Match Threads Spurs vs Villa - Match Thread - Game 37 - KO 6:00pm

[The Opinionated Lurker]

Just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who bothered going tonight

The club don't deserve you.

That's why I cancelled my season ticket last year, and both mine, and my kid's memberships..

I simply refuse to pay for this anymore.

Everyone should be doing this. Simply have to hit them in the wallet. And for those who say another will just fill their seat, daytrippers don’t want to see a shit team no matter how nice the stadium is.

 

[Ionman34]

I've been following this club since I was 3 years old, attended my first match in 1975. I've seen us relegated, I've seen us almost bankrupted, I was there week in, week out through the 90's and in all that time I've never EVER booed the team or any player, not once in 50 years.

Had I been at that game today it would have been the first time in my life I would have booed my Spurs, and I guarantee you I would have been booing at the top of my lungs.

For the first time in 50 fucking years I've witnessed a team that deserved it. We've had worse teams, but this is the first time I've ever really seen a team that has basically said "fuck you" to the fans.

14 months we've been waiting to get to the ground to cheer them on and they serve up that.

There are no words to adequately sum up the contempt I currently feel.

 

[spursfan77]

If I had any reservation about renewing my season ticket, tonight confirmed it.

Couldn't give a fuck. Won't be wasting my time or money supporting the majority of these players. So many better things to spend my money on which will give me more enjoyment.

I'll always be a Spurs fan, I can't switch off, but I can't support a squad that has the likes of Alli, Winks and Dier in it.

It's been going on for far too long, they are well passed their expiry date.

The fact that Levy continually sacks the manager instead of doing what needs to be done and selling those players, is really what winds me up the most.

Just get rid, whatever it takes. Throw Doherty and Sissoko out with them too. Lamela and Moura can go. Just raised as much money as possible and we build again. A new manager will not resolve this on his own.

Sign some hungry championship players, I hoenstly have never felt as disconnected as I feel to Spurs right now. I genuinely can't stand a good number of them.

I would hold on. Today was the first time the majority of the crowd turned on Levy. If he doesn’t react after today then we really are in trouble. He simply has to. I can completely understand if you do but I’m going to give it one more year. I’ll see who we appoint first next week though before doing it.

 

[The Opinionated Lurker]

I’ve a stadium tour booked for me, the wife and the 3 kids in early July. I’m cancelling the booking tomorrow first thing as much as it pains me!!

Cancel it now. You might feel differently in the morning

 

[Whoami?]

What’s worrying is that there’s a good chance of us selling the likes of Ndombele Lo Celso and Kane before we ship out Ryan Mates

Levy is in trouble cause he has to either go into the red to save this team(he won’t) or he will have to sell his superstar whilst still claiming we are an ambitious club

Hope he took notes of those boos around the stadium

I can see Harry coming out openly about wanting a new challenge now

 

[rez9000]

If it was planned for the players to come and greet the fans at the end of the game and they didn't do it, they all need to be sold. Even if it was some bureaucrat's decision, the players should have spoken up. This is an absolute disgrace.

Edit: sounds like a few of them came out, thanks @Spurs1961. Sell those that didn't bother to come out.

No, no. They're still guilty. Only those players who stayed on the pitch can be absolved.

The fans were told the players would come out and to stay in their seats.

Then the fans were bade goodbye over the tannoy. The words were along the lines of 'thank you for your support this season. Have a safe journey home'. The clear implication was that they should leave. But some still remained.

Then some of the players came out.

It's obvious that the intent was not to come out, but the club wanted to close the stadium for the night, but some fans were just not leaving. Short of ejecting them, which would not have looked very good with all the negative PR the club's had over the last few weeks and then that pisspoor performance, it's obvious someone told the players to come out so the remaining fans would leave.

It was just to get the remaining fans out of the stadium. If they had their druthers, they wouldn't have come out at all.

 

[Harryson]

Don’t understand the need to bash fans that went tonight. I went because I’ve missed watching my club for 12 months through a pretty difficult time for everyone. We all want the best for the club and some made their opinions clear in the stands, I just hope people listen as the stands did not feel like they used to. Need some passion & direction back into the club.

We all love the club and want the best for it but the difference is you paid £60 to vent your opinion and everyone else paid £0 for the same outcome because no one in the club, some players included, care.

 

[Harryson]

Levy is in trouble cause he has to either go into the red to save this team(he won’t) or he will have to sell his superstar whilst still claiming we are an ambitious club

Hope he took notes of those boos around the stadium

The only notes Levy took were from the cash tills.

 

[rez9000]

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Where did it all go wrong?

That picture just broke my already-creaking heart.

 

[shelfboy68]

What’s worrying is that there’s a good chance of us selling the likes of Ndombele Lo Celso and Kane before we ship out Ryan Mates

Levy is in trouble cause he has to either go into the red to save this team(he won’t) or he will have to sell his superstar whilst still claiming we are an ambitious club

Hope he took notes of those boos around the stadium

I can see Harry coming out openly about wanting a new challenge now

Of course he will this club isn't delivering shit.

