Best Spurs Blog - VOTE NOW!!!

[Dan Yeats]

Nominations are all in, and it's time to see which blog is SC's favourite. Maybe someone can make them a poorly crafted badge in Microsoft Paint or something.

Vote for your favourite in the poll. Then if you can be arsed, post your top three. If I can be bothered, I might compile the results so that we can see who got Gold, Silver & Bronze. I wouldn't hold your breath though, I'm incredibly lazy and have the attention span of a confused otter.

So here we go. For your discerning consideration I present you the blog title, the URL, and the heading and first three sentences of the latest post. In some cases, this last bit will probably be meaningless. In others, it may highlight how regularly (or not) it's updated...

In alphabetical order, we have:

All Action No Plot
http://www.allactionnoplot.com/
Spurs - Fulham Preview: One Final Hurrah
"So it all comes down to a rather rummy type of Cup Final in which victory might not necessarily suffice. No need to remind anyone of all the permutations, with England managers and Bayern Munich and the alignment of the planets and so forth. Our heroes might be advised simply to concentrate on the glorious stretch of greenery that is White Hart Lane, and the 90-odd minutes that lie ahead."

Cartilage Free Captain
http://www.cartilagefreecaptain.com/
Daniel Levy Reportedly Won't Sell Modric Unless He Gets £40m
"Interesting report from the UK Press Association, who claim that Tottenham Hotspur Chairman Daniel Levy has set a £40 million price tag on Croatian midfielder Luka Modric. This comes in the face of rumours linking Modric to Real Madrid in a deal worth closer to £30 million. This reported increased price tag would show no wavering from Levy after last summer's transfer saga with Modric."

Dear Mr Levy
http://www.dearmrlevy.com/
Ledley King. A superman with a knee made of kryptonite.
"Ledley King has been in a perpetual state of retirement for years. The piece below is poignant, something I wrote for 2Hal/ves, a one-shot fanzine released on the day of the North London derby in October, 2009. Ledley will always be our King"

Harry Hotspur
http://harry-hotspur.com/
HE’S SIGNED & I’M DELIGHTED TO HEAR IT
"Good evening. I come bearing better than half good tidings. Emmanuel Adebayor the man they couldn’t hang – no matter how hard they seemingly tried – is a Yiddo."

Spurs Musings from JimmyG2
http://jimmyg2.blogspot.co.uk/
Luka's letter to his agent
"Greg's climbed back aboard the Musings tandem, thank God. I don't think we'll ever catch that Bradley Wiggins now. Ade's transfer has stalled, Ledley's bowed to the inevitable, Luka's 'psychologically' unfit to train according to the Spanish press."

TottenhamBlog
http://www.tottenhamblog.com/
Spurs linked with Spanish international winger
"Much of the media is expecting an announcement on Luka Modric to Real Madrid in the next few days and they also anticipate a replacement to be installed at the Lane shortly afterwards. Alternatives to Joao Moutinho, whose fee is thought to exceed £30m are also being suggested and one of the more interesting of these is Malaga winger Santi Cazorla. The 27 year old Spanish international played a grand total of 16 minutes in two games at Euro 2012 but he does have 45 international caps to his name, scoring six times."

Tottenham on my Mind
http://tottenhamonmymind.wordpress.com/
An Unassuming Hero: A Tribute To Ledley King
"He departed in the manner that befits the man. News of Ledley King’s retirement slipped out on the official site, no press conference or media blitz, just a few heartfelt words in tribute to the club he served with unswerving loyalty, tinged with unspoken regret at what might have been. King never sought to draw attention to himself."

Triffic Tottenham
http://triffictottenham.co.uk/
AVB Has Cash To Splash On A Big Name Striker
"Seen some of the links with the likes of Hulk and Falcao in the last couple of days and many people think there's no chance we could afford a big name striker but I beg to differ and here's why. We sold Dimitar Berbatov for around £34m and that money was never spent on a big name striker and it has become evident that we needed that in the last 3 years. Instead we brought in Crouch, Defoe, Keane, Pav, we have now sold Keane, Pav and Crouch for a total of about £20m+."

Who Framed Ruel Fox?
http://www.whoframedruelfox.com/
Striker Close to Move, New Kits and the Great Demise of Chirpy
"The good times, they just keep on a-rollin’. André Villas-Boas delivered his first interview for Spurs TV on Wednesday, after which he held a delightfully brief Q&A for a select group of press-types, who’d also taken the opportunity to get their peepers on our new, state-of-the-art training centre at Enfield; a seventy-three acre sprawl of modernity and mortar which, from the outside, looks like it tumbled out of the brain of Isaac Asimov. It has a swimming pool, too, don’t you know."

