It has been confirmed that either Spurs or Fulham will face Portsmouth on April 11th in the FA Cup semi-final.
Should Tottenham get there, it means that the North London derby, which is currently scheduled for April 10th, will have to be rescheduled.
Our fixture list around this time already looked tough, with Arsenal on the 10th, Chelsea on the 17th and Manchester United on the 25th, but if we make the semi final we could be looking at that game on the 11th, Arsenal on the 14th and Chelsea on the 17th. If that doesn’t already sound bad enough, consider that Arsenal would be going into the game on the 14th, having had a week of rest following their Champions League quarter final.
I’m sure that if it comes to rearranging this game, we will be campaigning for it to be later on in the season, somewhere between the Bolton and Burnley games. If Arsenal make the semi final of the Champions League then they will be in action on either April 20th and the 21st and then again, on either April 27th and the 28th.
Essentially, there is bound to be some dispute over when this game gets played, unless we balls up our game against Fulham (which is always likely). If we were to get our way and the North London derby were to take place very late in the season, with Arsenal chasing the title and us possibly still in the hunt for fourth, then things could get very messy indeed.
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Sad Sad Spurs Fans! Won’t say more out of pity for the poor!
alan alan you’re a twat, alan you’re a twat !!!
You si….looking on Spurs sites
Why do you ARSEnal fans always have to try to invade some else’s space.
I don’t know why we even bother with you pikey nomads your are not even from North London get back to where you belong.
We are and always will be the original, only North London Team now take you Caravans elsewhere and bother someone else.
Arsenal Fan here in peace
Modric is a f**k*n genius. I laugh at players at players like Adebayor and Joe Cole when they want six figure weekly salaries. Modric is mint. Best player to play for Spurs since Ginola. He is so good that you guys should change your formation to 4-3-1-2 and make him the #10.
You’re not Arsenal, you’re not Arsenal, you’re not Arsenal anymore.
You’re not Arsenal, you’re not Arsenal, you’re not Arsenal anymore.
Modric is at very best, a poor mans Henri Lansbury.
And you know this dog.
the w4nky tottenham hotspur went to Rome to see the pope, and this is what he said….fck off.
who’s that team we call the Arsenal, who’s that team we all adore. we’re the team in red and white and we’re fckin dynamite and harry redknapps mother is a whore…………………………….she’s a whoreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
your a c-nt arsenal
A typical classy comment from a Gooner
That reads like a song! You scum should try singing it at your dump, maybe during a game. And if you replace dynamite for shite youre almost there.
I almost spat my tea out with that ‘..if we’re still in the race for fourth place’ line. Don’t you cunts ever learn?!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
See you at the lane Spuddies.
See us at the Lane!!! Yea course you will LOL.
I presume you’ll be one of those fat ginger mugs hurling abuse at kids from behind a police cordon?..
Tottenham firm..biggest myth in football.
Kings Cross last season?.. Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Your top boy’s a rapist, and his mate is a paedo. This is fact, proven in a court of law. What noble leaders you have chosen to follow you cunt.
RIP Denton – Never Forgotten.
Ze problem wiz ze spud iz that ee is always trying to run before ee can walk. First you must lift your knuckles from ze floor and straighten ze back. Everyone knows zis.
i wonder if arsenal will field a team with any english players lol
wat a pathetic english club, wat freak would want to support a team full of retarded Nigerians and la fuckingdickknobbyfrenchies. Lets send these foul beasts back to hell.
Pristar, you are clearly representative of the vile racist, xenophobic mongs that follow Tottenham. All big on the internet (whilst living in moms spare room and wanking over granny porn) Hahahahahahahaha
Excuse you not every person who follows Tottenham is a racist! Arsenal are full of foreign players and don’t represent england at all! Why are Arsenal fans even reading this! Go Away!
mate u took the words right out my mouth thats what i hate about arsenal the MOST!!
Because you are a jobless pikey cunt of the ‘They toooooook our jobsssssssssss’ disposition.
Lee.. you can hate the mighty Arsenal all you like. It doesnt change the fact that you are forever in our shadow.
Hello, I heard this was a good place to meet like minded tottingham fans. I am a tottingham fan from Germany.
