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Why aye Cabaye said:
Spurs are clearly one of the top 6 sides in the league. If you are at the top, there will also be lots of focus and talk surrounding your club. Not only from the media, but from other fans also. Some of this will be accurate, some won't. But people won't know until they ask the question. As this forum is supposed to be somewhere people can post at their leisure they aren't usually going to put serious research into what they are posting, but rather look for the opinions of others who may know.

You'd probably rather be near the top of the league and have people talk about you than be someone like Wigan who hardly ever get a mention.
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WAC - people always talk about us. We are always news, certainly for the last 50+ years I've been following the club. It's some people's obsession with us that causes many of the problem. We've had so much stick from idiot West Ham and Portsmouth fans over Redknapp, that the subject is practically beyond rational discussion on a cross board thread. Unlike Newcastle, London hosts many clubs, and the rivalry between us and at least three of them is intense and often bitter.

I can guarantee you now that if I went down to the pub and Blackburn took the lead, there'd be quite a few cheers. Not because there'd be any Rovers fans in the pub, but because there'd be Arsenal/Chelsea/West Ham/whoever wanting to take a dig at us. London is also the media capital as you know, and again this leads to intense scrutiny for us, especially as many journalists are West Ham/Arsenal/Chelsea with the resultant bias and nastiness that follows from that.

Next time you see a story about Bassong, VDV, or whoever, 'moaning/whinging/ready to leave' please remember the bias and lies that are rampant in the London media.
 
Why has this post been so villified? The one thing we don't need to get defensive about is our financial situation. Water off a ducks back and all that.

Still, it doesn't pay to get blase about these things. We didn't get rid of half the dead wood we needed to in the summer. Bentley is still taking our coin (in principle) as is JJ, and we have a shedload of "professionals" who never kick a ball in anger. And a stadium to build. And increasing pressure on Levy to give pay rises to key players. But we'll cope.
 
Ensiluokkainen said:
Before the week of the Newcastle Spurs game the Spurs board never saw a Newcastle follower posting on it - all of a sudden the board has been inundated with cross board threads involving Newcastle and Spurs. Yesterday there was one posted with 70 odd comments, 9 of which were from Spurs fans and it ended in anti semantic and homophobic insults, before that there was one about Bassong with 80 odd comments of which just 10 were from Spurs fans.

Why or why do these Newcastle followers think we're interested in their thoughts and opinions?
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I'm not sure any of us feel strongly enough about the meaning of words and phrases to start slagging them off to a bunch of spurs fans.
 
Ghoddle10 said:
WAC - people always talk about us. We are always news, certainly for the last 50+ years I've been following the club. It's some people's obsession with us that causes many of the problem. We've had so much stick from idiot West Ham and Portsmouth fans over Redknapp, that the subject is practically beyond rational discussion on a cross board thread. Unlike Newcastle, London hosts many clubs, and the rivalry between us an at least three of them is intense and often bitter.

I can guarantee you now that if I went down to the pub and Blackburn took the lead, there's be quite a few cheers. Not because there'd be any Rovers fans in the pubs, but because there'd be Arsenal/Chelsea/West Ham/whoever wanting to take a dig at us. London is also the media capital as you know, and again this leads to intense scrutiny for us, especially as many journalists are West Ham/Arsenal/Chelsea with the resultant bias and nastiness that follows from that.

Next time you see a story about Bassong, VDV, or whoever, 'moaning/whinging/ready to leave' please remember the bias and lies that are rampant in the London media.
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Why aye Cabaye said:
Well lads (Spurs & Toon) - I rather enjoyed our Sunday morning interaction <ok>

Think we cleared it all up in the end!
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:) WAC - yep, I hope no hard feelings will remain over this one, it really is a touchy subject for many Spurs fans.

I'll let you into a little secret, lots of Spurs fans didn't like Harry when he joined, and many are still poised to put the verbal boot in, at any given moment. Even someone like me who had no prior bias against Harry has sometimes got a bit aggrieved at Harry's 'openess' regarding our club and players. But that's a little Spurs secret, so don't let the others know about it ;-)

Fact is, for all his his faults Harry's been a very good/great manager for us. Should he leave for England though, I'll wish him well, with full confidence that Spurs will continue to prosper under new management.
 
Why aye Cabaye said:
Well lads (Spurs & Toon) - I rather enjoyed our Sunday morning interaction <ok>

Think we cleared it all up in the end!
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Well you got a ton of posts and views! No hard feelings, as has been said the subject is a sensitive one here, (like Shearer's hair "island" at the front of his bonce.) Come back again fella, it is a good board really.
 
Hoddle Is A God said:
There's nothing quite like a furious mass debate to blow-off the cobwebs, eh <ok>
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Ghoddle10 said:
:) WAC - yep, I hope no hard feelings will remain over this one, it really is a touchy subject for many Spurs fans.

I'll let you into a little secret, lots of Spurs fans didn't like Harry when he joined, and many are still poised to put the verbal boot in, at any given moment. Even someone like me who had no prior bias against Harry has sometimes got a bit aggrieved at Harry's 'openess' regarding our club and players. But that's a little Spurs secret, so don't let the others know about it ;-)

Fact is, for all his his faults Harry's been a very good/great manager for us. Should he leave for England though, I'll wish him well, with full confidence that Spurs will continue to prosper under new management.
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Yeah, I think Harry probably sees England as a good way to round off his career - and he'll do a better job than Capello and get the players playing for the shirt. And I've now got a better insight into the inner-workings of Spurs <ok> Didn't realise there were some doubts from some around Redknapp when he joined.

Now time for Man U v Man C, think they'll dish up a few fireworks...
 
Chirpy rides again said:
Well you got a ton of posts and views! No hard feelings, as has been said the subject is a sensitive one here, (like Shearer's hair "island" at the front of his bonce.) Come back again fella, it is a good board really.
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At the age of 26 I'm unwillingly copying Shearer's hair island <laugh>

You lot obviously care about your club - can't argue against that.
 
Ensiluokkainen said:
So £60k a week isn't the most you pay then is it <doh>
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To clarify. The club now has a rigid £60k/week wage cap. Colo is on more because his existing contract is still running. But he will have to take a pay cut to get a new one. Going forward there is a determination to keep wages affordable.
 
Hoddle Is A God said:
Please understand this Toon wums, we will show absolutely no mercy to any idiot who comes onto our board to spout these pathetic insults. Many others, far better than you, have tried it before you, and they were sent away with their tails between their legs. Please, save your breath, and go and abuse a Sunderland fan <ok>
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Ensiluokkainen said:
Well obviously the OP of this thread, a follower of Newcastle, cared enough about Spurs to post the article.

If a Spurs fan had posted an article such as this then he, or she, would be bright enough to realise that checking the facts prior to posting would prevent them looking stupid and showing up the club they support. That your fellow Newcastle follow obviously isn't bright enough to do shows him and his club up.

Your final sentence was petty, puerile and uncalled for.
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Herp derp derp. We are spurs we are superior beings.

Chirpy rides again said:
So in the unlikely event of Harry ruining us, would we look like this?

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...or this?

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Just curious. <laugh>

You have to love cross board WUMs.
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It's really difficult to find a crying fan isnt it. <ok>
 
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