Tottenham Hotspur 2 - Chelsea 1 (Yes, really)
I've been waiting for this moment since i began supporting Spurs, a good 16 years ago.
After the best 90 minutes i've seen all season, Tottenham repayed the loyal and vocal support of their fans with a performance that was a combination of simple gumption from grafters like Dawson and King (who surely merits a go in the England starting line-up), and some technical brilliance from the likes of Berbatov, Keane and Aaron Lennon.
Finally, the hackle-raising smugness with which commentators invariably quote statistics about Tottenham's form against Chelsea can be banished to the past where it belongs.
I'm not saying we were much the better side, and Terry's second yellow card looked harsh to me, unless he said something particularly offensive.
But the boys have been grinding out results recently and they deserved to be the side who ended this unenviable and frankly embarrassing Chelsea hoodoo. So huge congratulations to everyone at Tottenham, and here's hoping this is the beginning of a slow climb towards a Champions League place.
Yours,
RD - Head of Propaganda at White Hart Lane
p.s. And Arsenal were beaten by West Ham. Apparently these things come in threes, so i'm expecting to be visited in my slightly dingy hotel room by a bevy of nubile young Anglophile German girls.
I've been waiting for this moment since i began supporting Spurs, a good 16 years ago.
After the best 90 minutes i've seen all season, Tottenham repayed the loyal and vocal support of their fans with a performance that was a combination of simple gumption from grafters like Dawson and King (who surely merits a go in the England starting line-up), and some technical brilliance from the likes of Berbatov, Keane and Aaron Lennon.
Finally, the hackle-raising smugness with which commentators invariably quote statistics about Tottenham's form against Chelsea can be banished to the past where it belongs.
I'm not saying we were much the better side, and Terry's second yellow card looked harsh to me, unless he said something particularly offensive.
But the boys have been grinding out results recently and they deserved to be the side who ended this unenviable and frankly embarrassing Chelsea hoodoo. So huge congratulations to everyone at Tottenham, and here's hoping this is the beginning of a slow climb towards a Champions League place.
Yours,
RD - Head of Propaganda at White Hart Lane
p.s. And Arsenal were beaten by West Ham. Apparently these things come in threes, so i'm expecting to be visited in my slightly dingy hotel room by a bevy of nubile young Anglophile German girls.
posted by Rob Davies at 8:51 PM
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Hey mate , you are welcome to join the newest Spurs Community!
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I wonder if you could help me: being a foreigner I don't know much about the symbols of Spurs:
- why is it called hot spurs?
- what bird is that one on the symbol?
- and why is it called lilywhite and it is blue too?
- and why it is called Yid? was the club a Jewish club in the beginning?
Thanks for the info.
Cheers!
FYI my foreign friend...Spurs are known as Yids for this reason:-
Just after the Second World War, a lot of Jewish immigrants came to East London, and being discerning types with a love of fine football, they began supporting Spurs.
Now, nasty balding, potbellied white men at Chelsea (some things never change) began racially abusing this new Jewish fanbase, calling them Yids or Yiddos. So, much like (some) Afro-Americans adopting the N word, the Spurs faithful decided to use the word to describe all Spurs fans, regardless of race or religion.
This took the sting out of those Chelsea insults and has ensured that Tottenham fans are some of the most culturally tolerant in the game.
COYS
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