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http://marcospurs.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/this-is-my-rally-cry-for-spurs/
This is my Rally Cry for Spurs……
Posted on September 2, 2012
This isn’t opinions on the manager, the board, or even a review of our game yesterday. We all know that the performance against Norwich was not good enough. I know it, you know it believe it or not AVB knows it and so do the team. That’s right, a football manager, believe it or not can tell when we do not perform. Funny that. Because this blog is not actually about the team. Its directly aimed at you. The supporter. I wish to make it clear right now that this is not a personal attack on anyone, so if you are offended. Sorry, but get over it.
That’s right. I am going to review the fans performance. I don’t know if this has been done before and quite frankly I don’t care. I was absolutely stunned yesterday with the fans inside the Lane, and then on twitter and other social media after that that I am compelled to write only my second blog ever.
Now I already know that some people are thinking “I have a right to my opinon”, and yes you do. You pay your money, just like me, and the thousands of others, who support our beloved team. We all want whats best for our team, we are a family, and like any family we disagree. But we are also adults. Grown ups who should know better than to spit out our dummies and start hurling toys from our prams.
What I saw inside the Lane yesterday was nothing short of a disgrace. The atmosphere was like poison and it made ME nervous, sat at home watching at my friend’s house. He is a Chelsea fan, and he picked up on this too. “usually White Hart Lane is rocking, whats going on?” was one comment that sticks in my mind. The players were given no quarter, the crowd pouncing on any mistake, and at half time even though we had not played well, we were not losing, and they left to booing, and then they did not even get a respite when they went one up. I was thinking this isn’t the Lane that I know and love, is this the Emirates? Where are the bin bags? That atmosphere can contribute to a defeat as much as any substitution. You would be nervous and more prone to a mistake if your boss was leaning over your shoulder, tutting at anything and everything you didn’t get 100% right?
I don’t care how much you pay in season ticket/membership fees. Getting tickets for our beloved Spurs is not easy. You in the stadium are privileged. Like it or not, if you didn’t go, someone else would. End of story. You are not the be all and end all. There are thousands waiting to take your ticket and would happily do so. How much you spend does not make you a better supporter, it makes you a lucky one, I only manage a few games a season, I live in Plymouth and it costs me on average £350 a game but just because I can’t afford to go every week doesn’t make me less of a fan. Some people can’t afford to go at all, they are just as much a supporter as anyone else. Your love for your club is not just a sum of money.
The act off booing achieves absolutely nothing apart from to create a headline in today’s papers. Look at Blackburn, they booed a whole season and it got them nowhere apart from the Champioinship. Sure enough every single paper today mentions it, mostly within the first two lines. Anyone who can give me a constructive reason for it I am all ears. The aforementioned “I have my right to an opinion” line, is not a reason. Booing is not an opinion. It’s a noise. An Opinion is a well-constructed and thought out argument.
White Hart Lane should be a fortress, not just on the pitch but from the fans as well. Nothing should shake us, we should be singing for 90 minutes, giving the team all we can to try and be that twelfth man. When you are in that stadium you are representing the club much as the players, as much as the manager, if not more so, because when these players and manger have gone, we will still be here. We can argue all we want after the game, but for those 90 minutes, you hold your head up high, you keep singing those legendary songs and you give those players something to fight for. Yes, I do think that starting with 2 defensive midfielders was wrong, yes I think Ade and Dembele should have started, yes I think Sandro should have stayed on. But it didn’t happen and these are not things I can control, all I can do is support the team that is on the pitch. You in the stadium are the voice of us all whether you like it or not and it is not just about you. If you really love this club as much as you profess to then you would know what happened yesterday in the stands did nothing to help the team get the result we all wanted.
I don’t care whether you like AVB or not, I don’t care if you think Harry should have stayed. I don’t care about the ins and outs of what went wrong yesterday. All I care about is that we as Spurs supporters are surely not so fickle that we cannot give our manager 3 games?! We pride ourselves on being great supporters, the send off we gave VDV on Friday was fantastic, everyone wishing him well, even though we were gutted he was going, we knew it was for the best and what he wanted and we gave him our blessing. That’s the club I want to support. One with dignity and integrity. The one that at the end of the season we can say we gave it everything.
