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If you were able to go back in time and change one thing about Spurs...

The whole Irving Scholar fiasco almost bankrupting us in the late 80's.That set us back 20 years.We were regularly a top 4-5 team in the 80's.We bought Gazza when he was at his peak.We were in the game .
 
jimmyb said:
Great question. So many possible answers!

1. The linesman doesn't rule two good Spurs goals to be offside in the 1962 European Cup semi final first leg v Benfica.
2. Dave Mackay doesn't break his leg (first or second time).
3. John White decides not to play golf that fateful afternoon.
4. Keith Burkinshaw has no need to look wistfully back and say, "there used to be a football club over there". And stays instead.
5. Failing the above, Irving Scholar is successful in his attempt to persuade Alex Ferguson to become our new manager.
6. Liverpool fans don't riot in Heysel.
7. Alan Sugar has a character transplant and instead of reacting to Klinsmann's departure by ranting against Carlos Kickaballs, welcomes Dennis Bergkamp's offer to join Spurs with open arms.
8. Abramovich learns of Chel53a's historical anti-Semitism and chooses Spurs instead. Or decides against investing in football altogether (for which, ditto Mansour).
9. Lasagne is off the menu (yes, I know it was a virus!).
10. John Terry isn't a racist prick towards Anton Ferdinand; Fabio Capello doesn't resign from the England job; Harry Redknapp keeps his focus on Spurs; Marton Fulop doesn't suspiciously gift three goals to Ar5ena1 in the final game of the season; and Bayern Munich score more than one of their 1,452 scoring opportunities in the Champions League final.
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And Liverpool fans think that they have a hard time. Did Bergkamp really want to join us, before moving to Arsenal? How about if we signed Hazard? Seeing as he seemed to be wanting to join us, right before we decided to implode, finish 4th and then watch Bayern conspire to gift Chelsea the CL? Plus all the other signings that we tried to get that Chelsea decided to sign instead.
 
jabbathehut said:
The whole Irving Scholar fiasco almost bankrupting us in the late 80's.That set us back 20 years.We were regularly a top 4-5 team in the 80's.We bought Gazza when he was at his peak.We were in the game .
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And wouldn't have left us, were it not for our need to sell him because of club financial difficulties. Oh and for Gazza not to have been so seriously injured in the FA Cup Final.
 
jimmyb said:
Great question. So many possible answers!

1. The linesman doesn't rule two good Spurs goals to be offside in the 1962 European Cup semi final first leg v Benfica.
2. Dave Mackay doesn't break his leg (first or second time).
3. John White decides not to play golf that fateful afternoon.
4. Keith Burkinshaw has no need to look wistfully back and say, "there used to be a football club over there". And stays instead.
5. Failing the above, Irving Scholar is successful in his attempt to persuade Alex Ferguson to become our new manager.
6. Liverpool fans don't riot in Heysel.
7. Alan Sugar has a character transplant and instead of reacting to Klinsmann's departure by ranting against Carlos Kickaballs, welcomes Dennis Bergkamp's offer to join Spurs with open arms.
8. Abramovich learns of Chel53a's historical anti-Semitism and chooses Spurs instead. Or decides against investing in football altogether (for which, ditto Mansour).
9. Lasagne is off the menu (yes, I know it was a virus!).
10. John Terry isn't a racist prick towards Anton Ferdinand; Fabio Capello doesn't resign from the England job; Harry Redknapp keeps his focus on Spurs; Marton Fulop doesn't suspiciously gift three goals to Ar5ena1 in the final game of the season; and Bayern Munich score more than one of their 1,452 scoring opportunities in the Champions League final.
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I think that just about covers it
 
Is there any one thing which is responsible for us missing the SKY/Premier League gravy train?

