"Interesting" facts about Brighton...

[SussexSpur]

Well, I never...

http://www.gg-chat.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11725&sid=7a175ec732458755a3cf8058d3f09b23

http://www.gg-chat.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11788&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

 

[Braders]

the top thread makes the points pure and simple

the second threads just a case to make gay jibes about the club

 

[bhaexpress]

Interesting facts about Tottenham, only one, it's one of the shittiest areas of London, Islington is far better (like their local team).

 

[chez]

Going by that top thread I thought they sounded like a decent bunch of fans.

 

[SussexSpur]

Come on fellas, a messageboard is not necessarily representative of every single fan, surely. Most Spurs fans I've spoken to are looking forward to a match against a likeable local-ish team, in a tournament we always feel affectionate towards, and on a great day in the football calendar - no matter what the annual (media) moans about the FA Cup losing its 'magic' suggest... I suspect the predictable 'gay' taunts are about as reflexive and (in)significant as some on this board about skullcaps and stinginess and what have you.
I'm sure tomorrow will be friendly banter all round... Unless we lose, and even then, you won't be bearing the brunt, it'll be the until-now recently-heroic Spurs staff...

 

[SussexSpur]

Interesting facts about Tottenham, only one, it's one of the shittiest areas of London, Islington is far better (like their local team).

Actually, I have a bit of a hobby horse about this - until the recent 'Blair-ising' of Islington, by which the media assumes it's a solidly pretentious, middle-class enclave of chattering-class London, the borough - the restaurant-clogged Upper Street apart - is actually one of the most deprived, poorest-performing parts of the capital, its most inadequately-funded schools and social services probably suffering all the more because of this newly-gentrified reputation without real resources.
Mind you, it IS still Gooner territory, though, so I always instinctively ration my sympathy, wind up the windows and check the doors are locked while driving through...

 

[Braders]

Come on fellas, a messageboard is not necessarily representative of every single fan, surely. Most Spurs fans I've spoken to are looking forward to a match against a likeable local-ish team, in a tournament we always feel affectionate towards, and on a great day in the football calendar - no matter what the annual (media) moans about the FA Cup losing its 'magic' suggest... I suspect the predictable 'gay' taunts are about as reflexive and (in)significant as some on this board about skullcaps and stinginess and what have you.
I'm sure tomorrow will be friendly banter all round... Unless we lose, and even then, you won't be bearing the brunt, it'll be the until-now recently-heroic Spurs staff...

i'm sure of it too , top post mate

 

[bhaexpress]

Actually, I have a bit of a hobby horse about this - until the recent 'Blair-ising' of Islington, by which the media assumes it's a solidly pretentious, middle-class enclave of chattering-class London, the borough - the restaurant-clogged Upper Street apart - is actually one of the most deprived, poorest-performing parts of the capital, its most inadequately-funded schools and social services probably suffering all the more because of this newly-gentrified reputation without real resources.
Mind you, it IS still Gooner territory, though, so I always instinctively ration my sympathy, wind up the windows and check the doors are locked while driving through...

Just a wind up SS, I have actually worked in Islington and I was in a building (now demolished) that was opposite the Corporation tip. The said tip is due to become part of Arsenal's new South Stand. That area, around Ashburton Grove is, as you say, a complete dump (like Edmonton though).

 

[Curious Orange]

SussexSpur, do you wish that Arsenal would bugger off back to Woolwich (also an extremely nice area of London )?

 

[SussexSpur]

SussexSpur, do you wish that Arsenal would bugger off back to Woolwich (also an extremely nice area of London )?

Who

Where

 

[Curious Orange]

Who

Where

That'll be a big fat YES then!!

 

[SussexSpur]

Just a wind up SS, I have actually worked in Islington and I was in a building (now demolished) that was opposite the Corporation tip. The said tip is due to become part of Arsenal's new South Stand. That area, around Ashburton Grove is, as you say, a complete dump (like Edmonton though).

