Eric Dier blasts use of the word 'Spursy' about the team

[mawspurs]

Eric Dier has hit out at the use of the word 'Spursy' to describe Tottenham Hotspur's failure in the big moments to win silverware in recent seasons.

Source: Football London

 

[Gassin's finest]

Spursy is struggling with injuries in a tough transitional season, and then losing your CB for 4 matches because he had a mad rampage into the stands...

 

[ernie78]

I swear there was an article a year or 2 ago that proved that Liverpool were actually the most “spursy” team.
I’ll have to find it

 

[Jenko]

We shouldn't even entertain that word. Don't even engage in conversations about it. It's created by the enemy to put us down and if we buy into it it will eat into our club culture, history, achievements, etc, at every turn. I firmly believe your doing your club a disservice to allow discussion on it.

 

[bigspurs]

I swear there was an article a year or 2 ago that proved that Liverpool were actually the most “spursy” team.
I’ll have to find it

Can’t see how, seeing since they’ve recently won the league and Champions League. Not very Spursy is it! We on the other hand managed to give away a pen in the first minute of that final, which is about as ‘Spursy’ as you get! I don’t get very offended by the term, cause it’s something we’ve strangely and I think rightly earned over the years. It’s up to Dier and this club to dispel it and put it all to rest. It’s ridiculous that this club hasn’t won anything over the past ten years or so. Every other top 4/5 club has managed to win something in recent years, except for us. I’m sure that if we actually start winning things, this crappy ‘Spursy’ thing will eventually be forgotten about.

 

[Japhet]

Don't know why people get so defensive over it. It's a snipe at the club which is what we should expect and it's a bit unfortunate that the word Spurs lends itself so neatly to having a Y added on the end unlike the vast majority of other clubs. It won't go away and will get used more and more if we get pissed off about it, so I'm fine with it and looking forward to when there's no opportunity for it to be used.

 

[UbeAstard]

Don't know why people get so defensive over it. It's a snipe at the club which is what we should expect and it's a bit unfortunate that the word Spurs lends itself so neatly to having a Y added on the end unlike the vast majority of other clubs. It won't go away and will get used more and more if we get pissed off about it, so I'm fine with it and looking forward to when there's no opportunity for it to be used.

I'm looking forward for an opportunity to call Arsenal 'spursy' though, that would go down well.

 

[UbeAstard]

Spursy is struggling with injuries in a tough transitional season, and then losing your CB for 4 matches because he had a mad rampage into the stands...

Same rampage as I likely would have had if it was me?

 

[WhiteHeartLowe]

If becomming top four regulars, and actually reaching the Champions league final at all makes us "Spursy", then I think there must be plenty of clubs and fans of those clubs who, if they were honest, wouldnt mind being a bit more Spursy themselves.

 

[popstar7]

I thought its original meaning was about stuff like lasagne-gate and missing out on CL because Chelsea won the trophy that year. It was about weird bad luck fucking us over as if we were cursed. Now it seems to have evolved into having a weak mentality or failing at critical moments. I don't think that's true at all over the last five or six seasons. I can think of far more examples where we showed up in big games than didn't.

 

[ernie78]

Can’t see how, seeing since they’ve recently won the league and Champions League. Not very Spursy is it! We on the other hand managed to give away a pen in the first minute of that final, which is about as ‘Spursy’ as you get! I don’t get very offended by the term, cause it’s something we’ve strangely and I think rightly earned over the years. It’s up to Dier and this club to dispel it and put it all to rest. It’s ridiculous that this club hasn’t won anything over the past ten years or so. Every other top 4/5 club has managed to win something in recent years, except for us. I’m sure that if we actually start winning things, this crappy ‘Spursy’ thing will eventually be forgotten about.

Well as I said it was a few years ago and it highlighted all the titles and cups they’d bottled- remember slippy G?
I’ll hunt it out

 

[ernie78]

Her you go @bigspurs

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[DiscoD1882]

Spursy was actually coined by spurs fans originally. After such annoyances as Chelsea winning the champs league and stopping us from entering. Then Liverpool doing the same and UEFA changing the rules.

but it’s now being used as a stick to beat us with. We aren’t spursy anymore. (I hope)

 

[rez9000]

We shouldn't even entertain that word. Don't even engage in conversations about it. It's created by the enemy to put us down and if we buy into it it will eat into our club culture, history, achievements, etc, at every turn. I firmly believe your doing your club a disservice to allow discussion on it.

Bravo!

 

[Col_M]

Will well and truly blasted.

Mods can we ban the word, or Autochange it to "I'm a cretin"

 

[paddieu]

I don't think there's any good reason to ban it while so many of our own supporters have got it tits up as to its proper meaning.
We need to get that sorted first.

Ideally we would create a list of examples that gave rise to the expression, as popstar7 alluded to.
[agreeing on the examples would be half the 'fun']
Then make that a sticky and pin it to the top of the fecking board with Definition Of Spursy as the header,
and then just fecking point people to it when they continue to abuse the expression.

Of course such an exercise might be too constructive an idea for some people on here ;-)