ @mari_mavi5]

Micky van de Ven's goal was very reminiscent of the goal that won Sonny the Puskás Award. 🥹🤍

[Middlesex In the Community @MiddxCommunity]

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[Longlevens AFC @longlevensafc]

‼️REMINDER‼️

Saturday we host @FairfordTownFC in the @EmiratesFACup in what will be a lively game.

Come down and support the boys!

⚽️ Home v @FairfordTownFC
🏟️ DTS Carpentry Stadium, GL4 3DG
🕒 15:00 Kick Off

Admissions:
£7 Adults
£4 Concessions/U16s

#UpTheLevens

[DAN @YidVids]

The coping mechanism by using their Women's team to try and let the world know everything is ok is peak Arsenal and makes the whole thing funnier than it already was.

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

@DamoW11 this is nicely put.

[𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐦 @ChangeForSpurs]

We have now equalled our record for the most defeats in a PL season with 19. 1 more and we will equal our record within a 38-game season.

This is our club and we must all come together and demand better

[Chris Marshall @marshy7182]

@DamoW11 @cyberistia Damo I wish I had the energy to type all the arguments about why that post is more accurate than I care to admit. Stadium is great and revenue spinner. But where does the revenue go? Continued mismanagement of the football operation is frankly negligent.