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Good evening.

You know, I was trying to work it out. I mean, I’m Tottenham yet I don’t really feel that much animosity toward Arsenal. Now look, I’m 44 years of age so it’s not like I should be able to rustle up too many Aunty Wengeresque excuses. They are our supposedly immediate idiot neighbours. And that whole Sol thing.

But I think I’ve nailed it.

My ‘irrational’ contempt comes from my very first Spurs game. Bill Nicholson’s Testimonial at The Lane and bless the old man, he bought us a pair of seats in the West Stand Lower. We were living at the time in a place Bruxie knows well, Rhinedahlen, BFPO 4o if you please!

This wasn’t my first time at a football match, or indeed my first time at a large public event. But the West Ham fans were fierce. I mean proper fierce. Every moment of the bloke announcing various elements of the day’s celebration were marred by West Ham booing and screaming. Jumping up and down like the unwashed mentalists they still are today.

‘Good job they can’t get out’ I remember nervously saying to dad. He replied, ‘Oh don’t worry about them. Most of the stewards normally work full time at London Zoo, we’ll be fine!”

Warren Mitchell was the master of ceremonies that day.  On TV, Alf Garnett was a bigoted, racist West Ham fan. But that was acting. Mitchell was in real life, Tottenham of course. As he tried to speak, the Upton Park animals barked in earnest.

‘Shhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadup!’

There was about 2 or 3 seconds of wonderful silence, then we – us – the Yids – the Tottenham  laughed. The whole stadium laughed. Oh how I loved that moment. My tribe had scented it’s territory. I nearly cried with a mixture of pride and relief. How things never change, eh?

So I am writing in the morning to Peter Herbert asking him what he plans to do about today. Or does the plight of whitey not count?

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  • jolsgonemental says:

    One other point. I already am seeing talk of a ‘minority’ of West Ham fans.

    Bullshit. try the vast majority of the knuckleheads.

    Much like Chelseas minority who booed the Hillborough silence at Wembley then.

    • legalalienfromaliencentral says:

      Too many supporters excuse vile verbal hatred as banter. I try to believe these morons are not representative of the majority – unfortunately their silence is deafening.

  • Spurstough says:

    Wetspam, the pornsters plaything, domain of the ignorant and inbred, realm of big fat Sam and anti-football, toadying accomplice of the cheatski chav and footstool of the mighty Tottenham Hotspur FC!!!

  • eyeball paul says:

    Yep, who cares about the Spammers? They are a non entity – just take the performance of their beloved boys in claret and blue – they accommodated us by helping us provide our best performance under avb.

    Well done to the lads, dare he say it but the eyeballer saw alot to be positive about :
    lloris was very good in goal, Dawson was a rock at the back ( with a bit of luck he has cemented his place in the starting Lind up, at least until the return of kaboom) walker though not excellent was much better than usual and Dempsey actually played with a degree of confidence in the second half
    please god Sandro is not injured – dembele looked nice and sharp though
    bring on the scousers on Wednesday night!!!

  • munso says:

    Always thought they were the worst behaved supporters in London. Hailing from Basildon, I was always surrounded by WH fans, so I have always disliked them just a little less than the Arse.
    They always would wait to greet us at barking station after getting off the south tottenham train, which was nice!

    Nowadays I’m surrounded by Chelsea fans in Sussex, so the west ham rivalry thing has died off a bit.

    • East Stand says:

      Poor you, move to Herts or West Essex. Plenty of fellow supporters there, a few Goons too but they’re just Teletubbies…

    • Mattski1979 says:

      Try Hemel, lots of yids here (qpr as well! Harmless as they are), avoid Stevenage, its total tottenham, but also a shitehouse

  • gwc says:

    what can you say … pure scum

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