Your love for spurs versus your love for football?

[DubaiSpur]

Barely watch it outside of Spurs, Toronto FC, the Canadian men and women's NTs and England, when I can stand the sods.

When there's a player I'd like to see more of, it's usually from the standpoint of whether they'd fit Spurs - I then pull up their games or match highlights if I'm particularly interested.

Other than that, mostly nothing. Occasional documentary maybe, mostly on football in the 70s and 80s - well before my time. Sometimes I'll watch an interesting bit on unheralded teams with interesting stories.
Occasionally, my Goon, United and Pool-supporting mates will drag me to a sports bar to watch their teams crush the minnows they play. But on the whole, I'm much more inclined to just watch Spurs than some random game.

Doesn't mean I'm not interested in the wider game - I'm a fierce advocate for fan ownership here and elsewhere, and I've chipped into the funds and initiatives for Wigan, Oldham, Orient and others in recent times. That's probably coloured by my politics more than anything else.

But on the whole, my perception of the game itself is entirely coloured by Spurs first, all else second - and my interest in watching it outside of Spurs is pretty low.

 

[greatwhitenorf]

Echo all that, Dubai.

Spurs are the be-all-and-end-all of my European football watching. Waste incredible amounts of time following them and activities around the club. A pilgrimage to spend a few weeks following Spurs to live games is on my bucket list. Have scarves, shirts, coffee mug. Glance at other league games or maybe watch a half now and then. Mostly had my neutral game watching experience corroded by the soulless propaganda served by DAZN streaming service who have taken over rights to PL and CL games. Just awful listening to soft,league approved commentary from the likes of Peter Drury, Jim Beglin, Efan Ekoku, or pundits like Michael Owen and Tim Sherwood.

Toronto FC are my hometown team and I'm a season ticket holder since year one. We have great fans (avg. more than 25,000 per game).

They've built us a very good stadium and owners and management that play to win (3 finals, 1 title). Kept intact all the season ticket albums from past years - just used print-out or digital tickets. Have a team-autographed ball from Year One ('07) and great memories from work assignments pitch side photographing their games (including Jozy Altidore's fabulous title winning goal against Seattle (he's had a stellar career here and is just a great guy to work around).

And scarves? Home opener ticket each year is a new scarf. My wife is a skilled seamstress and makes cozy blankets out of them.

Soft spots for Rangers, Everton, St. Etienne, Sevilla.

 

[Daisuk]

I generally don't really care about watching games that don't involve Spurs. It's too boring. I need the emotional connection I get with Spurs, otherwise I feel like I'm just wasting my time.

I do watch other games occasionally, if I'm hanging out with friends drinking beers and they want to watch their team play.

Been that way ever since we got a kid five years back. There's just way too few hours to do what I want to do - don't want to waste time watching football I don't give a fudge about. I didn't even watch the CL final this year.

 

[thfcsteff]

I’m not ashamed to admit I was distraught after we lost that final. That whole campaign in Europe evoked a lot of emotions for me. The final was very close to 10 years after my Dad passed away which I have finally got to the stage that it doesn’t upset me that much anymore but the whole anniversary coupled with losing that game was just too much for me to the point where I switched my phone off after the game for about 2 hours, I didn’t even want to talk to my partner who was trying to call me after the game. I don’t want to put myself through that ever again tbh so I try very hard to detach myself from Spurs and from the game as a whole with each passing year.

And now I’ll contradict myself entirely in admitting that I’ll be buzzing if we win a trophy anytime soon.

I don't think I will ever fully recover.
At the time it was an abstract. I had planned to spend the hours after the match through to my flight home that morning absolutely sozzled from celebrating. I was convinced we'd do it. Lucky underpants/superstition, it all meant nothing anymore because this was the day it was going to happen. I was convinced beyond being convinced. And when that stupid, absurd decision happened, I laughed. I laughed because it was beyond my comprehension.

It still is.

 

[AdamB]

I generally don't really care about watching games that don't involve Spurs. It's too boring. I need the emotional connection I get with Spurs, otherwise I feel like I'm just wasting my time.

I do watch other games occasionally, if I'm hanging out with friends drinking beers and they want to watch their team play.

Been that way ever since we got a kid five years back. There's just way too few hours to do what I want to do - don't want to waste time watching football I don't give a fudge about. I didn't even watch the CL final this year.

Similar to me. Used to watch a lot more but since having kids (now 8 and 6) I get no time to watch football during the day and its a bit difficult to subject my wife to non-Spurs football in the evenings

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Hardly watch anything other than Spurs matches and only occasionally check any results from competitions we're not in. The constant overhyping and narrative based commentary by complete imbeciles has really killed my interest in football. Oh, and financial dopers.

