A dad consoling his crying son in an empty stadium today. Says it all really. This club means everything to us fans. Wish the players, ownership, and execs felt even half of it.
by dream_team1012
A dad consoling his crying son in an empty stadium today. Says it all really. This club means everything to us fans. Wish the players, ownership, and execs felt even half of it.
by dream_team1012
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Some do care (Gray, Danso, Tel, Xavi) but some have checked out.
Trouble is, there’s more of the latter. We are bang in trouble.
Guys like Romero will see this and not give a shit
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players and ownership both, care right up until they get the next playcheck, then its right back to business, i guarantee you as soon as they guys leave the stadium they clal thier agent to see about plans for going elsewhere next season. and i understand that, theres no loyalty in football, or any other sport to be fair. And thats human nature, Money is what matters , not allegiance. For every sonny who cares, there 100k morgan gibbs whites who care about their paycheck.
This hurts… kids wear their emotions on their sleeves and don’t have the ability to put up the numbness blockers that we do to cope. Deep down this is how we all feel. Appears to be a class father too.
Probably at this point a majority would take Frank back. Rewind to January and you’d take Ange back. Rewind to…
Important to have local lads and academy players in the squad that can play for the badge. We have zero.
He just feels guilty. It’s his fault his son follows this shit showing a club
https://preview.redd.it/sgw1t5kuenqg1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9172d5288b898d20627e95e32c2d5e466cf62a13
It’s the fans who suffer. The majority of our team will find new clubs if we were to go down, and aside from a pithy Instagram post about “staying strong” (almost certainly written by a PR team) the majority don’t care 2 shits.
I went into this game with real belief, and now I feel utterly drained and hopeless.
More questionable how a parent could inflict such suffering into their own children. You wouldn’t encourage your child to smoke the same brand of cigarettes as you, why would you encourage them to follow your team?
We were purposeful and energetic but ineffective the first 30. Then we dropped off. Forest were calm and organized that whole time, just waiting for their opportunities. They knew they would come. Once they did we were finished. Once we started making subs our energy was gone. This is the most mentally feeble team I have ever seen. They should be scientifically studied. The second half was a disgrace and I don’t think it’s as simple as “they don’t care”. I think they care. I also think they are weak and afraid.
Three weeks off will be torture. For us. All is not lost but it’s damn close.
First born son turns 5 soon and I was thinking next season would be a good first year for him to start coming with me.
On the one hand, not sure I want it for him, on the other hand I’d die inside if he comes home from school one day saying he supports someone else.
This is heartbreaking
Pfft. Poor lad. I was close today walking out the ground. It’s silly, really, that this silly game means so much. I hope good times are round the corner for this lad soon!
what a man
How are the pundits going to blame the fans now?
On the subject of parents, sons and football. My mum has supported Spurs since the 70’s, season ticket holder etc. I was footy mad since I was a toddler and there was never any conversation about who I would support. Like many North London families half were Spurs, the other half Arsenal and we were Spurs and that was that.
My son is 2.5 yrs old and just getting into football. I dreamt of a future when we’d go to matches together or watch at home, another generation bit by the bug, enduring that agony to elation rollercoaster together that only being a Spurs fan can offer.
But we don’t live in London anymore and he is half Catalan so he has Barcelona as an option. I decided fairly early on there’d be no pressure on my side as to who he would support. If he wanted to follow his Dad then great but I’d never push him to Spurs.
Any other parents out there adopted the same approach? I see that photo of father and son and I honestly don’t know how to feel. Feel bad for the kid on the one hand but proud of the bonding experience those two are sharing on the other. Fucking Spurs man.
I was a young Spurs fan in the 1990s. Sadly, this was a regular scene for me and my Dad ❤️
If I were in charge of the club, I would’ve told them to win today. And that’s the difference between me (a very smart person) and the people who run this club (lifelong failures in every aspect of life)
If only they understood that winning is better than losing!
A son consoling his crying dad more like
I went to my first match as an American a month ago. North London Derby. Bought the tickets as soon as I could. Flight and all, made a whole trip of it. I try to be smarter than the average American fan…I know it’s nothing like our league, and I follow ardently. On the tube back from the match, everyone sulking, I sat next to a boy and his dad and he was crying, because he said the Arsenal kids at his school would make fun of him. His dad told him “This is YOUR club, and you’re better for your loyalty.” I’ve seen every American sport, and never felt such a sense of belonging as I do with Tottenham. I chose this club, I wasn’t born into it — but I feel that loyalty. Up or down, it doesn’t matter. I made my decision, and I’ll be Tottenham till I die. But it makes me sick that leadership, management, and most if not many players can’t feel that same pride; the kind that only comes from deep emotional investment, not just financial. The supporters deserve better. The board are stewards, and custody changes for clubs all the time — the supporters, the ones who are emotionally and forever invested, we are the real owners of this club. We continue to demand more, and I hope that more comes soon. #COYS