Lick me.
Wow! If the fixture gets moved just before the last game of the season we might actully have the chance to win the league AGAIN at the White Shite Lane. That will be fucking great!!!
@pristar. Am a Nigerian and it shows yr parents (if u have any) don’t teach u how to talk to people. U are a disgrace to the human race and f****King racist. I don’t really hate T****ham but this shows why most Arsenal fans hate u. U’re just a sample of human, just like the faulty Toyota cars. we’re talking about 2 clubs and not nationality. Am proud to be a Nigeria and we;re the happiest on earth if u don’t know.
Big yourself up Timmy sta!.. Arsenal is a worldwide club and we know our brothers in Nigeria are some of the most fanatical there is. Keep the faith. Coz Kanu said so.
We should probably just win the league there and then burn that rat infested shithole to the ground. Its only right.
Arsenal to win the league at the Lane? it’s been done before and if the game is delayed it could happen again. Spurs are really a cup side and 4th will prove beyond them. They had a chance to pull away in January and fluffed it.
Lets put a bomb in white hart lane shit fucking dump
Sorry Steve but that would be a massive ground inprovement scheme. We can’t have that.
i love how you gooners get ahead of yourselves, when is the last time u lot won a trophy, u aint gonna win the league and defiantly not the champions league
No-one has said we are gonna win either, but if you don’t BELIEVE then what’s the point?
dear a spurs fan saying that Arsenal fans are getting ahead of themselves. For how many years have we been hearing spuds saying “we’ve spent so much money on talent that this is going tobe the season we overtake the Arsenal”. I’m still waiting for it to happen.
When the fuck did arsenal last step on the new wembly pitch ohhhhhhhh let me see never you on about us ,,,you 3 points of top buy end of season you be 9 gonna get wobbly knees monkey boys
No-one but the muggy spuds give a monkeys about Wembley, but seeing as you lot love talking about the FA cup, who’s won it more times?.. Learn your history son.
The Arsenal are a well established part of the European elite. Our players are linked with Barca, yours are linked with Derby. See you at the Lane.. how about this year you try and be a bit bigger than lobbing bottles and coins at scarfers from behind a police cordon?.. No?.. Didnt think so.
I see school, must be out for the day too many children posting on here for me, out of interest did any of the so called Arsenal fans posting on here think of starting their own site? just a thought, If i`m honest we true Spurs fans do not care one jot for arsenal or what their fans have to say children or not, so please stop spending your time posting your drivel on here, better by far that you do your homework and try to get some good exam results to help you out of the gutter that most of you clearly live in. You will find your average Tottenham Hotspur fan has better breading than you poor old Arsenal fans. No point in arguing the fact all you will be doing is confirming my point.
Back to football, Of course we Spurs fans can see we would need to put together a good run and start having some luck with injuries very soon IF we are to come in the top 4 teams in the premiership. We also know that Arsenal have no serious hope of winning the Premiership.
My prediction (for what it is worth) is the following top 7
Man u
Chelsea
Arsenal
Man city
Spurs
Liverpool
Aston villa
One thing you Arsenal school children there is always the consolation that if you all do as well at school as your posts on here would indicate you could always empty the trash cans for us highly paid Spurs fans!
Please…stop…. I’m about to cry.
Tottenham is probably the most run down area in Western Europe.. its more like fucking Mogadishu.
House prices in Islington are amongst the highest in the UK, and we pay more to watch our team aswell (obviously!)
Tottenham fans are proven racists and homophobes, and still live in some 80s Waddle/Hoddle bubble. You shouldnt be allowed to breed. Bunch of fucking pikeys.
arsenal players are all cum eating mother fuckers
Yidstar, were you raped as a child?
And I wonder do you live in one of those expensive properties Mr Jokes? I guess that you cannot even afford to buy a ticket to watch the Goons. If you can and do perhaps you should cease and save some funds for your personal cultural improvement. May I suggest things such as books, novels or biographies and perhaps trips to the theatre in order to improve your volcabluary and disposition as in my humble opinion you appear to be a very angry man who deserves pity and urgently requires personal improvement
Hahahaha.. another spud who left school at 15 to work at the local kebab shop. You are proving highly entertaining, as I sit here with my tea and crumpets. So.. tell me all about your wonderful ‘volcabluary’ .. hahahahaha. Oh, and ‘novels’ and ‘biographies’ are books you mug. Personally I prefer the classics.
