I can't believe I had to tell someone off ...

[mil1lion]

On the application form there will be a box to complete which says, "are you a twat...yes or no"

If you tick yes you end up sitting in the Emirates.

FYP

 

[playboypaul]

Bewilderingly, when I called someone out about the derogatory nature of their 'support' against City, I was threatened with violence, accused of not being as good a fan as he is because I wasn't at Basel away, then in turn shouted at by about three other fans for questioning said man.

They, each and every one of them, came out with the old, 'We pay our money...' line.

 

[Nocando]

Bewilderingly, when I called someone out about the derogatory nature of their 'support' against City, I was threatened with violence, accused of not being as good a fan as he is because I wasn't at Basel away, then in turn shouted at by about three other fans for questioning said man.

They, each and every one of them, came out with the old, 'We pay our money...' line.

Yeah that's what I got. I just said to 'my' moron "You pay all this money and you go to all of these games and yet you're still a shit fan". "Why bother?"

He then just told me to fuck off, which actually made me laugh. Well I actually responded in kind and said "no you fuck off shit fan" I'm quick like that

henceforth he will always be referred to as shit fan (and Golum - cos he looks like him).

Anyway good work everyone on giving back some abuse to these morons. Hopefully they will get the message. If not we can just take photos of them and post them on here and just take the piss out of them instead.

 

[t7ny]

I think anyone who supports Spurs has the right to be as optimistic or pessimistic at games as he or she likes, they pat their money and should be able to do as they please (within the rules of course).
Great passion in someone can soon turn to great depression moments later, and people's opinions on players are like arseholes, everyone has got one.

 

[Nocando]

I think anyone who supports Spurs has the right to be as optimistic or pessimistic at games as he or she likes, they pat their money and should be able to do as they please (within the rules of course).
Great passion in someone can soon turn to great depression moments later, and people's opinions on players are like arseholes, everyone has got one.

Of course they have the right. Still makes them a shit fan though. And likewise those sitting round them that have to put up with their bile have the right to give them some abuse back. Funny how these types can dish it out but feel all hard done by when they get it back.

 

[NP4_Yid]

"How can you support that"

What a fucking tool. Errrrrr, did you support us during the 90s? Not sure if he is aware but we had a much worse team and played shite week in week out.

Well done for attempting to put him in his place Stoof. The thing I don't get is why people like that go to the Lane in the first place, seeing as there support is based on whether we win or not. Surely it's just better to save you money and watch it on TV/internet?

I'm not a STH but always manage to get to the Lane 6-12 times per year. While I always want to see us Win, my support is not dependant on that. I'm sure the majority of fans look at Spurs in exactly the same way and there are lots who do not get the chance to get to go to matches, instead there are pricks like this who don't get behind the team.

I know it's to do with us getting better over the last few years and thus expectations rise but I refuse to accpet this on a philosophical level. I see Spurs as being a member of my family. Of course I want wants best for them and will always encourage them to be a "sucess" in life but before anything else you love your family, even if they fail you support them, encourage them, you are there for them when they fall to help them back up on there feet. Spurs are no different.

COYS

Spot on!

I've only been to a few games this season (coaching a kids team and setting up my own business have got in the way) but when I go I intend to enjoy the day and support Spurs.
Maybe its because every home game for me requires 2 1/2 hours travel and a lot of money - perhaps if I lived closer and it didnt cost so much I'd be more inclined to be a miserable twat......but I doubt it!

 

[Don_Felipe]

Bale then cuts in from the right and thunderbastards us into the lead.

sooooooooooooooo stealing that word...

 

[Mr-T]

Yeah that's what I got. I just said to 'my' moron "You pay all this money and you go to all of these games and yet you're still a shit fan". "Why bother?"

He then just told me to fuck off, which actually made me laugh. Well I actually responded in kind and said "no you fuck off shit fan" I'm quick like that

henceforth he will always be referred to as shit fan (and Golum - cos he looks like him).

Anyway good work everyone on giving back some abuse to these morons. Hopefully they will get the message. If not we can just take photos of them and post them on here and just take the piss out of them instead.

