Do you care as much as you did

[chris_theo]

I blame AVB

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Take it all im my stride me. Good, bad and outright rank. False dawns, triumphs, good days and bad. Its swings and roundabouts. Good season/bad season. Lifes hard enough without worrying oneself to death or getting triple worked up and angry over a fucking football match.

Mind you, having rakish good looks, oozing sexual charisma and being hung like a grand national winner helps.

Feel sorry for you lot. Fugly ****s.

 

[EastLondonYid]

Take it all im my stride me. Good, bad and outright rank. False dawns, triumphs, good days and bad. Its swings and roundabouts. Good season/bad season. Lifes hard enough without worrying oneself to death or getting triple worked up and angry over a fucking football match.

Mind you, having rakish good looks, oozing sexual charisma and being hung like a grand national winner helps.

Feel sorry for you lot. Fugly ****s.

Thats exactly what Tim says to the squad after every game,

 

[Francis Gibbs]

Yes and therein lies the problem

 

[Donki]

Ofc, why would any grown man spend so much time in here??? I do have better things to do..... I swear lol. COYS!

 

[Bulletspur]

I think there is so much wrong with such a simple game, talking from a premiership perspective and a national team perspective, because that is my connection ie Spurs and England. How must it feel being a Spurs player or an Everton player or even a Liverpool player knowing you are years away from having a shot at the title? As a fan seeing the FA cup lose it's value seeing a European trophy (the Europa League) lose it's value. Fans being shafted, having an un united fan base within the stadium, moaners, tourists, boyfriend and girlfriend, along with people who want to sing but are vilified. Foreign players with no connection to an area. A governing body who are spineless. Television companies with more clout than said governing body. A poisinous media who build up and knock down expose and shame. A national team full of so called role models who take up inches of newspaper space for off the field scandal.

I just can't buy into it anymore ..

I dont give a fuck about the National Team. I have no problem with foreign players. Other than that, your rant is reasonable.

 

[Bulletspur]

Very much so! Good post.

All of the above is why I now get more enjoyment from my other team. League 2 is so much more real and how football used to be. For instance last Saturday I went away to Bristol Rovers, lost 3-1, got soaked, absolutely frozen but had a great laugh - stood with 1200 other drunk blokes on a crap terrace laughing and singing!

Before anybody says, no I don't want to see Spurs drop out of the PL and I would love us to achieve top 4/CL success/PL title etc.
I love Spurs and always will do. I'll never lose interest and the club's fortunes will always be intrinsically linked with my own, but, its just changed so much

Unlike you I cannot serve two Masters. Its either Spurs or nought.

 

[HotspurFC1950]

Yes for me reality is kicking in.

Unless FFP kicks in properly and unless we get a bigger stadium we can't compete with the foreign money.

The alternative is of course is to sell to foreign interests and that in a way would be defeat in its own way.

 

[Bulletspur]

I think if you fall into the whole trap of seeing the race for the top four as the be all and end all of each season, then it can be a draining and deflating experience. We've been dealt our share of heartache over the past three seasons, and the job at hand is damned near impossible in this league with our financial limitations.

Thus, the general state of football and the importance of said finances become more acute to us Spurs fans, as we watch our nearest competitors spend spend spend. I'll admit that this wore me down somewhat first half of this season and I had more apathy to football in general.

It is cathartic to stop caring about the top four so much and go back the way to enjoying the many other hundreds of things about football and our club that you can enjoy though. A slight adjustment of expectations if you will. Once you release that monkey from your shoulders the weight is lifted off and the apathy dwindles.

There you go - a serious answer for the OP.

I think you have a point. Expectations have been raised, a lot of the time unrealistically. Keep expectations real and the feelings of any disappointment or disillusion will diminish IMO. I still and will always care.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

Think I care a little less purely because dispite what the clubs say they will never ever back a manager 100%. Untill that happens we will plod along.

 

[Shea]

If people think things are so bad now I wonder if they were around in the 90's and 00's - back then we could only dream about sneaking into the Uefa places or hope for a fair play route in

Much less be disappointed and talking about not caring as much anymore because we're ONLY playing in the Europa every year with a reasonable chance of actually winning it

I get as frustrated as the next fan when we come so close to our goals only to fail and I think I know better than the owners and managers and gob off about what we shouldda wouldda couldda done and didn't - but it's all part of the roller coaster and its a damn sight better than it was when year in year out our season was effectively over before Easter unless we had an eye over our shoulder for a rekegation battle...... And guess what - I loved watching every spurs game then too - things are still better than they've ever been for us as a club since I've been able to go to games which is some 24/25 years so I don't get the sudden negativity


It's all in the game of being a spurs fan - the highs and lows but through it all the passion for your team. I don't understand any other outlook

 

[Pauleta01]

I grew up in and around the Tottenham area and from a kid until my 20s nothing meant more to me than the mighty Spurs! Every year since then I have tried to kid myself that it does not matter to me as much any more, but nothing riles me more than watching Spurs, I never relax or really enjoy watching us, unless we are at least 3 goals ahead. Entering my 39th year I really wish supporting spurs no longer had the power to make or break my day on match day! It is weird in that the area of Tottenham no longer holds any particular pride for me, I no longer regard it as home, but the team still dominates my sporting passion.