Windy's Blog
http://windycoys.blogspot.co.uk/
16/07/12 Kingstonian 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur XI, Kingsmeadow Stadium
"The match kicked off 10 minutes late, presumably due to the large number of fans queueing for tickets, and it took a while for the match to settle. Miles saved well from a free kick, before Ceballos played Pritchard in on the right, and he was fouled as he cut in. Ceballos shot well over from distance, and then Nathan Byrne burst forward from right back to win a corner."


Voting closes next Saturday. I think. Depends if I've cocked the poll up or not.

 

[tototoner]

I read Dear Mr Levy and Windy

 

[Armstrong_11]

i love reading DML... always worth a laugh or 2...

oh and...

 

[StartingPrice]

Windy.
Very informative, particularly on youth matters.
Most of the rest replicate what's available on here, parrots newspapers, talks plain sheeeeeee-ite, or, worst of all, apire to literary talents their meagre abilities do not warrant.

 

[JimmyG2]

Windy.
Very informative, particularly on youth matters.
Most of the rest replicate what's available on here, parrots newspapers, talks plain sheeeeeee-ite, or, worst of all, apire to literary talents their meagre abilities do not warrant.

Very unfair criticism.
Most of the blogs on this list are well written, often funny and written with some passion
and knowledge. I exclude my own obviously.
Not one of them has literary pretensions.
I think that most newspapers rob the blogs and not the other way round.
Certainly Spurs Community, a fansite that I frequent daily, is useful
for judging fans response to events and with permission
I certainly use its useful video archive.
To dismiss them all with the same blanket criticisms
is clearly unfair they are all very different.

Voted for Windy for its comprehensive cover of the young players
and its unique photo analysis of goals conceded.
Some people even blame him for us conceding so many goals.

 

[StartingPrice]

Very unfair criticism.
Most of the blogs on this list are well written, often funny and written with some passion
and knowledge. I exclude my own obviously.
Not one of them has literary pretensions.
I think that most newspapers rob the blogs and not the other way round.
Certainly Spurs Community, a fansite that I frequent daily, is useful
for judging fans response to events and with permission
I certainly use its useful video archive.
To dismiss them all with the same blanket criticisms
is clearly unfair they are all very different.

Voted for Windy for its comprehensive cover of the young players
and its unique photo analysis of goals conceded.
Some people even blame him for us conceding so many goals.

I disagree...legitimately.
I'll read them selectively, via NewsNow...but most of the information is available here most of the time (which is why I will only read them selectively when they promise something new). The only one that doesn't is Windy, which is always informative, well written and contains detail that comes from following the youth.

I did label them all with the same blanket criticism - I listed four criteria, and two of those weren't really critical, just that if they replicate info that's available here or in the papers, I see little point in reading them - if other folk want to and that means they get readers, and even revenues, fine. Not an overly critical thing to say, at all, just a description of how I prefer to spend my time.

Soe of them are sheeeee-ite, and some of them are incredibly pretentious - are you disputing this (given that it is my subjective opinion, anyway)?. There is a reason Harry Hotspur is frowned upon on this site. You aren't Harry Hotspur are you?

I gave a subjective opinion, I wasn't overly harsh with most of them, just that I will only read them if they promise something new or from an unusual angle, rather than following them religiously, whereas Windy is always informative, and covers an angle no-one else does, and so is almost always worth reading. That is a blanced viewpoint, I Suspect the fact that you write a blog caused you to see criticism (ultimately of yourself) where none existed (unless, of course yours is sheeee-ite, pretentious or Harry Hotspur's). Calm down

 

[Montasura]

Windy for me because he does something a touch different with his blog with his analysis of the academy players. A absolutely invaluable resource and font of knowledge if you are interested in keeping up with everything to do with the Spurs stars of the future.

 

[JimmyG2]

I disagree...legitimately.
I'll read them selectively, via NewsNow...but most of the information is available here most of the time (which is why I will only read them selectively when they promise something new). The only one that doesn't is Windy, which is always informative, well written and contains detail that comes from following the youth.

I did label them all with the same blanket criticism - I listed four criteria, and two of those weren't really critical, just that if they replicate info that's available here or in the papers, I see little point in reading them - if other folk want to and that means they get readers, and even revenues, fine. Not an overly critical thing to say, at all, just a description of how I prefer to spend my time.

