- Jul 28, 2004
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Ugh, once again, your personal circumstances clearly don't allow you to go more, regardless of where the game is played.Unfortunately Tourists like me are not in the position to buy ST and attend home games every week, as most of the time am out of the country. That should not give you the sense of entitlement which I detect from your tone, that we tourists love and support the club only when things are going well. I have been supporting Spurs probably before you were born, taking in every home game back in the day, but now can only visit to support once in a while when am in the country. I am a tourist who is proud of the fact that I love Spurs, no less than you by the way.
Okay, I'll be more specific. By tourists I mean the people who never showed up until the last couple of seasons, at all, the people who stand at the top of the steps outside Wembley Park station causing dangerous congestion so that they can take photo's of the lit up Wembley arches, the little chavs who show up with their girlfriends and spend the whole time talking to them rather than watching the match, the dickheads who are never in their seat by kick off or by the beginning of the second half, and are out of their seat before the half time whistle and the full time whistle, the loudmouths who you only ever see once, but the entire game they over compensate for the fact that they are not regulars by being extra loud when abusing the ref, criticising their own players, getting on the opposition's back, I'm talking about the fat drunks wench there with some bloke recently who starting screaming 'Glory Glory Spurs United'. I'm not talking about people like you, or @Dougal , or anybody else who isn't fortunate enough to have both the time and money available to be a dedicated far every game. I'm talking about the people who are going to a Spurs match just so that they can say they went to a Spurs match, but don't actually care about the club or the game, and who are happy to fill it up v Inter but couldn't care less v Southampton. Maybe tourist fan is the wrong term, but whatever those types are fans are called, I don't want them at my club and I can't wait till we're at the new ground and there are 30,000 fewer opportunities each match for them to get their mitts on a ticket. I want the people who care.
North London is a 200 mile round trip for me these days, so when I show up to a game which has been priced cheaply and see twice as many empty seats as I see people, yes, I feel a bit pissed off.