Tottenham Supporters - 'True Football Fans'

[Destroyer]

This is a topic ive often voiced my opinions of over the past few years. I know as a football club we have a very good past history & tradition of playing entertaining football plus winning cup competitions, yet since 1991 we have only won 2 cups & had extremely poor final standings in the league table.

Back when i was a kid growing up, Spurs won the FA Cup 1981 & 1982 plus the UEFA Cup in 1984, a good reason to want to back a winning team back in those days. Thats why considering our dismal last 16 years the new generation have had very little good reason to follow Spurs in comparisson of other so-called 'Glory Hunters'.

Tottenham football fans are 'REAL' football supporters. They love the club they support & have waited years for the kind of satisfaction and joy shared at Wembley last week. We are no normal football supporters, we dont follow Liverpool one year, then Arsenal the next and then Chelsea and so on ...

When you take a look at other clubs, big clubs, their following are almost fake & plastic. Look at the atmosphere we created at Wembley last week ?? The FA wish they could get that for an England international ?? Do you think you'd see that in a Manu v Chelsea FA Cup Final ??

No, of course you wont. I'm not saying the other clubs dont have 'REAL' football fans, but they dont have the percentages like we do. Since my son was born in 1997, all he's had in his face when you go shopping is Manu, Arsenal, Chelsea & Liverpool shirts in every sport shop going.

Try looking for the Spurs shirts ?? They either dont stock them, or some scummy Gooner staff has made sure they are well out of view. But my son loves Spurs, just like his dad, & i'm sure there are many more of us out there with Tottenham families too. So i'd just like to salute all of my fellow Tottenham fans & say well done - your one in a million !

 

[matt5768]

I for one dread us becoming a big team in europe and gaining new fans just because we win things (although for all us fans who have supported spurs for years deserve the success)

Just look at manu, chelsea and arsenal fans....arrogance in the form of expecting to win every game, and not really celebrating properly when they win big games

Just look at that corporate ring at emirates, or the pran sandwich brigade at old trafford. Not really what i want at tottenham but i guess its enivitable with the new stadium

 

[wildheart]

I don't think we're all that different to supporters of clubs like West Brom or Nottingham Forest that have had their glory days in the past but have now faded.

The difference with Spurs is we have not dropped out of the Top Flight in many, many seasons and have popped up with the odd cup final and occassional cup win since '84. This has helped us hang on to our fans I think. Being a London club helps too as there are always enough people around to fill a stadium!

Having said that though, I do happen to think the average Spur is a good looking, well rounded, intelligent football fan with exceptional taste.

 

[EmperorKabir]

We will still get the atmosphere in the stadium purely coz the people in the seats are long term season ticket holders, only being replaced by people on the waiting list.

 

[Destroyer]

I think more locally too, what with Arsenal being so successful in the last 12 years, for Spurs to still have such a huge fan base & new generation of support coming thru is good for the future of this club. Other clubs could of folded when a local rival club was having a run of success, but weve stuck by them thru thick and thin.

 

[SpunkyBackpack]

I think we've a pretty blinkered idea about ourselves

I dont want to be the dick that pisses on everyones chips but i think we have the same proportion of plastic fans and knobheads as any other fairly popular prem team

as EK said, the stadium is full of a select group who have waited a damn long time to get there so arent going to be ones that waste such an opportunity

 

[BerbysBootBoy]

were tottenham til we die not tottenham til we become unfashionable ie chelsea fans, this is a good thread though a mate who is at least 10 years older than me bought this up on the tube back from wembley he was so happy that a new generation of spurs fans are seeing us do well and win things

 

[BerbysBootBoy]

I think we've a pretty blinkered idea about ourselves

I dont want to be the dick that pisses on everyones chips but i think we have the same proportion of plastic fans and knobheads as any other fairly popular prem team

as EK said, the stadium is full of a select group who have waited a damn long time to get there so arent going to be ones that waste such an opportunity

all teams have plastics, theres always someone with too much money buying general sale tickets and they are just along for the ride, i still think we have the least plastics due to there not being much glory for them to hunt, i waited along time for my season ticket even if i was skint id probably turn tricks so i could keep it............imso drunk

 

[llamafarmer]

Our support is awesome, but with a bit of success and a new stadium we'll be no different to the others - tons of Johnny-come-latelys who can afford the ever increasing ticket prices. The real fans won't go anywhere, but they'll be diluted by the plastics.

