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Falling in love again

spurs' magna carter

Ronnie Rosenthal
I didn't see this any where else so apologies if it has already been posted. It's from the Fighting C*ck.

Falling in love again

By Paul Johnson • Jul 16, 2014 • 12

Last year as the final whistle sounded on a disappointing season it felt good to get some space and hypothetically suggest not coming back, but here we are ready for more. SniersMoregut looks deep into his soul and tells us why Spurs matter to him and why he can’t wait to get back to simply supporting the club he loves, top four or not.

mmediately after the final whistle it began. A private monologue of misery, one that I’d had on occasions before, but there was something different this time – it felt like an unbreakable bond had in fact been broken. The depth of disappointment I felt was (or seemed) fathoms below the normal post season pain. I thought they’d lost me.

The words flew through my mind:

“I can’t see me renewing after that. One of the worst seasons I can recall in over 30. It wasn’t the results or where we finished. It just felt so awful, so disappointing, so painful, so disorganised, random, aimless and ultimately pointless.

“They’ve lost me. Sherwood, Levy, ENIC, StubHub, Eastlands, The Death Star, all of it. I don’t like it anymore. There’s no good, the joy has gone. I’m done with that.”

But something unexpected happened in the intervening weeks. The sheer, unadulterated joy and brilliance of the World Cup was a surprisingly cathartic experience. Being sucked in to a thrilling festival of football, able to enjoy the games as a near neutral, consuming football in a slightly different way. I could simply admire the unfolding drama of each game as a dispassionate observer.

The results were secondary to the spectacle itself. There was something to admire in every game, something to grip my attention, excite the senses and push me to the edge of my seat. Perhaps even jump out of it. I was left exhausted, excited and elevated after some games. It reminded me why I love football and why I wander up the High Road. Spurs hadn’t lost me, I’d lost Tottenham.

And so I started to think.

What is supporting Spurs all about. Really, if you strip away all the noise and nonsense. Why did I start and what really matters?

April 30th 1978. Tottenham were visiting Southampton, my home town. I knew a lot about Spurs as my two older brothers were devoted fans who on their return from boarding school would always show me their incredible and comprehensive scrap books of newspaper cuttings of match reports. But I’d never been to a real game of football – I’d seen The Big Match frequently and always watched the full day drama of the FA Cup Final but televised football was exceptionally rare.

Here though was a chance to go and see the players in the flesh. In real life. I could watch the idols and heroes I’d read all about and seen very rarely on crappy highlights shows. I could see Glenn.

The fact that Spurs needed to not lose to secure immediate promotion back to Division One was secondary and almost an afterthought. That was not why I was going – although once I was stood on the terrace, I had been sucked into the drama. I was in, this was it, and they had me.

And now 36 years later I think I and many have lost touch with why we go, what the point is and what really matters. We’ve become conditioned and conned into thinking that a finish outside of the Top 4 is a failed season. You’re a nothing club, with no hope, ambition or chance of real success.

When I started going it was 1st or nowhere – and we were never 1st, but now 4th is a success, why is that?

Three sides have done better than you, you’ve won nothing – you’ve just got an invite to dinner at the best restaurant, whilst those that failed get the scraps for the Europa League fast food franchise.

We gauge our Managers and playing staff against this mythical and misleading objective – this mirage of make believe. “FOFO” – 4th or f*** off, might be appended to Pochettino’s contract. But not by me – I’m not falling for it anymore. It’s not why I renewed and it’s not why I’m going.

I’m going because I love Spurs. Because of Glenn and the white shirts. Because we’ll always have a player that will make my heart soar. Because we try and play football the way it should be played.

I’m going because of swagger, for the noise at night games, because of Bill, Ardiles, Archibald, Perryman. I’m going because Gareth Bale was made in Tottenham and I witnessed it.

I’m going because Lamela might illuminate a grey day. I know we’ll lose some daft games but I can’t revel in a win if I don’t accept the risk of losing. There are 36 years between a 7-0 hammering at Anfield in 1978 and a 6-0 massacre at Eastlands – we’ve always been prone to a stuffing. That’s who and what we are. But we also mauled Milan and knocked nine past Wigan.

So my hopes for next season are not hard wired to a Top 4 place. I want to see a flick I’ve never seen before, a volley that takes my breath away, a fight back against the odds. A goal that I can talk about for hours and hours. The emergence of another star in the finest tradition of the club. A chant or song that makes me laugh. A team that cares, that grows and matures playing expansive, free flowing, exciting football that makes my heart race.

A team with an identity. One that looks like Tottenham.