Soe of them are sheeeee-ite, and some of them are incredibly pretentious - are you disputing this (given that it is my subjective opinion, anyway)?. There is a reason Harry Hotspur is frowned upon on this site. You aren't Harry Hotspur are you?

I gave a subjective opinion, I wasn't overly harsh with most of them, just that I will only read them if they promise something new or from an unusual angle, rather than following them religiously, whereas Windy is always informative, and covers an angle no-one else does, and so is almost always worth reading. That is a blanced viewpoint, I Suspect the fact that you write a blog caused you to see criticism (ultimately of yourself) where none existed (unless, of course yours is sheeee-ite, pretentious or Harry Hotspur's). Calm down

I am JimmyG2. The clue is in my name really.
You were very dismissive (sheee-ite; meagre talents)
and just because it's your subjective opinion doesn't mean you are right.
I agree with you about Windy but I don't find that any of them aspire to literary talents,
or are pretentious
(Except mine if you like).
Some of them are news-sheets and reproduce what is in the papers or on fan sites like this one
or are the source of the front page material material on SC.
All of them have some merit and the ones I recommended have many qualities.
'shee-ite is totally meaningless whether applied to Blogs or Spurs players
( as in Jenas is sheee-ite)
Criticism I can take and welcome but lofty dismissal, I think not.

 

[Dan Yeats]

I've not read all of the nominations yet so I'm reserving my vote until I do.

In response to SP's post: In respect of blogs covering the same stuff that's in the papers - I don't have a problem with that personally, so long as the author puts their own slant/opinion on it, and does that well. Although if you mean just reproducing 'News' without any original take on it, I have to agree.

 

[Armstrong_11]

hmm... don't think we should be flaming people's blog's a blog is like a dairy entry, it's the person's personally thots and feelings.

a blog is a blog, you can write whatever the hell you want, and it's up to us to read it, or not. if you don't like whats on the tele, just change the channel.

 

[tototoner]

hmm... don't think we should be flaming people's blog's a blog is like a dairy entry, it's the person's personally thots and feelings.

a blog is a blog, you can write whatever the hell you want, and it's up to us to read it, or not. if you don't like whats on the tele, just change the channel.

Very much this

Apples and Oranges

 

[StartingPrice]

I am JimmyG2. The clue is in my name really.
You were very dismissive (sheee-ite; meagre talents)
and just because it's your subjective opinion doesn't mean you are right.
I agree with you about Windy but I don't find that any of them aspire to literary talents,
or are pretentious
(Except mine if you like).
Some of them are news-sheets and reproduce what is in the papers or on fan sites like this one
or are the source of the front page material material on SC.
All of them have some merit and the ones I recommended have many qualities.
'shee-ite is totally meaningless whether applied to Blogs or Spurs players
( as in Jenas is sheee-ite)
Criticism I can take and welcome but lofty dismissal, I think not.

But, as I have explained to you once already, I didn't say they were all sheeeeeee-ite and pretentious. I listed four categories, two of which I subsequently explained, as you seemed to have imputed a negative value to, I don't have any problems with, just that I will only read them selectively when I think they are dealing with something new or in a new way, whereas Windy's always does, which is why I always read it, and voted for it as the best one.
I have already explained this to you once - maybe you could read it again.

If you don't think there are any crap blogs out there then you clearly haven't read as many, or as often as I have - I have read a few dreadful ones. I didn't say all the above named were crap. And I have read some truly pretentious blogs, too. Again, I didn't say all of the above were.

And, please note this as it is very, very important, I listed four seperate criteria that I feel apply to one or other of the blogs I have seen online, apart from Windys. Only two of those criteria were negative and they only apply to a small number - but they do exist. You have only imparted a wholly negative, composite of all four onto all the blogs named as applying to all of the blogs named because you are being hypersensitive because you are one of the blog writers.

Asking if you were Harry Hotspur was a joke - believe me, I figured out after a split second that by calling yourself JimmyG2, by, er, the fact that your username is, er JimmyG2 - I'm quite sharp in that way.

I've not read all of the nominations yet so I'm reserving my vote until I do.

In response to SP's post: In respect of blogs covering the same stuff that's in the papers - I don't have a problem with that personally, so long as the author puts their own slant/opinion on it, and does that well. Although if you mean just reproducing 'News' without any original take on it, I have to agree.

In response to Dan Yeats post: I actually said this in my explanatory post because JimmyG2 was being hypersensitive in thinking I wasn't rubbishing all blogs except Windys in a blanket fashion. I have no problem with most of them, and read quite a few of them on occasion - just not religiously, whereas I always read Windys as it is always new and unique and deals with something that isn't really covered elsewhere.

hmm... don't think we should be flaming people's blog's a blog is like a dairy entry, it's the person's personally thots and feelings.

a blog is a blog, you can write whatever the hell you want, and it's up to us to read it, or not. if you don't like whats on the tele, just change the channel.