 

[BoringOldFan]

This season I have become disillusioned with (some) Spurs fans. Leaving Wembley after the CC Final I saw men in their 30s/40s clutching 4-6 flags obviously taken from other seats. Clearly they didn't give a f**k about their fellow fan and his/her enjoyment of the day. Maybe they took a flag from a seat where kid would be? Obviously they didn't care.

There were a couple of incidents on my trip to Prague which also led me to think that there are the same kind of fans at all clubs and ours are nothing special.

So no, as a whole I don't think we have the best fans. I had messages from a Gooner friend after our 5-1 win and a Chelsea friend after the CC Final, and both of them showed a lot more grace and class than some Spurs fans I've encountered.

 

[guiltyparty]

This season I have become disillusioned with (some) Spurs fans. Leaving Wembley after the CC Final I saw men in their 30s/40s clutching 4-6 flags obviously taken from other seats. Clearly they didn't give a f**k about their fellow fan and his/her enjoyment of the day. Maybe they took a flag from a seat where kid would be? Obviously they didn't care.

Or maybe they went round picking up the ones that people left behind, to give to their kids/family who couldn't be there? Just a thought…

 

[Chaplain]

No, people were complaining on here that they did not have a flag for the game as there seemed to be spurs "supporters" going around picking them up in their general vicinity.

 

[N10toN17]

Well Bof I was holding 8 flags at one point after the game, hope you weren't tutting at me, I went with another three people and we bought a flag each beforehand and got a flag each at the game on our seats, they all left me and buggered off to the toilets and I was outside the stadium holding all these flags, honest.

 

[DC_Boy]

I may be an old romantic but in my eyes we still are a big team in Europe - it took a ridiculous ref and some great play by the holders to knock us out last year

we're currently 11th in the European (indeed world) income list - we're ranked something like 30th in europe by UEFA and we're 2nd faves to win the UEFA Cup this season - seems like we're a big team to me

as to whether our fans are better than others - I can't really say - we're loyal in that we turn up year in year out - however so many fans seem to think we've had it so hard over the last 10 years or so - that's 10 years while we've been in the top flight - won 2 trophies got to various semi finals and seen some great players

yet you'll hear talk of long suffering Spurs fans - think of what port vale - west ham - charlton - WBA - most clubs have been thru in the last 10 years - I do think too many Spurs fans are negative - too many moan too much - and too many think we have a divine right to be better than teams like Blackburn Everton Bolton Villa Boro etc etc - we don't - the times I hear stuff like 'it's only brum, it's only everton, it's only portsmouth etc'

drives me crazy - if more spurs fans learned to celeberate all our victories they'd be a lot lot happier

 

[BoringOldFan]

Well Bof I was holding 8 flags at one point after the game, hope you weren't tutting at me, I went with another three people and we bought a flag each beforehand and got a flag each at the game on our seats, they all left me and buggered off to the toilets and I was outside the stadium holding all these flags, honest.

:grin: I'm sure it wasn't you, PostCode. These guys were in the massive queue for the tube station after the game. The flags they had still had the elastic bands on, so they'd never been unfurled. Oh to be a flag at Wembley on CC Final day and not to be waved. What is the point of its existence?

My viewpoint may also be slightly biased because I'd spent several hours the day before putting the flags out with the other helpers. I arrived at my section (545) to find that a large area had been cleared out an hour before the game.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Only 3 wembley flags on ebay at the moment ..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOTTENHAM-HOT...ryZ53615QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[TheChosenOne]

tell a lie... just found some more..

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and more..
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[guiltyparty]

My viewpoint may also be slightly biased because I'd spent several hours the day before putting the flags out with the other helpers. I arrived at my section (545) to find that a large area had been cleared out an hour before the game.

Utter cock jockeys

 

[Destroyer]

All i'm saying is considering our huge 'global' fan base, considering the last 15 years of little success, we have attracted more real football fans in comparisson with the other big clubs.

 

[millhouse]

I lost my flag in the celebrations at the end