What our opponents' fans are saying about us 18/19

Tucker · May 12, 2019

rez9000 said:
Spot on. It's what irritates me when they trot out stats like "Team X have won the last four against Team Y, so that should stand them in good stead" or somesuch bollocks. Especially egregious when Team Y are a recently promoted team that hasn't actually had the opportunity to face Team X in countless years or even decades. Gets right up my nose!

Those filler stats really wind me up. Martin Tyler must spout at least two dozen a game.

“Spurs have never beaten Everton during a full moon, with a prevailing westerly wind. Everton must take real heart from that.”

rez9000 · May 12, 2019

Tucker said:
Those filler stats really wind me up. Martin Tyler must spout at least two dozen a game.

“Spurs have never beaten Everton during a full moon, with a prevailing westerly wind. Everton must take real heart from that.”

Exactly!

HobbitSpur · May 12, 2019

thelak said:
A lot of fans would be happy with a wealthy backer and I would have loved it if Joe Lewis has spent more of his own cash but I hope most would examine and care where the buyers underlying wealth came from and their ethics -that’s my issue with Abramovic and the City owners

I completely agree.

In a perfect world we would continue to operate in the way we are and look forward to many years of success at the top.

If we did end up getting bought out I, as I think most people on here would too, hope that it would come from ethical money and I hope that our current owners due diligence would take this into account as well.

HobbitSpur · May 12, 2019

Tucker said:
“Spurs have never beaten Everton during a full moon, with a prevailing westerly wind. Everton must take real heart from that.”

Is that correct? Hopefully there is a full moon tonight.

spurious1 · May 12, 2019

HobbitSpur said:
It is easy to preach this standing on our pedestal.

We have been forced to rise through the ranks with limited spending because we have not had the wealth available to us.

Yes people can say that Joe Lewis has billions and is the x richest man in the world but he has chosen not to spend it, and he is the owner and that is his prerogative.

How many people here would have been made up if Abramovich had decided to plough his millions into us rather than the scum down the road 16 years ago.

We cry out for major signings every transfer window, we moan when we don't make these signings because they are not within our budget.

We scream that we are losing out because as a club we are not spending gazillions improving our squad, yet we ridicule clubs who spend more than us stating that it is not the right way.

Yes we have overachieved massively considering our spending.

But if we had the choice to continue how we are, or get a buyer who was willing to spend whatever it took to really challenge with the elite on a regular basis, I think most of us would choose the latter.

Maybe I'm in a minority, but I'd be really unhappy if we got bought by some moneybags and became a Chelsea/City/PSG. I wouldn't stop supporting the club, but I think probably I'd lose interest. Nothing we achieved would give really the same sort of pleasure as when we achieve (usually much less) these days. I actually like things as they're going now. If you'd asked me a decade or so ago, when we were fixtures as mid-table mediocrities, where we'd be today, I would have only in my most deludedly optimistic mood imagined we'd be in this position, with this stature.

HobbitSpur · May 12, 2019

spurious1 said:
Maybe I'm in a minority, but I'd be really unhappy if we got bought by some moneybags and became a Chelsea/City/PSG. I wouldn't stop supporting the club, but I think probably I'd lose interest. Nothing we achieved would give really the same sort of pleasure as when we achieve (usually much less) these days. I actually like things as they're going now. If you'd asked me a decade or so ago, when we were fixtures as mid-table mediocrities, where we'd be today, I would have only in my most deludedly optimistic mood imagined we'd be in this position, with this stature.

I do not think you are in the minority.

However the problem (if it is one) is that we have tasted what success is like more so now than arguably ever before. Yes we won the double in 61 and the league in 51. But we have been in the title race at some point every season for the past 3 and are in the CL final this year.

I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment but I do not think, hand on heart, that I would be completely happy going back to mediocrity.

While it grates me the way arsenal fans are acting now, I can to some extent the frustrations they currently have having lived through the years of success they went through.

Even Leicester fans are demanding success now, and their mediocrity was far greater than ours before they won the league.

