We Only Sing When We're Winning

vis wrote:Yup Arnie for better or worse the game has changed as has the way it is followed. The amount of empty seats you see when the 2nd half kicks off is quite frankly shocking (shocking I tells ya). It's easy to harp on with rose tinted spectacles about the good ole days but back in the day the only reason supporters would miss the start of a half was if the queue to the P*ss sodden toilets was exceptionally long or they had taken a right hammering round the back of the stands! I have to be careful here so as not to tar all with a sweep of the same brush but the "modern" supporter is a completely different beast to days of old (in truth not that old). Whole families. Tourists. Corporate. Well heeled chaps on a stag do/works do/ any type of do but what ho lets get tickets for some footie. There are still many true supporters who go for the love of Spurs but I do wonder what percentage of the crowd are there for a jolly afternoon/evening out with no real deep feeling for the final result? Imagine how that percentage would creep up if the stadium was 60,000? Hence the increased hushed silence at clubs with big stadiums (is increased silence an oxymoron?). As I said I still think The Lane is one of the more atmospheric grounds in the EPL but the times they are a changing and it is noticeable . . . .

BazSpur wrote:The corporate lot are to blame as well. They go with no real love for the Game or the team. i am reminded of the mid to late eighties when I had a part time job as a Car Park attendant at WHL. One night a well dressed bloke in suit and trimmings came to the car park at half time to get something from his car. A brief case if I remember rightly. I asked if the score was 1-0 to us as I had heard the roar signalling we had scored. Just making conversation really. His answer left me shaking my head in disbelief "I don't know he said. Someone scored. I'm here at a business meeting in one of the boxes. Haven't watched the game much. Don't like football." My first thought was "That ticket could have gone to a real fan" Yes my friends the writing was already on the wall. Times were a changing.


Remember General Burkinshaw's words as he left WHL for the last time. "There used to be a football club over there." He knew it and now we all know it.

BazSpur wrote:Spot on Seebee. When there was terracing at the Lane I would get outside the ground some 2 hours before kick off get a burger have a drink by the time I got in there was about an hour to go and the ground would be 3/4 full and as you say Seebee the atmosphere would build with the Shelf, Paxton and Park lane singing. Great days mate. I went to Spurs V QPR last season. The first time since it had been an all seater. The atmoshpere was not how I remembered it. Very lack lustre these days. Repped Seebee.

shearspur wrote:Always try for park lane first, if not then Paxton. I have sat twice this season in east lower though.prefer the ends though Arnie.was in Paxton front row v villa.