Anyone else very excited at the prospect of us relegating Spurs?

Torn tbh. As a Marine fan, we have a bit of an affinity with them, and even to this day we occasionally get a Spurs lad in. They bought thousands of virtual tickets even though they couldn't attend (covid.) and it really helped the club in many ways going forward

On the other hand, their big 6 tag always annoyed me, especially in relation to the super league. This version of Spurs is much closer to the Spurs I've watched over the years than the Spurs team who struck gold with Kane and were in many ways carried by him
 
A lot of people not looking at the bigger picture here. Spurs are a problem club because they are a 'big 6 club.' All Evertonians should desperately want them down if they have any ambition of wanting to see us progress long term. The reason is that Spurs are a club who in the current rules are allowed to spend nearly 3 times what we are allowed to spend.

That means that by the law of averages they will always come ahead of us long term. The only one thing that can really change that and break the 'big 6' monopoly is one of those clubs getting relegated. We should all want that to happen without doubt, if you dont then you really dont understand the ethics of the premier league correctly.
 
Obviously I hope we go there and win whether it relegates them or not (they might already be down anyway), if they do drop it won't be just because we've beaten them, it'll be the other 37 games as well (though they may even end up doing the double over us this season). Personally I won't celebrate it though, imagine if Bournemouth fans had started rubbing our noses in it had results gone against us a couple of years ago, how do we think that would have gone down (or Wimbledon or Coventry fans back in the 90's)?! I see references to the "scab 6" but there were plenty who would have enjoyed seeing one of the "big 5" who had been major drivers behind the breakaway premier league drop out of what they helped create and now it's time for another of those 5 to have that feeling.
 
Ambivalent. I'm mostly just thankful its never us in relation to who goes down.

If they drop they'd serve as another excellent cautionary tale that having a shiny new ground and spending big can be so easily undone by poor strategy, financial management and boardroom shenanigans.

Them, the Geordies, Villa, and us have either gone down or come damn close in the last ten to 15 years. It can turn so quickly too.
 
Reminder that the premier league started because spurs, along with ourselves and other teams, threatened to leave.

Only reason they’re a “big six” club is because they sorted themselves off the pitch and we didn’t.

Don’t really care who goes down. Only thing we all have in common is billionaires coming in and ruining our football clubs so it’s hard for me to feel any sort of glee whoever goes down.

This faux tribalism amongst football fans in the country is one of the reasons we’re all being exploited.
 
While I want spurs to be relegated, I want it done before they play us. We've been down there and felt the trauma and survived. Not sure I want to inflict that on other fans (other than RS obviously)
 
Shevin Keedy said:
Not for me, I have an inherent dislike of that club, but having been through it enough times ourselves it should really be a case of there but for the grace of (who ever) go we.

A relegation is not something I would wish on any club (bar Satan's children over the road obviously) and the fact that someone else (BIG) is now facing the prospect is not an exucse for blues to gloat - karma is a bitch remember.

There's been a few similarly themed threads on here recently about spurs plight; it doesn't sit right with me. So we're ok this season - great, but who knows what will happen next year.

Leave them alone and let them get on with it I say; we're bigger than that.
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I'd usually be with you. But for me my Tottenham supporting pals were willing us to go down. Even more so than some of my RS pals. I've never wished it on anyone and tbh if they don't go down well, meh, not fussed, but I hope it's them over the other cubs.
 
Pseudonym said:
That's very magnanimous of you, but as a media darling London club who are always being talked up as being bigger than us despite winning [Poor language removed] all, and who were at the forefront of the "best stadium in the Championship" mockery, I would very much enjoy seeing their smug fanbase go down. More so than West Ham anyway

Also, the one time I got battered at a game was by a bunch of Spurs fans, who just jumped me and my pal cos we were there at the wrong place at the wrong time
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My dad got attacked by spurs fans in the 70s and all his front teeth. Jumped him from behind. I would love them to go down.
 
johnjoeefc said:
A lot of people not looking at the bigger picture here. Spurs are a problem club because they are a 'big 6 club.' All Evertonians should desperately want them down if they have any ambition of wanting to see us progress long term. The reason is that Spurs are a club who in the current rules are allowed to spend nearly 3 times what we are allowed to spend.

That means that by the law of averages they will always come ahead of us long term. The only one thing that can really change that and break the 'big 6' monopoly is one of those clubs getting relegated. We should all want that to happen without doubt, if you dont then you really dont understand the ethics of the premier league correctly.
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I think your logic is spot on and I certainly wouldn’t mourn their relegation but nor would I dance on their grave. We have far too much experience recently of facing that horrible prospect and I remember too clearly how it eats away at you. I wouldn't wish it on any fan, not even the rs. For those who say “they would wish it on us” you are almost certainly correct, but we are better than them. I might choose to stamp on a cockroach, but I wouldn't necessarily take pleasure from it.
 
Bluebonic said:
I think your logic is spot on and I certainly wouldn’t mourn their relegation but nor would I dance on their grave. We have far too much experience recently of facing that horrible prospect and I remember too clearly how it eats away at you. I wouldn't wish it on any fan, not even the rs. For those who say “they would wish it on us” you are almost certainly correct, but we are better than them. I might choose to stamp on a cockroach, but I wouldn't necessarily take pleasure from it.
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Its not the same for them as it was for us though is it. We had far more to lose. It could have bankrupted us, we would have lost our very proud record of being in the top flight for over 70 years consecutively. If we went down we may have stayed down.

For them none of those worries are there. They would likely win the championship with a record tally and return instantly.
 

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