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jimmyriggle

jimmyriggle

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After the great FA Cup relocation of January 7th 2012, I would like to express my relief, nay, delight, that my season ticket is in the Park Lane lower.

Now first of all let me just say to anyone who sits in the easy upper who may be offended, I'm not slagging you off. We're all devoted Spurs fans here. You don't have to be down in the rough seats to be a 'true' fan. This is all about my personal preference.

Back to the point.
Since the days when my Dad had season tickets in the Upper West, It's been a while since I attended a Spurs game where I felt unable to sing up for my team, bar the odd rendition of 'come on you spurs' and 'oh when the spurs.' In the East Upper on Saturday, it genuinely felt like you'd be ruining the bloke next to you's experience if you started a chant.

I know it was just FA cup 3rd round but still!

Also, fuck sitting down at games.
1. It just isn't conducive to a good atmostphere
2. If you are in the middle of a row you are basically teeing yourself up to be the least popular bloke in the ground if you do anything that deviates from simply turning up in good time and not moving for 90 mins.
It's cramped, uncomfortable and boring.
In fact, it's so crammed that I actually felt way less safe than I would if we were all standing.

I'm not even going to go into how much of an absolutely useless, rude and down right thick ladies front bottom steward E81 was.
I usually stick up for our orange-jacketed friends as I can imagine it is a pretty thankless task, especially down in the park lane/shelf.

However, this bloke's behaviour made him a front runner for biggest prick in the universe. Thanks steward E81 for making my entire row stand up 4 times while you attempted to get your tiny brain round a very simple seating mix up, making me look like a prize cunt to the 20 odd people around me.

(ok so I did go into it. sorry)

Anyway, rant over. I missed the game last night but I can't wait to get back to the Park Lane where you can stand up, move whenever you want, sing and swear at millionaires kicking a ball around.

Park Lane for life!
 
The stewards let everyone stand up last night for a change. Cant remember the last time I stood up for a whole match.
 
I have sat in a couple of different parts of the ground and remember in East lower but near Paxton once, I could see people around me share a disapproving bit of eye contact when I shouted. Was in Paxton for the NLD in October and it had good atmosphere then but I'm sure for most other games it isn't really what I want personally out of going to the Lane.

Had similar experiences in East Upper too.

I'm in Park Lane 99% of the time and love it, except I am not magnanimous enough to feel for the stewards. I can't stand them, constantly telling us to sit down, does my head in. One of them the other night stood next to me in the aisle for nearly the entire night, looking at us all but what felt like basically having some ignorant cunt standing there staring at the side of my face for 90 minutes. And then they keep telling me to sit down when there's about 7 rows of people standing in front of me. Fuck off.
 
I always try and sit in the rows further back in South Lower, the front 8-9 rows are always getting told to sit down.
 
Gotta say, the whole of Park lane Lower (from about block 30 onwards) was standing the entire 90 minutes... and you know what, there wasn't a disaster or tragedy to be seen... how about this? if everyone wants to stand, and they're happy to do that, and we all decide to be in one area of the ground, I'm not suggesting for one minute the entire ground stands up... after all, it's sometimes difficult to balance a plate of smoke salmon and foie gras whilst holding a glass of Chardonnay when standing in the West Upper... (so I dunno, how about Park lane lower for starters?) then why not just let them...? besides, if you were the ONLY person sitting in the Park Lane lower last night, you'd have seen fuck all anyway... and would be relying on the bloke standing-up next to you to describe the sheer beauty of Benny's goal!!
 
S.L.R. the problemis with the sitting down thing is that the club have to be seen to be at least trying.
Of course those stewards would rather leave us alone I'm sure (bar the odd mini-hitler you get from time to time)
But Mr. Head steward will be telling them to do it. If they don't, they don't have a job.
If they didn't, the club could face fines, point deductions or even have to play behind closed doors.
 
I got an ST this year having been on the list since for a long time. Due to some major clerical fuck up my mate who I always go with is about 3000 places below me on the waiting list.

