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Player Heung-Min Son (손흥민)

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tbonepremier said:
I don't know how you define 'neutral football fans', but my impression of what you are saying is that only locals and people who inherited supportership from a parent or sibling started supporting Spurs during the two decades you mentioned.

It's not true, obviously. I'm amongst the foreign fans that started supporting the club in the early 90's. Mostly because of Thorstvedt, because he, like me, is Norwegian.

So kinda like the koreans with Son.

Expect some of them to stay Spurs forever.
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I want them to stay forever not come and go once their favourite player leaves. I get that fans no longer support their local club as the premier league is commercialised and now a global brand. We've had a long history of players from Scandinavia and appreciate fans coming from there because of those players. Same with the likes of Sonny now. I found the comments about the calling of some fans 'dumb shits' and town idiots a bit disrespectful to supporters who have lived in the tribal atmosphere of North London. Players come and go, the club is my overriding passion.
 
SoCalSpurs said:
Everyone has played a part in this season. Be it Son and his few very important goals or even someone like Onomah.
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And there are a lot of minutes of football left this season for people like Son, Onomah, Chadli & some of the others who have faced criticism on here to make themselves heroes. Imagine, for example, Son scores the goal in the final minute of the last game of the season that won the title...this thread would go fucking mental with Sonny love.

Support the club, the team & the players in it

COYS
 
A lot of the Son fans would stop following Spurs if he left. Some would continue to follow Spurs. Also the home crowd these days is full of tourists who kill the atmosphere, but also lots of English who kill it as well. Most of us would like to retain the best bits of pre-globalised football but we still want the best bits of globalised football, and we ain't gonna get both.

Isn't that the whole debate in a nutshell?
 
I started following Spurs in '95 because Klinsmann and Teddy were 2 of my favourite players

I also don't think being born within a 10 kilometre radius of WHL makes you a superior or true fan - that is horseshit, imv. People should support the club for whatever reasons they choose to.
 
ArcspacE said:
I started following Spurs in '95 because Klinsmann and Teddy were 2 of my favourite players

I also don't think being born within a 10 kilometre radius of WHL makes you a superior or true fan - that is horseshit, imv. People should support the club for whatever reasons they choose to.
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I wasn't having a go at fans not born within the 5 mile radius of Tottenham town hall. I was born in Highgate and lived 1 mile from the Woolwich, I grew up in Finsbury Park and predominantly surrounded by Goons at school and even some family. I had the choice of supporting either but choose Spurs as my dad was a lifelong Spurs fan from Tottenham.

What I and many others are saying is the fans that arrive at the club supporting a player, that then decide to do one when the player leaves. Whether it's Sonny, Luka, Bale or Yedlin. The ones that come to The Lane once to cheer said player, leave after 70mins to miss the traffic. They are the ones stopping the long time supporters from getting to the game due to ticket price increases and wasting a seat by turning up and then leaving early doors. I've had to sit through a lot of dross in the past but always stayed to the end. I would love to take all my boys but again it's too expensive. Perhaps with the new stadium we'll be able to fulfil cheaper seats as well as room for the tourist fan who want to see their favourite player.

Premier League football is globalised and is here to stay.
 
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