So I am going to leave you all with this. This is my rallying cry to you all, we can argue all we want, but leave it at the turnstyle, when you are at the game, sing your heart out, back the lads, you don’t have to sing AVB’s praises if you don’t want, but you sing loud, you sing proud, you take that weight off the teams shoulders and no matter how nervous you get you keep going. Because we are Tottenham, Super Tottenham, Tottenham from the Lane. Come on you Spurs.
http://marcospurs.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/this-is-my-rally-cry-for-spurs/
This is my Rally Cry for Spurs……
Posted on September 2, 2012
This isn’t opinions on the manager, the board, or even a review of our game yesterday. We all know that the performance against Norwich was not good enough. I know it, you know it believe it or not AVB knows it and so do the team. That’s right, a football manager, believe it or not can tell when we do not perform. Funny that. Because this blog is not actually about the team. Its directly aimed at you. The supporter. I wish to make it clear right now that this is not a personal attack on anyone, so if you are offended. Sorry, but get over it.
That’s right. I am going to review the fans performance. I don’t know if this has been done before and quite frankly I don’t care. I was absolutely stunned yesterday with the fans inside the Lane, and then on twitter and other social media after that that I am compelled to write only my second blog ever.
Now I already know that some people are thinking “I have a right to my opinon”, and yes you do. You pay your money, just like me, and the thousands of others, who support our beloved team. We all want whats best for our team, we are a family, and like any family we disagree. But we are also adults. Grown ups who should know better than to spit out our dummies and start hurling toys from our prams.
What I saw inside the Lane yesterday was nothing short of a disgrace. The atmosphere was like poison and it made ME nervous, sat at home watching at my friend’s house. He is a Chelsea fan, and he picked up on this too. “usually White Hart Lane is rocking, whats going on?” was one comment that sticks in my mind. The players were given no quarter, the crowd pouncing on any mistake, and at half time even though we had not played well, we were not losing, and they left to booing, and then they did not even get a respite when they went one up. I was thinking this isn’t the Lane that I know and love, is this the Emirates? Where are the bin bags? That atmosphere can contribute to a defeat as much as any substitution. You would be nervous and more prone to a mistake if your boss was leaning over your shoulder, tutting at anything and everything you didn’t get 100% right?
I don’t care how much you pay in season ticket/membership fees. Getting tickets for our beloved Spurs is not easy. You in the stadium are privileged. Like it or not, if you didn’t go, someone else would. End of story. You are not the be all and end all. There are thousands waiting to take your ticket and would happily do so. How much you spend does not make you a better supporter, it makes you a lucky one, I only manage a few games a season, I live in Plymouth and it costs me on average £350 a game but just because I can’t afford to go every week doesn’t make me less of a fan. Some people can’t afford to go at all, they are just as much a supporter as anyone else. Your love for your club is not just a sum of money.
The act off booing achieves absolutely nothing apart from to create a headline in today’s papers. Look at Blackburn, they booed a whole season and it got them nowhere apart from the Champioinship. Sure enough every single paper today mentions it, mostly within the first two lines. Anyone who can give me a constructive reason for it I am all ears. The aforementioned “I have my right to an opinion” line, is not a reason. Booing is not an opinion. It’s a noise. An Opinion is a well-constructed and thought out argument.
White Hart Lane should be a fortress, not just on the pitch but from the fans as well. Nothing should shake us, we should be singing for 90 minutes, giving the team all we can to try and be that twelfth man. When you are in that stadium you are representing the club much as the players, as much as the manager, if not more so, because when these players and manger have gone, we will still be here. We can argue all we want after the game, but for those 90 minutes, you hold your head up high, you keep singing those legendary songs and you give those players something to fight for. Yes, I do think that starting with 2 defensive midfielders was wrong, yes I think Ade and Dembele should have started, yes I think Sandro should have stayed on. But it didn’t happen and these are not things I can control, all I can do is support the team that is on the pitch. You in the stadium are the voice of us all whether you like it or not and it is not just about you. If you really love this club as much as you profess to then you would know what happened yesterday in the stands did nothing to help the team get the result we all wanted.
I don’t care whether you like AVB or not, I don’t care if you think Harry should have stayed. I don’t care about the ins and outs of what went wrong yesterday. All I care about is that we as Spurs supporters are surely not so fickle that we cannot give our manager 3 games?! We pride ourselves on being great supporters, the send off we gave VDV on Friday was fantastic, everyone wishing him well, even though we were gutted he was going, we knew it was for the best and what he wanted and we gave him our blessing. That’s the club I want to support. One with dignity and integrity. The one that at the end of the season we can say we gave it everything.
So I am going to leave you all with this. This is my rallying cry to you all, we can argue all we want, but leave it at the turnstyle, when you are at the game, sing your heart out, back the lads, you don’t have to sing AVB’s praises if you don’t want, but you sing loud, you sing proud, you take that weight off the teams shoulders and no matter how nervous you get you keep going. Because we are Tottenham, Super Tottenham, Tottenham from the Lane. Come on you Spurs.