Always got tickets in Block 35 as a member, occasionally elsewhere when tickets sold out - we've all been there - and wherever else I sat in the ground it was shit compared to Park Lane. Even PL upper I got told to sit down all the way through a NLD by some lardass behind me.

So after much thinking I took the decision to go West Lower as I wanted an aisle seat, it has a decent view, close to the station / Brickies / and where I park, and I can take my boy there who's 7 without too many issues (language isn't too bad and most of the time if people sitting down he can see what's happening).

Saying all that it's pricey, I'm on my Jack Jones and it's shit. Thank fuck the football is the saving grace, although people still moan every game - its a Spurs thing I think.

I miss the days of standing up chanting swearing singing and generally doing what I have done since being a Junior Spur on the Paxton all those years ago.

Not sure what to do next year, only PL and East Lower towards the PL look like much fun, the rest of the ground seems pretty quiet these days. And getting an ST in those areas is not going to happen. Bring on the new stadium is all I can say.

Although if we win the league I can never change this seat. That will be the law.
 
jimmyriggle said:
After the great FA Cup relocation of January 7th 2012, I would like to express my relief, nay, delight, that my season ticket is in the Park Lane lower.

Now first of all let me just say to anyone who sits in the easy upper who may be offended, I'm not slagging you off. We're all devoted Spurs fans here. You don't have to be down in the rough seats to be a 'true' fan. This is all about my personal preference.

Back to the point.
Since the days when my Dad had season tickets in the Upper West, It's been a while since I attended a Spurs game where I felt unable to sing up for my team, bar the odd rendition of 'come on you spurs' and 'oh when the spurs.' In the East Upper on Saturday, it genuinely felt like you'd be ruining the bloke next to you's experience if you started a chant.

I know it was just FA cup 3rd round but still!

Also, fuck sitting down at games.
1. It just isn't conducive to a good atmostphere
2. If you are in the middle of a row you are basically teeing yourself up to be the least popular bloke in the ground if you do anything that deviates from simply turning up in good time and not moving for 90 mins.
It's cramped, uncomfortable and boring.
In fact, it's so crammed that I actually felt way less safe than I would if we were all standing.

I'm not even going to go into how much of an absolutely useless, rude and down right thick ladies front bottom steward E81 was.
I usually stick up for our orange-jacketed friends as I can imagine it is a pretty thankless task, especially down in the park lane/shelf.

However, this bloke's behaviour made him a front runner for biggest prick in the universe. Thanks steward E81 for making my entire row stand up 4 times while you attempted to get your tiny brain round a very simple seating mix up, making me look like a prize cunt to the 20 odd people around me.

(ok so I did go into it. sorry)

Anyway, rant over. I missed the game last night but I can't wait to get back to the Park Lane where you can stand up, move whenever you want, sing and swear at millionaires kicking a ball around.

Park Lane for life!
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Think you might have been sitting near me mate, I saw one of the stewards being a prick about a seating mix up in front of where I was sitting, looked like a guy in th erow behind was sticking his nose in and being a bellend aswell. Totally agree about the atmosphere up there, it was awful. There were only about 5 people singing around where I was. Didn't help that I had a young kid in the seat behind me so I felt guilty everytime I went to stand up.
 
jimmyriggle said:
S.L.R. the problemis with the sitting down thing is that the club have to be seen to be at least trying.
Of course those stewards would rather leave us alone I'm sure (bar the odd mini-hitler you get from time to time)
But Mr. Head steward will be telling them to do it. If they don't, they don't have a job.
If they didn't, the club could face fines, point deductions or even have to play behind closed doors.
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You're right mate, I can't deny it. Just thinking back to the bloke who was winding me up the other night got me tetchy :parker:
 
My season ticket is in the East Upper, Saturday was a bit of a one off - within a 30 person radius of me there were only two of the other regular occupants of those seats and the whole area is ST so normally you recognize 90% of people.

