Former Spurs player belittles Redknapp’s attempts to snare Given
Joe Kinnear today laughed off suggestions that Shay Given would leave Newcastle for Tottenham in January by saying: ”Why would he want to go to Spurs? This is a bigger club than Spurs.”
It’s normally supporters who attempt to elevate their own club and it was because of Tottenham and Newcastle fans’ inflated sense of their own importance that neutrals took so much pleasure from seeing the two clubs suffer earlier this season. However, that hasn’t stopped Kinnear jockeying for position with the team he spent most of his playing career at in the big club stakes.
Newcastle’s claim to being a big club is that they came second twice over a decade ago and that they have lots of fans, some who are so passionate that they take their shoes off to support their team. Tottenham of course won the Carling Cup, the same highly-regarded trophy that launched juggernauts such as Leicester, Blackburn and Middlesbrough on the path to greater glories earlier this decade, and nearly finished ahead of Arsenal two years ago.
The league table, which surely fans should consider the most important measure of a club’s prominence, shows Tottenham are the sixteenth biggest in the Premier League right now, while Newcastle are eighteenth. But which club do you consider the biggest? Let us know with a vote and comment below:
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12 responses so far
1 AS // Nov 14, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Shit article written by a prick.
2 L.T.Y // Nov 14, 2008 at 6:51 pm
*yawns* wtf is this boring shite ??
3 chivers // Nov 14, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Spurs are a bigger club because they are one of only 5 clubs in England who have more than 1 million supporters.
Newcastle have no fans outside of the NE, and they seem to think that just because their fans are psychotically dellusional they must be popular.
Newcastle have not won ANYTHING for over 50 years!
4 bingo // Nov 14, 2008 at 7:06 pm
This article is total Wank. whoever wrote this fuck off back into your hole and die
5 Joe // Nov 14, 2008 at 7:40 pm
What a really shit article.
In answer to your question, Spurs are the 3rd most wathced English team in history(behind only Liverpool and Man united)have won 17 major trophies which makes them Englands 5th most successful(Newcastle only have ten and the last they won was back in the 1950s!)and Spurs are due a new 60,000 seater stadium to try and cater for huge demand of tickets…it;s a no contest I’m afraid.
6 cb // Nov 14, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Look we all know that the writer of this site is an Arsenal fan. Lets do ourselves a favour and stop readinthe shit on here.
4 - 4 dick!
7 Impartial Observer // Nov 14, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Arsenal? Did you not see the stick they were getting on here a week or so ago. As far as I can see there is no bias, they just mock any team, players or fans that leaves themselves open for abuse. It’s the fact that you Spurs fans always overreact to such a ludicrous degree makes you an easy target!
8 DRS // Nov 15, 2008 at 1:30 am
haha that’s what makes spurs-fan-baiting such a great recreational sport.
http://www.studs-up.com/2008/10/the-warning-signs/?page=0
9 AnthonyOA // Nov 15, 2008 at 3:02 am
i agree with AS.
10 Brian // Nov 15, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Two League Cups or Two runs in the Champions League?
As that’s what’s basically gone on since the start of the Premiership.
We even gave Spurs a one season head start.
11 mrmalcolmmustard // Nov 15, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Of course Newcastle are a big club. everything about them is big IE .BIG debts, BIG heads, BIG one end of their lopsided ground, BIG egos and last but not least BIG BIG BIG fat owner. So there you have it. NUFC one BIG joke. He He He !!!
12 Ryan // Nov 18, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Gee Spurs fans are so precious
Outside of UK no-one knows who the f*** they are