Bandwagon

[mil1lion]

As proud as I am of Spurs, I dont see what Bandwagon there is. We've made 4th place for the first time in our Premier League history. As great as that is, we're still only the 4th best team in England atm. Quiete why people would jump on the 4th place bandwagon I dont know. We still have a lot of work to do as a Club.

I couldn't care less about who supports who though. All I care about is how my team is doing. So far so good, but like I say, still plenty more to be done. COYS!

 

[StartingPrice]

As proud as I am of Spurs, I dont see what Bandwagon there is. We've made 4th place for the first time in our Premier League history. As great as that is, we're still only the 4th best team in England atm. Quiete why people would jump on the 4th place bandwagon I dont know. We still have a lot of work to do as a Club.

I couldn't care less about who supports who though. All I care about is how my team is doing. So far so good, but like I say, still plenty more to be done. COYS!

:shrug: Band Wheelbarrow...pushing by rota:grin:

 

[ERO]

The worse thing is being accused of being one. I wore a spurs polo shirt to the pub about a week after the season ended. Got accused by a Chelsea fan (!) of jumping on the Champions League bandwagon as he'd never met me before. Fuck off!!!

I disagree.

I've always been, and still am, looking forward to the day someone will accuse me of being a gloryhunter fan.

 

[Son_Of]

As proud as I am of Spurs, I dont see what Bandwagon there is. We've made 4th place for the first time in our Premier League history. As great as that is, we're still only the 4th best team in England atm. Quiete why people would jump on the 4th place bandwagon I dont know. We still have a lot of work to do as a Club.

I couldn't care less about who supports who though. All I care about is how my team is doing. So far so good, but like I say, still plenty more to be done. COYS!

it's probably not so much brand new fans as old spurs fans who had gone a bit cold, didn't talk about spurs much, never wore a shirt, some of their friends didn't even know they were yids. and then with relative success, they are thinking about, talking about spurs more. gone and bought a new shirt or wearing their old one again

 

[Jody]

There aren't any more kids at school supporting Spurs but I certainly get less abuse than in the past. In fact, I'm able to dish it out alot more often.

 

[class of 62]

my sig is from a passport when i was young... evidence of being on the bandwagon long ago.

For some it is a question of identity and what it represents to support spurs and a change in the clubs fortunes will alter the way in which they may be perceived.
Nevertheless, more fans of whatever origin can only be good for our growth. A person in a spurs shirt is still a yido to me, regardless of whether they first saw a game yesterday or was a fan in the park lane watching us win the double.

garbage mate... long ago the name of thfc was known worldwide far more than it is now... puts your "percieved" discription of the club & its fans & its growth out the window.
before the time when every fat middle aged bloke wore team shirts you wouldn't have been able to tell who was a "yiddo" either.

 

[Gilzeanking]

I gotta sort out paypal and get dahn the Spurs shop...a few jerries over this way are demanding car stickers and scarves..

..nothing to do with bandwagons...they've been converted by my constant Spurs blather..

..and frequent references to Klinsi. :up:

 

[double0]

The more fans the better...THFC is for anybody who wants to believe.

 

[leffe186]

It's an old, old dilemma. Most fans of any club poke fun at bandwagon-jumpers/glory-hunters/plastic fans of other teams yet applaud the equivalent for their own. Me - the more the merrier, couldn't give a monkeys how they start supporting.......as long as they stick with it. We need all the fans we can get, all over the world.

I'm out in the US now and make a point of speaking to everyone I see with a Spurs top on. I make sure I wear mine whenever I'm playing (or at an MLS game) and love to talk to people to try to convert them. I reserve the right to be proud that me and my Dad walked to games when I was a kid, and to insist that clubs remain rooted in their community, but spreading the word is how we get bigger and better.

 

[mattwilson]

I dont think theyre new fans. Ive only started wearing my shirt for pitch invasion since no one else on my team wears our actual kit and loads of people comment Ive only come out of the woodwork now spurs are doing well.

i've always worn my spurs shirt at pitch invasion, and i've definately noticed recently more people saying yid army under their breath when i walk past them, either that or them calling me michael dawson!

 

[michaelden]

The worse thing is being accused of being one. I wore a spurs polo shirt to the pub about a week after the season ended. Got accused by a Chelsea fan (!) of jumping on the Champions League bandwagon as he'd never met me before. Fuck off!!!

being Irish, he thought you must've supported Liverpool as a kid ;-)

 

[Dougal]

being Irish, he thought you must've supported Liverpool as a kid ;-)

I did But I moved to London and got some sense :up:

 

[Leachie]

garbage mate... long ago the name of thfc was known worldwide far more than it is now... puts your "percieved" discription of the club & its fans & its growth out the window.
before the time when every fat middle aged bloke wore team shirts you wouldn't have been able to tell who was a "yiddo" either.

I think you are trapped in the 60s!! Times change buddy.

 

[peter_the_yid]

Now I think about it I've not seen anyone in a yiddo shirt for ages.

Anyway if it make you feel better my work entered a power league season and we lost every game. It was embarrassing.

 

[mil1lion]

Maybe it just has more to do with some of the shit Spurs shirts we've had over the years that nobody wants to wear unless it's a match day. The sooner we get Hummel and Holsten back again, the sooner we'll see more Spurs shirts out on the streets.

 

[tototoner]

think I have seen 2 people in Spurs tops on a non-match day in last 4 years

 

[bobby_stills]

garbage mate... long ago the name of thfc was known worldwide far more than it is now... puts your "percieved" discription of the club & its fans & its growth out the window.
before the time when every fat middle aged bloke wore team shirts you wouldn't have been able to tell who was a "yiddo" either.

Quite the opposite in fact. The perception is transient. I was trying to make a point about identity and how this can be a contributing factor to some individuals reactions to so called bandwagon jumpers.

I have a healthy respect for the fans who have supported the club over the club over a long period of time and I am envious of some of the tales they have to tell. Nevertheless, i want to see the club grow and grow and some of these bandwagon jumpers may be the fans of the future who in 30 years time will be lamenting how it used to be in the halcyon days of 2010.

 

[Son_Of]

think I have seen 2 people in Spurs tops on a non-match day in last 4 years

WTF? i live in manchester and i see more than that. people at powerleague funnily enough, and youngsters watching football in the pub. okay that's match days but they're not going to the match

 

[DC_Boy]

i haven't noticed anymore than I normally do

i didn't vote, as i call myself a spurs fan not a yid

however i certainly hope we get loads of bandwagon followers - i hope we get a bigger bandwagon that the USA had in the days of westward expansion

the more fans we get, the more money it generates, the more we get on TV etc and hopefully the more trophies we win

and for sure they're hardly likely to be more miserable and whingy overall, if they do go to the games, than our current fans

 

[Coalhada]

I started seeing a lot more Spurs shirts/merchandise being worn around Hong Kong (i.e. any) around the middle of last season. Good times!