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James Maddison

Yiddo said:
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Interesting interview. Always spoke about Tottenham or Spurs, rather than "us" and "we" etc.
Seems a very focused and determined to be a really good employee and help us win matches.
His old tweets are no secret - and very few football fans haven't made similar - so I have a huge amount of respect for the way he conducted the interview, it has integrity.

Hopefully the same will happen with him as with Defoe. Defoe was a Arsenal fan; no question he has a real love for us too. (hey, maybe football tribalism is just a bit pathetic?!)
 
monkeybarry said:
Interesting interview. Always spoke about Tottenham or Spurs, rather than "us" and "we" etc.
Seems a very focused and determined to be a really good employee and help us win matches.
His old tweets are no secret - and very few football fans haven't made similar - so I have a huge amount of respect for the way he conducted the interview, it has integrity.

Hopefully the same will happen with him as with Defoe. Defoe was an Arsenal fan; no question he has a real love for us too. (hey, maybe football tribalism is just a bit pathetic?!)
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Defoe told me he was a west ham fan
But he idolised Ian Wright
 
monkeybarry said:
Interesting interview. Always spoke about Tottenham or Spurs, rather than "us" and "we" etc.
Seems a very focused and determined to be a really good employee and help us win matches.
His old tweets are no secret - and very few football fans haven't made similar - so I have a huge amount of respect for the way he conducted the interview, it has integrity.

Hopefully the same will happen with him as with Defoe. Defoe was a Arsenal fan; no question he has a real love for us too. (hey, maybe football tribalism is just a bit pathetic?!)
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This could be a major, and very interesting, discussion.

I personally think that if we denounce football tribalism and marginalize it/force it into redundancy, we will be stripping the game of one of its great, great assets, as well as denying a core element of humanity. I think I know what you’re getting at, and there needs to be balance i.e. being able to shake hands, understand we’re all human, have friends who support other teams, etc. Very very important. But equally, the energy of traveling to matches, especially away games, congregating with your fellow supporters and getting behind the team for an afternoon is absolutely tribal.
 
thfcsteff said:
This could be a major, and very interesting, discussion.

I personally think that if we denounce football tribalism and marginalize it/force it into redundancy, we will be stripping the game of one of its great, great assets, as well as denying a core element of humanity. I think I know what you’re getting at, and there needs to be balance i.e. being able to shake hands, understand we’re all human, have friends who support other teams, etc. Very very important. But equally, the energy of traveling to matches, especially away games, congregating with your fellow supporters and getting behind the team for an afternoon is absolutely tribal.
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Tribalism is the point of sports, our one place that is ok to be us vs. them, to mock, to celebrate it.
 
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