And, we're off.....2016/17

[Fish]

That was a rather nail bitting last 10 minutes plus injury time as Spurs fan.
Shame about Vertonghan slip as he had an excellent game up to that point, Lukaku finish was good with his weaker side.
Only hope the Mackems do us a favour againt city.

Being a Yid, being a Yid, the thing I love most is being a Yid.....

If I called you a Yid would you find it offensive? I know many at Spurs have adopted it and sing and call themselves it, but I also know many at Spurs who still find it offensive!

I'm sure if I used the term I'd get picked up on it and possibly get in trouble, so I don't personally, imo, think you should use it either, wether your comfortable with it or not.

Just saying....

 

[fundy]

If I called you a Yid would you find it offensive? I know many at Spurs have adopted it and sing and call themselves it, but I also know many at Spurs who still find it offensive!

I'm sure if I used the term I'd get picked up on it and possibly get in trouble, so I don't personally, imo, think you should use it either, wether your comfortable with it or not.

Just saying....

spurs fan uses it fine, arsenal/chelsea fan uses it then theyre racist, always been like that!

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Dangerous precedent though. Using it makes it normal. Others copy because it's then out in the open. I would never use it or even think about the word as it is used in a derogatory manner on the whole. Best confined to history, surely.

 

[fundy]

Dangerous precedent though. Using it makes it normal. Others copy because it's then out in the open. I would never use it or even think about the word as it is used in a derogatory manner on the whole. Best confined to history, surely.

for sure. but have seen arsenal fans dragged out and arrested for using it whilst 5,000 spurs fan readily sing it at the other end of the ground

 

[Jensen]

If I called you a Yid would you find it offensive? I know many at Spurs have adopted it and sing and call themselves it, but I also know many at Spurs who still find it offensive!

I'm sure if I used the term I'd get picked up on it and possibly get in trouble, so I don't personally, imo, think you should use it either, wether your comfortable with it or not.

Just saying....

It's a term of endearment. We sing it at Tottenham in response to it being used derogatory. Also Tottenham has a strong Jewish community and had Jewish owners i.e. Irving Scholar and Alan Sugar.
I've been called a Yid as a Tottenham fan in various degrees, some as banter and some not so. It doesn't bother me and although not Jewish, I'm Christian, I feel proud to be referred that way.
The Spurs fans have always referred to ourselves as Yids

 

[fundy]

It's a term of endearment. We sing it at Tottenham in response to it being used derogatory. Also Tottenham has a strong Jewish community and had Jewish owners i.e. Irving Scholar and Alan Sugar.
I've been called a Yid as a Tottenham fan in various degrees, some as banter and some not so. It doesn't bother me and although not Jewish, I'm Christian, I feel proud to be referred that way.
The Spurs fans have always referred to ourselves as Yids

do you accept that theres completely double standards when used by spurs/non spurs fans?

 

[Slime]

If I called you a Yid would you find it offensive? I know many at Spurs have adopted it and sing and call themselves it, but I also know many at Spurs who still find it offensive!

I'm sure if I used the term I'd get picked up on it and possibly get in trouble, so I don't personally, imo, think you should use it either, wether your comfortable with it or not.

Just saying....

Just agreeing.....:thup:.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I understand the Jewish link but you can't control the use of a word. If people use a word like that as an insult then rather like the N word they are best consigned to history imo. Chanting it keeps it in the public eye rather than allowing it to die out. Take the food away from the trolls.

 

[Jensen]

do you accept that theres completely double standards when used by spurs/non spurs fans?

Yes...as we, as I have said use it as a term of endearment, others use it to mock.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

do you accept that theres completely double standards when used by spurs/non spurs fans?

The Met Police dropped Yid as an arrestable offence when chanted by Spurs fans in 2014, opposition fans can still be arrested for it as a racist chant,

Not agreeing or disagreeing, just stating a fact

 

[Fish]

It's a term of endearment. We sing it at Tottenham in response to it being used derogatory. Also Tottenham has a strong Jewish community and had Jewish owners i.e. Irving Scholar and Alan Sugar.
I've been called a Yid as a Tottenham fan in various degrees, some as banter and some not so. It doesn't bother me and although not Jewish, I'm Christian, I feel proud to be referred that way.
The Spurs fans have always referred to ourselves as Yids

I didn't ask for s history lesson which I was more than aware of, I'd gather from your posts your in your 20's at best?

As has been said above by others, once used openly, as you do can it then become a common term and acceptable, I'd say no!

 

[fundy]

Yes...as we, as I have said use it as a term of endearment, others use it to mock.

its the same word though, you cant use it yourself as a term of endearment then claim foul when someone elses uses it to describe you, utter double standards (as there has been for years)

 

[clubchamp98]

Correct, I wouldn't and can't defend what he did.
He should be retrospectively banned, no doubt.
A player just can't behave like that and the fact that he'd had his head trodden on is no excuse. It may well be why he reacted, but that's no excuse ................. he should get a retrospective ban.

Well I think getting your head trodden on is ample excuse but he is a very experienced international and should know better.
Loved watching Ronaldo play for you but he really annoyed me with all the play acting at first when he settled down and stopped it he was the joint best player I have ever seen live.
King Kenny Dalglish.

 

[guest100718]

We sang it in France,
We sang it in Spain,
We sing in the sun and we sing in the rain,
They've tried to stop us and look what it did,
Cos the thing I love most is being a Yid!
Being a Yid, Being a Yid,
The thing I love most is being a Yid!

 

[fundy]

We sang it in France,
We sang it in Spain,
We sing in the sun and we sing in the rain,
They've tried to stop us and look what it did,
Cos the thing I love most is being a Yid!
Being a Yid, Being a Yid,
The thing I love most is being a Yid!

yet you cry like bitches when other fans sing variants of this or different songs about what you love being

 

[guest100718]

do i?

 

[fundy]

do i?

you as in "spurs fans"

 

[Jensen]

I didn't ask for s history lesson which I was more than aware of, I'd gather from your posts your in your 20's at best?

!

Sadly no, I was part of the 60's boom.

I take it from your tone you sit near to a Mr David Biddeal at Stamford Bridge

 

[Pin-seeker]

its the same word though, you cant use it yourself as a term of endearment then claim foul when someone elses uses it to describe you, utter double standards (as there has been for years)

It's the same as the N word.

 

[Tashyboy]

its the same word though, you cant use it yourself as a term of endearment then claim foul when someone elses uses it to describe you, utter double standards (as there has been for years)

I have been saying exactly the same when black people use the N word and then are not happy when white people use it.
Again though, sometimes it is not the word that is said, but how the word is said and in what context.