Tottenham manager, Ange Postecoglou has come out to say that Spurs winning the Europa League can help dispel fans’ negativity about the club. He recently had his say ahead of their semi-final tie at Bodo/Glimt, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, people are their experiences, and because Spurs fans have had to deal with some near misses for a very long time, he can understand them not getting excited about the team’s progress in the Europa league.
Ange added that such bad narrative around the club can only be eradicated if the team wins a trophy to clear their doubts, and that is what his players are trying to do this season.
His words, “People are their experiences and Tottenham supporters have had some real near misses for a long time. So there’s always this safeguard of not getting too excited about what’s happening, but part of creating a winning culture is not to fall into that trap.
Winners don’t think about things in that way; they don’t think about what could possibly go wrong. I’ve said before that the narrative around the club is not positive at all.
That’s existed for a very long time and you need to break through that. I’m trying to create a culture within the group at least that that can’t guide our destiny because that’s almost self-fulfilling. If you expect something to go wrong, it will.
I don’t know if it’s a culture in the club; it’s a culture around the club. Obviously, if you accept that then you are almost self-prophesying what’s going to happen. I don’t accept that. But with all of these things, there’s really only one remedy: win. That’s what we’re trying to do.
No, I can’t control it. It’s fair to say I’ve tried but it’s a losing battle because there’s a lot of stuff that feeds into that and people invariably react to it. If you’re feeling insecure about something and you’ve got 20 people telling you that you should be insecure, you’re going to be insecure. So I can’t change that. You’ve got to stay very focused on what you can control and we can’t control how people feel, we can’t control the anxiety of … whether it’s our supporters or whatever narrative is around us. What we can control is our behaviours and our performance.”
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