Kushal
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Was your brother taking breaks in between or was it a constant ride?
What our opponents' fans are saying
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Was your brother taking breaks in between or was it a constant ride?
Sir Henry
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Weird cause we were 2nd favs according to Coral on Talkshite. It's probably the draw thats turned things around.
Rocksuperstar
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Probably because a load of thick 'uns have taken the time out from their bin-dipping to put their gold teeth down at Paddy Power.
whatislifewithoutspurs
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I am from Singapore and I have supported Spurs since 2006, wouldn't exactly call myself a glory hunter either as well
Marty
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Because betting odds are based on how many people are betting on said teams, hence why Liverpool always figure near the favourites for every title as Scousers keep giving bookies all their money regardless of how good they actually are.
mark87
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Surely that's only relevant to a certain degree, if the odds change on a transfer bet then it'll be due to a leak and a crap load of people will have whacked some money down on it.
With a football match it's not like a load of people all of a sudden found out Liverpool were going to get past man utd in the next round, these bets will have changed based on their next opponent, if we got man utd and Liverpool got Dortmund you can bet money (haha) that we would have shorter odds than Liverpool.
Marty
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No, it is entirely relevant because that is the ways bookies make money. Whether Liverpool realistically are heavier favourites than us or not doesn't come into it.
Hoddtastic72
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Its only one fan's view from whabI can tell. Maybe lighten up a little, and look forward to a great clash!This is from a Dortmund fan site...
"I would like us to draw Spurs or United. A dream come true if we eliminate one of the rich boys and later watch them lick their wounds, while splashing out yet another monstrous 150 mil. for mediocre players."
After the draw he said...
"My wish came true. We are facing Spurs. About time we made a sugar daddy club cry again."
Now I don't often get pissed off by opposition fan comments but this has fucked me off to the point of wanting to embarrass myself and sign up to their shitty fan page and put them straight that we are not a "sugar daddy" club in fact we are quite the opposite. Maybe @Mullers would be best to put them straight on Mr Levy's spending. Does this fuck anyone else off to be put in the same bracket as United, City, Liverpool etc?
Geyzer Soze
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You can tell it's a European team - their English is far better than that of our domestic opponents ...
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scottej5
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I love international fans personally.
I had no choice in supporting Spurs. I was born in Chingford and my Dad is a Spurs fan.
An international fan however looked at all of the teams in the world, and for some strange reason thought to himself "I like that Tottingham Hotspurs". When you think about it, that is the opposite of glory hunting. In actual fact, choosing to support Spurs is crazy. It's a special type of crazy that I love. In fact, it is just the type of crazy that I think would fit right in with our support
I'm one of the international supporters, and I did a bunch of "research" before choosing Spurs. As an American, I have gotten fed up with sport in the states. Everything is about the money and not the sport anymore. I grew up playing football, but with such little exposure in the states and the MLS being pretty terrible to watch until recently, I decided to look for a club to support in European football. The first few years supporting Spurs were a little hard as we weren't very good, but with much more experience in watching all of European football I can honestly say I think I made the best choice. I'm proud to be an (international) Lilywhite!
DaSpurs
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This is from a Dortmund fan site...
"I would like us to draw Spurs or United. A dream come true if we eliminate one of the rich boys and later watch them lick their wounds, while splashing out yet another monstrous 150 mil. for mediocre players."
After the draw he said...
"My wish came true. We are facing Spurs. About time we made a sugar daddy club cry again."
Now I don't often get pissed off by opposition fan comments but this has fucked me off to the point of wanting to embarrass myself and sign up to their shitty fan page and put them straight that we are not a "sugar daddy" club in fact we are quite the opposite. Maybe @Mullers would be best to put them straight on Mr Levy's spending
It's aggravating for sure, but I'm honestly not surprised. I post on a few German football forums, and they do often lump the EPL "big boys" together, which then correspondingly leads to the assumptions that they're all rich for the same reasons. The fees paid by the clubs certainly don't help discern between the clubs, especially when in Germany the fees for your average player in that league is still substantially less than what EPL clubs are now paying for mere backups.
So point is, I'm not surprised, but it's still blatant ignorance on these peoples' parts to not be able to discern the differences between us and the other big English clubs. Aside from Lamela and Soldado, our spending records for individual players really aren't much different from Dortmund at all, and between the two we've actually incorporated more of our own youth than they have in recent years.
haxman
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What's 'Let's all laugh at Liverpool' in German? I'm off to check their forums
SargeantMeatCurtains
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I think you missed my point
DogsOfWar
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This is from a Dortmund fan site...
"I would like us to draw Spurs or United. A dream come true if we eliminate one of the rich boys and later watch them lick their wounds, while splashing out yet another monstrous 150 mil. for mediocre players."
After the draw he said...
"My wish came true. We are facing Spurs. About time we made a sugar daddy club cry again."
Now I don't often get pissed off by opposition fan comments but this has fucked me off to the point of wanting to embarrass myself and sign up to their shitty fan page and put them straight that we are not a "sugar daddy" club in fact we are quite the opposite. Maybe @Mullers would be best to put them straight on Mr Levy's spending
Even more baffling when you consider their turnover is actually higher than ours!
danielneeds
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Having seen a fair bit of Dortmund this season our ability to not be out of it after the away tie is going to be crucial. If we can stand up to them there, and come back with an away goal, and 1 goal down or less, I feel confident we can do them at the Lane.
bomberH
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Was this particular quote from someone who thinks he's in West Side Story?
SargeantMeatCurtains
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I want to clarify my comments RE football hipsters.
It annoys me seeing english/american/wherever the fuck you're from "fans" saying they support Barca, Real, Bayern just because they win things. Nothing winds me up more than going on to twitter and seeing Corey from Slough putting 'Born Madrista, hala madrid' in his twitter bio.
Saying you're a Dortmund fan when you aren't german is potentially the most hipster thing of all time. They had one amazing season and fucking Deshawn from Ohio decides he has actually supported them his whole life and wants the world to know it.
And for the record...if you chose to adopt spurs as your team...i dont think you're a hipster or a glory hunter...i think you're insane.
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