Surely spurs won't actually get relegated?

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Originally Posted by WES

Yeah but beating the filth at their place to win the league would have been that bit more special. Not to mention that for a brief period it raised the possibility of them scoring a 3rd, lord I didn't want to think about that :-(

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Yeah, but we'd already done that and went on to do the double.

Yes, beating them would have been better but getting a draw to win the league unbeaten so they all celebrate the equaliser before they realise what we'd done on their pitch. A double, a cup and Invincible in the 3 seasons since Sol signed for free.

Btw, I was just checking the 2002-3 season as I was away for much of it. Couple of questions.

In the cup final, we played Oleg at CH. Says Pascal was injured and that Sol was suspended for a straight red vs ManU. But there were more than 3 games until the cup final so I don't get that.

Forgot to add, what was the CL like with this 2nd group phase. Looked really tight with 4 draws. {I remember the Henry hat-trick in Rome so must have been in Blighty for that.}

Didn't realise that if we'd scored a winner in our penultimate game or an equaliser in the last one, we'd have qualified for the semis. That must have been gutting but I have no memory of this. If I'd been in India I'd have had a tv in the room so I think I was in a truck in Spain somewhere. Maybe Barca or maybe the Dragon festival down south {Orgiva.}

Glad I missed that, but maybe if I'd watched Titi would have scored more hat-tricks.

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Originally Posted by Peter

100% agreed. I'd have taken 1-0 and 11 v 11. Think Barcelona would have as well.

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Dunno. It was a decent contest before the sending off but being a man up pretty much guaranteed that they wouldn't lose. I haven't watched it again, of course, but I do remember being extremely proud of the way we played, the way we kept going forward.


The thing had been pretty much settled beforehand though, with the kerfuffle over the referee; the replacement had carte blanche to punish us. You don't normally get away with publicly calling their impartiality into question, even though "we" didn't :-\

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

Dunno. It was a decent contest before the sending off but being a man up pretty much guaranteed that they wouldn't lose. I haven't watched it again, of course, but I do remember being extremely proud of the way we played, the way we kept going forward.


The thing had been pretty much settled beforehand though, with the kerfuffle over the referee; the replacement had carte blanche to punish us. You don't normally get away with publicly calling their impartiality into question, even though "we" didn't :-\

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I don't remember about the ref thing - can you explain please?

I remember the SF - we only one 1-0 despite playing them off the park and the Squirrel Goddess sending us an Incarnation of herself to make sure we won and kept a clean sheet.

In the 2nd leg, they were all over us and when they got the pelanty I was fuming. I told the glw we'd blown it. They'd score and with the momentum they had, would score the winner in extra time.

She looked at Mad Jens on the screen and said "He's got long arms and big hands. He'll save it." And I looked across the room at her toy King Louis {from the Jungle Book} that she'd nicked from Eurodisney when there with her family before we'd got together. {We still have him.} He has long arms and big hands and is orange, the colour Jens wore when we were Invincible. And I suddenly had a flickering of faith.

Earlier in the campaign, she'd watched the second half of the game at Real with me. When Titi scored, she watched the replay and said "Henry was like a bird with big tits barging her way to the bar" which I thought was a better description than the commentators came up with or any of the match reports in the paper the following day.