I’m letting go of the Sky induced fixation and I already feel better for it.

Hello Tottenham – GHod I’ve missed you

Like I've said before, f@ck the Top Four! For me it's about trophies now and also going back to the Tottenham Way, I feel ashamed that I ever doubted it, that I sometimes posted stuff that defended AVB's kill joy football and talked about how it 'held us back'. I was wrong, the Tottenham Way is what makes us the great club that we are, and even if doesn't make us great it's still who we are and we shouldn't just accept that but embrace it.

We Are Tottenham.
 
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Good post.

I can almost hear Roger Lloyd-Pack narrating that clip they play at the Lane sometimes. We are Hoddle,Ardiles, etc; you know the one
 
Good post.

I can almost hear Roger Lloyd-Pack narrating that clip they play at the Lane sometimes. We are Hoddle,Ardiles, etc; you know the one

This one?

[video=youtube;rCk_MzbbLg0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCk_MzbbLg0[/video]
 
Good article. Not entirely dissimilar to my feelings on the matter.

But I'd add one further required element for me to start feeling the love fully again..............can we have a bit of decent atmosphere back at the Lane, please?

The silence and / or negativity of the past 3-4 seasons is what gets to me (and probably the players) more than anything else. My love for Spurs can (and has) survive(d) poor teams, big losses and even dreadful football. The kryptonite that kills it is the appalling attitude of so many Spurs fans who routinely fill the Lane these days. They're either too shy to sing or too wrapped up in their risible sense of entitlement to do anything other than moan and boo and start arguments with other Spurs fans.

Give me a great atmosphere among people who just want to sing for the shirt regardless, and I'm happy.
 
My feeling are similar too. I don't think we can get top 4 and don't really care either. I want to enjoy watching my team again and not feel that every time we play someone above us in the league that we are going to get smashed.

If I was offered 6th place and a real chance of winning the Europa League or FA Cup then I would be delighted. Winning the League cup would be great as well but I would want us to push the top 4 hard if that was our trophy chance considering the lack of impact on the league season it should have after Christmas.

Either way, 5th/6th and a cup win would delight me more than 4th tbh.
 
I don't have the 'Tottenham Way' love. I think it's something Spurs fans have clung onto during the **** years. We certainly didn't play the 'Tottenham way' when I was growing up, watching players like Stefen Iversen, Ruel Fox, Moussa Saib etc.

This is the video I watch to get excited.

[video=youtube;3SrHcjOxnTc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SrHcjOxnTc[/video]
 
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should never have fallen out of love in the first place. i haven't. highs and lows but always spurs. its love with poch now but he'll go in time, and we will still get better.

i'm of the opposite camp preferring consistent CL rather than a trophy.... trophies are a by product of consistent CL participation because you get better extra CL revenue, more fans and merchandising revenue worldwide, and helps you strengthen a team.

glad i supported spurs and glad that levy is chairman. don't mind the 2 steps back if we went 3 steps forwards in the first place - its still one step in the right direction. we'll get there. we just need to keep the faith.

can't wait for the new era with the new stadium.
 
Not sure if serious.......!

It's Jimmy Greaves!

Whoa. It was serious. I completely didn't recognize him! Unfortunately I've never seen a young Jimmy, only a few pictures, and older Jimmy on telly in recent years. I can't help being 22 ;) Thank you though!

I hope in another 50 years I can answer some kid's question about who Robbie Keane or such is ;)

Thank Jimmyb
 
Ok that's got me back. I renewed as I honestly can't see me ever not renewing, it's just I do seem to lose the love every week. But I guess my life would be pretty dull without footy, as much as I love to say id have a great life without it, it'd be pretty boring!
 
Ok that's got me back. I renewed as I honestly can't see me ever not renewing, it's just I do seem to lose the love every week. But I guess my life would be pretty dull without footy, as much as I love to say id have a great life without it, it'd be pretty boring!

Thats the spirit GGG.

It might only be a friendly,but Christ on a bike I cant wait to drive back down to the Lane on the 9th, these 3 month breaks kill me
 
Yeh im going to be less of a moany biatch and support us this year! I'm so annoyed though I might be missing the Liverpool game as got a stag do that weekend in Brighton, is that our first or 2nd home game?

I went to about 6 or 7 games last year, which is truly shocking!
 
Ok that's got me back. I renewed as I honestly can't see me ever not renewing, it's just I do seem to lose the love every week. But I guess my life would be pretty dull without footy, as much as I love to say id have a great life without it, it'd be pretty boring!

Same as me matey, can never see me not having a ST...
 
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