Tottenham Talk on Sunday 24th October - The Selfish Generation
Tottenham Talk on Sunday 24th October - The Selfish Generation
I have spent my life helping others in many forms, an ex-girlfriend of mine bought a Secret Santa gift for an elderly woman in her street that she didn't know, just saw one day her shopping trolley on wheels was on it's last legs so bought her a new one.
What do you do for elderly people you don't know?
Welcome to Tottenham Talk on Sunday 24th October where we play West Ham, but I'll ignore that, you can read previews on the other sites.
No, I'm going to explain why the second XI is so disappointing and answer Harry Winks question for him.
The Selfish Generation
That terrible performance was pretty much what I expected except I was expecting us to draw the game, as per many of our away games with a second XI playing.It has however inspired me to pen this ditty, yes I know what a ditty is for you morons who take things literally, unless you are Autistic, then with a disabled and partially Autistic son, I fully understand.
Times have changed people.
The world has changed.
In my day, you saved for something, you worked to afford for something.
Now that has largely gone out of the window.
Now, with instant communication on the Internet, we have a generation who want everything now.
We have a generation who are selfish, whose pathetic parents have not taught them to respect their elders, respect other people's property.
Take my previous Jaguar, I had had it 3 weeks and 5 people had hit it in car parks, even though I park away from store entrances.
Someone has now driven into the new one and put the wing out of alignment with the bonnet.
People just don't care these days, it's all about them.
That is an awful trait to hold.
I am all for having a winning mentality and doing everything tio achieve your goals but you can do that and not be a selfish person at the same time.
What good deed did you do today?
Who did you help?
Did you stop the traffic for someone to cross the road?
Were you driving along and someone stopped for you so you raised your hand in thanks?
Or did you selfishly just drive past without acknowledgement?
Do you turn your lights on on a motorway or about town when others have their's on or do you selfishly keep them off?
Lights are for you to be seen with easier.
It starts to rain, do you turn them on or selfishly keep them off?
People are selfish today.
Why do I mention this?
Because it has an affect on who Spurs buy.
What selfish striker is going to sit on a bench and play second fiddle to someone else, to Harry Kane?
Nobody.
Any striker today is going to say they'll sign if Harry Kane leaves.
If Spurs keep him why would they sign?
It is going to stunt their development, affect their international chances and stop them playing in the top games against top opposition and against the best defenders.
Money is not the motivator for most these days, Champions League football is.
Today, in this selfish world, it is all about ego.
You only have to look at social media these days.
People think their opinion is valuable or important to others, it isn't.
Yet someone on social media can now appear on Strictly Come Dancing, which should not be hosted by two women and should not have two men dancing together.
Look at the anti crowd whose opinions are not based on facts like Financial Fair Play, but on inaccurate perceptions and expect you to change your opinion to theirs and don't like it if you don't.
I get constantly abused because I block 90 minute supporters, there is even some sad sod with an account just to abuse me, that's how childish supposed adults are today.
Why should footballers be any different?
They are human being, they are selfish, just like the rest of this terrible generation their overly PC parents have created.
The woke generation is about entitlement, Spurs fans are now an entitled bunch, given a level of expectation by Daniel Levy dragging the club from the gutter basically, mid-table and broke, to become an elite club with the next step an elite level playing side.
Youngsters no longer wait until they are 23 for a first team opportunity, no at 18 they go off to seek first team football abroad now.
The me me me generation want it now.
However, all the empirical data showed exactly the opposite, that people are capable of pro-sociality and that pro-social societies do better.
This guy was in the USA and of course Britain wrongly copies everything the Americans do, we now have advert breaks every 10 minutes for a generation that can't concentrate for very long.
We don't have a home anymore, we have a forever home, even though you are probably going to sell it, forever furniture that you won't keep forever SUV's (Sports Utility Vehicle) that have no sport about them whatsoever.
We live in a generation of large tall vehicles that mean you can't look through a car to see any dangers ahead.
OK, let's educate you Neanderthals a little ( a few exceptions, you know who you are, you haven't been blocked yet!).
Neoclassical theory.
This theory tells us that every action is motivated by selfishness.
That nobody should look out for the good of the collective.
Remainers vote for themselves, Brexiteers vote for the good of the collective, the country.
Corporations should worry about their shareholders, not their workers or customers.
Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust (THST) don't answer questions and aren't concerned with the views of fans worldwide, only their own anti agenda.
Individuals should think about themselves.
Yet you hear every coach say it is about the team, well that is alien to a selfish generation.
It is utterly essential today that an individual is taught how his goals are achieved by his input into the collective.
That is the opposite way he has been brought up so a coach is fighting a losing battle and players are only committed when they are regularly picked in the first choice XI, the majority of the rest sulk, unless you have one with a true winning mentality.
This has been seeping into society since the 70's to the point where we are today where it isn't hidden, it is mainstream, it is in your face every day.
It will take the same length of time to turn it back except I can't see that happening.
Don't get me wrong, there are decent people in the world, unselfish people but these are usually the sons and daughters of country folk or unselfish parents teaching their children proper standards and morals.
You used to have to be able to enunciate properly to be on the BBC, now we have people on their who don't seem to have learnt the alphabet and whose speech is simply lazy.
It's commonplace.
That alone is a clear indicator of the drop in standards in our world.
All of this is contributing to the mentality of the players we have today, both who play for Spurs and who are our transfer targets, what's in it for me.
As I'm in the throws of educating you lot, let's look at America from the 1920's to the 1960's.
This was a time when companies were expected to look after their employees and people were encouraged to do what was best for their country.
Two alien concepts today.