TOTTENHAM FAN ARE NOT RACIST!!!! Bloddy hell!!!!We I am a spurs fan and i am not racist!!!! Arsenal fans are not very nice! You lot are rude and stereotype! I love spurs and i am not racist to anyone one! Arsenal fans need to stop saying that – just because one spurs fan said something it don’t mean every spurs fan is a racist! Arsenal are not even meant to be a north London club- you moved to north London so i don’t no why people are bringing up the prices of houses in Islington like its their original home! Islington is much nicer than Tottenham but that has nothing to do with the football club but with Harringay Council.
Islington is a ficking sh** hole too mate, your talking bollox, i live in Hadley wood, house prices are an average of 2-3 million, and most of the area follows spurs. who are the pykies now you stupid fuc*. you lot should be called Afrikanal FC
Get back to school you ironic little bugger you!..
Hahahahaha… you talk about children yet are unable to use pronunciation properly. I got as far as ‘.. I see school, must be out for the day..’
Thats a horrible use of a comma right there brains.
europe elite do yourself a favour you never won the champions league when you get to real mad /liverpool and hate to say manure then do your talking sado
Mate.. you made a long post talking about ‘breading’ (?) and education and it was littered with the most basic of spelling and pronunciation errors. I thought that was quite funny is all.
On to the football. When you consistently get to the last 8 of the champions league, then yeah, I’d say that makes you part of Europes elite. Ferguson, Ancelotti, Guardiola and Mourinho often talk about Arsenal in interviews. No-one even knows who Tottenham are.
talk about how they wanna get you easy ride to next round
Next time in English please.
Tottenham Tottenham Tottenham
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
As late as possible pls, I want the Arsenal to win the league at the sh*thole, wouldn´t that be great?
Btw Waddle cannot say penalty, he says PELANTY, f-g hilarious……..hahahahaha, I´m a wanker.
i heard a rumour that aaron lennon and ashley cole are about to come out as the first all gay football couple.
Aaron was overheard recently telling Cole that he wanted to be his bumboy for life.
get them
But Lennon is amazing!!.. Much better than Walcott!!
And Jermaine Jenas loves a good felch.
Tottingham are the football equivalent of the Ebola virus.
cole said that Lennon has a needledick but he is very satisfied
Cole would be satisfied with HIV. It would a step up in the world for that dirty judas cunt.
Basher my friend, I accept being a “twat”, if that makes a Spurs fan a bit more cheerful in this no-point sporting life!
You really have my sympathy, the void in your life needs filling, so keep hopoing my friend;
MAY BE ONE DAY YOU WILL FIND YOUR ULTIMATE TRUE GLORY, AND FINISH 4TH!!!
Funny how Arsenal fans can take the piss over actual football matters and the dirty spuds have to resort to racism and homophobia. You’re doing your team proud. Well done.
Did you know more people were hit by lightening than Spurs victories over Arsenal in the last decade?
Do Arsenal not have their own blog/discussion boards? Get a life and stop commenting on ours.
Arsenal…break a leg!
“yidstar March 10, 2010 at 4:52 pm
When the fuck did arsenal last step on the new wembly pitch ohhhhhhhh let me see never you on about us ,,,you 3 points of top buy end of season you be 9 gonna get wobbly knees monkey boys”
Last season. FA Cup semi-final.
Ta-la
You lot are MENTALLY ILL (Arse and Spurs postings)!!!
And spudsforme, please clean up your spelling, grammar and structure before criticising the educational standards of others…it is quite frankly embarrassing to other Spurs fans! (and this coming from a convict Down-Under).
I cant believe that more Arsenal fans have commented on this than spurs fans- thats how you know that Arsenal fans are so sad!!!Get a life!
