The North London thread: Tottenham vs Arsenal

[S E P H]

Explain I don’t understand what you mean in this context

It's a joke since Celtic is a Catholic Club and Rangers is a Protestant club.

So was Jock Stein. Kenny Dalglish's background is Protestant too.

Wow, Dalglish is one? That's interesting...

 

[spintheblackcircle]

To finish highest

Spurs -110
Chelsea +225
Arsenal +265

 

[VEGASKING]

Spurs are rightly favorites but over 2.5 to 1 is a pretty good price worth a punt.

 

[YNWA14]

To finish highest

Spurs -110
Chelsea +225
Arsenal +265

I would put money on Arsenal for that one.

 

[ecemleafs]

It's a joke since Celtic is a Catholic Club and Rangers is a Protestant club.


Wow, Dalglish is one? That's interesting...

Celtic have always signed protestants. Danny mcgrain was another superstar for us that was/is a protestant.

 

[YEM]

I have two good friends who are arsenal supporters, and they've never been too bad about the usual vitriol heading my way as a Spurs fan, but it's picked up a lot over the past couple of years simply because they've unconsciously recognized who the better club are now and are overcompensating

 

[Yorkshire Leaf]

I've been reading and learning a lot of history and if we're talking about full EPL glory, then the list would like this...

1. Man United (no arguments from me, they've been the most successful EPL club ever)
2. Arsenal (when Wenger knew what he was doing, he crushed opponents as consistently as USA's military)
3. Chelsea (they've fallen into a disgrace club due to their owner, but at least they were consistently in the top 7)
4. Liverpool (meh, a bunch of random trophies in the 60s nobody considers relevant anymore)
5. Newcastle United (were an unbelievable opponent before money got in the way of winning)
6. Everton (another glory club before money)
7. Spurs (always been consistent in staying in the league, but professional bottlers)
8. Aston Villa (trio of the four)
9. Blackburn (fourth of the four)
10. Man City (probably as plastic as you can get, can sweep any terrible signing under the rug due to their blood money additions)

You should also learn that football in England existed before the EPL was invented and that football still exists outside of the EPL.

Also on topic, given the choice of Arsenal or Tottenham 90% of neutral fans would pick Tottenham. Arsenal are the epitome of a plastic club.

 

[robertmac43]

Also on topic, given the choice of Arsenal or Tottenham 90% of neutral fans would pick Tottenham. Arsenal are the epitome of a plastic club.

Go on...

 

[Cassano]

The biggest derbies for Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham is with Tottenham for a very specific reason.

 

[AB13]

You should also learn that football in England existed before the EPL was invented and that football still exists outside of the EPL.

Also on topic, given the choice of Arsenal or Tottenham 90% of neutral fans would pick Tottenham. Arsenal are the epitome of a plastic club.

Arsenal are probably the least plastic possible, the huge global fanbase stick by the team no matter how they play, and have been supporters for years. Spurs however, have mostly bandwagon fans who recently started watching football, but they change teams when Spurs bottle it like always.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

The biggest derbies for Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham is with Tottenham for a very specific reason.

What's that?

 

[Cassano]

What's that?

Milwall?

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Milwall?

Huh? Your post intimated that Tottenham was those clubs biggest derby "for a specific reason" (literally what you wrote) and didn't mention Millwall at all, so I'm confused.

 

[Cassano]

Huh? Your post intimated that Tottenham was those clubs biggest derby "for a specific reason" (literally what you wrote) and didn't mention Millwall at all, so I'm confused.

My bad, from what I got from your post it suggested that Wst Ham has a different 'biggest rival'.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

My bad, from what I got from your post it suggested that Wst Ham has a different 'biggest rival'.

Well, in this case you're right, Millwall is definitely a bigger derby for West Ham (I don't think Tottenham supporters place the level of importance to West Ham that exists vice versa anyway).

I was more interested in what the reason is that you were alluding to.

 

[Cassano]

Well, in this case you're right, Millwall is definitely a bigger derby for West Ham (I don't think Tottenham supporters place the level of importance to West Ham that exists vice versa anyway).

I was more interested in what the reason is that you were alluding to.

I'm not exactly sure why either, but they must be doing something right if all the main London teams hate them the most despite them being only moderately successful.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Arsenal are probably the least plastic possible, the huge global fanbase stick by the team no matter how they play, and have been supporters for years. Spurs however, have mostly bandwagon fans who recently started watching football, but they change teams when Spurs bottle it like always.

If their fans mostly consists of bandwagons that just recently started watching how can they already changed teams when Spurs have yet to bottle anything? Your post as usual makes absolutely no sense. The newer Arsenals fans on here are worse than the 2 notorious ones. I miss T M L.

 

[AB13]

If their fans mostly consists of bandwagons that just recently started watching how can they already changed teams when Spurs have yet to bottle anything? Your post as usual makes absolutely no sense. The newer Arsenals fans on here are worse than the 2 notorious ones. I miss T M L.

They started watching 3 years ago and changed because Spurs bottled a title challenge year after year. Seems logical. How on earth is that not logical? Are you just trying to deliberately misunderstand?

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

They started watching 3 years ago and changed because Spurs bottled a title challenge year after year. Seems logical. How on earth is that not logical? Are you just trying to deliberately misunderstand?

In what world did Spurs bottle a title the past 3 seasons?

 

[N o o d l e s]

They started watching 3 years ago and changed because Spurs bottled a title challenge year after year. Seems logical. How on earth is that not logical? Are you just trying to deliberately misunderstand?

That is 100% not true. What are you even talking about?

I guarantee you most fans in the USA who picked Tottenham did so because of Clint Dempsey or Brad Friedel.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[robertmac43]

Brighton hitting up the CL next year is going to be wild

 

[Havre]

That is 100% not true. What are you even talking about?

I guarantee you most fans in the USA who picked Tottenham did so because of Clint Dempsey or Brad Friedel.

Nice to see Dempsey doing some good.

Kind of a pointless discussion though. All teams reaching a certain level of success/visibility will always attract "new fans" that won't necessarily be as loyal as fans supporting teams that aren't successful/visible.

Even more pointless coming from an Arsenalfan. Arsenal got a lot more fans worldwide than Spurs and obviously many of those would be the kind of fans AB13 is claiming Spurs got. Obviously just another wind up.

 

[bluesfan94]

Huh? Your post intimated that Tottenham was those clubs biggest derby "for a specific reason" (literally what you wrote) and didn't mention Millwall at all, so I'm confused.

It wouldn’t surprise me if that reason was that Tottenham was traditionally the Jewish club.

 

[bluesfan94]

If their fans mostly consists of bandwagons that just recently started watching how can they already changed teams when Spurs have yet to bottle anything? Your post as usual makes absolutely no sense. The newer Arsenals fans on here are worse than the 2 notorious ones. I miss T M L.

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