Taxes were high, workers were well paid, the 'Middle Class' evolved and the country prospered.
Along came commercialism and profit margins, the selfish bottom line kicked in.
Just look at this US Tax Rate graph showing the low and high rates of tax over a 100 year period starting in 1910.
That is a Wiki Commons graph.
I'll educate you heathens if it's the last thing I do.
America prospered when everybody's tax was high.
In the 1970's the US abandoned the gold standard and the price of oil shot through the roof.
Unions were broken up, workers rights changed drastically and the politicians started to argue that cutting taxes for the rich was the way to go to encourage the rich to spend more and thus benefit the population.
What next, well let's give you a quote from the New York Times editor Bill Keller in 2012, yes I'm still explaining why we have a selfish generation of footballers that lost to Vitesse Arnhem on Thursday.
"In 1962, we were laying down the foundations of prosperity. About 32 cents of every federal dollar, excluding interest payments, was spent on investments, only 14 percent on entitlements."In the mid-70s the lines crossed. Today we spend less than 15 cents on investment and 46 cents on entitlements. And it gets worse."By 2030, when the last of us boomers have surged onto the Social Security rolls, entitlements will consume 61 cents of every federal dollar, starving our already neglected investment and leaving us, in the words of the study, with 'a less-skilled work force, lower rates of job creation, and an infrastructure unfit for a 21st-century economy.'"
Have our career politicians who have never done a proper days work in a real job read this stuff?
There you go, that's what neoclassical theory does for you.
Selfishness does not get you to peace (with your fellow man) and prosperity.
Reduce taxes for the rich so they spend more and the others benefit.
Sounds like the anti-Levy anti-ENIC lot demanding a Sugar Daddy buy their happiness doesn't it, even though it is now against Financial Fair Play rules and UEFA wishes.
That growth has to be achieved through sponsorship deals, in other words by the club through commercial deals.
That's why chairman have voted to stop family or tied business sponsorship, dodgy deals as per those done by PSG and Man City to build themselves.
Move on people.
Society prospers by creating a conscience.
A conscience over our climate, over the wildlife on our planet, a conscience for others, giving to receive, not doing anything until you receive first.
Go on let's throw more at you.
Bill Clinton Democratic Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech 1992.
"America was the greatest nation in history because our people had always believed in two things — that tomorrow can be better than today and that every one of us has a personal moral responsibility to make it so."
That was referring to something called 'future preference', a capitalist future but with care for the workers and government taking care of it's citizens.
George Bush didn't think Americans should be seeking a better future incredibly.
Donald Trump bragged about not paying taxes and was very much a me me me selfish president.
Did you know that 0.1% of Americans get 50% of the income and we copy the Americans don't we.
Hark at all our selfish fans shouting give me the money Sugar Daddy.
Do they still ask their parents for money, the Bank of Mum and Dad?
These are the brainwashed generation.
I can only applaud the honesty of Harry Winks in saying he doesn't know how he has gone from England international to struggling in the UEFA Europa Conference League (UECL).
The answer lies in his head, not his feet.
He has the skill, he has proved that.
He is doing no work on his head, the head coach is doing no work on his head and he isn't going to voluntarily go and get head help because he doesn't know he needs it.
Thus why I keep saying this must be an integral part of weekly training, which would only take 15 mins regularly.
Running around more isn't going to cure it, crunching into tackles more isn't going to cure it.
Brain training is the only thing that will cure it if he were to stay at Tottenham.
Vision training he'd benefit from as mentioned before.
Harry Winks and Dele Alli are two prime examples of why you must keep improving so other players don't overtake you or the club buys a replacement.
That's what winning mentalities do, they don't rest on what they have.
The little things matter because they demonstrate a mindset.
Our free-kicks are poor, our throw-ins are useless, both tens to go backwards.
The players are not being coached throw-in drills, why not?
Why can't a free-kick somewhere in the outfield instigate a pre-planned forward passing and moving sequence?
Japhet Tanganga, Joe Rodon, Harry Winks and there were more, were all guilty of tapping the ball to a teammate slowly.
The opposition have all the time in the world to make decisions and adjust, it puts them under no pressure at all and leaves the guy receiving the ball with reduced, if any options.
Take Winks, with part of his role being to pass out wide switching the play.
Shouldn't you switch play quickly, like Ryan Mason did when he first entered the pitch against Nottingham Forest and dragged an inept Spurs side through to the next round a few years ago.
Amble a ball to a player and the opposition have time to prepare, you have lost your advantage, you have passed merely to keep possession, not achieve anything.
A fast pass gives options.
It gives space to move into, it forces the opposition to think quicker, to react quicker maximising the possibility of a mistake or a hole appearing because they haven't all had time to react.
The whole object is to pull them out of shape and put them under mental pressure, that's what causes mistakes, just ask Davinson Sanchez.
Think of Eric Dier's ball out of defence to Sergio Reguilon against Newcastle for our opening goal, where was that against Arnhem?
Think of our front four combining for Son's goal, Moura, Ndombele, Kane, Son, it was all about pass and move.
Where was that against Arnhem from Scarlett, Bergwijn, Alli and Gil?
Fair play to Gil, he is always on the move, Scarlett is learning where to move, Dele is depressed playing with kids while Bergwijn was returning from injury.
But bottom line is they are excuses.
This lot couldn't perform against Mura either, they had to be rescued by Kane, Son and Moura, then Lo Celso finally had people to pass to.
Burnley will surely field a second team in midweek, but if they put out anywhere near a first team then this disinterested bunch, with one or two exceptions, are going to struggle to get a result again.
Times have changed, people have changed, but football coaching hasn't changed with it, it's time it did.
COYS
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