it's not easy being a spurs fan but we've got to look at the bigger picture.
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It's probably easier than supporting 98% of other professional football clubs.....

Hounslow - I don't think 3/4 of Spurs fans live in the real world. Probably more like 7/8 as it goes!!

Levy has done a sterling job over the last decade. He hasn't always got it right, but you feel when he makes a mistake he learns from it and doesn't do it again.

He runs a tight ship, and we are a healthy club which is growing all the time, back to where we were in the old days as one of the topclubs in the country.

Chris,one of my mates reckons our club is cursed but he still paid £900 for his season ticket

I wouldn't swap him for any chairman in the country. Forget the Sugar Daddies owners as they aren't running a football club, I mean a chairman who has to actually manage the club rather than throw his own money at it, or spend someone elses

Hrh,I wonder if some of the fans that are moaning would go out and buy a £50,000 car if their old lady asked them to because one her mates husband had just brought one ?

You've got to live within your means.

It could be worse to be fair, you could be an arsenal fan who constantly talk about bale as they have no transfer news of their own to talk about.

But arsenal have a war chest

Hounslow, what does me are the "pay the extra £7m and get on with it" or "buy player X and give him 120k per week" brigade.

He gets stick for negotiating. OK it doesn't always work in our favour, but he has not only got us top dollar for players we sell, but also seen us getting quality, established international players such as Lloris and VDV for sub-10m.

Every £2/3m saved goes towards another player. Every 10/20k of wages saved is money to be spent elsewhere. He has got us fighting on a par with Arsenal, a club which spends about 50/60m a year more on wages every single year. Above Liverpool now consistently who's turnover is way in excess of ours.

At best we should really be 6th. 5th is punching above our weight, and 4th is well above.

Take out the two who skew it because of external finance - Chelsea and City - and he would have established us as the third best team in the land, pushing the 2nd.

Even Chelsea pre-Roman didn't make CL without getting heavily in debt in doing so, a position that would have rebalanced had Roman not got involved and essentially paid for their pre-Mourinho successes too.

Daniel Levy is one of the best, if not the best chairman out there. He makes mistakes, but then show me a chairman, manager, etc who does not. But he has built the club up brilliantly and run`s it the way all clubs should be, spending wisely, and not overcommitting money the club does not have. I have no problem with him at all. Top man.

hrh,spot on mate.you've only got to look at leeds to see the boom and bust scenario.

good evening mr brown

Levy is doing a very good job, we would have qualified for the CL at a canter had we not been shafted by muppet referees on a weekly basis. Levy has achieved this in the right way, building season by season.

The 7 or 8 certain penalties we were denied by cowboy referees last season would have made all the difference.

Lets hope our players and Bale in particular are not victimised in the same way this season, and the apparent conspiracy has moved to another club.

Leeds is a prime example mate. Gambled on black and came up red.

I dread to think where we'd be if Sugar was running the gaffe.

Still, he was right on iPods and Dennis Bergkamp never being a success, and revolutionised the telecom market with his fax-phone so what do I know?

ricky villas boas,and breathe

yes we should have got some penalties but bale and defoe both dived at times last season.

What a quality post and set of comments! As an occasional poster I do think that many of the serial posters on both the Spurs board and most of the other PL boards are akin to the loud mothed yobbos that you are sometimes subjected to in your local pub - nothing intelligent or of interest to say but they feel they have to shout it out and subject everyone else to their puerile rantings!

Here's to the moderately silent and errudite football fans everywhere!

I yearn to be considered errudite .................................. most of the time I have to make do with verbose

gazza,there's a big mix of people on here from all walks of life.the banter on here can be good but some of the bile spouted is laughable.