Do any non-Tottenham fans really call them 'Spurs'? They shouldn't!
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Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Rollem said:
Exactly.
Personally, I always call my beloved Hatters, 'Luton', although I call the Hornets 'the scum', and spurs can be spurs tho i dislike them more than most, more so than the gunners and the blues, but not as much as the red devils....who are not to be confused with the reds. Rollem above supports the "o's" (or is it the hoops
) but I believe she simply calls them 'rangers' most of the time, though not to be confused with the other rangers who are actaully the fucking 'teddy bears' of all nicknames, but at the end of the day all I want to know William is Does your theory also count for Wolves then? 
William of Walworth said:I've made this point before many a time but I've never been able to get much of an answer.
Interest declared : I don't like Tottenham much, but I'd quite like a sensible discussion all the same ...
Yes, I know why Tottenham FC are called 'Spurs'. That's cool -- if it's their own fans doing so.
What mystifies me is why so many fans of other teams, and so many football commentators/journalists generally, go along with this affectionate fan-name so much.
Far more references to 'Spurs' on TV/radio/the press than you ever see to the 'Hammers', the 'Gunners', the 'Blues' etc. (yes of course these happen too, and it's a tad annoying, but try proving to me that it happens with those other teams nearly as much).
Names like that, and PARTICULARLY 'Spurs' , should be confined to FANS
When I hear some 'neutral' MOTD commentator or summariser call them 'Spurs', or see articles in the weekend sports supplements doing similar and it happens a lot) I just think (and even if I'm wrong it SOUNDS like it) :
Closet Tottenham fan journalists
(Quite apart from said journalist-fans always seeming to be bigging their 'Spurs' up as if they're as important a team as the really big ones!! But that's a bit of a different debate).
Even given the semi-justification of 'Spurs' being a shorter word than 'Tottenham' for headlines, I think this expression of public FANDOM should cease now**, especially among people who aren't Tottenham fans really, but just go along with the 'Spurs' thing because it's become such widespread practie.
<side-rant>**As should any reference, anywhere, ever, to 'Soccer'from anyone else except Americans/public school boy 'rugger'-preferrers/people from countries where rugby is dominant ie NOT MOST OF THE UK!!! Ever heard any real footy fan at any real match (in England at least -- not sure about Wales or Scotland), call it 'Soccer'???</side-rant>
Leave fan-names for the fans!!
They are called 'Tottenham'!!
Call em that and nothing else (unless you're a deluded White Hart Lane denizen, anyway)
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Harry's Hotspurs....
That's where it comes from.
Actually!
Brixton Hatter said:
Damn good point.
Saints is also pretty universal, as is Pompey.
Why are West Brom and Queens Park Rangers universlly known as WBA & QPR but nobody refers to Brighton as B&H?
I always say 'Posh' and hardly ever 'Peterborough' 'cos it's less of a mouthful. I'm going to the Posh tomorrow as it happens
I'll tell you what brasses me off. Cambridge and Oxford fans spelling their nicknames 'U's' which makes no grammatical sense. It's plural and should be simply 'Us'
I prefer universal derogatory nicknames and have done my best to spread the use of 'Swindle', 'Gargoyles' & 'Poxford'
Anyway, there's only one team in Bristol and there's only one Rovers, no matter what fans of tinpot teams in Lancashire or the Wirral may think
monkeyhead
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William of Walworth said:I've made this point before many a time but I've never been able to get much of an answer.
Interest declared : I don't like Tottenham much, but I'd quite like a sensible discussion all the same ...
Yes, I know why Tottenham FC are called 'Spurs'. That's cool -- if it's their own fans doing so.
What mystifies me is why so many fans of other teams, and so many football commentators/journalists generally, go along with this affectionate fan-name so much.
Far more references to 'Spurs' on TV/radio/the press than you ever see to the 'Hammers', the 'Gunners', the 'Blues' etc. (yes of course these happen too, and it's a tad annoying, but try proving to me that it happens with those other teams nearly as much).