1) I didn't flame all the blogs. Perhaps you should read what I said rather than what JimmyG2 thought I said.

2) Blogs are uploaded onto the Internet and put into the public domain because the authors want them to be read - if they expect blanket, uncritical applause they are being very niave. I am entitled to my subjective opinion of what I read, just as if it were a book. Most of them are reasonable enough, and sometimes thought provoking - when I feel they may be the latter, I will happily read them. When they are the former, I am happy enough for others to read them and make no criticism of them, just prefer to not spend too much time on them myself. Some are very poor and I am entitled to say so.

3) I never said blog writers couldn't write whatever the hell they like - I made a value judgement that issued two pretty neutral criteria and 2 negative criteria, I never indicated in any way that all applied to every blog, that was JimmyG2s imputation. The issue here doesn't seem to be blog wirters writing whatever the hell they like, it seems to be that I dared to say some of them are poor quality, which is my subjective opinion, and, seemingly, I'm not allowed to say

4) Blog writer are you?

 

[Armstrong_11]

that post wasn't targeted at you SP, it was in general before an all out flaming wars starts.

so guys... just vote, leave some comments/recommendations. and we'll all get along just fine.

 

[StartingPrice]

that post wasn't targeted at you SP, it was in general before an all out flaming wars starts.

so guys... just vote, leave some comments/recommendations. and we'll all get along just fine.

Apologies - now I'm the one being hypersensitive

 

[Spurrific]

They're all Spurs fans so they're cool in my books. I haven't heard of most of them as I don't do much blog reading, I read Windy's though, love his work, people like him and Spursidol and Jondesouza (spelling?) from here go out of their way to keep us updated with information about youth and stuff which I find particularly interesting.

 

[JimmyG2]

Apologies - now I'm the one being hypersensitive

Peace brother.
You don't write a public blog if you are hypersensitive, believe me.
I've been going for over 3yrs now and my co-blogger and I are approaching 500.000 hits.
We often make the top ten on Newsnow and occasionally number 1.
We write because we love Spurs, no money ever changes hands,
and we feel that we have something to contribute to the Tottenham story.
We try to be informative and entertaining
in our own individual and perhaps quirky way.

HoweverI think that we are talking at cross purposes.
I am mainly referring to the blogs that I recommended and was very positive about.
For every blog that survives there are 20 or 30 that sink without trace
and even not all of them are shee-ite.
But some are obviously, unfortunately they are the ones that sometimes survive.

Anyway I think our spat has taken up enough site-space
and I will PM you if I have anything to add.

Contact me if you want to take out a subscription to Spurs Musings .
We have a very good offer on at the moment.
This is a joke.

 

[C0YS]

Windy's less for his opinions more for the massive amount of work he puts in to that site.

I sometimes read dear mr levy. Now while he can write I often think he can be offensive and pretty stubbern. But can see why people enjoy his blog. tottenham on my mind can also be worth a look.

The problem is a truly great blog of.spurs does not yet exist. I would be much more interested if some of the more interesting members wrote a blog. I think a few members could produce something thought provoking or enlightening (i.e. spursking)

p.s. those who voted harry hotspur should be shot

 

[JimmyG2]

Windy's less for his opinions more for the massive amount of work he puts in to that site.

I sometimes read dear mr levy. Now while he can write I often think he can be offensive and pretty stubbern. But can see why people enjoy his blog. tottenham on my mind can also be worth a look.

The problem is a truly great blog of.spurs does not yet exist. I would be much more interested if some of the more interesting members wrote a blog. I think a few members could produce something thought provoking or enlightening (i.e. spursking)
p.s. those who voted harry hotspur should be shot

And probably never will because no blog will appeal to everyone,
because people asre looking for different things.
It requires many things to write a blog, including persistance and time.
Knowledge is a pre-requisit, attitude and a point of view are important; ability to write in an entertaining way:
humour is useful and a love of your subject producing passion goes a long way.
A thick skin is handy too because you can't please all the people all of the time
and some of the people any of the time.

Some of the interesting posters on here might simply not have the time or the inclination
which is why they put a clock on the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

 

[guiltyparty]

I missed the nomination process

I would have voted for Such Small Portions

 

[Kaboooom]

Dear Mr Levy, by a mile. Always a great and amusing read.