I have however become increasingly disillusioned with the way football has gone, I used to think the NFL had it all wrong with its draft system and salary caps. But there is so much to admire in the NFL and the fact that a nation will literally stop today is mostly due to the fact that with the right combination of skill, coaching, talent spotting and hard-work any team can have an equal chance of winning the big one, which is surely what sport is all about. Football and in particular the Premier league is no longer a sporting endeavour it is a financial market, the rich get richer and money leads to opportunity, sporting endeavour is secondary. It is this that will nullify things for me rather than any disdain for how well Spurs are doing or not doing!

 

[Tottenham_God]

I have to wake up at 3am to watch games live. And I never miss one that is televised here

 

[neogenisis]

I will always care its inbuilt, Spurs is part of my Family.

 

[Damian99]

No.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

For some reason I don't

I haven't cared this little since about 1989, and then it was largely narcotics induced non caring.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

I do care but I find it very hard to care at the moment as it seems we are in limbo until the end of the season. I really don't think we will make fourth, so, unless we really improve over the next few weeks we will be looking at 5th or 6th and a new manager come next season. I'm not upset or angry about what has happend, the past is the past, I am excited by the future as I think we will bring in a good manager, I am just a bit indifferent reagarding the present.

 

[Spurger King]

Do I care as much as I did?

Hard to say. Prior to Jol I had very low expectations whenever Spurs played. I expected a poor result, so anything different was a reason to be cheerful. I used to be incredibly passionate about Spurs when I was in my teens, then the Judas incident made me lose a lot of faith in football. I still followed Spurs, but I had very little enthusiasm for the sport in general.

When Jol started turning things around, the games suddenly started to matter more. After years of expecting little more than avoiding relegation, and maybe a good cup run, we were suddenly making our league games relevant.

My passion for the club started to build again. Thoughts of a new, golden era started to seem possible. I Keegan loved it when we won the Carling Cup, and felt like I was thirteen again.

After the car crash start to the next season, Harry seemed to bring a bit of magic back to the club. I was passionately cheering us on as we dragged ourself out of the relegation zone. After that, it looked like we had finally broken into the big time. Obviously the peak of this was Champions League football, and those wins against the two Milan teams. There was something hair-raising about those days (which now feel like a million years ago).

Having tasted it, we all wanted more. Instead some incredibly frustrating decisions by Levy, a number of games where we simply bottled it, and some terrible luck meant that this didn't happen.

I think the straw that broke the camel's back was the Chavs winning the CL. With Oil Money FC winning the league in the same season, it was more evident than ever that soulless, ugly billionaire clubs would be the future of successful football.

Bale's exploits last season were certainly exciting to watch, but the rest of the team, thanks to AVB, were a horrid sight. Now we've lost all of our star players from our CL season, and are left with a shapeless, half-arsed bunch of players made up of potential, inconsistent but good players, great players that are always injured, and a lot of mid-table types.

I guess that's why I probably don't care as much now. For years we were steadily progressing, and finally reached the dizzy heights we'd hoped for. Now reality has set in, and there's little to look forward to except our inevitable disappointing season, more of our best players leaving, downgrade replacements coming in, and probably several more years of transition. Meanwhile a nothing club like City buy their way straight to the top of the league.

A Spurs win or loss used to dictate the mood of my entire week. These days, beyond discussions on this forum, it makes no difference to me one way or the other. As someone on Fighting Cock said, we're nothing more than a player-exchange business now.

 

[riggi]

Like others have said, spurs are in my blood, im 4th generation spurs. At the moment, well apart from the west ham games, I don't let it get to me and I shrug it off. I used to feel ill a week leading up to the gooners games but I don't now, maybe I've just grown up a bit. What I do resent however, is all the money that I've spent on tickets when Im now looking to the future with my girlfriend. Also the shite that whl has turned into. Ill always love spurs and ill always feel compelled to wear my little pin badge on my jacket.


Still get depressed when I think back to cl games we had .

 

[LukaMotion]