How Spurs are Perceived Overseas

[cider spurs]

Most important tangent of this thread...

Did you bang in the Cathedral?

Most important tangent of this thread...

When is dying not a negative?

I don't mean this in a negative way.... But Liverpool fans are.......dying out. Most are,in their 60s, 70s.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Yeah I used to know a couple of Norwegians and they were telling me pretty much everybody has a Tippeliga team and then also a Premiership team that they follow too. Apparently it even goes as far as to people supporting lower leagues. One of them was telling me (and I checked it out online so it's true) that East Sterling of the Scottish 3rd division have a massive Norwegian fanclub because there was some feature about them being the worst team in the UK on Norwegian TV and ever since then they've had this weird cult following in Norway as a joke

I can see that! Go East Sterling.

I think it's also practical for Scandinavians too, because their domestic leagues there run from April to October, and PL from August to May. So they actually can enjoy footie all year around, and the PL doesn't compete with the domestic leagues for attention.

 

[Scottytheguvnor]

More people (mostly teens) are wearing Spurs shirts in Asia. The most popular ones are still Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal but we are catching up. Son is a big draw.

If Sonny wins trophies with us i can see our shirt sales going through the roof in Korea

 

['O Zio]

I can see that! Go East Sterling.

I think it's also practical for Scandinavians too, because their domestic leagues there run from April to October, and PL from August to May. So they actually can enjoy footie all year around, and the PL doesn't compete with the domestic leagues for attention.

Ah I didn't think about that aspect of it as well but yeah that makes a lot of sense.

As a side note, I just had a quick google on the East Sterling thing to double check and apparently the East Sterlingshire supporters club has the 3rd most members of any fan club in Norway, behind Man Utd and Liverpool supporters clubs This all despite East Sterling's average attendance last season being just 320!

 

[Scottytheguvnor]

I'm not so sure about that. There are a lot of Liverpool's glory hunting fans who were kids in the 70s and 80s when Liverpool were one of the dominant teams. A lot of their kids picked up being Liverpool fans from them. I know loads of late-20s/early-30s southerners who are Liverpool because of their dad, but their granddad supports local teams for that reason.

I reckon if Liverpool carry on not winning then the kids nowadays are attracted to City and Chelsea so it'll eventually die out, but I think you're a generation out with your prediction unfortunately.

If Liverpool win the Champions League then god help us...

We’ve finished above them for 7 of the last 8 seasons, so we should be catching up gradually. We won’t take their fans directly, but hopefully some of the younger kids that maybe would have gone on to support them, will now choose us as their team

 

['O Zio]

We’ve finished above them for 7 of the last 8 seasons, so we should be catching up gradually. We won’t take their fans directly, but hopefully some of the younger kids that maybe would have gone on to support them, will now choose us as their team

I would hope so. Unfortunately the ones who are just glory hunting kids are unlikely to pick us at the moment if their reason for giving up on Liverpool is that they don't win anything. Little kids couldn't give a shit who finished above who, they just care about trophies. If they've ditched Liverpool kids are more than likely going to pick City as their new club I'd have thought.

 

[dude573]

I watched the Juventus game with a couple of Italians and they were quite complimentary to us. The gist I got from what they said is that we are perceived as a young team trying to fight against the money clubs.

That said they did say they expect us to sell all of our players in the summer!

 

[ralvy]

Most important tangent of this thread...

Did you bang in the Cathedral?

That girl may very well have been the love of my life, but I could never do something like that in a church.

 

[Scottytheguvnor]

In Paris people very much admire the team spurs have. This is helped by the Pochettino link. The question is whether the team can be kept together.

There are almost no fans of foreign teams among Parisians but that is because PSG are a team who have seen a rapid rise and young people are flocking to them !

With the Parisians i’ve met, i was always under the impression that Arsenal were big because of the French/Weger connection? Or is this waning a bit now?

 

[Scottytheguvnor]

I remember i was in Bulgaria when Tottenham signed Berbatov and within literally a couple of days, almost every Bulgarian was a Spurs fan. The shirts were being sold in the shops, and when i walked around town with my Tottenham shirt on, everybody was just shouting out “Berbatov” and sticking their thumbs up. When i spoke with locals they all said that they were Spurs fans. It was hilarious, he hadn’t even played a game for us

 

['O Zio]

I remember i was in Bulgaria when Tottenham signed Berbatov and within literally a couple of days, almost every Bulgarian was a Spurs fan. The shirts were being sold in the shops, and when i walked around town with my Tottenham shirt on, everybody was just shouting out “Berbatov” and sticking their thumbs up. When i spoke with locals they all said that they were Spurs fans. It was hilarious, he hadn’t even played a game for us

Got a West Ham mate who works on building sites in the US and he was laughing cos when he goes to all these big job sites now there are loads of people in West Ham shirts because the Mexicans have all suddenly bought them since they signed Hernandez/Chicharito

 

[thegreatap]

I can see that! Go East Sterling.

