Why did you decide to support Spurs

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We ARE supporters Gareth. We follow our team and their progress wherever we live and whatever our circumstances. We take the time to watch their games by whatever means is both possible and feasible in our varied and altogether different lives. We share in their defeats, rejoice in their victories, shout , laugh and cry in anger frustration and ecstasy. We live in hope for improvements in team performance and outcomes and are proud of team their history and our fellow supporters. We ARE supporters Gareth, you my friend are a knobjockey!!!!!!!!!!!

Read BigV's post carefully Gareth because it sums up what supporting Tottenham Hotspur means to an awful lot of people. Personally I couldn't give a sh1te what you think about what you have to do to be a supporter or a fan because at the end of the day you are neither you're a low life scum sucking knob jockey who hijacks threads for his own self gratification. Was you neglected as a child because you seem to have a major problem unless you are the centre of attention and causing argument or trying to belittle people.
 
If you were on fire at the side of the road I wouldn't p1ss on you to put you out, but I would give every other poster on this forum the greatest of respect for putting up with your constant drivvle and insults.
 
Don't bother replying to this post as I won't bother reading it due to the high Sh1te factor that will undoubtly be involved in it !!
 

 
Admin I'm sorry for this rant and understand if you wish to take any action over it, but I had to post it as I really have had enough of Gareth's inflammority posts.

[Gareth Keown]

knob-jockey ??.... that a rather derogatory homophobic phrase which apparently is not to be tolerable on open-forums such as this....  but using your conventions again... I take it its not only allowed but tacitly approved of..

oh dear, I've just highlighted insulting homophobic comments ...... I guess that MUST make me 1 of those 'nasty horrid gay people' in your eyes.... has to be surely...

[dedleysting]

Gareth Keown. You are a f***ing p***k. Why don't you just take you ridiculous opinions else where and leave us "so called spurs fans" to discuss our club in peace.

You have turned this great forums into a hatred forum against you. You have turned every thread into a battle with you bulls**t. Now please, just leave....

[Gareth Keown]

notice fellow fans that I dont have to stoop to petty name-calling to get my point across... as that usually means youve lost the argument and have nothing left to resort to...

I suppose it's left to me to direct you folks again,lets get back to the original thread shall we...

I became a Spurs fan cos I like the way Spurs play, win,lose or draw. Spurs are a team that especially in the last 10yrs can be counted on to play the game the way it was supposed to be played, with flair, tempo and conviction..... also considering myself a Londoner it helped me in my choice..

if Spurs stopped having these qualities to my mind, I would have no hesitation whatsoever in stopping being a fan of the club.

[Chelmsford_yid]

From family, I share a season Ticket wtith my dad, so we take turns on going. When we can go.

[millers-tach]

If proudly following a club, engaging with the supporters club direct, buying the odd piece of merchandise and contributing through Sky subscription (Yep....the clubs get a lot of money through TV rights...money that is essential to the club) and going as and when I, as a student, can afford it and when I can get tickets makes me a wannabee then a wannabe I am and I'll be one with pride.

What's your excuse for being an inflammatory asshole with a superiority complex?

I havent even made it to page 2 of comments yet, but i already predict this one is my favourite post!
 
As for the guy who missed the bus (sorry i for your name) that is a great story.
 
I chose the name out of a Pinini football sticker album in 1980 for two reasons. 1. It is clearly the coolest sounding football team name. 2. Spurs signed Steve Archibald from Aberdeen and he was my favourite player and part of the revulution that started and made Aberdeen kings of Europe for one season.
 
Despite the 1000 mile round trip i have been to WHL plenty times. Usually just with a mates but also a good few times with the ASC as we have great links with Spurs. (not something i am really pround of now that i am an older more mature and sensible adult but we were all young once weren't we?)
 
Scottish football has fallen so far since Sky money that it is actually painful to watch so i would rather walk to London that have to suffer the garbage that is played up here.

