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Ex-Spurs Player Matt Doherty
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Never understood the "hate" for any player in a Spurs shirt, especially if it derived from poor form.
I don't know if it's endemic to Spurs, or if you see this with other teams, but through all my years of following Spurs, there has always been a player, or players, that a large proportion of fans just want to hate.
You might note rate them, which is fair enough, but hate them?
It mystifies me.
Credit where its due , so we should definitely credit everton for being crap
No one hates Doherty as such. People just find him really really shit.
would sell emerson before him he could be a good backup if we gett a younger rb in
I beg to disagree. Some of the vitriol aimed at him on this site, and others, has been disgusting.
He's not alone either. Winks gets it regularly, Dier has had it, Sanchez still gets it, PEH, Ryan Ressegron (remember that on all you SC exiles?)
I can go back to the likes of Ginger Pele, Spider, Chris Armstrong, John Pratt. All "hated" regardless of how well they did, just because they had a drop off in form, didn't meet the "expectations" of certain fans, whatever.
Like I said, I don't know if it's just us or if this happens at all clubs, but I've never seen a fanbase hate in their own players to the degree that many of ours do.
Maybe someone can put me straight on that, though I have my doubts.
No idea what that even means......
Surely "Regressengon" would be the more eloquent option.
Ive seen winks , sanchez, aurier, ndombele given some harsh treatment but dont think anyones wished ill on Doherty at all. Maybe its in this thread and ive missed it, but almost everyone just says he is really really shit (which is true).
He was terrible against Middlesbrough and really not that great in the two games he is getting praise for against dogshit teams.
I have a hard time seeing any reason to think this is him getting any form back and more likely just him being asked to do nothing against two awful teams.
Takes me back to the good old days of hating Ralph Coates. Poor bastard never won the fans over but OTOH there was no social media - just chatting in the Supporters' Club before the game and in the pub after. And barracking from the stands of course.
In those days we all lived in a bag in the middle of the road but tell youngsters that today and they don't believe it.
In those days we all lived in a bag in the middle of the road but tell youngsters that today and they don't believe it.
Far play, he's been decent lately
Doherty has turned a corner ...or are Everton that shite?
Even N'Koudou had a better goalscoring rate than Lo Celso
It's okay to criticise players when they perform poorly, you know. Doesn't mean one should apologize when they start playing well a couple games
It's a joke
Everton & Leeds are the two worst teams in the PL form wise. I think anyway. But I do think it's pretty clear that he's our best option at wingback, we could be playing Tranmere and Emerson wouldn't be excelling in that role.