GALLAS GOING AT END OF SEASON TO A BIGGER CLUB IN ITALY.I THOUGHT THE ARSE WERE APPARENTLY AN ELITE CLUB? WHEN ALL THE TIME,THEY ARE JUST A FEEDER CLUB FOR THE ELITE CLUBS.AND TO THE MUPPETS WHO KEEP ON GOING ON ABOUT,WHEN WE COME TO THE LANE! YOU NEVER COME TO THE LANE.ITS NOT REALLY SURPRISING WITH YOUR LIBRARY SUPPORT! I USED TO GO IN THE NORTH BANK WITH SPURS WHEN I WAS 15.YOU ALWAYS GOT RUN EVERY TIME.IM NOW 42, AND ITS STILL THE SAME.YOU COME ON OUR SITES MOUTHING OFF.WHEN REALLY YOU SHOULD ALL SAVE YOUR ENERGY,AND MAYBE ! JUST MAYBE ! AT YOUR NEXT HOME GAME. SING A SONG ! LATERS MUPPETS.
Thats a mighty angry reply, but lets put things in perspective..
Roma a bigger club than Arsenal???!.. If you look at trophies won, or support, or finances.. well, I think your theory fails on all levels..
Arsenal always bring 4,000 to the Lane, and last season, as you well know, we destroyed you cunts at Kings Cross, 12 Yids in hospital hahahaha…
You may well have gone in the North Bank as a 15 year old.. just as I went in the Paxton a number of times and took the piss out of you girly cunts. Every dog has it’s day..
Now.. seeing as you seem to revel in these stories, lets talk about the Yids top boy. A convicted rapist. Although, I’m sure you’d happily let him have a go on your daughter such is your admiration. Oh, and his made the Paedo.. you couldnt make it up.
Now, onto the Emirates.. pretty shit support, but I guess that comes with the leather seats and the new brand of supporters..comes with the territory when youre packing in 60,000 every week.. Away we are top quality and always outsing you mugs at WHL.
Go back to sleep and keep supporting the rapist!..
And Twitchy Redknapp – the most morally corrupt cunt in football.. hope he bankrupts you as well.
Lets just wait and watch with delight arsenal crumble to the ground due to dept of paying for the new stadium, i can’t wait to see it happen. hahahahahahaaha
Hey i’m ginger, a gooner called me a “Ranga” the other day so i said to him, “listen you little black fucking monkey get in that tree before i beat the crap out of you” which he did with great haste, i knew monkey’s could climb but he was unbelieveable, he didn’t like my comments and let it be known, then again i didn’t like his.
Me a RACSIST, i think not.
But keep CRYING it.
COYS.
No, not a racist.. just another blot on the human genepool.
Honestly, where do you cunts crawl out from?
Gooners coming over the Lane LMFAO via Sainsburys again ?
As for Kings Cross if you were ITK you would know how the numbers went on that one wouldn’t you BOY? . Then the wank stain who stood on the Paxton ? when the fuck was this LMFAO ( Again) Btw hows your Bear doing ? LMFAO
Hahahaha.. now you’re playing the numbers game. Never stopped you cunts before so why should we care. The only difference was, that we battered mouthy yids and you battered scarfers and kids.
Stood on the Paxton with another 15-20 gooners the year you beat us 1-0 when Buksch refereed. After Parlour was denied a stonewall penalty it all kicked off only it was difficult to differentiate between your lot and all the girls who were there waving their gazza posters. .. we got kicked out without a fucking scratch on us, fact.
Onto the Bear.. a fucking true gent and great man, even your lot will tell you that. And when compared to that vile rapist that runs your firm, he was a fucking angel. I hope you meet the same end soon so I can piss on your grave.
I’m the rapist you’re all talking about ,sadly it’s true .I raped northbank shaker’s dad in the 80s in his tight arsehole (oh baby) and shaker was born .I hope to be there next time one of your players brakes his leg to enjoy it cocksuckers.Also loved the broken ankle of the other pussy boy a couple of years back and hope to see all gooner mothers and fathers run o er by trains and buses so I can piss on the faces as they’re rolling in agony. Now fuck you all gooner cunt boys 5-1
Lots of pent up homo erotic rage there spuddy. So basically what you’re saying is that you like fucking men.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that hahaha
Don’t kid yourselves about coming to the lane either . The only way would be in mid week when there’s no game. I left my cum stains all over your sister and mother’s faces and your father is sucking my prick as I’m writing this tough guy gooner. Also tea bagged your younger sister but she swallows cum so that’s good
And to all you Nigerian gooners , wish you a 8 richter earthquake motherfuckers
Why do all the puerile,inane comments come from the arse,see you at the Lane I almost spat out my filtered coffee,if you you’re so hard Nikki B,why have you got a girl’s name then?.Typical goons all full of hot air!!
