The Y Word

[THFCSPURS19]

People seriously need to move on from this word the sooner the better for all. It was used for a reason and has served its purpose long ago. And if u think the club is not going to enforce this in the near future then you are mistaken. With face recognition in the stadium they can hand out warnings and bans like candy.

Ok so if 16000 people in the South Stand continually sing it, you think they're going to eventually ban every single person? Not a chance pal.

 

[absolute bobbins]

The club would be bannings tens of thousands of people who would otherwise be happy to pay them upwards of £1,000 per year. They are simply not going to do that. No business in their right minds would.

Also trying to ban Jews for saying yid would make the club a laughing stock. If AJ Tracey did a gig at the new stadium would the club would the club try and eject any black person who dropped the N bomb?

 

[Primativ]

I’m ambivalent towards it. I don’t use the term, or identify with it. I’ve probably only a handful of times actually joined in with the chant at a game.

So if it was banned it wouldn’t bother me at all.

 

['O Zio]

With face recognition in the stadium they can hand out warnings and bans like candy.

I believe the phrase you're looking for is "...like NayimFTHL hands out disagree ratings"

 

[Saoirse]

If the club thinks outright banning Spurs supporters saying yiddo or yid army from the stadium is a good idea, they are in for a rude awakening. If you or anyone else thinks banning it will stop the anti semitic songs and verbage from other clubs supporters, you are sorely mistaken.

Precisely. Last time we had all this when the Met tried to stop us, we were greeted by chanting from West Ham - "He's coming for you, He's coming for you, We can't say his name, But he's coming for you - hsssssss". So not exactly a roaring success in terms of stopping anti-semitism. And the Jews in the crowd, the vast majority of whom will have had family members killed in the Holocaust, were given a choice between sitting politely and ignoring it or risking arrest and prosecution while the fascist scumbags got away scot free. How anybody reckons that's an improvement is beyond me.

 

[NayimFTHL]

If the club thinks outright banning Spurs supporters saying yiddo or yid army from the stadium is a good idea, they are in for a rude awakening. If you or anyone else thinks banning it will stop the anti semitic songs and verbage from other clubs supporters, you are sorely mistaken.

How would u know? U live in the states. in the new park lane my estimate is a lot less than half the stand sing it. We have 80,000 in the waiting list. Go figure

 

[NayimFTHL]

Ok so if 16000 people in the South Stand continually sing it, you think they're going to eventually ban every single person? Not a chance pal.

I'm there every home game have been for years as have a group of friends. I would say 30% sing it and that is being generous

 

[absolute bobbins]

This thread needs 100% more polls.

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

So 'everyone' understands the argument yet still disagrees? Smh. Fwiw I sit in park lane and I hear it less and less every time I go. And eventually they will put a stop to it because to a lot of ppl it is offensive as the article shows. You can be stubborn and disagree all you want but that's the truth. When the club enforce the ban other clubs will enforce it too. Were in 2019 not the seventies

I know I've already replied to this but your comment is still bothering me.

I can understand the theory that if we stop then other clubs will follow. But to suggest this approach is the 2019 way of thinking is completely absurd. Your approach is the 70s way of thinking not the other way round.

The old school approach to reducing sexual assault would be to make women dress more conservatively and not get drunk. The 2019 approach is just "how about men don't assault women". Women don't need to take the lead on this issue same as we shouldn't need to take the lead on being subjected to anti-semitic abuse.

 

[McFlash]

Can we put a poll on this thread? I'd be interested in the numbers.

As for my view, it's a mark of our solidarity.
As that previous post said, you can be male, female, black, white, gay, straight or anything and everything in between, but we're all Yids together and we'll stand shoulder to shoulder with pride.

There are more important issues that need to be addressed in football, that affect a far wider section of the population, than this.

 

[absolute bobbins]

I know I've already replied to this but your comment is still bothering me.

I can understand the theory that if we stop then other clubs will follow. But to suggest this approach is the 2019 way of thinking is completely absurd. Your approach is the 70s way of thinking not the other way round.

The old school approach to reducing sexual assault would be to make women dress more conservatively and not get drunk. The 2019 approach is just "how about men don't assault women". Women don't need to take the lead on this issue same as we shouldn't need to take the lead on being subjected to anti-semitic abuse.

If you expand out the reasoning it could easily imply that if you’re getting antisemitic abuse you should just stop being so bloody Jewish.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

I'm there every home game have been for years as have a group of friends. I would say 30% sing it and that is being generous

I'm also there every home game and could not see a single person near me in the South Stand not shouting 'Yiddo' when Lo Celso and Sessegnon were introduced to the crowd. The chant was fucking loud, not a chance only 30% were singing it.

 

[Saoirse]

There certainly is not a notable portion of the crowd that joins in the noise but stays quiet during Yid chants.

 

[BPR_U16]

I'm there every home game have been for years as have a group of friends. I would say 30% sing it and that is being generous

Garbage
There were significant numbers chanting Yiddo to Ndombele when he scored, when the tribute to Justin was shown.
Several times YidArmy broke out in a chorus and for you to say 30% joining in was generous means in polite terms your head must have been up your arse.Do not be blinded by your belief.
Whether you like the term or not, it is still widely sung by Spurs supporters. Is it less than before - possibly. will the club ban everyone for singing it - not yet.
You and people like you will still have to wait a few more years. Their is a history attached to the word Yid that still means something.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

when the tribute to Justin was shown.

Forgot to mention that - was probably the loudest 'Yiddo' chant of the night. Remarkable that 18.5k people can make such noise.

 

[riggi]

No one sings anything in the new stadium.

 

[Darrenh61]

I'm there every home game have been for years as have a group of friends. I would say 30% sing it and that is being generous

I respect your stance on the yid word even though I disagree however this comment is absolute horseshit. The volume of Yid chants following Justin Edinburgh’s memorial, lo celso and Ryan’s introduction, tanguys goal was way way way more than 30%, each and every time, that is fact without a doubt.

In addition, the best sung song in the south stand where dad and I sit is “the thing I like most is being a yid” 100%

 

[NayimFTHL]

I respect your stance on the yid word even though I disagree however this comment is absolute horseshit. The volume of Yid chants following Justin Edinburgh’s memorial, lo celso and Ryan’s introduction, tanguys goal was way way way more than 30%, each and every time, that is fact without a doubt.

In addition, the best sung song in the south stand where dad and I sit is “the thing I like most is being a yid” 100%

30% of the south stand not the whole stadium I thought I made that clear. Also I clearly estimated this percentage from where I sit in the south west area. I'm not gonna argue with ppl on here who heard what and how much because its pointless everyone will have their own opinion.

 

[spurs_girl_tasha]

There certainly is not a notable portion of the crowd that joins in the noise but stays quiet during Yid chants.

30% of the south stand not the whole stadium I thought I made that clear. Also I clearly estimated this percentage from where I sit in the south west area. I'm not gonna argue with ppl on here who heard what and how much because its pointless everyone will have their own opinion.

Although saying that, where I'm sat you're lucky if you get 30% singing "come on your spurs". We have a lot of tourists and a lot of miserable fans that just don't sing regardless.

 

[Saoirse]

Although saying that, where I'm sat you're lucky if you get 30% singing "come on your spurs". We have a lot of tourists and a lot of miserable fans that just don't sing regardless.

Yeah that much is true. I'm in the SE corner which seems to be a fairly good spot so I've got lucky there, but you can tell a lot of it is quite shocking most of the time.