Ex Spur thread

Yeah see I've grown up surrounded by Spurs and Arsenal (plus plastic Mancs) along with the odd West Ham and Chelsea fan, so it's always been at the forefront of any football banter/ rivalry.

Playground bragging rights were probably a bit different in my school . When the film Football Factory came out, it became viral and so all us boys suddenly thought we were hooligans and created our own version, it was Spurs vs the rest (around 50% of my school was Spurs) although we always primarily went for the Arsenal fans, lads got absolutely battered on both sides, myself included, I was on my way to class one time before being dragged out of the corridor into the playground by about 7 or 8 boys and copped the beating of a lifetime. Despite it sounding violent though, no one ever went over the top, even if there was the odd bruise or cut. However looking back, it's no wonder my school was ranked 2nd or 3rd bottom in the borough at the time and was shut down about 2 years after I left then rebuilt into one of those academies .

 

Can't stand any of 'em! COYS!

 

We had similar from older kids (nothing to do with football really, there were just a lot of fights) but you just dealt with it and moved on. Football Factory wasn’t that big a deal but all the kids who developed a mockney accent and though they were a bit big time after watching Kidulthood were more of an issue tbh.

The bragging rights were more mental for me, hate the little needling comments that used to come out from kids who barely even cared about football 99% of the time.

 

Get better soon Vinny

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Totally agree about Stoke, really nasty bunch of supporters and players, so glad that we used to kick their arses and delighted to see them go down

 

Never glad to see the back of a team we kicked the arses of.

 

They gave us plenty of trouble until Mark Hughes took over. Even he managed a Clattenburg aided big win.
Loads of cards whenever we played them, too. Losing four games on the bounce by four goals must've sickened them, though. Shame.

 

Adams on Bale was assault, that thug should have had a 6 match ban at least or was that when he was at Blckpool ? Any how throw the book at the thug

 

Charlie Adam did it at least twice. The first was at Blackpool and the second was in a pre-season friendly for the Scouse:

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Connor Ogilvie has been awarded the Gillingham supporters player of the year award, and from what I saw that was very well deserved, unfortunately those performances have not gone unnoticed by bigger clubs and I doubt he will be at the Gills next season

 

In the latest episode of Kieran Trippier Talks Bollocks, now he's saying that we would've won the Champions League final if we hadn't sold Mousa Dembele

Somehow it hasn't occurred to him that would have been highly improbable, because with Dembele himself saying he couldn't handle the rigours of regular PL football the only way this would have worked is if Dembele was only played in the CL - and that's surely not what would have happened, as our injury issues meant he'd have had to be pressed into service in the league

There's also the irony that one minute Trippier says him playing through injuries last season caused his form to nosedive, yet on the other says Dembele could do it even though his decline from mid-2018 onwards was visible for all to see

 

Player asks for a move. Accept? Bad. Reject? Bad.

Trippier needs to shut the **** up about Spurs and concentrate on his current club. They're worse this season than last, for some reason.

 

Because selling Dembele who, as fine a player as he was, freely admits himself that he couldn’t handle the PL football anymore, would certainly have helped in the CL final against...the most intense team in the PL

Trippier is doing himself no favours with all this running of his mouth. I get that a lot of footballers have been doing interviews for podcasts and over video during lockdown but he’s making himself out to be a right dickhead atm. He made his point months ago, he needs to do his talking on the pitch if he thinks he’s grown that much as a player.

 

95th minute winner.

 

Fulham v their second team,Chelsea,next season?

 

I wonder how much the Fulham players cost against Chelsea's?

 

It seems likely that they'll hit the play-off places. A lot seems to depend on momentum after that, though.

 

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