You keep digging that hole son. So is your real name Woolwich wanker??.. interesting.
Nikki b can’t go anywhere next bus because I ripped his arsehole when fucking him so now he is bed ridden for a while and Now I have to fuck his dad and sister
I guess class just started that’s why all gooner faggots disapeared. Please god let me see another gooner brake his leg and hopefully his neck this coming weekend, what a sweet site
The vitriol is quite amazing, confirming that woolwich are quite a sad bunch (who have never technically earned promotion to top flight English football, as they bribed their way in). Unlike Tottenham, Arsenal have won no silverware or reached any finals in over half a decade. As league form has shown, they’ll get spanked as soon as they meet Man Utd in any competition. Are Woolwich better than AC Milan? Not sure… Anyhoo, as much as Wenger loves taking the cream of the crop of teenage boys from foreign teams academies before these teams are allowed to offer contracts (Fibreglass to Camp Nou after the world cup anyone?) he will be looking even less like winning anything when the homegrown players rules come in next season. When Fibreglass and Wenger leave and Spurs have a new stadium the balance of North London bragging rights might be on the move…\
By the way I know some v. nice Nigerian gooners, it’s the fat fucking chav idiots from Finsbury park that are the problem…
COYS!
What a shame that the ignorant gooners (just look at the comments content,) can’t find anything of interest on their own site. You might be better employed at night school.
Education education education
Regards Baggyshorts
Hey Massiveyid, I understood it to be Fullogas not Fibreglas?
We have enough to think about with “Flintstones” team (Allardice,) paying us a visit this week, they are improving.
Regards Baggyshorts
Call him what you like you dopey spud mug. Doesnt change the fact that he’s the best player in the league by a mile. I remember a couple of seasons back you lot were saying that ‘Fats’ Huddlestone would be better. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.. hahahahahahaha..hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Along with Assou Ekkotto being better than Clichy.
SPURS 3 EUROPEAN TROPHIES
AFRIKANAL 2 EUROPEAN TROPHIES
HOW IS THE ELITE NOW? EAT MY SHIT GOONERS YOU ALL TALK SHIT.
P.S SPURS HAVE THE HIGHEST SCORING AND WIN AVERAGE OUT OF ANY TEAM IN EUROPE IN ALL EUROPEAN COMPS. BET U DIDNT KNOW THAT U RETARDS!
Why are Gooner and other Ars fans so proud of their red and white? Its obvious they havnt a clue of their history, if they did the only thing red would be their faces. Heres a history lesson, when you pikey’s had no money for a kit, they got an old kit from Nottingham Forest, thats why you play in red and white. I can see why your so proud. COYS
Hahahahahahahahaha… Thats right mate. You go back 80 or so years if it makes you feel better.
Forever in our shadow.
You ain’t even as big as West Ham.
Regardless of when the move the fixture to, a win in the q/f against Fulham will see the Scum game moved to a evening kick off. Under lights at the Lane will be a fantastic, intimadating atmosphere, akin to the 5-1 game in the cup.
I, for one, believe we’ll turn them over in a game under lights at the lane.
C.O.Y.S
You dirty pikey nomad c*nts! Read this and realise you have no soul and you need song sheets. You are a plastic club who’s gaffer spends more time at the Disney store than on the training ground.. I know this is an oldie…but a goodie!
David P gives us his insight on how Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal are two very different football clubs.
In Fever Pitch, Nicky Hornby tells the story of his relationship with Arsenal. Of how the club, in all its merciless reliability, came to fill the emotional space left by his absent father. Omnipresent and consistent, it became the solid, dependable force needed by a young male growing up. Well, if Arsenal is the benign parent, reading you bedtime stories and scooping you onto his shoulders, Tottenham is the dad who got drunk all the time, screwed the au pair, and never turned up to sports day.
