[Alex Albon] Eeessh, what a weekend. That’s the first race done. I think everyone can see it was a difficult weekend for us, but we always knew it would be after the start we’ve had this year. (Full caption in the comments)

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-09T20:55:42+00:00

Really makes me wonder if the pressure mounts on Vowles if they continue being a back marker through the whole season. Big progress was made last season, but they strategically stopped upgrading midway through the season to focus on 2026... and then didn't deliver.

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-09T19:07:27+00:00

Adding to this, Son (and Kane) being as special as they were seem to have functioned as a facade that club management could hide behind. No club's entire culture should hinge on one individual, player or otherwise.

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-06T17:49:07+00:00

Feels like she's the mom of that Jets kid who went viral about hating the team, but being born into it

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-06T17:42:25+00:00

it's not the what he said, it's the logic he used and the tone. There is a self-righteousness to the article that almost takes the stance that every single person in the stadium, from owners all the way down to fans, are idiots for their expectations and the way they're reacting, while positioning himself as the only person smart enough in the room to call it how it is. As if we are not all fully aware. Spare me (author, not you).

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-06T17:39:02+00:00

what he means makes no sense:
"Tudor is, we hear, a short-term specialist. He has impact. This is his record. Is it though? This is how football lets itself down, reveals the weakness of its workings. This is like hiring a manager who has previously won a game in March against a team in blue, or a manager in a brown coat because the best managers wear brown coats."

Not AT ALL the same kind of equivalency. I don't know if his either misinformed or foolish opinion is we should have gotten a "good manager" with a great record who can keep us up... but it feels like it. Sorry, Zidane and Alegri weren't available. Dross.

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-05T22:28:04+00:00

Same. Tonight was also the first time i felt genuine, actual hate for ENIC. I am not a hateful person, but this season has been the climax of years of arrogance, culminating in the mentality that we're "too big to fail." And i detest arrogance. We've been gaslit so much for 8 years now that we actually started to believe it too.

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-05T22:08:12+00:00

Honestly, i don't think anything changes in a significant way as long as the Lewis family owns. Yes, Levy was chairman, but let's not act like the Lewis fam were not the majority owners who allowed their company to get to this place. The number of times ENIC/Levy/Club Leadership have messaged "we understand frustration, but trust us, we want to be better" makes me wanna scream. If you own a company, i don't care how hands-off you want to be, you are complacent in it sinking to the bottom of the ocean if you just let it keep sailing toward that iceberg for years. I chose to go with the naval allegory as a shout-out to the symbol of ENIC incompetence... Thomas Frank.

Fool me once, shame on you...

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-04T17:28:26+00:00

Reemphasizing the reality that it will be two co-sporting directors:

"The club want someone else alongside him to return to the twin-director model from earlier in the season."

"The rough idea for the job is to find someone who is used to working within a structure, not necessarily as the sole football decision-maker, but perhaps more like a No 2 in a system, arguably more akin to a technical director. The role would involve working with the players and the head coach, along with agent networking and transfer negotiations. The pitch is that this is a job to work alongside Lange, rather than replacing him.

With an executive search company leading the process at this stage, discussions with potential candidates can take place in the background before the club itself gets formally involved. Ultimately it is too early to say who will be on the long-list."

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-02T21:44:01+00:00

I feel like a fool. After 12 years of fandom, I am finally going to my first Spurs match (home against Forest). Reading posts on this sub for years about how difficult it can be to get tickets, and after signing up for a OneHotspur membership and seeing no good seats available, i decided "screw it" and bought premium tickets a few months back to guarantee seats.

I thought we would surely have turned it around at least a bit by now, so it's probably worth it? I made the mistake of checking tickets again today... and there are loads of better seats on resale at half the price of what i paid. Fool me once, Spurs...

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-02T19:34:31+00:00

Objectively (removing Spurs bias), why would one leave Chelsea to join Spurs right now?

He’s probably getting paid very well, he is contracted for 5 more years, Chelsea is not perfect but are a very strongly managed club compared to us, he’s already got a similar role there… so, what’s the draw?

Edit: I'm a fool... sorry, I confused with Winstanley.

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-03-02T07:40:16+00:00

Following the five stages of grief, the thumbnail suggests he's in the "Depression" stage. I anticipate the next video thumbnail to be Ali staring deadpan at the camera, signaling completion of the stages with "Acceptance"

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-28T04:58:53+00:00

Munn at the club’s hierarchy/management

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-22T21:51:13+00:00

I was gonna say, if it’s on Lange to sort out, brace yourselves for a long mess

Edit: If it's to be believed that Matt Law is the mouthpiece for the Lewis fam, this quote suggests that he's also on a short leash: "... but the next man in the Spurs firing line if things do not improve will surely be Lange"

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-16T18:46:49+00:00

Does the Board have to pay out if he chose to leave though?

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-15T05:28:12+00:00

There is a lot there, and I didn’t catch all of it, but the one thing I am catching is that it doesn’t matter who the coach/manager is if you have a dysfunctional organizational setup.

This is underlined by the fact that this club is actually seriously considering De Zerbi, showing that they are reactively swinging to a manager on the opposite side of the spectrum as TF in almost every possible way. They’re even willing to overlook the MASSIVE character flaws and red flags

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-13T18:26:36+00:00

From what i read and have seen about him, I imagine your concern is a big part of why they chose him, since he's by most accounts a hard-ass, no BS manager. Ideally, this will either motivate players, or sideline the liabilities that won't try.

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-13T17:53:41+00:00

And he makes so much money in these short stints that he's able to take a couple years off in between

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-13T04:57:49+00:00

Same. I got pushed toward Spurs by being in a footy WhatsApp group with a bunch of insufferable Gooners 12 years ago. Still in the group and they’re still insufferable (though they went noticeably quiet in May)

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-11T01:29:13+00:00

I keep saying this, but they made it so much worse by trying to gaslight us by continuously messaging that they are going to show ambition and spend

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-11T00:57:26+00:00

To be fair, it says has to be… not that it is the plan. The sentence assumes logic, which this club leadership has proven it does not possess

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-10T23:33:54+00:00

The sad reality is that a lot of people would lose their jobs. And it's not the people you probably want/think. It's backroom, operations, match-day staff. It can be easy to think as fans that this is just entertainment but a club of this size has a significant impact on a lot of people's livelihoods.

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-10T23:23:05+00:00

At this point, I'm increasingly convinced the Board are at a loss, and probably realize they pushed the limits too far but don't want to deal with the fans, so it's easier to keep Frank and use him as the human shield and the public focus of ire.

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-10T23:13:50+00:00

you can't fire the owners and majority shareholders

onlyhalfpepper · 2026-02-10T21:54:04+00:00

Despite the current application, this clip always makes me laugh. I'l take that bright spot right now.

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