If so that
 
Woolwich Arsenal's relative geographic isolation resulted in lower attendances than those of other clubs, which led to the club becoming mired in financial problems and effectively bankrupt by 1910, when they were taken over by businessmen Henry Norris and William Hall. Norris sought to move the club elsewhere, and in 1913, soon after relegation back to the Second Division, Arsenal moved to the new Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, North London; they dropped "Woolwich" from their name the following year. Arsenal only finished in fifth place in the second division during the last pre-war competitive season of 1914–15, but were nevertheless elected to rejoin the First Division when competitive football resumed in 1919–20, at the expense of local rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Some books have reported that this election to division 1 was achieved by dubious means.
 
jimmyb said:
Great question. So many possible answers!

10. John Terry isn't a racist prick towards Anton Ferdinand; Fabio Capello doesn't resign from the England job; Harry Redknapp keeps his focus on Spurs; Marton Fulop doesn't suspiciously gift three goals to Ar5ena1 in the final game of the season; and Bayern Munich score more than one of their 1,452 scoring opportunities in the Champions League final.
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This sequence of events suggests we are doomed.

The lasagnagate also had a few. Getting sick was bad enough, then add that West Ham were in the FA cup final so couldn't reshechule that week, that being a world cup year they couldn't reschedule later, and that Scudamore was enjoying the jollies in the final HIghbury game so couldn't give a fudge about the integrity of the competition.
 
January 2012 imo. Redknapp made many interviews about getting backed in January and.....winning the league! But no levy saw it as top 4 is good enough and fobbed him off with some journeymen! I'm still of the belief if defoe scores at the etihad and levy backs redknapp we'd of been champions. Alas I support Spurs tho so should apparently accept mediocrity.
 
Preventing Sugar and Venables falling out. El Tel was a great coach and had started to build a team...and that was at the key point in the PL - get established then and the wave of money which was to follow would keep you there
 
AdamB said:
Preventing Sugar and Venables falling out. El Tel was a great coach and had started to build a team...and that was at the key point in the PL - get established then and the wave of money which was to follow would keep you there
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I love Venables the manager, but the dodgy dealings he got Spurs involved with were outrageous. He employed his bankrupt mate as general manager, paid for his stake in the club with fraudulently gained money and used some italian restauranteur to help with the Gazza transfer who took £200k in commission. Were it not for that, he would have gone down as one of the real great english managers and would have won many titles with many clubs.
 
AdamB said:
Preventing Sugar and Venables falling out. El Tel was a great coach and had started to build a team...and that was at the key point in the PL - get established then and the wave of money which was to follow would keep you there
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Not for me. Overrated, IMO.

We played some rubbish football at times under Venables. And we weren't half as successful as we had been a few years earlier with Burkinshaw and Pleat.
 
No Mabbs own-goal in 87. Either that, or I'd like to have kidnapped Sugar in 1992 and driven him to a certain farm in Donegal.
 
jimmyb said:
Great question. So many possible answers!


10. John Terry isn't a racist prick towards Anton Ferdinand; Fabio Capello doesn't resign from the England job; Harry Redknapp keeps his focus on Spurs; Marton Fulop doesn't suspiciously gift three goals to Ar5ena1 in the final game of the season; and Bayern Munich score more than one of their 1,452 scoring opportunities in the Champions League final.
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Fulops performance was incredibly suspect that day. I couldn't quite believe my eyes.
 
El Guepardo said:
And Liverpool fans think that they have a hard time. Did Bergkamp really want to join us, before moving to Ar5ena1? How about if we signed Hazard? Seeing as he seemed to be wanting to join us, right before we decided to implode, finish 4th and then watch Bayern conspire to gift Chel53a the CL? Plus all the other signings that we tried to get that Chel53a decided to sign instead.
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Yep. So the story goes.

He was desperate to leave Inter, where he was very unhappy, and to come to England. Before listening to offers from any other club, he (or his agent) contacted Spurs to let them know that they were his first choice, if interested. But even if Gerry Francis was interested (no certainty), Sugar would never have agreed to the £7m fee. The rest is history.
 
not letting King start that (debut?) game where he picked up his knee injury that would plague the rest of his career, and deny us and England of possibly their greatest defender ever.
 
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