Not exactly a well kept secret but time to don the Kevlar and fix bayonets. A combination of events have prompted me to blab and tell all…
Levy’s candid appearance on Talksport. Like it or not the guy speaks sense and gives me every impression he’s steering the ship in the best direction. Some will accuse me of being a suck up, but his is a path paved in common sense.
Yes it’s a little chilling in that a sacred spiritual home will probably end up as a combination of launderettes, bingo halls and most ironically of all …a car park. But who’s fault is this?If it’s THFC’s then they are guilty of having ambition.
I’ll be blunt here, I don’t care for the bulk of those demanding to stay and slug it out with the Haringey natives. Is it mediocrity that really binds us together? Is really our rallying call that it’s a hole, but it’s our hole. Is that a sane platform? Not in my name, mush.
Readers who have opted to inflict my nonsense upon themselves for a while might know that one thing that really gets my goat is talk of being ‘a real fan’ or a ‘true fan’. What the hell does that mean? Is there a chart somewhere that works out just where you sit in the foodchain?
If so, who devised this device, a ten year old? Season ticket holders, those who travel home and away. Those can provided documents to support they are at least the eigth generation of support in there family? Extra kudos to those who turn up to games attached to kidney dialysis machines? A what point do you get admitted to the inner sanctum?
To quote a recently unemployed man, do me a favour love.
The disinformation war has raged alright, but more like a jalopy that’s been burnt out by kids than a city being raised. What I find depressing is the cocktail of garbage Tottenham fans are being spoon-fed in sustainable doses by both the Anti Stratford Mob and the West Ham lobby.
The high handed litany of Brady is cringe-worthy. Process, Legacy, Delivery and any other words you can corrupt or at least manipulate to gloss over a collapsing, shoddy, cheapskate, half cocked plan that stinks of desperation.
The bulk of the stadium will be recycled with zero landfill. There will not be a ridiculous running track around any Spurs’ pitch.
The Anti Stratford Mob are about as literate in their argument as dumb mother who when questioned by her child issues a simultaneous ‘Because I said not!’ and slap to the back of the legs. There is a lack of articulation in the Anti Mob’s argument is my point.
I’d hear them out if they had more to offer than a mob mentality rant intertwined with the threat of my treasured footballing memories being plundered by Droogs threatening to bring Billy Nick back to life so he can work as a table cleaner in a MacDonalds. My memories are securely locked up and no amount of bullying will sway me.
I’ve made this comment before and I’ll continue to make it. The relationship between THFC and the local community in Haringey could have been symbiotic. It could have been a focal point – that the Council worked in partnership with to enhance the area.
But no. This never happened. White Hart Lane didn’t fall out the sky last Thursday. For donkeys years Haringey has had this commercial diamond in the rough on it’s doorstep. What has it done to increase it’s value to the borough? What support has David ‘Commuter’ Clammy ever given to this business? What advances have been made in transport links? None. Nothing. Nichts. Nada.
A relationship where one party solely feeds off the other is a parasitic one.
All this talk of being part of the Haringey community actually makes me quite sad. I and the overwhelming bulk of supporters attending home games travel in excess of 35 miles to walk past Haringey folk occasionally stopping to buy a pint or a box of Unlucky Fried Kitten.
It makes me sad because these poor locals have had an opportunity missed on their behalf, an asset so badly mismanaged they’ll be left with nothing at all. This is a community betrayed. Long before Levy & Co started weighing up their options. So don’t wave a bed-sheet at me on the High Roadand tell me you’re Room Service.
So what of the NDP? It won’t happen. I said to old Unc Norman Giller, a devout NDP supporter recently that maybe I was doing Haringey Council and all the locals with vested interests a shocking disservice. Maybe they don’t have their hands out for more money.
Maybe they’re just checking to see if it’s raining.
This debate is so like dropping your toast on the floor, you pick it up and fish out the bits, the gritty working class hero bits who opopose Levy and Co because they are the “management” and must therefore be screwing us, the stubborn bits whose main preoccupation is the fact that no-one asked them first, then there’s the principled bits that will happily stick their chins out with pride certain in the knowledge of their integrity and that they have not sold out; they’ll be the scruffy bits under the scrap of cardboard….Worst of all tho’ is the little hairs, pubic servants one might say, ubiquitous and useless. Once you get these out its just fluff left; it wont hurt you and disappears into the marmalade before you know it.
Of course one could simply make some more toast without all that crap and I sort of think that’s what we are doing isn’t it?
Can someone tell me why Coe is a Lord? I’d like to suggest we hire Steve Ovett to give this twat a run for his money.
Anyone likening this move to the Woolwich exodus should, recall that the population was very different then and that along with their migration was a free gift of an unearned top table place. The urban density is so dissimilar that to make such comparisons is laughable. If we are being strangled by Haringay, then what options do we have? Would it make detractors feel better if we said that Lammy and the Council were gooners?
I think we should buy Wembley Stadium, Knock it down and replace it with the existing White Hart Lane stretched to fill the space.
Is that so we can make the CL Final a home game?
I’d be happy to back this even if it came to nothing after the knocking Wembley down bit.
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords
Woolonga spurs I can dig that as long as we can keep 4 ha ha ha 4 guessing in norf London christ i’ve drunk ttoo much
I have visions of you sliding off the table and into a heap on the floor, precisely 0.3 seconds after hitting send on this post.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12395567
not sure if this link will work but the video gives a fair impression that we are hardly moving very far if we do end up at the OS.
It works. And that’s what 5 miles as the crow flies looks like.