Instead it was full of families with very young kids - that's fine as they are the future fans and need to be encouraged - but it really isn't conducive to creating any kind of atmosphere at all......add to that the fact the game was fucking dull......
 
The atmosphere was guff against Everton. Our fans are a bit of a myth. Against Woolwich, Chelsea we're good, other than that we're a mediocre bunch at WHL. I think the season ticket holders are becoming a little complacent. Levy should say that if you don't average a noise above a set decible then you lose your ticket to the next person on the list.

Just paying your money and turning up isn't supporting your team.
 
Flav said:
The atmosphere was guff against Everton. Our fans are a bit of a myth. Against a***nal, Chelsea we're good, other than that we're a mediocre bunch at WHL. I think the season ticket holders are becoming a little complacent. Levy should say that if you don't average a noise above a set decible then you lose your ticket to the next person on the list.

Just paying your money and turning up isn't supporting your team.
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Where were you sat? It was decent where we were, there were a few flat moments but nowhere is lively for the full 90mins.

I always think Spurs fans need something to sing about, we dont tend to just create a noise if the game is flat.
 
Dru said:
Flav said:
The atmosphere was guff against Everton. Our fans are a bit of a myth. Against a***nal, Chelsea we're good, other than that we're a mediocre bunch at WHL. I think the season ticket holders are becoming a little complacent. Levy should say that if you don't average a noise above a set decible then you lose your ticket to the next person on the list.

Just paying your money and turning up isn't supporting your team.
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Where were you sat? It was decent where we were, there were a few flat moments but nowhere is lively for the full 90mins.

I always think Spurs fans need something to sing about, we dont tend to just create a noise if the game is flat.
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Where's your grammar at :harrylol:
 
More likely Levy will set an average level of how much you spend at a game than how much noise you make :levystare:

Been over to Holland a few times and PSV have a singing section where you are expected/encouraged to act like a nutter. We'd be better off introducing that concept to a few blocks in the PL.

"There is a Family Corner, reserved for children up to twelve years and their parents. Besides there is a special stand for youngsters up to sixteen years. Some special sections of the stands are the exclusive domain of people that create a good atmosphere." - Google translation but you get the drift.

A frustrating part of sitting in a quieter part of the ground is watching everyone standing in the PL with their arms crossed making no noise. Just a sign of the times I suppose. We expect more from the team now.
 
Anurag Jo said:
Dru said:
Flav said:
The atmosphere was guff against Everton. Our fans are a bit of a myth. Against a***nal, Chelsea we're good, other than that we're a mediocre bunch at WHL. I think the season ticket holders are becoming a little complacent. Levy should say that if you don't average a noise above a set decible then you lose your ticket to the next person on the list.

Just paying your money and turning up isn't supporting your team.
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Where were you sat? It was decent where we were, there were a few flat moments but nowhere is lively for the full 90mins.

I always think Spurs fans need something to sing about, we dont tend to just create a noise if the game is flat.
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Where's your grammar at :harrylol:
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Grammar? Never heard of him, im sure he's a top top player though and I like him but I've never heard of him :harrylol:
 
SpursUltra said:
A frustrating part of sitting in a quieter part of the ground is watching everyone standing in the PL with their arms crossed making no noise. Just a sign of the times I suppose. We expect more from the team now.
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Sorry mate, I stand with my arms crossed and make noise at every opportunity. Is that allowed? :wink:
 
Dru Dru

I am afraid you missed him back at school...top-top lad he was..just a bit difficult to get along with :defoe2:
 
Agree with Flav about our fans being a bit of a myth sometimes. There is sometimes a sense of entitlement at the Lane that we've spent years mocking others for. Inevitable though int'it - nothing we can do (other than being shit again).

Having said that I still think Spurs are among the best support in the country. Everyone goes on about Stoke for example. Good at home (but not better than a good day at the Lane IMO), away from home, you can't hear the cunts. Whether we're at Portsmouth, Scumford Bridge, or the Reebok, you can always hear the yids.
 
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