Good morning.
The FA Cup. The Budweiser FA Cup. The Third Round Proper off said competition. Triffic. But will it be? Forget the dismal prospect of one of Arry’s cut and shunt sides being fielded. I’m talking atmosphere.
The West Brom game atmosphere was frequently morgue-like. Despite all the good on the pitch it appears to be an uphill task to generate much off of it.
My joy of watching Spurs at The Lane over the years has ebbed away. Talking to a pal of mine who made the trip to Swansea made me quite jealous of what they have down there. The signing and ‘continental’ chanting from all around The Liberty was simply brilliant.
Newcastle United may have bored us all to with an inch of lives telling us what passionate fans they are; but again the atmosphere at Sid James’ Park against Manchester United was extraordinary.
I can’t ever remember experiencing an atmosphere as naff at an away game as some of the home ones I’ve been to. Readers may have grasped I adopt a zero tolerance on those that seek to gain some dellusional oneupmanship for being regulars at games: so the fact that these clowns brag about hogging a seat whilst being mute pretty much says it all.
If you are attending this afternoon, be a love, buck the trend …and make some bloody noise.
I was rehearsing with ODM and used the line there that fans like me appear to have found their place. Tartan rug on lap, behind glass in a museum. Cups are officially yesterday’s bananas and it’s all about the League.
Well, the way I see it Jimmy Greaves treated himself to a pair of new knees for his 70th birthday. Yett players these days are no longer playing on fields you wouldn’t send a horse out on. They aren’t kicking medicine balls about. Most aren’t smoking a pack a day and having a nip of gold watch at half time.
So when it comes to playing twice a week, don’t coming knocking at my door with some feeble cobblers about being tired. You bore me. What are they on? Thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy grand a week? Get on with it.
If Arry want’s to keep on eye on the Everton game on Wednesday night then he needs open up against Cheltenham with a genuinely strong side and scale it back if we click through the gears and get a goal or two. Opening up with his better players on the bench, ‘in event of an emergency’ is a half witted approach.
BIOYCTC!
There is a slightly worrying trend developing with regard to the atmosphere. In the past the team needed a ’12th man’, now there’s an inevitability about the result other than against the top sides. Today should be good though, fans that only get to the occasional game make the effort.
fans that only get to the occasional game make the effort.
This is a horrible truth :-(
I want us to have CL footie next season it is how we will retain our best players and attract the new 2 or 3 we need to go out and win the EPL next season. to get this we must play our second string in the cups, as we have all season, and the first string in the EPL. end of. no questions it is so *ukin simple.
The natives are restless today Harold. Unfortunately for me being 2000 miles away I can’t make it to the match. But watching the Wet broom game (via sat) I did think the atmos at the Lane was dull.
Sitting in the west today as I did on Weds, this is down to an inherited season ticket; to be fair there is not much going on in that section, a few ohh’s and ahh’s and a bit of clapping, constantly find myself looking over at the south stand a bit envious
In 1974-5, my first season ticket was in the west stand. By October,I’d had enough of the moaning and cricketing atmosphere that I used to take my seat and then before kick-off, drop down into the enclosure and stand with ‘proper’ supporters, those that gave their all and didn’t keep harping on about house prices and the cost of petrol, etc. East stand support is far better, but a need for a return to standing in certain sections would be my preferred choice.
Could not agree more….
Ive noticed the atmosphere too, wheres the fucking drummer gone??
He’s probably been banned. Along with anyone else who threatened to make anymore noise than ‘Go on the chaps in white’.
You can’t put the lack of atmosphere soley down to the club’s insistence on being seen whiter than white to the extent where they’ve stuck ‘naughty cams’ on stewards’ heads to eek out the unruly, but it can’t have helped.
Wait till the NDP is up; it’ll get worse.
not to mention the” can you sit down please” from the stewards, if i go to the pub and watch a game the bird behind the bar doesnt keep asking me to sit down,if i thought it would be worthwhileid start lobbying for a section of the new ground to have standing again, for the pre season against bilbao i got back row seats for the first time so my boy and his first time mates didnt get told to sit down. rant over
No point lobbying Spurs. It’s that law that PL grounds must be all seaters.
He’s been texted up.
He’ll be at the Everton game on Wednesday but unfortunately minus his drum and sat with me in the Park Lane….