There’s always been a tension between connection to place and the commercial reality – but it has never felt more acute
A Tottenham fan wears a scarf showing Ange Postecoglou. Spurs welcome foreign fans – after all most of the players and the manager are imports.A Tottenham fan wears a scarf showing Ange Postecoglou. Spurs welcome foreign fans – after all most of the players and the manager are imports., the greatest player Sunderland ever had, died on Monday. He was tough, powerful and composed, captain of Alan Brown’s promotion side of 1963-64, which may have been the best of all postwar Sunderland teams.
Which brings us to Ange Postecoglou. You can sift through Tottenham’s results this season and draw almost whatever conclusion you like. On the one hand, fifth in the table, even if it does not bring a Champions League place, is a significant improvement on last season and beyond expectations after. On the other, the season falls into two distinct parts: 2.6 points per game for the first 10 matches, 1.55 since.
This is not just an issue for Tottenham. There are widespread protests about soaring ticket costs, with a growing recognition that the Premier League’s global popularity is driving an inflationary spike and a sense that modern club owners are less interested in the fans who turn up for every game than those for whom it is a rare treat, who are prepared to pay higher prices and are more likely to buy souvenirs in the club shop.The Premier League is a global league.
Tourist fans, purely by their existence, erode that: last October, I spoke to an IFK Norrköping supporter who dreamed of visiting Anfield. When he finally went, though, he found himself surrounded by 200 other Scandinavians. “I realised,” he said, “that I was part of the problem.”
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