What it really means to support Spurs

[ultimateloner]

REAL Spurs supporters..

1) Feel terrible losing games
2) Forget the lost game
3) Look forward to the next game
4) Step 1 all over again..

Just accept that we will always be a mediocre team. Our philosophy is 'flatter to deceive' and that is how we entertain. We are angels and devils rolled in one.

It's got nothing to do with the players, the managers, the system etc..
It's a mental thing. We have quality players, we are willing to spend big but we lack any MENTAL STRENGTH. We don't ever come out believing that we WILL win...
THat is why great/good players come to Spurs and become ordinary, never living up to the hype etc. Look at Kanoute, Keane and all that.

But even if Spurs are destined to eternal failure/mediocrity i still love them.

 

[Bobbins]

Well that's balls, to put it mildly.

When we were 2-0 down away to Charlton last season, did we give up and go home?

When Bolton had battered us for 85 minutes at the Lane last season, did we give up?

When Blackburn came back from being 2-0 to us to draw 2-2, did we stop playing?

We had the mental strength last season. Last season we simply would not lay down and die.

We just need to find that again.

 

[Tequila]

REAL Spurs supporters..

1) Feel terrible losing games
2) Forget the lost game
3) Look forward to the next game
4) Step 1 all over again..

Just accept that we will always be a mediocre team. Our philosophy is 'flatter to deceive' and that is how we entertain. We are angels and devils rolled in one.

It's got nothing to do with the players, the managers, the system etc..
It's a mental thing. We have quality players, we are willing to spend big but we lack any MENTAL STRENGTH. We don't ever come out believing that we WILL win...
THat is why great/good players come to Spurs and become ordinary, never living up to the hype etc. Look at Kanoute, Keane and all that.

But even if Spurs are destined to eternal failure/mediocrity i still love them.

well put, the fact that alot of ppl are spurs fans even when so amny of our " neighbours" have the scuess they do, is compliment by its own merit.

Even if we do finish 15th, feelings for them wont ever change.

 

[melih69]

Well that's balls, to put it mildly.

When we were 2-0 down away to Charlton last season, did we give up and go home?

When Bolton had battered us for 85 minutes at the Lane last season, did we give up?

When Blackburn came back from being 2-0 to us to draw 2-2, did we stop playing?

We had the mental strength last season. Last season we simply would not lay down and die.

We just need to find that again.

Great post. Agree. We need the mentality we had last season

 

[Ryana]

I love spurs for more than six years now. And why I started to like them was how they played. Sometimes they had great matches with a loss in the end and sometimes awful matches no team spirit but somehow they managed to kick that winning goal.
I know it sounds silly but it was always interesting. Okay I prefer when they win. Of course.
Last season we had those last minute goals that cost us points and we had some spiritless match but at least after it I felt the team go forward. But now. This season i feel that motivation is gone. We have the lead(if we have) and then we stand back, drawing the opponet on us. Or we don't attack untill they kick a goal and when it happens we just run after the result. if we're lucky we can kick an equaliser. But sometmes the whole team fall into pieces and somehow nothing works. I don't feel the players talk to each other on the pitch. If they do so they just yell at each other. Sometimes one of the players have enough from the others just trotting around and tries to make an own action but usually he doesn't meet support from the others why is that? And when it turns out bad everybody is against that player...:duh:
I haven't seen it for a while that's why i ask do they still gather into a circle before the kick off?
I hope motivation will return very soon. Unfortunately one player in this team is not enough to carry the whole team...

 

[ExcellentDude]

I think this thread raises some interesting points

 

[General Levy]

This was after the Sheffield United game the season before last. :lol:

 

[Defsta]

Well my pulse was something near 200 when watching last minutes of Carling Cup final. And even start to feel that I can't take this anymore and that's the closest where I have got from heart attack. It's just like your whole body is living with the team, so it's "larger than life" to support Spurs.

 

[greavesie]

some years ago in the days of b/w telly think it was sports world on a weds they had a interview with a former spurs player cant recall his name but he was wrapped up in a blanket looking quite feeble and frail he ended the interview with these words and they have stuck with me ever since through good times and bad ,he had tears in his eyes when he said you see you dont just support spurs you love them, if there is any senior spurs fans saw this and can recall his name i would be grateful for his name

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Arthur Rowe?