He said he would, he promised; swore, even. (You told all your friends he was coming). But there you stood, outside the pavilion, ballooning shorts and oversized T-shirt, with your plimsolls tucked under your arm, looking up and down the street for the unfeasibly expensive rental car that never came. Arsenal is the father you never had; Tottenham is the father that never was. But you love him anyway.
The Carling Cup semi final got me thinking; on Tottenham, on Arsenal; on the differences between the two. When I first started watching Spurs, and fell in love, the clubs were more or less evenly matched. Yes, they had won a couple of leagues – grindingly and joylessly – hoofing balls through the atmosphere onto Alan Smith’s nose. But still, this was a time when Dennis Bergkamp, Dennis Bergkamp, a boyhood Spurs fan, wanted to come to Us over Them. We turned him down of course – too expensive. I think we bought Ruel Fox that year. But, that we, Europeless and trophyless, could even be considered by a player of his calibre…well, different times.
But then something happened. Bruce Rioch left (no two or three season’s ‘transition period’ grace for him), and was replaced, not with Francis or Ardiles, or Hoddle or Pleat, or Hughton or Santini, but with Arsene Wenger; and Arsenal began, this time with style, to win.
And kept on winning. All Spurs fans, regardless of their feelings, must give thanks to Manchester’s hoary old king, frothing madly on his American throne. It could have been much, much worse.
So Arsenal will go on; ecstatically organized, preposterously well-disciplined; swaddled in top coaching, consistent management. Years of behind-the-scenes efficiency built them. Decades of discreet negotiations; firm, dry handshakes; gruff, soldierly nods. Prudent alliances, kept promises, fulfilled potential, unbending belief and cold-blooded focus…always focus. Somewhere in the Emirates no doubt sit squadrons of accountants – I see them now, row upon monotonous row – whirring contentedly, while scouting networks intersect the globe – the new colonialists, unearthing gold in Africa, importing diamonds from South America. And Wenger smiles at us, year after year, addressing the camera with restful Gallic urbanity. And I watch and feel, along with envy and hate, guilt and shame.
Less than a mile east, as the crow flies. White Hart Lane. Tottenham Hotspur. A ground of…well, emotion. Home to the baser instincts: love, hate, betrayal, revenge; a gallery of martyrs and villains, heroes and jesters. Homicidal boardrooms, fratricidal changing rooms; suicidal supporters. Ill-advised signings and public squabbles, Christian Gross.
Our team: lopsided. Up front, the sublime Berbatov, the sheer spectacle of his play: languid, at times fussy, but always beautiful. Scan down the field, and watch Young-Pyo Lee get bullied by the corner flag. In true London wideboy style, we are the league’s own cut-and-shut – a McLaren front and a Metro back, welded together by perennially optimistic management.
Tottenham v Arsenal is many things: not least a London Derby. But, more than this, it is hope versus reality. And football is about hope. It offers that most precious of things – the chance, each year, to remake ourselves anew. At the beginning of the season anything is possible, as we start, all equal in the eyes, if not of God, the Premier League. And it is a bitter hope, one that is rooted in life. I have a theory that young children should be made to support Spurs, to teach them early on that life is a long series of disappointments, but amidst all of this to Never Give Up.
Even when we were bad, and we have been very, very bad, there was always …something. Sometimes it wasn’t quite explainable, but it was there. Sometimes it was obvious, like a Greaves or a Lineker, or a Klinsmann or a Sheringham, or a Ginola or a Berbatov. That’s why we have such good support, and why we keep coming back. That, and hope. And glory. Much is made of this at Tottenham, and it’s all true. We have a relationship with glory that Arsenal never will. Even their recent triumphs have an almost perfunctory feel to them. Slick? Certainly, watchable? Absolutely. But glorious? Never. The corporate bells and whistles of Premier League success cannot hide the underbelly of banal industriousness on which the club was built. It is the display of the first class flight: the seat reclines artfully, the champagne fizzes, the in-flight movie’s a cracker. Studied luxury and elegance, all mere gilding on the beating mechanistic heart.
