Are we on the road to greater things now?

The supporters: an enigma, wrapped up in contradictions and presented as paradoxes.

The fans, supporters, enthusiasts, devotees, advocates or whatever you want to call them, are charming, nutty, crazy, sensible, dangerous, knowledgeable and downright bonkers (they also come in all different shapes, ethnicities, sexualities and colours). A cornucopia of wonderment you could say. Their IQs are anything from below zero, a few brain cells, to the intelligent and very educated. We’ve got everything at Spurs all rolled into one fan base (as other clubs do).

Because we have such a mixture of individuals, we get some crazy, downright abusive and intelligent comments. What some of them have in common is that they are all experts on business, running Spurs and managing a football team etc. Some even suggest that they are better informed and experienced than Mauricio Pochettino; it does make you wonder why they just don’t sack him and appoint one of those “experts” that know everything (or as Oscar Wilde would have said “They know the price of everything, but the value of nothing”). I am sure that if one of those fans wrote Mr Levy a nice letter and tell him how things should be done, then he will immediately sack his manager and put a moron in his place.

Take Toby Alderweireld: since it was reported that he won’t sign a new contract, or won’t sign unless he gets the money he wants we’ve been inundated on social media with suggestions. Like: Give him what he wants you fooking arsewipe, or such endearing words as that (IQ does go with the way one uses one's vocabularies they say).

Brilliant. So, Toby, you want £180,000 to stay… you sure that is enough? How about £500,000 instead?

Toby (gobsmacked): per-week?

Levy: If you prefer we could do it hourly.

Toby (still shocked): why?

Levy: One of our supporters who has an IQ of 300 had suggested it…

Toby (cutting Levy off): That is bloody high IQ, amazing…

Levy: No, I am talking minus.

Toby: Minus, but that would make one an imbecile.

Levy: No, no… he’s not that intelligent.

Anyway, you get my drift. That is probably why they don’t allow such imbecility in the boardrooms. Can you imagine if they did that, I doubt many clubs would exist if they went down that road.

Of course, that is only a fraction some of what the half-wits have suggested on social media. And believe it or not, they aren’t even as intelligent as I’ve quoted.

I wonder, are those supporters earnest when they come out with such crap or just on medication?

Some football supporters are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. If they are so sure they are right then why don’t they create a collection of know-it-alls and demand the manager be sacked so that their know-how can guide the club to an abundance of trophies and League Title. Or even Levy sacked as they are also experts on Businesses (and I am not talking about corner shops or running your own small business, but big giant conglomerates).

But, I am being unfair here. I’ve picked on part of football society, like any other part of society, that has its share of boneheads.

There are many fans that contribute intelligently to debates on social media etc. Fanzines, Forums’, Facebook pages’ popped up to give the supporters a bit more insight into what is going on beyond the clubs propaganda. The problem is you have to wade through all the dross to get to the intelligent. But it isn’t only football that is blighted with such shit. No, anybody that is on social media and has an intelligent opinion will be subjugated to abuse by halfwits that know more than what is actually in one's brain.

Most abusers seem to be at the door of the directors, but if the manager has a bad season, then the finger could be pointed at him. In fact, they don’t have to have a bad season, only if the so-called know-it-all fans disagree with their expert viewpoint.

Take Daniel Levy. If he doesn’t throw money at Pochettino he gets abuse, never mind that we are exactly where the club is in the wealthiest League list. Actually, we are punching above our weight. They are even supposed to dip into their own pocket and pay out forevermore because the supporters are better “informed” than anybody above their intelligence. I guess they are supposed to do this until they no longer have any money left and therefore some other poor sod will take over until he has been put in the same position. Ask those fans to dip into their pocket, over and beyond their ticket prices, and you’d hear the abuse for miles around. But of course, they know better. They run big giant businesses and are Multi-millionaires (not). Never mind, if you pay for a ticket or just on the outside shouting then I suppose you believe that you have the right to abuse and know better than anybody else.

Philip Roth died recently so it might be worth quoting him; “All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”

Yours Truly,

Don Scully