sharmel
31st July 2006, 09:56 AM
I was at the lane yesterday and i must say i was dissapointed. The team looked good but the support was dissapointing. For the best part of half and hour it was like a ghost town...i was just waiting for the hay to roll by. There were sprays of shouts at different parts of the stadium but nothing harmonious and no unity amongst the fans...i think in the end the most voiceferous amongst us became slightly disillusioned and frustated. Are we turning out to be prawn sandwich eating fans ? Well it deffinately felt like that at the east end. I heard more screams from 5 years olds than any other so called lifelong spurs supporting adults. There was sadly more criticisms than support. It is very disheartening and dissapointing. Whats going on ? is it just me or what.
My hope is for spurs to be one of the most intimidating stadiums if not in england, but also in europe ( Look at the support at teams like Boca Juniours, Corinthians, Galatasaray, Feyenoord - i mean thats what i call intimidating and thats what i would call support - fans in unison throughout the match). I remember back in the 80's when i started going to the lane with my dad, the support was unbelievable throughout. Whether it was against watford or arsenal - the support was defeaning and electrifying and we really got behind the whole team. Where has this all gone ?
My judgement is not only on the basis of yesterday game, albeit it was only a friendly , but we were playing Inter Milan (one of the biggets clubs in the world) - i think they would have gone back after yesterday and said yeah White Hart Lane ..its a nice stadium, plenty of fans but i think they were all abit hungover or something. Irrespective of whether it was a friendly or not against carlisle or Barcelona...the spurs support should be scarring the living daylights out of the opposition players and fans alike. Whats happened ?
If this has all gone/been sacrificed for the sake of making the stadium a safer place, more gender equal, kids and families coming to the lane for a picnic because they are no more tickets for 'over the hedge' at the cinema etc etc.....Well my answer to this would be to bring back the stands, lower the ticket prices so we can get back the true spurs support of the yesteryears.
Furthermore, i used to remember that there were more songs for most of the players on the team. Now its just songs for the faves...robinson,keane,defoe....how would the rest of the team feel ??? If i was a spurs player i'll feel like c**p playing infront of the fans. Whatever i do right....i only will get criticised for the things that don't go my way. And poor old Tainio...carried the game for us yesterday and the only support he got from us was shouts of 'Shhoooottt' 'Shhoooottt''.....ridiculous. I remeber even Pat van Den Hauwe used to get a song from us....and he wasn't by far the best Spurs player in the team in those days.
So come one tottenham...stop doing what we are always good at, which is criticising till the cows come home ( It is not that easy playing football you know, doesn't mean you play for your local pub team and had scored last Sunday - you are now the next keano or defoe - so cut the players some slack and start showing some support - irrespective of whether they make mistakes or not). This is potentailly the best Spurs team/squad for a long long time - all we need now is to try and get back the best supporters in the world.
If you guys are not up to it...i say bring back your dads/granddads to the stadium to show you how its really done/.
P.s i suggest watching some of the older videos and taking some notes.
And oh yeah...leave your prawn sandwiches at home the next time aswell.
My hope is for spurs to be one of the most intimidating stadiums if not in england, but also in europe ( Look at the support at teams like Boca Juniours, Corinthians, Galatasaray, Feyenoord - i mean thats what i call intimidating and thats what i would call support - fans in unison throughout the match). I remember back in the 80's when i started going to the lane with my dad, the support was unbelievable throughout. Whether it was against watford or arsenal - the support was defeaning and electrifying and we really got behind the whole team. Where has this all gone ?
My judgement is not only on the basis of yesterday game, albeit it was only a friendly , but we were playing Inter Milan (one of the biggets clubs in the world) - i think they would have gone back after yesterday and said yeah White Hart Lane ..its a nice stadium, plenty of fans but i think they were all abit hungover or something. Irrespective of whether it was a friendly or not against carlisle or Barcelona...the spurs support should be scarring the living daylights out of the opposition players and fans alike. Whats happened ?
If this has all gone/been sacrificed for the sake of making the stadium a safer place, more gender equal, kids and families coming to the lane for a picnic because they are no more tickets for 'over the hedge' at the cinema etc etc.....Well my answer to this would be to bring back the stands, lower the ticket prices so we can get back the true spurs support of the yesteryears.
Furthermore, i used to remember that there were more songs for most of the players on the team. Now its just songs for the faves...robinson,keane,defoe....how would the rest of the team feel ??? If i was a spurs player i'll feel like c**p playing infront of the fans. Whatever i do right....i only will get criticised for the things that don't go my way. And poor old Tainio...carried the game for us yesterday and the only support he got from us was shouts of 'Shhoooottt' 'Shhoooottt''.....ridiculous. I remeber even Pat van Den Hauwe used to get a song from us....and he wasn't by far the best Spurs player in the team in those days.
So come one tottenham...stop doing what we are always good at, which is criticising till the cows come home ( It is not that easy playing football you know, doesn't mean you play for your local pub team and had scored last Sunday - you are now the next keano or defoe - so cut the players some slack and start showing some support - irrespective of whether they make mistakes or not). This is potentailly the best Spurs team/squad for a long long time - all we need now is to try and get back the best supporters in the world.
If you guys are not up to it...i say bring back your dads/granddads to the stadium to show you how its really done/.
P.s i suggest watching some of the older videos and taking some notes.
And oh yeah...leave your prawn sandwiches at home the next time aswell.