You may opt-out by. [102] Some fans view adopting "Yid" as a way of reclaiming the word as a badge of honour and pride, helping defuse its power as an insult. Spurs fans on their way home after their team lost at Derby damaged the train carrying them. Love the Shirt - Tottenham Forum. Even as a term of endearment, "Yid Army" is offensive", "So you think we've kicked racism out of English football? [39] The club also registered a series of record attendances for Premier League matches in the 2017–18 season, the highest being the North London Derby on 10 February 2018 which was attended by 83,222 spectators. “I don’t think he’s got it in him anymore. Dedicated Tottenham Hotspur player discussion, can include detailed threads about possible transfer targets if members feel there is a need. The song is usually sung with raised outstretched arms and moving fingers, typically starting slower for a couple of verses before getting faster and with hand-clapping. Love the Shirt - Tottenham Forum. TISA was disbanded after the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust was formed in 2001, an organisation which is officially recognised by the club as representatives for Spurs supporters. Pochettino, somehow, is still without a job despite leaving Spurs nearly 11 months ago. There have been too many false dawns when it comes to strikers. No video emulation. Rentboys (H) Haribo cup 4th rnd sept 29th 2020 19.45, Newcastle United (H) PL Sun 27th September 2020 14:00, Shkendija (A) Europa rnd#78 24th sept 2020 19.00. Not until Milik shows what he can do in Tottenham top will he be backed overwhelmingly. 8 Greatest Tottenham Songs and Fan Chants 0 of 8 Any football club with any kind of history to speak of has its own collection of cherished songs and chants among its fans. High key my Sunday may be ruined and it’s not even 11:30 here, — #SellToSteveCohen (@aninsanemetsfan) September 27, 2020, — Jack ⚽️ (@jack_thfc_) September 27, 2020, — Graham O'hare (@GrahamOhare) September 27, 2020, — Training Player (@PlayerTraining) September 27, 2020, Heung Min Son out for 5 weeks, he will miss, Chelsea and Manchester Utd games and a few more. All round Sports bar, ideal place to discuss everything sporty outside of football. Most commonly, new chants are created for players; for example, popular chants in the later part of 2010s include chants for Dele Alli set to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart",[87] Moussa Sissoko using White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army",[88] Christian Eriksen with Black Lace's "Agadoo",[89] Danny Rose with Boney M.'s "Daddy Cool",[90] Harry Kane as "One of Our Own" (Beach Boys' "Sloop John B"),[91] as well as one for the manager Mauricio Pochettino sung to the tune of "Magic" by Pilot. For example, in 1897, Spurs fans upset by a goal given resulting from what appeared to be a handball attacked three Luton players, and the Northumberland Park ground was then closed for two weeks by the FA as punishment. “Bring Poch back, because unless he’s got money to spend Mourinho is no good.”. [51] It organised trips to away matches, and was the first in the country to organise large-scale fans away trips, the biggest during the European Cup-Winners' Cup final in Amsterdam in 1963 for thousands of fans. In 2007, 30% of Spurs supporters earned more than £50,000,[5] and the average wage of the supporters was £45,000[6] (the median average yearly salary for the country as a whole at that time was around £20,000). base, some of them have taken to Twitter to share how they feel about [49][50] It had its offices in Warmington House in front of the West Stand of White Hart Lane from 1963 to 1989. They were then ejected from the train before it reached London, whereupon they created a major disturbance in the town of Flitwick. The delivery fees, meanwhile, will go to the JE3 Foundation, a charitable organization set up in memory of the former Tottenham player and Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh, who died suddenly last year aged just 49. Why Tottenham may struggle to fill 62,062 capacity at £1bn new home", "When is a capacity not a capacity – Ask Spurs or Arsenal! I cover stories from across the world of sport, with a focus on soccer in England and South America. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. The club was fined £350 over the incidence and ordered to erect a low steel fence around the pitch. This is not the first time in recent months that the two clubs, whose stadiums are separated by less than five miles, have been brought together. [62][63] In 2010, "We are N17" was formed to oppose a plan to relocate Tottenham's home stadium to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford. The club had already decided on Monday to close its training ground and stadium until further notice. [85] Another song written by a fan Harold Spiro titled "Nice One Cyril", originally written about a Spurs player Cyril Knowles, is sometimes still used as a chant, most recently for the Korean player Son Heung-min. Daily Hotspur tweeted about the news and some of the responses were: “We’ve 24.1k Followers, 109 Following, 2,951 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Tottenham Fan Chris Cowlin (@chriscowlin) [60][61] Sugar blamed the actions by hostile fans when he decided to sell the club in 2000. The song has also been adapted for use by other clubs such as Manchester United since. [118] and the Metropolitan Police no longer considers the chanting of "Yid" by Tottenham fans an arrestable offence. Join one of the best Tottenham Hotspur Supporters forums on the interweb, Discuss the ins and outs of our great club with like minded spurs fans from around the world. he is not even expensive”. It was a disappointing start to the campaign for Spurs as Everton won in north London, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s goal proving the decider on Sunday afternoon. [32] They joined the Football League in 1908, and home attendances steadily increased. [117] Attempts to prosecute Tottenham fans who chanted the words have failed, as the Crown Prosecution Service considered that the words as used by Tottenham fans could not be judged legally "threatening, abusive or insulting". JavaScript is disabled. Vlog every game I go to home and away! Crowd troubles at football grounds however had been reported much earlier. [97], [98](Sung to the tune of "Tom Hark" by The Piranhas), Due to the club's historical association with Jewish supporters, Tottenham is identified as a Jewish club by rival fans, even though it no longer has a greater number of Jewish fans than other major London clubs. [37] In the 2017–18 season when Tottenham used Wembley Stadium which has a higher capacity as its home ground, it had the second highest average attendance in the Premier League at nearly 68,000. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images), Cup third round football match between Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur at Brisbane Road stadium in Leyton, east London on September 22, 2020. Find and join your nearest Official Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' club. Basically a mixed response and the chances are that is what it will be like with the majority of the fans. Milik was scheduled to join AS Roma this summer, but Juventus pulled out of the running for Roma’s Edin Dzeko which put an end to the transfer for the Polish striker. For example, fans in the 1960s sang "Jennings is better than Yashin, Greaves is better than Eusébio", but as players moved to other clubs and the context no longer relevant to fans in later eras, it stopped being sung. [30] In 1904, overcrowding at White Hart Lane during an FA Cup match against Aston Villa led to fans spilling onto the pitch, which resulted in the abandonment of the game after 20 minutes followed by a pitch invasion by angry spectators. [18] It is ranked sixth of the major Premier League clubs on selected social networks, but has grown rapidly, adding four times more followers in China's Weibo than Arsenal in 2018. [29] Their matches soon attracted the attention of the locals in the growing suburbs of Tottenham, and the first competitive game by Tottenham in 1885 recorded a figure of 400 spectators. Tottenham Fans chant "Yiddo, Yiddo" repeatedly, "Yid", or "Yid Army". [34][35] Average attendance figure however fell below 21,000 in the 1985–86 season. [6][4] The fanbase is also predominantly male, with around 11–13% of its supporters female in the 2007/2008 surveys, which is below the average of 15% for Premier League clubs. Following an injury to the £140,000-a-week player, we looked at what Tottenham fans were saying. [95] Older songs get discarded, while new songs are constantly being created for players or to reflect current events, many of which are directed against their rival Arsenal and other clubs. He’s been linked with Arsenal, Barcelona, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain since departing White Hart Lane, but remains on the market. Tottenham are now a Harry Kane injury away from a similar sort of catastrophe to last season when Mourinho was without his two forwards for some considerable time. [112] Both the World Jewish Congress and the Board of Deputies of British Jews have denounced the use of the "Yid, "Yiddo" and "Yid army" by fans. 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[31], The first incidence just before the 1970s period to receive significant press attention, dubbed The Battle of Flitwick, occurred in September 1969. [36] Home attendances have since recovered, and average attendance numbers at Tottenham's former ground White Hart Lane in the 2000s were close to its capacity at between 35,000–36,000. [114][115][98][116] The Prime Minister David Cameron argued that there is "a difference between Spurs fans self-describing themselves as Yids and someone calling someone a Yid as an insult" as its use by the Spurs fans is not motivated by hate and therefore cannot be considered hate speech. [23], Tottenham Hotspur were formed by a group of schoolboys, and those who attended their matches in the early days were likely to be friends and families. [78] The Lilywhites also responded to the atmosphere to win the tie 8–1. [124] The rivalry with Chelsea started in the 1967 FA Cup Final, the first ever all-London final that was won by Tottenham. But could a Tottenham return be on the cards? ", "Football club attendances: Are fans getting the full picture? [93][94], Although some songs and chants such as "Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur" have lasted for a long time, most chants are often popular only for a relatively short time as players move on and time changes. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. Left on the Shelf (LOTS) was formed in the 1988 to protest over a plan to remove The Shelf, a stretch of raised terrace on the East Stand of White Hart Lane favoured by fans, and replace it with executive boxes. These print magazines have closed due to rising cost of production, and fan publications have since moved online, such as The Fighting Cock, which tried to continue producing a print fanzine. And Russell the Spurs fan has made it clear he wants Mourinho GONE – with beloved ex-boss Pochettino brought back to north London. news of a new striker should be one that delights the Tottenham fan Given how lower-league English soccer clubs have been struggling with the effects of the pandemic, it is a hit Orient could ill afford. The rivalry began in 1913 when Arsenal, then called Woolwich Arsenal, moved from the Manor Ground, Plumstead to Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, an area Tottenham considered to be their territory. Speaking to talkSPORT host Jim White on Monday, Russell’s passionate plea began: “Bring Pochettino back and get Mourinho out! On average, fans who attended the club's matches lived 45–50 miles from the club in surveys. According to the latest report from This is Futbol, Tottenham is set to complete a move for Napoli striker Arkadiusz Milik in the coming days. Prefix Filters Sub-Forums. Is narrator Tom Hardy a Tottenham fan? Six times Tottenham have defined exactly what being Spursy is all about", "Tottenham fans bask in afterglow of a defiantly un-'Spursy' denouement", "More 'Spursy' than Spurs — but Inter Milan are on the rise again", "Tottenham are not 'Spursy' anymore, says Mauricio Pochettino", "Tottenham discover clinical edge to banish talk of 'Spursiness, "Tottenham have become genuine title contenders, but can they shake off the 'Spursy' curse? [113] Some Jewish fans of the club, however, have written in support of its use, including Simon Schama, Frank Furedi, Gerald Jacobs and David Aaronovitch. The angels were allowed on the perimeter of the pitch and their fervour whipped up the home fans who responded with a rendition of "Glory Glory Hallelujah", which is still sung on terraces at White Hart Lane and other football grounds. Tottenham supporters have been buying Orient shirts, which will be donated to children’s hospice Haven House and children at local hospital Whipps Cross. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. Everything surrounding Football and other teams that does not include spurs. [83][84], A number of songwriters who are fans of the club have written songs for the club which were released as singles. [128][129][130][131][132] The adjective "Spursy", and its derived noun "Spursiness",[133] denotes a certain fragility in the team that consistently fail to live up to expectations and crumble within sight of victory.