 

[greavesie]

Arthur Rowe?

it might of been dont know i just wish i had a name ask the bbc for a copy of the interview and put it out on the web sites ,and make certain the spurs players watched as well

 

[mezza84]

Garbage

 

[Mr-T]

REAL Spurs supporters..

1) Feel terrible losing games
2) Forget the lost game
3) Look forward to the next game
4) Step 1 all over again..

Just accept that we will always be a mediocre team. Our philosophy is 'flatter to deceive' and that is how we entertain. We are angels and devils rolled in one.

It's got nothing to do with the players, the managers, the system etc..
It's a mental thing. We have quality players, we are willing to spend big but we lack any MENTAL STRENGTH. We don't ever come out believing that we WILL win...
THat is why great/good players come to Spurs and become ordinary, never living up to the hype etc. Look at Kanoute, Keane and all that.

But even if Spurs are destined to eternal failure/mediocrity i still love them.

Coming from behind to win the carling cup final proves you both wrong, and a pussyhole.

 

[preston11]

were all just suckers for punishment!!

 

[AW?]

I'll tell you what it means to be a Spurs fan... having to listen to fucking miserable negative drips like you. I'm sick to death of listening to all you moaning self-defeating bores. I bet your life is as boring and depressing as your views and i bet that's all everybody elses fault and not your own.

Reading all that crap, other than the paying big money bit, i thought might have been an analysis of the current England national team. If it was then you'd have a point.

Just gone back and noticed your user name is actually ultimateloner. I mean for fucks sake get a grip! Go out and get some fresh air or something.

 

[Delboy10]

Coming from behind to win the carling cup final proves you both wrong, and a pussyhole.

:rofl:

 

[Khilari]

we've got today one of the best teams we've had for a long, long time.
the board are investing heavily, which is great to see after years of signing armstrongs (who was ok) instead of bergkamps, selling gazza's and signing allan nielsens...!
we have a manager we all believe in
young players who are quality
sure some of our players aren't yet the finished article but we're getting there and we will get there
spurs for the CL this season and challenging next!!!
COYS!

 

[Defsta]

I'll tell you what it means to be a Spurs fan... having to listen to fucking miserable negative drips like you. I'm sick to death of listening to all you moaning self-defeating bores. I bet your life is as boring and depressing as your views and i bet that's all everybody elses fault and not your own.

Reading all that crap, other than the paying big money bit, i thought might have been an analysis of the current England national team. If it was then you'd have a point.

Just gone back and noticed your user name is actually ultimateloner. I mean for fucks sake get a grip! Go out and get some fresh air or something.

That's just like me after few (20) beers :rofl:

 

[flatback4]

What it means to be a Spurs fan ?

It means remembering 60,000 people crammed into the Lane most Saturdays during the double season. It means having your entire belief about how Tottenham should play based on Danny Blanchflower's vision of 'the glory game'. It's about the sheer pleasure of watching players like Greaves, Hoddle and Gascoigne - and others - who were just so fucking good it made you proud and happy they played for us. It's about wanting to weep with sheer frustration at years of mediocrity when we just pissed away the legacy of the sixties. It's about the mad optimism of believing each season is going to be the season, when you know in your heart that it isn't. (Except this season, when it will be). It's about hating Arsenal.

That - in short - is what it means to be a Spurs fan.

 

[haxman]

What it means to be a Spurs fan ?

It means remembering 60,000 people crammed into the Lane most Saturdays during the double season. It means having your entire belief about how Tottenham should play based on Danny Blanchflower's vision of 'the glory game'. It's about the sheer pleasure of watching players like Greaves, Hoddle and Gascoigne - and others - who were just so fucking good it made you proud and happy they played for us. It's about wanting to weep with sheer frustration at years of mediocrity when we just pissed away the legacy of the sixties. It's about the mad optimism of believing each season is going to be the season, when you know in your heart that it isn't. (Except this season, when it will be). It's about hating Arsenal.

That - in short - is what it means to be a Spurs fan.

:clap: Absolutely spot on.