Cheadle Blue said:
just had some lively debate with some spurs fans, and they actually believe our ground was empty until this year. can't believe it really, had them down for better than that really, they just sound like utd fans. At the end of it all he calls me arrogant for arguing the point that we had 30k in the 2nd division, where do these idiots come from? i just wish football fans would talk straight, instead of being bitter all the time. theres only west ham fans that seem to want us to do well
I don't know how old you are mate, but I reckon the passage of time has made our loyalty a decade and a half ago an irrelevance to younger fans of other clubs. Supporters of clubs like Spurs in their early twenties will have been unaware of the role that our supporters played in keeping this club going during those dark days. Our support around that time was one of the talking points of football at the time.
Given the general level of antipathy towards our club it is hardly surprising that the older fans of other clubs who do remember aren't fighting our corner and pointing out the truth to them.
It is an enduring sense of bemusement to me that Spurs fans dare criticise our support when the last time they had bigger average home crowds than us was around a decade ago.
That said, anyone who expected our rise to the top to be welcomed by fans of other clubs such as Spurs has a pretty limited understanding of human nature.