Unfortunately the romance of just going to watch Tottenham and being happy to just see a good entertaining game has gone.

Football as many of us grew up with has disappeared. It is a completely changed and we unfortunately have probably got to change with it.

barry · May 12, 2019

HobbitSpur said:
I completely agree.

In a perfect world we would continue to operate in the way we are and look forward to many years of success at the top.

If we did end up getting bought out I, as I think most people on here would too, hope that it would come from ethical money and I hope that our current owners due diligence would take this into account as well.

Who'd do you want to be bought out by? Unicef? Children in need? The red cross? Many people who make a lot of money have done so using unscrupulous means. Even our beloved Joe Lewis ruined many people finacially to make his money.

HobbitSpur · May 12, 2019

barry said:
Who'd do you want to be bought out by? Unicef? Children in need? The red cross? Many people who make a lot of money have done so using unscrupulous means. Even our beloved Joe Lewis ruined many people finacially to make his money.

Correct

Gb160 · May 12, 2019

barry said:
Who'd do you want to be bought out by? Unicef? Children in need? The red cross? Many people who make a lot of money have done so using unscrupulous means. Even our beloved Joe Lewis ruined many people finacially to make his money.

Exactly, long gone are the days of clubs being owned by a local businessman.
They are the playthings of the ultra-wealthy, investment vehicles, or even entire countries nowadays.

Lilbaz · May 12, 2019

barry said:
Who'd do you want to be bought out by? Unicef? Children in need? The red cross? Many people who make a lot of money have done so using unscrupulous means. Even our beloved Joe Lewis ruined many people finacially to make his money.

Yes but he never kicked someone to death. Owns slaves or upholds the killing of homosexuals like some owners in the prem.

Gb160 · May 12, 2019

Lilbaz said:
Yes but he never kicked someone to death. Owns slaves or upholds the killing of homosexuals like some owners in the prem.

It says a lot when the Dildo brothers are seen as relatively nice chaps amongst some of the other owners.

bigpalacios · May 12, 2019

Tucker said:
Those filler stats really wind me up. Martin Tyler must spout at least two dozen a game.

“Spurs have never beaten Everton during a full moon, with a prevailing westerly wind. Everton must take real heart from that.”

Martin Tyler thinks that what he does is some sort of art.

Its not.

Sandros Shiny Head · May 12, 2019

barry said:
Who'd do you want to be bought out by? Unicef? Children in need? The red cross? Many people who make a lot of money have done so using unscrupulous means. Even our beloved Joe Lewis ruined many people finacially to make his money.

I thought he just made profit from other people ruining themselves?

absolute bobbins · May 12, 2019

Sandros Shiny Head said:
I thought he just made profit from other people ruining themselves?

He did. We can’t (and shouldn’t) protect people from their own ineptitude

longtimespur · May 12, 2019

bigpalacios said:
Martin Tyler thinks that what he does is some sort of art.

Its not.

It is ….....

just missed the F off the beginning.

Tucker · May 12, 2019

longtimespur said:
It is ….....

just missed the F off the beginning.

He is a bit of a windbag.

riggi · May 12, 2019

Lilbaz said:
Yes but he never kicked someone to death. Owns slaves or upholds the killing of homosexuals like some owners in the prem.

Who kicked someone to death?

SpunkyBackpack · May 12, 2019

riggi said:
Who kicked someone to death?

As if you don't remember it was you.

Lilbaz · May 12, 2019

riggi said:
Who kicked someone to death?

My bad he just tortured him. There was an article saying that he is the real owner of city.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ce-caught-camera-torturing-Afghan-trader.html

Here is the article.

https://medium.com/@NcGeehan/the-me...coming-soon-to-a-cinema-near-you-14bc8e393e06

riggi · May 12, 2019

Lilbaz said:
My bad he just tortured him. Here was an article saying that he is the real owner of city.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ce-caught-camera-torturing-Afghan-trader.html

Fuck... I mean, we’ve all been there right?

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