The Curse Of Tottenham?

Hello all, first time post. Been a spurs die hard since for 20 years, been reading through the page in the aftermath of yesterdays disappointment and felt like I needed to write something as i feel some of my fellow spurs fans need to some themselves out a bit. In particular on Don Tottenhams article there was a lot of mention of us being cursed and I wanted to dispel that myth. The reason we are not in CL footy next year is not down to luck, and certainly not down to curses or superstition (only simpletons believe in such things), it is because we're not quite good enough. Lets look at all the factors being blamed:

LUCK: People saying chelsea have won the CL through good luck which in turn eqautes to our bad luck. Nonsense. If ever there was a game where you make your own luck it's football. They've beaten the best sides in Italy, Germany and Spain to win it, that takes more than luck. Yes they've played negative and their opponents have been wasteful, but they've defended resolutely and been more clinical with less chances than their opponents, which is the name of the game.

UEFA RULE: When liverpool won it in '05 it was the first time a club outside it's own top 4 had done so - and so a precedent hadn't been set therefore no ruling existed. Liverpool were able to exploit this loophole by appealing their way back in. On the back of this UEFA created the rule which we are all moaning about this morning. It has existed every year since 2006, we know that technically only the top 3 sides are guaranteed CL football. It's not a conspiracy, it's a long exisiting rule.

ENGLAND JOB: Harry had been the favourite for the England job a long time before capello walked. The players already knew there was a chance he'd be gone next season. I dont see the media clamour for him as an excuse for our lack of form - the players should be profesional enough to carrying on trying to reach their targets, and Harry should certainly astute enough to manage the whole situation in a way that keeps spurs momentum going. He showed a lack of top level experience in not being able to turn our form around over such a long period - a blip is one thing, this was a capitulation and those at the helm take ultimate responsibility.

It doesn't need repeating but we were 10/13 points clear depending on how you look at it and we blew it. Even then Arsenal opened the door for us and left it in our hands and we bottled it (playing Rose at LB against Villa when he was so poor against Bolton another example of questionable decision making). Missing out on CL this way is harsh, in footballing terms it's not the worst thing - plenty of cracking away days to be had in the europa if we took it seriously - but in financial and squad building terms it's a real hammer blow.

We will certainly lose modric, and keeping Bale may be a fight. Our tagets will now be players who have looked good in lesser teams such as hoilett and dembele - it will be a test of harry's ability to pick a player and rebuild (hopefully the window that saw us bring in Nelson and saha - another contributing factor to our lack of CL - was a one off).

But whichever way you cut it, when you look at it objectively there is no misfortune and no curse. We are where we are after 38 games, the rule was there in the beginning and Chelsea made their own luck, we've got to suck it up and move on, trim the fat, splash some cash and not get left behind.