It is so over hyped isn't. I even have the mute button on during games.

One of the kids at work said he liked our 'spurs' clam took me ages to figure out he meant central attacking midfielder. I just hate the whole language around football.

My solution is to watch live games with the sound muted most of the time.

Very rarely watch matches on Sky. BT I don't mind as much.

NBC is pretty good and my usual go to for games.

Not that I listen to much of the waffle pre/post game anyway.

 

[nelto]

Similar to me. Used to watch a lot more but since having kids (now 8 and 6) I get no time to watch football during the day and its a bit difficult to subject my wife to non-Spurs football in the evenings

I was at this point at one time, thankfully for me it was the bleak 90's for Spurs. I am totally free now to watch all the matches I want, and Spurs are light years ahead of back then. The missus has taken up knitting, so doesn't mind me watching the footie.

 

[Goatleaf]

Pretty much Spurs matches only. Been like that for years. I love watching them even when they are absolute crap.

Started watching pro football and Spurs in 1968. The crowds and noise were what transfixed me. Later, some never to be forgotten away matches. I'm not saying I want the violence back but the modern experience of near silence broken only by the sound of crisp packets and iphones is deeply depressing when you have known better. The fact that so many players have names I can't pronounce and earn money I can't imagine has a similarly distancing effect. Suspect if I was introduced to pro football today I'd move swiftly on.

 

[StephenH]

I was at this point at one time, thankfully for me it was the bleak 90's for Spurs. I am totally free now to watch all the matches I want, and Spurs are light years ahead of back then. The missus has taken up knitting, so doesn't mind me watching the footie.

Same here, this year is a real struggle with Covid and Jose

 

[Jurgen the German]

I don't think I will ever fully recover.
At the time it was an abstract. I had planned to spend the hours after the match through to my flight home that morning absolutely sozzled from celebrating. I was convinced we'd do it. Lucky underpants/superstition, it all meant nothing anymore because this was the day it was going to happen. I was convinced beyond being convinced. And when that stupid, absurd decision happened, I laughed. I laughed because it was beyond my comprehension.

It still is.

Re the penalty. I still don’t think it was a penalty. It wasn’t the worst decision I’ve ever seen but it seemed harsh then and it still does now. What still annoys me more than the decision was the rush to give it and take without doing any VAR checks. Look at how long they took to review the decisions in both legs against Emirates Marketing Project, they took their time on the penalty in the first leg and the offside in the second leg. But no, champions league final, were not even gonna bother checking it just to make sure. Biggest club game on earth and a decision pops up that could change the dynamic of the game even though it was early, didn’t think it was worth a second look no?

 

[MKSpur]

Very Spurs centric in terms of watching, not sure where I’d get time to watch much else. I do miss watching the other games in the pub when our home match is in between them or just having it on in the background down the pub. My interest outside the Prem doesn’t extend beyond reading the results, probably know more about the championship and league 1 than La Liga.
VAR has ruined the experience (the only positive of it is showing perhaps things weren’t that bad before!) the doping, excessive wages, the hypocrisy of bad behaviour being condoned based on a players ability.
But I still come on here every day, for bantz, for starting 11 discussion and the hope that we are making a couple more transfers. I watched all or nothing, I play FiFa with my son, I take him to his matches and toy with the idea of taking up coaching. I started playing 5 aside again as I used to when I worked in the office, it was the closest thing to normality I could get back into my working week and it’s the only exercise I enjoy. I organised a Saturday game for another regular group and always people I haven’t seen for 6 months. Then I snapped two tendons on my figure making a save and I’m absolutely gutted that by the time it heals we’ll be back in a lockdown situation. There may be a point when I have enough of the time I dedicate to watching and taking about Spurs, but that would make me a non practicing fan as opposed to a non fan. I review the season ticket situation every year and one of my friends is now bowing out, the closest I’ve come was under AVB but nowadays going to the match was as much about the camaraderie as the result. We were truly spoilt for a while under Poch, the unbeaten last season at WHL was very unspursy.
The day I stop loving football itself which is beyond the product we get served professionally is when I can walk past a ball and not kick it. When I take my 7 year old to the park and the ball goes astray (usually from my attempts at a Toby crossfield ping) you can tell those with the same passion, those who walk past who were secretly hoping for the chance to to kick it back. I’m not sure that desire will either leave me.

 

[JerusalemMan]

Spurs means so much to me. But I am so glad that I have things in my life that mean even more, otherwise I would be subject and victim to terrible moods caused by events utterly out of my control and with no personal involvement that would impact them.