Names like that, and PARTICULARLY 'Spurs'
When I hear some 'neutral' MOTD commentator or summariser call them 'Spurs', or see articles in the weekend sports supplements doing similar and it happens a lot) I just think (and even if I'm wrong it SOUNDS like it) :
Closet Tottenham fan journalists
(Quite apart from said journalist-fans always seeming to be bigging their 'Spurs' up as if they're as important a team as the really big ones!! But that's a bit of a different debate).
Even given the semi-justification of 'Spurs' being a shorter word than 'Tottenham' for headlines, I think this expression of public FANDOM should cease now**, especially among people who aren't Tottenham fans really, but just go along with the 'Spurs' thing because it's become such widespread practie.
<side-rant>**As should any reference, anywhere, ever, to 'Soccer'
Leave fan-names for the fans!!
They are called 'Tottenham'!!
Call em that and nothing else (unless you're a deluded White Hart Lane denizen, anyway)
</pet bugbear of mine>
</rant over>
get a life mate, from a 'Pompey' fan
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I was just listening to Lawro talking on the radio to Johno about a Lino.
It's that kind of world.
It's that kind of world.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I call them The Tottenham Hotspur Association Soccerball Club
Everyone has always called them 'West Brom'. Apart from West Brom fans who call themselves Albion or Baggies. No one has ever called them WBA as far as I know.JTG said:They were always called WBA when I was a nipper
When they had Cyrille and gert big no smoking signs on their shirts
Maybe it was just my school then
Fuck right off, you can't have that one!JTG said:
For the bloke that reckons we can't call Spurs 'Spurs'....er.....crap post, been calling em that for the past 30 years, aint gona stop now.
For those that reckon no one should use the word 'soccer'.... you must know it's an English word commonly used to describe football since the 1860's or thereabouts, to distinguish Association football from rugby football. Although never in my experience used by us kids, soccer was constantly bandied about in the media a long long time before the yanks got a hold of it....eg I have the Tiger Book of Soccer Stars 1973!
So I suggest we get off our big fuck-off off high horse.
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fuck off spurs
I can never quite understand the universal dislike Tottenham seem to generate amongst other fans. ManUre; just a business entity rather than a football club. The Arse; diving bunch of twats who're allergic to English players. Chavski; Romam Abramovich. But why the hatred for Spurs? The excuse I have heard is that we think we're a "big club", a term of variable definition. If it means a club of glorious heritage with a large fanbase I don't know why we seem to get it more than Newcastle, Villa or Man City. Anyone?
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I hate all those teams as well... but spurs and newcastle the most
monkeyhead said:
I'm not opposing (at all) you calling Portsmouth Pompey or actual Tottenham fans calling them Spurs though. As I tried to make clear, sorry if it wasn't ... my problem(ette) was with non fans doing this ...
I'm well outnumbered in this thread ... and my life has been busy hence my being elsewhere ....
Will get back when I have more time and am less stoned ...
(I was straight when I started the thread though! Just a tad ranty .. sorry)
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its just an irrational hatred... no reason for itstavros said:
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
William of Walworth said:I'm not opposing (at all) you calling Portsmouth Pompey or actual Tottenham fans calling them Spurs though. As I tried to make clear, sorry if it wasn't ... my problem(ette) was with non fans doing this ...
I'm well outnumbered in this thread ... and my life has been busy hence my being elsewhere ....
Will get back when I have more time and am less stoned ...
(I was straight when I started the thread though! Just a tad ranty .. sorry)
Is 'The Nottingham Hotspurts' ok though when I refer to Tottingham?
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Spurzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
tangerinedream said:
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
William of Walworth said:
I shall rest easy tonight
<side-rant>**As should any reference, anywhere, ever, to 'Soccer' from anyone else except Americans/public school boy 'rugger'-preferrers/people from countries where rugby is dominant ie NOT MOST OF THE UK!!! Ever heard any real footy fan at any real match (in England at least -- not sure about Wales or Scotland), call it 'Soccer'???</side-rant>
I have as big a problem about the word "footy" as "soccer".
My own side rant for future reference - it's Nottingham Forest, not Notts Forest.
I have as big a problem about the word "footy" as "soccer".
My own side rant for future reference - it's Nottingham Forest, not Notts Forest.