 

[Ionman34]

They finally came out

Probably ordered to do so.

 

[paulcumpstone]

Danny Rose seemingly was ostracized from the group for telling Jose that players were playing like shit, training like shit and didn’t give a shit. I’m starting to feel he should have been kept around the group more!

or made manager,

 

[Sykes]

We all love the club and want the best for it but the difference is you paid £60 to vent your opinion and everyone else paid £0 for the same outcome because no one in the club, some players included, care.

In that case you’d never go to a game again until levy & co are out? I’m sorry but that’s the opposite of what some people want. Can’t let the owners distance us from the team - it’s our team not theirs. I’ll support when I want ?

 

[UncleBuck]

I’ve a stadium tour booked for me, the wife and the 3 kids in early July. I’m cancelling the booking tomorrow first thing as much as it pains me!!

Oh don’t, we’ve done the same for our six year old! It’s his age group that I feel most sorry for, we’ve got all these kids now walking around in Spurs kit having created a new generation of fans only for them to be served up with what we have witnessed over the last two seasons.
My wife sent my lad to bed on 70 minutes because he started shooting our players on tv with a nerf gun asking why we were so rubbish and why do we keep losing. Glad I wasn’t there otherwise I’d have joined in with him in all honesty.
Daniel son, thanks for the training ground and stadium but you need to pick up the phone to Jeff and tell him to name his price, clear your desk and exit through the tradesmen’s entrance because you ain’t sorting this out.

 

[dondo]

No, no. They're still guilty. Only those players who stayed on the pitch can be absolved.

The fans were told the players would come out and to stay in their seats.

Then the fans were bade goodbye over the tannoy. The words were along the lines of 'thank you for your support this season. Have a safe journey home'. The clear implication was that they should leave. But some still remained.

Then some of the players came out.

It's obvious that the intent was not to come out, but the club wanted to close the stadium for the night, but some fans were just not leaving. Short of ejecting them, which would not have looked very good with all the negative PR the club's had over the last few weeks and then that pisspoor performance, it's obvious someone told the players to come out so the remaining fans would leave.

It was just to get the remaining fans out of the stadium. If they had their druthers, they wouldn't have come out at all.

That’s disgraceful this club from top to bottom are rotten to the core atm

 

[G Ron]

That performance was as bad as anything served up during the 90’s when we were completely shit, and the atmosphere in the stands was as toxic as I’ve ever experienced in all my years going to games. I can’t remember wholesale calls for Levy’s head before. Maybe that’s why he decided to sit all attending fans as far away from the pitch as possible!

 

[Harryson]

In that case you’d never go to a game again until levy & co are out? I’m sorry but that’s the opposite of what some people want. Can’t let the owners distance us from the team - it’s our team not theirs. I’ll support when I want ?

No need to apologise as you are the perfect fan for Levy and Co

 

[sundanceyid10]

That performance was as bad as anything served up during the 90’s when we were completely shit, and the atmosphere in the stands was as toxic as I’ve ever experienced in all my years going to games. I can’t remember wholesale calls for Levy’s head before. Maybe that’s why he decided to sit all attending fans as far away from the pitch as possible!

Levy built the stadium and he has now completely lost the fans I think, he really should step aside. I don’t trust him and those involved in recruitment to get it right at all. I don’t think Kane thinks they will get it right. I think whatever money is spent there is a high probability it will be spent poorly.

 

[rez9000]

I love the club too but I know when I being taken for a ride imo we should take a short term hit on paying for tickets, merchandise and such for long term benefits for the club. The owners need to know that we as supporters are not here to pay whatever they think they can get away with charging.
£60 a ticket in a one off game after COVID, after ESL, after the shit show of a season, after our best and very loyal player giving up hope and now wants to leave. Enough is a enough we as fans have to do something for change and the only thing ENIC understand is money apparently because they certainly don’t give a shit about the fans

You're 100% right, dondo (maybe the description of the fans who turned up was perhaps a little pejorative is all).

The problem is that there will always, always be a constituency within the fanbase who either a) won't give a toss; b) won't think beyond their own immediate itch to watch a game; or c) are just too apathetic.

What's really needed is changes across the whole of football, but then for all the reasons listed above, that won't happen either.

That's the real heartbreaking thing - that football supporters are so blind that we don't see that we do still have some influence, diluted like a homeopathic remedy though it is. There's just no real ability and not enough desire to organise. It sucks.

 

[bubble07]

What’s worrying is that there’s a good chance of us selling the likes of Ndombele Lo Celso and Kane before we ship out Ryan Mates

Levy is in trouble cause he has to either go into the red to save this team(he won’t) or he will have to sell his superstar whilst still claiming we are an ambitious club

Hope he took notes of those boos around the stadium

I can see Harry coming out openly about wanting a new challenge now

He will only take note if we don't renew