That is a really good idea, I love it - even videos of them embarrassing themselves

 

[soup]

Unfortunately, a lot of these type of people are just idiots everywhere they go. In the pub they're the loudmouth knobhead, in the cafe they're the ones whistling too loud, at the bus stop they're the ones singing out loud making everything a little bit awkward. It's just unfortunate that some of them also tend to be Spurs fans. Usually they're just doing it for a little tiny bit of recognition and attention they'd never get if they weren't obnoxious.

Take this guy for example...

 

[trasores]

i used to go with my brother and was a season ticket holder for years.

we were just fed up with the attitude of some people - i would try to talk people out of slagging off players but it would normally descend into a slanging match. I have never boo'd (is that right?) one of our players, but i have sung "scholar out" or "sugar out".

people who make statements like "how can you support that" don't have the grasp of the word support!

one of the best feelings you can have as a football fan is starting a chant which resonates around the stadium and the team then go on and score.

I remember singing so much during a game that i had no voice until monday... one of the reasons that i stopped going was that it felt like we were the only people who got behind the team.

Its all well and good singing when you are 4-0 up (when did that last happen?) but the team need you when its a tight 0-0 or when you are 1 down.

 

[JJetset]

Unfortunately, a lot of these type of people are just idiots everywhere they go. In the pub they're the loudmouth knobhead, in the cafe they're the ones whistling too loud, at the bus stop they're the ones singing out loud making everything a little bit awkward. It's just unfortunate that some of them also tend to be Spurs fans. Usually they're just doing it for a little tiny bit of recognition and attention they'd never get if they weren't obnoxious.

Take this guy for example...

Old Gordon has had a very chequered past !

 

[ShelfSide18]

Bewilderingly, when I called someone out about the derogatory nature of their 'support' against City, I was threatened with violence, accused of not being as good a fan as he is because I wasn't at Basel away, then in turn shouted at by about three other fans for questioning said man.

They, each and every one of them, came out with the old, 'We pay our money...' line.

Been there myself my friend.

(Not Basle by the way)

 

[Bus-Conductor]

You know the bloke; you know him well.

He'll sit a couple of rows in front of you or behind you and he'll moan. But he won't just moan, he'll refuse to acknowledge any positive passage of play - and instead try and find the negative in it.

So it had got to 70 mins on Saturday and he literally hadn't shut-up, so I piped up with:

"How about you fucking support them?"

A few people turned around with slight nodding approval, but he turned to me (he was 3 seats away from me on the same row) in slight disbelief and said:

"How can you support that?" referring to our current no-score-drawing side.

And I replied, with full patronising tone:

"Because that's your fucking job, mate". And he sort of muttered something.

The seats to my right are full of members (in more than one sense of the word) - they change every week, they're not season ticket holders so I see some interesting folk. But I would have thought if you get a ticket and you don't go that often, surely you'd sing up more? (He didn't sing ONCE). And surely he was old enough to know better? (He looked late 30s [generous] - early 40s).

I'm really getting disillusioned at the level of support. I sit in Block 28 (row 2) and there are really only a few of us around that sing. And if it was you (dear reader) who I told to support our team, then I'm not particularly sorry for having a go, I'm just sad that you choose to support in such a negative way. Well "support": "criticise" would be more apt.

Have you any similar tales? What are your views on our support since the Jol years that has seen us propelled to where we are now?

Supporting your team also means when you are the gatekeeper to a mythical smurf hat of power that holds the key to your teams path to the kingdom of success, you wield that power for their good. Not promise to wield and then forget to get round to it and wot not.

Be a force for good Stoof. Stop bashing your member*




*(to your right).

 

[Wellspurs]

We are not the only ones, my mate a season ticket holder at Chavs for thirty years says that now if they are not two in the first twenty minutes people are moaning. I will find out if it is true tomorrow as my son has managed to get two tickets for the game. Trouble is they are in the middle of the west stand right in enemy territory. On that note is there a safe pub Spurs fans meet up before the game?