 

[DeanoAustin]

Spurs means so much to me. But I am so glad that I have things in my life that mean even more, otherwise I would be subject and victim to terrible moods caused by events utterly out of my control and with no personal involvement that would impact them.

I think that's a very good point. The absolute frustration and almost rage I felt at the Everton performance and with Saudi Sportswashing Machine getting a penalty on Sunday is always there. Spurs sometimes make me feel like I want to bloody cry. But after effing and blinding and venting on here, I do realise that there are more important things in life and I've no bloody control over it anyway.

It's a form of escapism really isn't it?

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

I used to watch about 7 matches a week. This season I have watched our games and about one half of french Sunday night football.

Think also and this might not be popular but i miss our stadium. I dont like the new one, i know it will generate more money and everything but i just not taken to it. WHL was my home and i miss it.

VAR is crap and as others have said modern diving millionaire footballers dont appeal to me.

Dont like the players in our team. Maybe next year if skipp and tangana are in the side i might feel a connection.

 

[DeanoAustin]

I used to watch about 7 matches a week. This season I have watched our games and about one half of french Sunday night football.

Think also and this might not be popular but i miss our stadium. I dont like the new one, i know it will generate more money and everything but i just not taken to it. WHL was my home and i miss it.

VAR is crap and as others have said modern diving millionaire footballers dont appeal to me.

Dont like the players in our team. Maybe next year if skipp and tangana are in the side i might feel a connection.

Out of curiosity, who don't you like?

 

[MKSpur]

Out of curiosity, who don't you like?

Sounds like anyone over 21 who has not been through our academy!

 

[DeanoAustin]

Sounds like anyone over 21 who has not been through our academy!

He’s always been fond of the young ‘uns as his recent posts will confirm...

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

Out of curiosity, who don't you like?

Lloris is to arrogant and error prone, feels like he is coasting to retirement.

Aurier not really going to bother going into.

Sanchez for the money we spent I expect someone who can tackle and header.

Toby I like but he should be the older head giving the younger guys his experience.

Dier I can not stand, thinks he is something he is not. Did not approve of him going into the stand either. How about just play football as well as you think you can.

Rose I absolutely loathe.

Davies, seems like a nice chap but reminds me of Dier in that he thinks he is better then he is. Meant to read the game tactically but I dont think he can.

Sissoko I actually like but should be a squad player.

Winks, was amazing when we beat Madrid at Wembley but for me he typifies spurs. He can do it but chooses not to. I find him the most frustrating player.

Moura infuriates me running into blind alleys. Love a bit of south American flare but he is not that.

Lamela as above.

Son, been a bit harsh on him because he is a good player but streaky as fcuk. The south Korean defoe.

Dele Mr lazy bones who wants to be a fashion designer and can only play in one distinct formation.

Kane. Good player, could easily turn into a sheringham but I lost all respect for him when he did that baby reveal.

Mourinho I dont hate him like some. But I do hate negative football. AVB was the same.

The stadium, just not keen on it. I miss WHL.

The fans. Tw*ts talking about who is playing cam for us (central attacking midfield)

 

[nayenezgani]

Lloris is to arrogant and error prone, feels like he is coasting to retirement.

Aurier not really going to bother going into.

Sanchez for the money we spent I expect someone who can tackle and header.

Toby I like but he should be the older head giving the younger guys his experience.

Dier I can not stand, thinks he is something he is not. Did not approve of him going into the stand either. How about just play football as well as you think you can.

Rose I absolutely loathe.

Davies, seems like a nice chap but reminds me of Dier in that he thinks he is better then he is. Meant to read the game tactically but I dont think he can.

Sissoko I actually like but should be a squad player.

Winks, was amazing when we beat Madrid at Wembley but for me he typifies spurs. He can do it but chooses not to. I find him the most frustrating player.

Moura infuriates me running into blind alleys. Love a bit of south American flare but he is not that.

Lamela as above.

Son, been a bit harsh on him because he is a good player but streaky as fcuk. The south Korean defoe.

Dele Mr lazy bones who wants to be a fashion designer and can only play in one distinct formation.

Kane. Good player, could easily turn into a sheringham but I lost all respect for him when he did that baby reveal.

Mourinho I dont hate him like some. But I do hate negative football. AVB was the same.

The stadium, just not keen on it. I miss WHL.

The fans. Tw*ts talking about who is playing clam for us (central attacking midfield)

Who do you like?

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

Who do you like?

Tangana, Sessegnon, lo also, Ndombele, bergwijn

Kane son sissoko toby I tolerate. Too soon to say about the new guys. Did like how hart spoke about us after the europa league match.