[taimedowne]

If you use Gareth's criteria for calling yourself a Spurs fan then only those who attend matches qualify. This means there are only 38,000 (or whatever the current capacity is I cant be arsed to check) Spurs Supporters on the entire Planet at any given time. That is patently bollocks. Gareth, I held a season ticket for 30 years,I went to nearly every home game and an awful lot of away games in that time. Now due to work and family issues I'm not able to go more than a few times a season are you telling me I'm not a Spurs supporter. I don't care if somebody has never set foot in White Hart Lane if they get together with a couple of mates to watch Spurs down the pub that's good enough for me. If they were in their armchair and raised a glass when we qualified for the Champions League that's good enough for me. If they are Passionate enough to come on this website and discuss with other fans the ups and downs of supporting Spurs that's good enough for me. You are being pedantic to the extreme differentiating between fan and supporter you seem to take pleasure in belittling people who for reasons of finance or distance cannot attend matches. We are all there in spirit and always will be. 

[millers-tach]

It surprises me how many people still read/reply to a certain persons replies. I took the decision to not read any of his posts and it's amazing how much more i enjoy this forum now.
 
Unfortunatly I still get the general idea of his mutterings from reading you guys replies.
 
If we all just ignore then the quicker he will move on to annoy others.......hopefully an Ars*nal forum

[Gareth Keown]

well thats all very nice that you are all now Spurs supporters, I'm sure the club are duly grateful of the fact..

maybe if I try very hard, then 1 day even I too might make it to such a hallowed position of club-supporter... in the meantime tho' I'll just have to look up to the rest of you, being but a humble tv-viewing fan of Spurs games that I am.... maybe I'll buy a tea-towel with the Spurs logo on it, that might help..

thanks for putting me straight on that one..

[yidmafioso]

I didn`t have a choice . My whole family are spurs and always have been . My dad took me to my first game at WHL in 1979, a 0-0 draw with southampton and that was that . I`ve been infected by the illness ever since . Just for the record gareth keown , nobody gives a f**k what you think or say . If you don`t support spurs then get off this site .

[Gareth Keown]

its perhaps a pity your dear father didnt bother to spend some of his hard-earned cash sending you somewhere to learn some manners too.... and if you really didnt give, as you quaintly put it, a f**k about what I say then I'm surprised you took the time and effort to mention it...

record straightened methinks.... over and out.

[Derry-Yid]

I started supporting Tottenham in 1990 when they came to play my local team Derry City(who i still support)in a pre-season friendly at our Brandywell Stadium....Spurs were excellent that night brushing aside Derry City 3-0....now,Derry had just won a treble the year before(the first and only team to win a treble in League of Ireland history,to date)so we were no push-overs or so we thought,until a star studded Spurs arrived...i watched them again in the 1991 Fa Cup and i just fell in love with them..as a young teenager then i might add..I've seen them beating Liverpool at Anfield many years ago and i was over at the lane last season for the Sunderland game..hoping to get over again this season...fingers crossed.



Derry City: From - Dalton, Vaudequin, Brady, Curran, Keay, Doolin, Carlyle, Speak, McGee, Healy, Hanrahan, Coady, Hegarty, McBrearty, Gauld.

Tottenham  Hotspur: Thorstevedt (Mimms 46), Bergsson (Thomas 46), Edinburgh (Butters 65),   Sedgley,Howells D, Mabbutt (Walsh 46), Stewart, Gascoigne (Moncur 65), Nayim,  Lineker (Moran 65), Allen.

Goals: Stewart (2), Lineker

Attendance:   12,000
Admission: £4-00
Programme: 50p (24 pages)

[millers-tach]

£4? They were the days!
 
Some good talent on show that day, you chose wisely Derry

[Derry-Yid]

£4? They were the days!
 
Some good talent on show that day, you chose wisely Derry

Yeah £4....i had to beg my mother for it lol....it was the best £4 i ever spent Millers!

[CountPuchi]

LoL Gareth~ Truth be told if i have the time and money to fly week in and week out to London just to watch Tottenham playing i would! Doesnt mean im not from London, im not English and i dont deserve to support Tottenham? Or like you said "Real Supporters"

Really, its kinda sad really if you think that your definition of Real Supporters is kinda short sighted. I can see Spurs go down in the pecking order and virtually unable to compete financially against the other teams who have "Wannabe Supporters".

Think again, i do my best to support my team even if it means i have to fork out alot of money just to get the Spurs Jersey. One day ill go and watch them matches live. Until then ill keep supporting regardless if im what you deemed Wannabe~ I doubt you even spend anything or watch their matches live at the stadium. In your own way with your superiority complex, your undermining your value as a supporter~


  To think i can get my cat to support Spurs better than him~ sigh~ i really really pity you.