I think it's also practical for Scandinavians too, because their domestic leagues there run from April to October, and PL from August to May. So they actually can enjoy footie all year around, and the PL doesn't compete with the domestic leagues for attention.

What???? That's it, im getting a Norwegian team and then ive got 12 months of football too

 

[Scottytheguvnor]

What???? That's it, im getting a Norwegian team and then ive got 12 months of football too

Any Norwegians on here that can recommend a team? If we all start following the same club en masse, they would be in for a shock!

 

[Timberwolf]

I taught English in South Korea for a couple of years pre-Son. A lot of the teenagers were football mad and many had heard of Spurs but I don't think any were fans - most of them supported either Madrid, Barca, Bayern, City, United or Chelsea with the odd Swansea or Leverkusen fan due to Ki and Son. When I mentioned Spurs in class they'd shout GARETH BALE-UH!!!! or MODRIC-UH!! but that's about as far as it went, barring them relentlessly mocking me the morning after a 5-0 loss to Man City or, at worst, the 3-0 loss to West Ham.

2 days after I left the country we signed Son and now every single Spurs game is on TV and about 90% of my old students are fans. Great timing, Levy.

Every now and then I get a message from one of them saying something like "Teacher! Harry Kane is very good young man!"

 

[noggen]

As a side note, I just had a quick google on the East Sterling thing to double check and apparently the East Sterlingshire supporters club has the 3rd most members of any fan club in Norway, behind Man Utd and Liverpool supporters clubs This all despite East Sterling's average attendance last season being just 320!

This can't be true about East Sterling. Where do you find this information?

Man Utd have around 45k paid members to their official supporters club in Norway.
Liverpool around 40k.
Spurs have now around almost 6k members. Only beaten by ManU, LFC and the Goons. But believe me, the numbers are much higher. Not everyone joins the supporters club.

 

['O Zio]

This can't be true about East Sterling. Where do you find this information?

Man Utd have around 45k paid members to their official supporters club in Norway.
Liverpool around 40k.
Spurs have now around almost 6k members. Only beaten by ManU, LFC and the Goons. But believe me, the numbers are much higher. Not everyone joins the supporters club.

Like I say it was mentioned to me years ago by a Norwegian mate and I didn't believe him either so looked it up and found articles etc. confirming it was true. I've just had a quick google and, for example, these are three articles that mention it:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...ho_put_Stirlingshire_on_the_map____in_Norway/
https://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/blog/2007/07/17/norwayshire-norways-3rd-biggest-supporter-club/
http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/30-Clubs/4365-stirling-progress

Where exactly they got that from I don't know though. They both say it's over 5k members which makes it the third largest in Norway. Like I say though I'm just going off what my mate said and what it seems to suggest on the ever-reliable internet so it could all be bollocks

 

[Wheeler Dealer]

Just come back from Tel Aviv and spent time with the locals, who are all Arsenal, Liverpool and United fans..

 

[CantSmileWithoutYou]

I would hope so. Unfortunately the ones who are just glory hunting kids are unlikely to pick us at the moment if their reason for giving up on Liverpool is that they don't win anything. Little kids couldn't give a shit who finished above who, they just care about trophies. If they've ditched Liverpool kids are more than likely going to pick City as their new club I'd have thought.

I'm not a little kid and I think trophies are success...

Discuss...

 

[rossdapep]

Teach online to ppl all over the world and whenever I get into a football discussion it ends with the usual "who is your team?" question. Safe to say that not one person has said anything negative regarding us and pretty much every student said that they liked us and admire many things about us.

Also, when I was in Brazil I used to go to the gym and when I got talking to people about football they'd respond with "Harry Kane!" and a thumbs up, unfortunately a lot of Brazilians like Chelsea (I told them why they shouldn't) so don't know as much about us as they do with Chelsea but there are certainly fanatical Brazilians who will know all about us.

I have a Colombian buddy who has become very interested in us since we signed Sanchez.

We are becoming a global name for sure, and a liked one at that

 

[noggen]

Like I say it was mentioned to me years ago by a Norwegian mate and I didn't believe him either so looked it up and found articles etc. confirming it was true. I've just had a quick google and, for example, these are three articles that mention it:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...ho_put_Stirlingshire_on_the_map____in_Norway/
https://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/blog/2007/07/17/norwayshire-norways-3rd-biggest-supporter-club/
http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/30-Clubs/4365-stirling-progress

Where exactly they got that from I don't know though. They both say it's over 5k members which makes it the third largest in Norway. Like I say though I'm just going off what my mate said and what it seems to suggest on the ever-reliable internet so it could all be bollocks

Ok, it's from 2007 and I guess they got a boom / pr-stunt from that tv comedy show. Probably that's why they got so many members in a hurry.
I guess it was a one season hype because I can't find anything about them now. They aren't even registered in the "British supporter union" in Norway which all the other supporter clubs are