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What our opponents' fans are saying about us 17/18

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SpursDave88

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I'm not saying it's right, just that's the way it is. Football, in particular the Premier League, is a massive global business now and from that perspective both City and Chelsea are bigger than we are. I mean, even from a trophy perspective they are bigger than we are nowadays even if they have been helped by their ill-gotten gains.

Even in the UK both of them will eventually be more supported than we are if the current trend continues. The traditional ideal of supporting your local club, just like your dad and his dad before him etc. isn't necessarily how things work in reality. Like I said, ultimately kids are won over by success and glamorous signings etc. rather than who played the most entertaining football in the 50s and 60s. Why do you think there are so many middle-aged Liverpool fans all over the country? Because when those people were kids, Liverpool were the dominant team. Likewise why are there so many 20-30 year old Utd fans outside of Manchester? Again, because they were the dominant team while those people were kids. When I was a kid Chelsea hardly had any fans, nowadays you see them all over the place for the same reason. If City carry on as they have been and win major trophies and sign big stars etc. then a lot of the kids who are 5-6 years old now will end up being City fans.

I don't like it and I don't think it's right, but that's just how it works at the end of the day.

In addition, it has probably always worked like this.

I remember a friend coming in to school with a Blackburn shirt when they won the League.

There are a few Newcastle fans around my age in London, who enjoyed watching them as young kids when they had Asprilla et al.

Indeed, there are many Spurs fans on here who started supporting Spurs because of the '91 cup win, the '61 double side or because we had Gazza, Hoddle or Klinsmann.

In the end I enjoy watching good players, kids don't want to go somewhere where their dad is angry, miserable and swearing.

It's not that fun to watch a team lose every week.

For my part I sometimes wonder how I ended up supporting Tottenham, I probably didn't go to my first til I was about 10, but even at that point I was already a Spurs supporter despite the fact that we were utter crap for the most part.
 
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Ionman34

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Perhaps the advent of social media has made it more acute and obvious, but football supporting has become so incredibly toxic that it is almost too unpleasant to enjoy. The enmity that often exists between fans of other clubs has far surpassed the realm of 'banter' and verges on blind hatred; it is pathetic. A willing media fuels this loathing and relies on polarising and antagonising fan bases to ensure they are constantly engaged and fired up. Pressure is ratcheted up after each result or incident - a side battle for moral supremacy is also fought with rival fans encouraged to believe they are superior to others.

The end product - extremely myopic, biased, frustrated, angry, bitter, self-entitled fans. This is what keeps thousands of talentless pseudo-journalists/pundits and betting companies in business.

As others have mentioned - I love Spurs but really have little love left for the sport in general.
I’m guessing you weren’t around in the 70’s and 80’s.

Now THAT was hatred amongst fans. I once got chased onto the High Road by about 20 City fans carrying Stanley knives, determined to cut me up...

I was 12.
 

riggi

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I’m guessing you weren’t around in the 70’s and 80’s.

Now THAT was hatred amongst fans. I once got chased onto the High Road by about 20 City fans carrying Stanley knives, determined to cut me up...

I was 12.

Made a man of you.
 
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Shadydan

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Arse mania think that we get lucky wit ref decisions and if it was them tonight they'd have been penalised.
 

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Dov67

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Arse mania think that we get lucky wit ref decisions and if it was them tonight they'd have been penalised.

unbelievable......it was the same ref who gave them a free kick for nothing on sanchez and then two off side goals in the derby.

as soon as Mike Dean got touted as a "spurs fan".....i knew he then had to prove that he wasn't.

Was always going to come back and haunt us.

and guess who is reffing our game against west ham......where he just MIGHT be wary of pissing off arsenal again so soon after the weekend. Call me paranoid if you like but I reckon half our refs are incompetent and the other half have some sort of agenda like that twat clatternburg
 

Gb160

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unbelievable......it was the same ref who gave them a free kick for nothing on sanchez and then two off side goals in the derby.

as soon as Mike Dean got touted as a "spurs fan".....i knew he then had to prove that he wasn't.

Was always going to come back and haunt us.

and guess who is reffing our game against west ham......where he just MIGHT be wary of pissing off arsenal again so soon after the weekend. Call me paranoid if you like but I reckon half our refs are incompetent and the other half have some sort of agenda like that twat clatternburg
You're paranoid.
 
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