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What our opponents' fans are saying about us 18/19

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rez9000

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I think I get what @glospur means. Am I right in thinking your objection is to the word 'the' glospur?

Although it's used, in that article when using it as the direct noun being referred to, 'the Spurs' sounds off. But if, say, I said to a friend, 'I'm going down the Spurs on Saturday' that wouldn't sound odd.

Usually when describing the club directly, one would say 'Spurs are...' or 'Spurs have...', rather than 'THE Spurs are...' or 'THE Spurs have...'. Not wrong, just sounds odd.
 

cider spurs

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I think I get what @glospur means. Am I right in thinking your objection is to the word 'the' glospur?

Although it's used, in that article when using it as the direct noun being referred to, 'the Spurs' sounds off. But if, say, I said to a friend, 'I'm going down the Spurs on Saturday' that wouldn't sound odd.

Usually when describing the club directly, one would say 'Spurs are...' or 'Spurs have...', rather than 'THE Spurs are...' or 'THE Spurs have...'. Not wrong, just sounds odd.


rez...are you married. o_O
 

Frozen_Waffles

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See I have always been a Spurs fan for best part of 60 years and have always said it as such.
Tottenham Hotspur is just that but Spur would sound stupid.
I'm a spur fan just not right.(n)

OK, everyone is a spurs fan. Using the article a as to indicate one of many.

The indicates something special or something mentioned before. So for example I am a spurs fan who likes eriksen, one of many.

I am the Spurs fan who still thinks Kieran tripper is a good player. Indicating I am the only one who has this belief.

The spurs is technically correct as it is not a place, but a nickname. For example we cannot use the Tottenham hotspur as it is a place just as we cannot say the Manchester united but we can say the red devils.

The hotspurs would be fine grammatically but you would probably sound a bit of a tit saying it.
 

michaelden

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Fuck me this thread got back on track quickly! As the 1/2 term holiday is upon us (schools and the INSEcT days) I'm guessing you lot are the UK finest educators.

;)
 

worcestersauce

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I think I get what @glospur means. Am I right in thinking your objection is to the word 'the' glospur?

Although it's used, in that article when using it as the direct noun being referred to, 'the Spurs' sounds off. But if, say, I said to a friend, 'I'm going down the Spurs on Saturday' that wouldn't sound odd.

Usually when describing the club directly, one would say 'Spurs are...' or 'Spurs have...', rather than 'THE Spurs are...' or 'THE Spurs have...'. Not wrong, just sounds odd.
Not so much an objection I just didn't get it, though to be honest I didn't actually read it so fair do's.
 

longtimespur

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Absolutely. I had no real objection either. It was like a slightly flat note that sort of catches your attention, if you know what I mean.
I know what you mean,:cautious:
Like a fart when you're sat down. Flat but it get's my attention:whistle:

unfortunately my wife's attention too:ROFLMAO:
 

Paolo10

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I thought about reading it, then looked at some of the author's other articles and found that the wording and strange usage of case in his article titles made me want to find him and savagely beat him rather than actually read any of his work.
 

rez9000

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I thought about reading it, then looked at some of the author's other articles and found that the wording and strange usage of case in his article titles made me want to find him and savagely beat him rather than actually read any of his work.
Oh, you should see some of the phraseology in the article! He describes Kane as 'an honest and remarkably effective labourer"; Spurs "never rack up the trophies" of Man City or Atletico, we're apparently "still in play" for the Champions League, and my favourite: it seems some teams "work on different parts of the brain and provoke different noises from the mouth".
 

Paolo10

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For all the good the internet has done, it's also created a breed of sports journalist (and the italics denote heavy sarcasm) that I dislike more than most normal sports journalists, which is actually quite a lot.
 

ardiles

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I think I get what @glospur means. Am I right in thinking your objection is to the word 'the' glospur?

Although it's used, in that article when using it as the direct noun being referred to, 'the Spurs' sounds off. But if, say, I said to a friend, 'I'm going down the Spurs on Saturday' that wouldn't sound odd.

Usually when describing the club directly, one would say 'Spurs are...' or 'Spurs have...', rather than 'THE Spurs are...' or 'THE Spurs have...'. Not wrong, just sounds odd.

Is that how you describe your other half’s muff? :cautious:
 
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