Nothing. We're looking up, not down.
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You prefer not to acknowledge our biggest rivals?
Sorry, but just because we've had one better season it doesn't mean they have ceased to be our closest and most despised rivals. I'm amazed that league position is all it takes in some fans to deem them unimportant.
See, this is why I don't get the "don't give it a name 'cause superior" attitude. We're not a bigger club than them in terms of money. We're not bigger than them in terms of trophy history. They have a large contingent of plastics thanks to their success in the PL era, but had it been us we'd have those plastics as well.
This whole "don't give it a name because we're better" doesn't actually seemed rooted in any logic to me. Now, we may well become bigger and better than them over the long term thanks to our building for the future, and that would be the time to truly regarded them as small time and say "forget a name", but we just aren't there yet so I find the thinking behind "don't give it a name this year" based on a misplaced idea that one season better than them makes us vastly superior. It's like a denial that they are our biggest rivals, wherever either of us are in the table. I mean Christ, even on here we have a piss take thread that is some 900 plus pages long, but we shouldn't give yesterday a one off name because that'll show 'em we don't care? It's bollocks. Any true Spurs fan will always care about the Scum whenever they are in the table, just like any Liverpool cares about Everton, Newcastle/Sunderland, Celtic/Rangers and so on.
Any true Spurs fan will always care about the Scum whenever they are in the table.
I have no goon mates
I'm someone offering an opinion. Or are you going to persist in looking for a fight for the next few days?Bollocks Salmon. Just admit you're wrong about this. I couldn't give a fuck about them - they're cunts. There you go again "Any true Spurs fan blah, blah, blah". Who are ya?
No I'm not. I'm sorry we had a few cross words last night, but I think you're wrong about this. Also, only an opinion.I'm someone offering an opinion. Or are you going to persist in looking for a fight for the next few days?
I'm someone offering an opinion. Or are you going to persist in looking for a fight for the next few days?
30 April, 2017I tried this before, but there was a 'disturbing lack of faith'. So I'm playing it coy(s) this time, but you know what I'm talking about.
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I get what ur saying (don't agree with the "Any true fan..." stuff) but I think he's essentially right. The fact u are calling them cunts in itself show u do give a fuck about them and so u should.Bollocks Salmon. Just admit you're wrong about this. I couldn't give a fuck about them - they're cunts. There you go again "Any true Spurs fan blah, blah, blah". Who are ya?
Figuratively... I don't mean big as in 'size' ...more that we're the Bigger men (and Women) who don't need to stoop to such childish lows as naming a day that doesn't really exist... And then pretending like it does if you do it enough!!What makes us "bigger and better"?
What the media and a lot of fans forget is that the original "Day" was St. Hotspurs Day, 14th of April, to mark the 3-1 Tonking of the Arse. It was invented by Stuart Mutler (?), editor of the rather fine "The Spur" fanzine. You could buy cards with a picture of Gazza's free kick, it was a bit of fun and a way to make a few bob for the magazine. It wasn't a big deal, the internet didn't bang on and on about it, I doubt that 99.5% of the media had any idea of it.
Typically, the Woolwich lot copied it, managing to suck any originality or wit out of it in the process.
Me, I liked Pochettino's reaction when he was asked if he knew what it was. Confusion, "No?", then the sort of withering look that a parent gives a child who thinks its funny to fart at the dinner table