Oh of course, I'm not going to claim any great beauty for the London borough of Haringey (recently murder capital of the world, it seems...) And appreciate the wind-up... Just don't sing 'Small club in Arsenal, you're just a small club in Arsenal' tomorrow, because then you will get the entirely justifiable pedants on their feet, frustratedly insisting 'There IS no such place as Arsenal (despite the scandalous capitulation by London Underground in the Thirties)...!')
Was rudely awakened from a train journey into work the other week when we stopped right alongside the new Emirates Stadium. Oh so lovely it looks too...
Interesting how, despite a local campaign even more fervid than the combined ranks of Falmer villagers/Lewes district councillors/etc - or, closer to home for me and other north Londoners, Mill Hill and Barnet nimbies - Prescott declined to call in and properly scrutinise David Dein's grand folly... But that's some sour grapes for another day, anyway...
Tomorrow's all about the one undeniably great thing the FA can currently claim - its Cup...

 

[SussexSpur]

That'll be a big fat YES then!!

To be honest, I find life much happier if I try not to think at all about either a) the Vermin or b) South London.

But, if needs really must, I find this a highly authoratative history reminder to abide by...

http://www.topspurs.com/thfc-arsepaste.htm

 

[bhaexpress]

Oh of course, I'm not going to claim any great beauty for the London borough of Haringey (recently murder capital of the world, it seems...) And appreciate the wind-up... Just don't sing 'Small club in Arsenal, you're just a small club in Arsenal' tomorrow, because then you will get the entirely justifiable pedants on their feet, frustratedly insisting 'There IS no such place as Arsenal (despite the scandalous capitulation by London Underground in the Thirties)...!')
Was rudely awakened from a train journey into work the other week when we stopped right alongside the new Emirates Stadium. Oh so lovely it looks too...
Interesting how, despite a local campaign even more fervid than the combined ranks of Falmer villagers/Lewes district councillors/etc - or, closer to home for me and other north Londoners, Mill Hill and Barnet nimbies - Prescott declined to call in and properly scrutinise David Dein's grand folly... But that's some sour grapes for another day, anyway...
Tomorrow's all about the one undeniably great thing the FA can currently claim - its Cup...

Well, they did have the fulll support of Islington council and also the new Highbury is part of a large rebuilding program in an area that is not an area of 'Great Natural Beauty'. I do know about Totenham's problem and whilst they're not as dire as ours you do have my sympathy, Given that we sold out our 5000 ticket allocation in hours and could have maybe even doubled that it's shows you how inadequet Withdean is. 30,000 at the Milstad last May echos that.

 

[SussexSpur]

Well, they did have the fulll support of Islington council and also the new Highbury is part of a large rebuilding program in an area that is not an area of 'Great Natural Beauty'. I do know about Totenham's problem and whilst they're not as dire as ours you do have my sympathy, Given that we sold out our 5000 ticket allocation in hours and could have maybe even doubled that it's shows you how inadequet Withdean is. 30,000 at the Milstad last May echos that.

Indeed, and what a top day it was too.

I don't think Spurs really have too much of a problem - obviously, relatively to Brighton's plight, of course. When it comes to stadia, the likes of Brighton and Barnet are so clearly more in need.
Our main difficulty is not so much the stadium, which is one of England's most historic, if not actually very large, flashy or new.
But we could do with expanding it beyond what's currently allowed, to keep up with the big boys - Man U, the red vermin, the blue vermin - and the pretenders - Newcastle, Boro, etc - but the main difficulty is, as you'll all no doubt appreciate tomorrow, the hopeless local transport infrastructure. The Spurs board is currently trying to hold the local council to ransom with thinly-veiled threats to move to Enfield, Wembley or even share with the Gooners - none of which are really too realistic right now - but Ken Livingstone and Transport for London will be more influential.
But still, while I'm not as attached to White Hart Lane as older fans who experienced the true glory nights there, I don't think we're in a position where we need to commit millions of pounds' worth of current funds or future debts to some grandiose new stadium scheme. Very lucky, of course, to be in such a situation compared to yourselves - which it beggars belief to see still dragging on...