Im Done!!

[riggi]

Was at the game today.

Not the most enjoyable experience I've ever had, obviously.

Yet, perversely, it wasn't nearly as depressing an experience as most of the home games this season.

You see, I can handle embarrassing collapses from the team. I've experienced enough of them over the years - especially away from home. Just part of the rich tapestry of being a fan.

What I can't handle....what depresses me....what sometimes (and increasingly) makes me think, "I'm done" is the ever deteriorating atmosphere at WHL - be it negative or apathetic. It is anathema to me.

Bang on. How was the atmosphere? We could kinda hear ya.

 

[Francis Gibbs]

Was at the game today.

Not the most enjoyable experience I've ever had, obviously.

Yet, perversely, it wasn't nearly as depressing an experience as most of the home games this season.

You see, I can handle embarrassing collapses from the team. I've experienced enough of them over the years - especially away from home. Just part of the rich tapestry of being a fan.

What I can't handle....what depresses me....what sometimes (and increasingly) makes me think, "I'm done" is the ever deteriorating atmosphere at WHL - be it negative or apathetic. It is anathema to me.

Yep that truly is perverse when you are more depressed by the home atmosphere than losing by a record PL margin

 

[jambreck]

Bang on. How was the atmosphere? We could kinda hear ya.

Not great, to be honest.

Partly because it's a bit of a shit stadium for creating an atmosphere.

And partly for obvious reasons to do with the meltdown we were witnessing on the pitch.

But there was still some singing. Still defiance. Still pride in the name and shirt. Still gallows humour. Still a sense that we're all in this together - even if it is deep shit.

All of which is notably absent 99% of the time at White Hart Lane.

 

[jambreck]

Yep that truly is perverse when you are more depressed by the home atmosphere than losing by a record PL margin

Thank you for repeating what I said while using slightly different words. I'm sure it was useful to someone.

 

[mattyspurs]

I know someone who passionately supported Spurs for years, then gave up following football altogether. He had a few other things going on in his life and said he just didn't need the added misery.

Personally I'm very close to being done with football. Not because of Spurs, but because of corrupt teams like Chelsea making the whole thing a waste of time.

That the only reason I could give up football, and i've come close because of it. But i've been Spurs since I was a tiny little thing, and I just couldn't give them up so easily. I lived through the whole of the '90s, I can get through anything

 

[OmarsComing]

What pisses me off most, is: we should be England's third team by now but Dirty Money means Man City and Chelsea are up there.

Chelsea should be a footnote by now and City should be a yoyo club.

No point anyone earning success.

Spurs until I die though.

I agree with your sentiment but we've been behind Chelsea for two decades and although they won the lottery twice (Harding/Abramovich) they are in a different group of clubs to us now.

 

[Spurger King]

That the only reason I could give up football, and i've come close because of it. But i've been Spurs since I was a tiny little thing, and I just couldn't give them up so easily. I lived through the whole of the '90s, I can get through anything

I didn't know any better in the 90s. Pretty miserable period looking back on it, but then again the high points seemed greater. Like you I doubt I'd ever give up on football due to how Spurs are performing.

 

[VoteMe4Prez]

If anyone does intend to give their season away I will go as far as biting your hand off for it

 

[King of Otters]

I know someone who passionately supported Spurs for years, then gave up following football altogether. He had a few other things going on in his life and said he just didn't need the added misery.

Personally I'm very close to being done with football. Not because of Spurs, but because of corrupt teams like Chelsea making the whole thing a waste of time.

It's tempting but I'm not going to let sheik's and oligarch's who treat the game as a cock waving comp drive me away from the sport i love.

 

[Francis Gibbs]

Thank you for repeating what I said while using slightly different words. I'm sure it was useful to someone.

Your welcome, I feel it's a public service to call out the ridiculous so no real thanks needed

 

[KILLA_SIN]

Does anyone really take it that seriously they have to give it up? There is way too much other shit in life to be worried about. In saying that I felt embarrassed today but whats worse is I have got use to being embarrassed by spurs. Thats worries me more.

 

[jambreck]

Your welcome, I feel it's a public service to call out the ridiculous so no real thanks needed

We're obviously different kinds of fan. If you were my kind, you would understand perfectly why it isn't remotely ridiculous to be more depressed by the seemingly inexorable, year by year deterioration of the atmosphere at WHL than by the result and performance of just one match. The latter can be forgiven, if not entirely forgotten, within a week if the team shows its character and makes amends.

The former, however, has been spreading like a cancer for a number of years. It isn't a one off dose of pain. It has taken hold. It is a chronic condition. And any good doctor knows the link between chronic pain and depression.

 

[DFF]

There are pretty much two things I look forward to on the weekend. Watching Spurs and having a drink.
On the weekends when Spurs aren't playing, there's an empty kind of feeling I get. Like it's a wasted or non existent weekend. It's a mixture of sadness and annoyance. It's a black hole of a weekend. I didn't work all week for Spurs not to be playing this weekend!

So despite this ridiculous and embarrassing loss, despite the apparent futility of us becoming a fixture in the CL or challenging for anything meaningful, despite the fact that we are up against Man U next...I'm already looking forward to our game next weekend.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

I don't have a season ticket.
But I do have a ticket for United next weekend.

In all honesty, I don't want to go.
It's 6 hours for me. 2 there, 2 back.
I was at the 0-3 Vs West Ham and the 1-0 Vs Hull and we were fucking abysmal.

Can I get my money back from Spurs?

 

[dondo]

As I posted before, I will be done with football if Arsenal win the league and we don't make Top 4

Serious??? man up you pussy our team of today is like brazil of the 1970s compared to 1992-2003

 

[CheeseGromit]

It is depressing because the hopes are / were so high. It was looking more rosey but it has not clicked this year yet and it looks as though it will be at least another season

It will undoubtedly sharpen the focus and we will have to play a settled team

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Serious??? man up you pussy our team of today is like brazil of the 1970s compared to 1992-2003

There ain't much in it actually.
Today was worryingly like the days of getting bent over and done by 6 and 7b against Newcastle and Chelsea in the 90's

 

[UncleBuck]

I know someone who passionately supported Spurs for years, then gave up following football altogether. He had a few other things going on in his life and said he just didn't need the added misery.

Personally I'm very close to being done with football. Not because of Spurs, but because of corrupt teams like Chelsea making the whole thing a waste of time.

I was done with it years ago, couldn't give a toss about it in all honesty. The only reason i do is us, got rid of sky so rarely watch games live any more. The game now is so far detached from the real world it's frightening.

 

[dondo]

There ain't much in it actually.
Today was worryingly like the days of getting bent over and done by 6 and 7b against Newcastle and Chelsea in the 90's

Yeah in a one off game, if we finish between 10th-16th like we did for most season in the90s ill make you right ,but I seriously doubt that's gonna happen

 

[dagraham]

I'll never be done with Spurs but this is the first season in a long time where I find myself quite nonplussed about going to the games.

I've been a regular at WHL for 25 years, a season ticket holder for over 10 and even when we were really shit I didn't feel like this.

I think it's a mixture of missed opportunities, false dawns and the changing face of football but ultimately the football I've been watching under Avb (Bale apart)
is not enticing me to want to go.

Spurs are like Heroin though and I can't imagine not being consumed with the club.