Lets all laugh at Newcastle

[Gassin's finest]

It’s quite eye-opening when you chat with geordies who’ve never ventured outside the region.

One of the guys I used to work with genuinely believed Newcastle were huge because ‘they’re always featured in newspapers while the likes of Spurs are never mentioned…’

He refused to believe there are regional versions of coverage till he came down south for a work do. Was like somebody told him the Easter bunny wasn’t real

Everytime I go up, my uncle days "Ey oop, London's 'ere!" and "do you actually like it there?"

 

[SirHarryHotspur]

Everytime I go up, my uncle days "Ey oop, London's 'ere!" and "do you actually like it there?"

Yeah , London that awful place that supports thirteen professional football clubs in the top 4 divisions of English football plus the likes of Barnet etc. in lower leagues. Can't be many cities like that in the world.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Yeah , London that awful place that supports thirteen professional football clubs in the top 4 divisions of English football plus the likes of Barnet etc. in lower leagues. Can't be many cities like that in the world.

Bit more it all than football, but yes... London is amazing for football.

 

[DJS]

Being a northerner as well I too dislike this bundling of "the north" into some amalgamation... like everything above Sheffield is devastation and council estates. I was referencing the North East, and Tyneside in particular, where I lived for nearly a decade, and half my family are from. And there is absolutely a gap between that region and London. 1m v 10m population, with a higher proportion of people earning 50k+ in the latter, definitely means less people being able to afford an expensive trip to Milan, for example. The effects of deindustrialization are still prevalent.

Cos I’m a complete nosey bastard, what made you support spurs?

 

[Gassin's finest]

Cos I’m a complete nosey bastard, what made you support spurs?

Hoddle.

My Mam's a Geordie. Dad's from S****horpe and supports Leeds. He was RAF so by the time I was 11 I'd lived in Scotland, Northumberland, Germany and North Yorkshire. So I never had a local team and never settled into football. And then I saw Glenn Hoddle dancing around Oxford on the telly, and that was it. Fate sealed.

 

[Flynn]

I know a Celtic fan who says everyone from England is from the south

Far as I’m concerned the north starts at Banbury.
I’ve got a mate that thinks the M4 is the border.

 

[DJS]

Hoddle.

My Mam's a Geordie. Dad's from S****horpe and supports Leeds. He was RAF so by the time I was 11 I'd lived in Scotland, Northumberland, Germany and North Yorkshire. So I never had a local team and never settled into football. And then I saw Glenn Hoddle dancing around Oxford on the telly, and that was it. Fate sealed.

I thought it might have been Ginola otherwise and you followed him from Newcastle!

But that’s a bit more recent lol.

 

[Wheeler Dealer]

Bit more it all than football, but yes... London is amazing for football.

Forget the European super league, a London league would be brilliant and we may have a chance of winning it

 

[Japhet]

Forget the European super league, a London league would be brilliant and we may have a chance of winning it

Would be harder to win than the Bundesliga.

 

[easley91]

Not selling out ticket allocations in quick time can be down to various things.. Cost, getting the time off, finding flights/hotels that fit with the timing of the game, finding someone to look after family etc.

I don't laugh at anyone who is unable to sell tickets, because in this day and age things are getting more expensive. I barely go Tottenham anymore due to the ticket itself, as well as the train ticket prices, food and drink. It just isn't feasible and everyone's circumstances are different.

 

[ernie78]

Whilst not entirely the same we were selling tickets on the door for a couple of our Europa matches the season after our first CL foray under Redknapp. That was pretty poor form

 

[Gassin's finest]

I thought it might have been Ginola otherwise and you followed him from Newcastle!

But that’s a bit more recent lol.

Daveed at spurs coincided with me turning 20 and has been one of my all time favourite players ever since. Always helped that it wound my Geordie family up.

 

[Gbspurs]

Whilst not entirely the same we were selling tickets on the door for a couple of our Europa matches the season after our first CL foray under Redknapp. That was pretty poor form

Don't forget selling our CL games at Wembley for cheap first season

 

[ernie78]

Don't forget selling out CL games at Wembley for cheap first season

Oh yeah, 3 games for £90 or there abouts

 

[Gbspurs]

Oh yeah, 3 games for £90 or there abouts

Think it was even less than that. Think it was like £20 a ticket or something

 

[NinjaTuna]

Think it was even less than that. Think it was like £20 a ticket or something

Nothing wrong with that at all, imo. Allowed me as a young bloke with a poorly paying job at the time to access Spurs tickets at a reasonable price. If I were that age and on that wage, these days, there's no way I'd be able to justify the prices that are charged in the new ground

 

[Cochise]

 

[Gassin's finest]

Serving Newcy Brown in the stadium? They don't call that stuff "heedbanger" for nowt.

 

[superted4]

Yet he came across really well in the Amazon series. Who knew he’d have such tales hidden in the wardrobe

 

[worcestersauce]

Whilst not entirely the same we were selling tickets on the door for a couple of our Europa matches the season after our first CL foray under Redknapp. That was pretty poor form

But Redknapp sacked it off and played the kids because he wasn't interested in it. It's one thing paying to see the team play trying to win but why bother when you know it ain't going anywhere, bearing in mind season tickets didn't cover the games. I went by the way and I don't blame people for not turning up.