Lets all bash Spurs

[The Double]

C'mon then, lets see what you got. We'll take on all comers.





Bring it.






::Paging Clanblue::

[The Double]

I suppose we have to wait until the start of the season for the forum to get traffic.

[Matt Clark]

When will Glennda get the boot? Will he make some of you join him on an isolated farm and take poison?

How many of you will NOT go? Any of you?

[soccernutter]

Originally posted by Matt Clark
When will Glennda get the boot? Will he make some of you join him on an isolated farm and take poison?

How many of you will NOT go? Any of you?

Hopefully it will just be Anderton

[Doctor Stamen]

Hmmm, let's see, an average team last season (I think the squad is better this season), a manager who has a high opinion of himself, yet is not able to guide this 'big club' to anywhere near European football, a 'big' reputation based on a fair number of FA Cups and a great team from 40 years ago, and finally a large number (not all, but a fair few) of fans who are arrogant and completely clueless about football.

Prior to the 2001/2 Worthington Cup, all you heard was Spurs fans banging on about how they were going to p_ss on Blackburn, how the Messiah Hoddle was going to get Spurs into Europe 'where they belong', and how Blackburn are an insult to football for even turning up. After the defeat, graceless cockney morons were ringing up moaning about how they were robbed, how they deserve to win, how dare Blackburn beat them etc. No class, no credit to the opposition for beating them or anything like that, just sour grapes. That's why I don't like Spurs or many of their fans.

At least Arsenal have something to be arrogant about.

[sendorange]

Yeah but Tottenham are a much bigger club than Blackburn, always will be. We should have played better and beaten you, it was a crime against football that you won.

;)

[Doctor Stamen]

Like I say, I don't hate all of you, just the ones who seem to phone in on the radio shows, and the sports journalists who are Spurs fans (approx. 85% of those employed in Britain) :).

[Clan]

Originally posted by Doctor Stamen
Like I say, I don't hate all of you, just the ones who seem to phone in on the radio shows, and the sports journalists who are Spurs fans (approx. 85% of those employed in Britain) :).

Thats a damned lie.
No collection of yids would be 85% employed ;)

[Matt Clark]

Originally posted by sendorange
Yeah but Tottenham are a much bigger club than Blackburn, always will be.
;)

Arf ... I think Rovers fans should have that printed on T-Shirts when they head off on their next European away trip.

[Doctor Stamen]

Number of League titles Spurs have won: 2
Number of league titles Blackburn have won: 3

Spurs are no longer a big club, and haven't been for at least 20 years. The only 2 reasons they have ever been considered big are that they were once a very good team in the early 60's, and that they'rein London, so the cathment area of fans is bigger. They'd be the 'size' of Preston if they were in the North West.

[sendorange]

Originally posted by Matt Clark
Arf ... I think Rovers fans should have that printed on T-Shirts when they head off on their next European away trip.

Very apt usage of the singular version of the word "trip". Not much point in participating if you're going to get knocked out in the early stages.

[Matt Clark]

Cute. But not cute enough, given that the little word "next" also lurks within that sentence and, as such, preordains the use of the singular.

Plus, of course, the fact that irrespective of their performance in it this season, Rovers remain a good deal closer to the European level of football than Spurs, either now or in the future.

[sendorange]

Originally posted by Matt Clark
Cute. But not cute enough, given that the little word "next" also lurks within that sentence and, as such, preordains the use of the singular.

Plus, of course, the fact that irrespective of their performance in it this season, Rovers remain a good deal closer to the European level of football than Spurs, either now or in the future.

Pfft! In the future? Blackburn are not going to remain on a similar level to Spurs for much longer. They don't have as many fans, they have a much lower income and Blackburn is an unattractive place to live, something which will most likely still be the case 100 years from now. The only reason they are were they are now is because of the one-off medium term impact of the Walker money, of which no more is forthcoming.

Now they've sold Duff and pushed Dunn out they will slowly slide down the table. It's inevitable.

Even in a very disappointing season Spurs still finished in the top ten. We have a highly rated youth system and the money to buy players, as evidenced by the fact that so far only Chelsea have spent more than us in the Premiership this summer.

[Matt Clark]

And in what does your belief (hope) that Spurs will prove capable of outperforming even the Blackburn of your scenario rest? Your team? Manager? Location? History? Fanbase?

Blackburn’s team is currently better than yours and will perform accordingly. Signings of a calibre that Spurs should but cannot attract will continue to be attainable to Blackburn. Their profile is already higher than Spurs’ and European action is unlikely to alter that basic fact.

Your manager is a mal-adjusted sourpuss whose ego will forever stand in the way of him actually achieving the sort of things to match his sense of self-importance. If man-management were a disease, Hoddle would be the healthiest man in Christendom.

Your location is more attractive than Blackburn in some vague ways, but unfortunately it also houses a growing number of teams at the top of English football that are simply more attractive to prospective purchases. Why go to Spurs when you can go to Arsenal, Chelsea or Charlton. Even West Ham would be preferable in many ways. At least they are going to have some form or relevance in their season this time out. What can Spurs, with their preordained amble through mid-table pointlessness, offer by comparison?

And besides, even those hardened cynics who cannot find somewhere nice to live in the splendour of rural Lancashire or Cheshire can always head off to Manchester or Leeds to maker their home – both are 30 minutes drive away from Blackburn (or, to put it into context for you, the equivalent of driving from Islington to Archway on a busy Tuesday morning)

As to the Walker angle, his money is still a factor in the club – the Jack Walker legacy for the club he loved in the town he loved and helped shape as a modern entity is an easy match for the paltry crumbs on offer from those stalwarts of passionate football devotion … ENIC Investments Ltd. Don’t let the purchase of one rated but entirely unproven Portugese player fool you. You paid £8m for Dean Richards too and he has hardly been leading the charge to silverware. Ah well … at least Darren Anderton has signed on for another year on the treatment table, eh?

[The Double]

Originally posted by Matt Clark
the purchase of one rated but entirely unproven Portugese player fool you. You paid £8m for Dean Richards too and he has hardly been leading the charge to silverware. Ah well … at least Darren Anderton has signed on for another year on the treatment table, eh?



Did you see Porto's demolition of Lazio in Rome?

[Matt Clark]

No.

But I saw PSV's demolition of Spurs in London.

[soccernutter]

Originally posted by The Double
Did you see Porto's demolition of Lazio in Rome?

Don't bother with him, he's clearly lost the plot. He said that West Ham would be preferable...in division 1....after selling everybody.

[Matt Clark]

Well you know what they say ... pain is better than numbness.

[giggs88]

why do people hate the spurs?

[andylovesoccer]

Originally posted by giggs88
why do people hate the spurs?

surely it's not out of jealousy