It says a lot that for all their domestic success, Arsenal have never been much good in Europe, the ultimate stage of those glory nights. I think they won a couple of cups. What, when and where? Who knows. Arsenal’s most memorable European contributions are, of course, losses. Beaten by a sublime chip that is still talked about and replayed and discussed, and not only by Spurs fans. Man United, one night in Spain, one nil down – two goals in the final minutes: mathematically, that’s a win, but more than that, it’s glory. Tottenham – the first English club to win a European trophy, the winners of the first UEFA cup. Landmarks all of them. Arsenal’s greatest European story: a startled appearance in a Champions League final, ending in defeat, petulance and complaint. There is no glory with them in success, or, just as importantly, in defeat.
And this is what it is about. As a footballer, the spectre of Gazza loomed over his generation, far more than his achievements, which, in actuality, were few. Gazza, far more than he was ever Newcastle or Lazio or Rangers, was Spurs, the living embodiment of the club: bulging with potential, occasional and (less often) sustained brilliance, but brittle, flawed and ultimately a cautionary tale of obliterated talent and self-destruction. Along the way, though, the glory: he cried in Italy, that goal against Scotland, that goal in the semi final, there was an epic quality to it all. Who would you rather be? Marlon Brando, talent that ran to a grotesque seed, a corpulent shadow of past glories, but immortal; or Tom Hanks, cheerfully knocking out tactically astute, successful product each year with the same dull clunk? Go through the greatest England players of all time, there’ll be a few Spurs ones. Ask a Gooner to name some national Arsenal greats; as soon as he says ‘Tony Adams’, which he will, he’s lost. The history of Tottenham is the history of a club that has had some pretty good teams in its day; but more than this, it is the history of individuals who transcend the egalitarian tyranny and squalid anonymity of The Team.
I was at the Emirates for the first leg. It’s a beautiful stadium. Modern, efficient (I’m sure it’s launched a thousand business deals), but utterly soulless. And that is Arsenal: all style, even more substance, but no soul. Tottenham are by turns sublime, awful, exciting, dull, forward-looking, regressive, cohesive, disorganised, good and bad, but above all, we have soul. And thank God for that.
I cut and pasted your mother. Silly spud cunt.
if you’ve got a comeback at least make it witty
Hear Hear – great piece DC
Armand the poof traore, its because your jealous, that article made you realise you have no glory and no soul, you have gay boy wenger thinking he can win everything with a squad made of french and african schoolboys that he has abused.
Roger, clubs who never win everything always claim this ‘soul’ , this ‘great support’… Well, you keep being a slightly more polished version of Portsmouth, and we’ll keep competing with the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid. Silly little boy
True but he’s gotta pretty little brown eye
denton=mug
Denton = legend, across Europe and beyond. Always.
Arsenal fans are like politicians; never answer a simple
question with a straight answer, completely out of touch
with reality oblivious to the immigration issues (which
are genuine)and love young boys ..especially the strong
black ones. I am black…so F*** off that high horse and
keep your politically correct rhetoric to yourself.(a perv is a perv) Arrogant Mtv, call centre generation of you tube fans, who think ‘rocky’(Shitty castle)Was someone that acted as a punch bag for ‘clubber lang’. the stupid c*** using pointless race hate remarks ….probably struggles to find his co** when taking a piss (Cos it’s in his mouth).For me the Arsenal fan typifies all the bad things about our society today…..dishonest….voyeuristic …..morally bankrupt….gloryhunting….misguided..unethical..wind up merchant…unsportsmanlike gay droids. that when asked
about England’s chances in world cups and or euro comps
happily ditance themselves from our beloved national responsibity , all so that they can be seen on the shoulder flirting sluttishly with the (proper big boys)who drops them
out cold at the first sign of misbehaviour. Take your head
out the next guys arse, for he knows not where he is going
(but he’s got Sky for directions)
COYS.
Shut it Sooty.
Armand the blade, I’ll fuck you till you love me sweety
stop embarasing yourself you fucking toy. You need a good slap
“all the bad things about our society today…..dishonest….voyeuristic …..morally bankrupt….gloryhunting….misguided..unethical..wind up merchant…” …..
Harry Redknapp’s gravestone?…
You really have no concept of irony do ya?