Tricky this. I could say that we are tying to run before we can walk, but that might be seen as defeatist. To be honest what are the chances of us winning the Champions league this year, next year the year after? Slim I would have thought. Same goes for the Premier League title. We might not like it but money does make a massive difference, competing with teams like City and United in the long term is always going to be unsuccessful. We have been punching well above our weight in the last few seasons and if we were to lose 2 or 3 key players we would be back to the mid table position we have held for the entire time I have been supporting Spurs, which is over 50 years, just to wind up the numpties.
Saying that the League Cup is beneath us is a bit like me saying I will only eat Fortnum and Mason hummus because I am too posh for Tescos. We had all that old nonsense when we were in the Europa League - it was a Mickey Mouse cup and not respected - why didn't we win it then if it was that shite?
Sadly, the playing field will never be level. If players wages and transfer fees were controlled and every team had the same budget then competition would be fair, I can already hear the screams of the capitalists saying that sounds like communism - but really, what else would you expect from me? Football is like real life, the rich fucks get the cream while the rest of us get penetrated up the backdoor. We might get lucky now and again and win something, but to be at the top table year after year requires the sort of money that clubs like the proper 'big clubs' have in their sky rockets. It ain't sport, it's fucking economics and I find that sad. OK, it might sound bit too left wing for some of you, but how good would it be if all the Premier League clubs were to have the same transfer budget and all the players were payed the same? OK, not happening, so we have to live in the real world.
Maybe the league Cup is at the correct level for us? Can anyone truly say they weren't buzzing like fuck on the 24th February 2008? Did Robbie, Lederrrrly and the lads look like it was a Mickey Mouse Cup? It could be seen as arrogance if we decide the League Cup is beneath us and we play the under 9s team, it could also be counter-productive because winning this cup, which is without doubt the easiest of all the trophies to win, would give our players a real boost. They is just human beans and they like to win, winning the Carrybooboo Cup could just be enough of a pat on the back to make sure they are not tempted to pack their bags and toddle off - Danny Rose excepted, can get his suitcase packed.
Of course the dream is to win the premier League and the Champions League, but without huge amounts of wedge those goals are unlikely. Look at the City squad, they could field a reserve team that could win the Premier League, we struggle to field a first team that could do that, we can do that of course but losing a couple of players fucks us up totally. Losing Toby, Harry , Dele or Christian because they can earn 3 times what they earn with Spurs would be a disaster and the 'transition' would start again at the beginning. Maybe the warm cuddly feeling they would get winning the League Cup would make them believe we could win one of the big ones next year and maybe, just maybe put off moving to Real Madrid for a season or two? Shiny new stadium, fighting to maintain a mid-table position - the new Everton or the old Tottenham Hotspur?
Winning stuff starts off with winning stuff, aiming to only win the big one could lead to winning fuck all, Let's win this fucker and see if the winning effect carries on to the new stadium. It's just 4 games for fuck's sake. Just 4 wins and we can all walk round swinging our huge todgers in the faces of all the other teams. Loverly jubberly.