 

[Jody]

The city game made me realize how distraught I'd be if I did manage to climb 28000 places in the queue only to be sat next to some Muppet for a season. Unfortunatley, 35000 people pretty much guarantees you a considerable amount of muppets. Shame really, look what happened when the crowd started rocking after the equaliser...

 

[Stoof]

they pay their money and should be able to do as they please (within the rules of course).

This attitude is the single worst thing to happen to the world since The Spice Girls started giving girls confidence.

I hate the line you've just wheeled out because it's a load of bullshit.

I pay "blah" so I expect "blah". No. Bullshit. You pay to watch a football match, hopefully at the home ground of the team you have a bias for. Your role is to support the team, and use that bias to help them win. It's a privilege to see them play.

It's not the fucking theatre. There's no cheese and port at Isabella's and Binkie's after the show. It's a football match, where you support your fucking team.

I'm not predicting your next argument or anything but I assume it goes along the lines of "but they get paid so much money ..."

 

[NP4_Yid]

This attitude is the single worst thing to happen to the world since The Spice Girls started giving girls confidence.

I hate the line you've just wheeled out because it's a load of bullshit.

I pay "blah" so I expect "blah". No. Bullshit. You pay to watch a football match, hopefully at the home ground of the team you have a bias for. Your role is to support the team, and use that bias to help them win. It's a privilege to see them play.

It's not the fucking theatre. There's no cheese and port at Isabella's and Binkie's after the show. It's a football match, where you support your fucking team.

I'm not predicting your next argument or anything but I assume it goes along the lines of "but they get paid so much money ..."

Couldn't agree more!

By all means be frustrated/annoyed/gutted if we lose and/or play shit but support the team you've paid your money to watch.

It makes me laugh on here some times when Spurs fans moan about what is served up on the pitch. As per my little picture thingy by my name (what are they called?) I also watch Newport County, now try standing on the terraces at places like Dover, Clevedon, Dawlish Town or Ilkeston in the freezing cold watching utter tripe and then fucking moan about Scott Parker not playing Hoddlesque passes into the box or Bale not putting in a MOM performance every game!

No offence to anyone from Dover, Clevedon, Dawlish or Ilkeston by the way

 

[ThorntonSpur]

sadly part of the blame lies with all seater stadiums. in the past I used to go to the left hand side of the shelf next to the park lane end if I wanted to shout me head off singing and supporting the lads. other days id stand lower down and nearer the Paxton if I just fancied watching rather than singing. in other words you could pick your poison. nowadays you don't have a choice.

 

[Flatters]

The bloke sat 2 seats to my right was just shouting "twat" at Assou-Ekotto and Dempsey all game, and another bloke shouted at Dempsey as he got subbed off that he was a **** and should never play for us again. I was not a happy bunny at this anti-support so it just made me cheer the team on even more, and when Ade got subbed on I felt the need to cheer him on after yet more boos when he his name was called out just before the match.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

This attitude is the single worst thing to happen to the world since The Spice Girls started giving girls confidence.

I hate the line you've just wheeled out because it's a load of bullshit.

I pay "blah" so I expect "blah". No. Bullshit. You pay to watch a football match, hopefully at the home ground of the team you have a bias for. Your role is to support the team, and use that bias to help them win. It's a privilege to see them play.

It's not the fucking theatre. There's no cheese and port at Isabella's and Binkie's after the show. It's a football match, where you support your fucking team.

I'm not predicting your next argument or anything but I assume it goes along the lines of "but they get paid so much money ..."

I actually disagree with this Stoof. But I don't disagree with your general point. I would say it is theatre and people do pay and do have a right to express some dissent, as people do in the theatre or any performance based entertainment. I just think there is a a decency level that shouldn't be exceeded (which could/will have an adverse effect on the performance) and also respect for your fellow punter's enjoyment of the performance. And this is what is being exceeded and abused.

The notion that this is new is wrong though IMO. I think it has got a bit worse but is also exacerbated by the fact that you can't walk away to another part of the ground anymore when some **** gets on your nerves. All seater means you are stuck with the prick all game.