Spurs Social Media Problem - YOU
Spurs Social Media Problem - YOU
Fabio Paratici said we, the club, need the fans to be positive.
“We’ve lost a lot of semi-finals over the the years, it’s very difficult. They can’t quite get over the final hurdle.”
To do this I am going to use quotes by Sam Cook (Twitter handle @TalkingTHFC) made to DreamTeamFC.com in an article by Jack Kennedy on 15th March 2019.
His quotes actually highlight the problem he seems unaware of, like many fans who don't understand the effect their tweets have, indeed many don't think they have any effect, which is rather naive.
The article is about the perception of Tottenham being a top team.
As supporters, it is our role to everything to help the club win things, by creating a positive vibe surrounding the club and the mere mention of it's name, but let me show you that by showing what Sam's quotes miss.
First however, a quote from Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust (THST - who basically only work for a few thousand who attend matches and aren't interested in any fan who doesn't, as their recent survey demonstrated and their failure to answer 4 times what they do for the fan in Asia, America or Australia) Bernie Kingsley.
“Spurs supporters are always glass half empty it’s the nature of us," he begins, which is a failure mentality for a start.“Everybody will tell you we are really nervous about the derby, it’s that sort of mentality that Spurs fans have. We haven’t been used to winning regularly and it’s difficult to get used to that.
“We are enjoying it and the football we play but there’s always that tinge that we could fall back into being ‘Spursy’.”
None of that is positive, none of that is going to change media perception of us, none of that is going to change the general footballers perception of us.
Indeed he is promoting being 'Spursy', promoting the negative narrative at the mere mention of our name.
He is just adding fuel to the negative fire.
How do you expect others to be positive if we can't even be positive ourselves?
All Ben is doing, is fueling a failure mentality into journalists who latch onto that, write negative articles and boost the negativity to the reading general footballing public, including our own fans.
Ben is helping to grow the general atmosphere of failure, while wanting the success he is working against.
The anti-crowd latch onto it and fuel the fire some more, while simultaneous pretending to themselves they are supporting.
Ben is, all be it unknowingly, working against the club, for the opposition.
Let's move onto Sean Cook because this highlights the point even clearer.
"We’re not unhappy with the state of things, we don’t want to be demanding these trophies and certain players. It’s great, supporting Spurs at the moment is great and supporting them over the last five years has been better than it has been supporting them for a very long time.”
Fair play, no arguments with that, we all should be enjoying ourselves knowing the general graph is an upward curve over time for Spurs.
Spurs have in fact reached 6 finals, including a Champions League Final and 8 semi-finals while Daniel Levy has been chairman.
We have not previously had the income of the other big clubs and while we have caught up Arsenal financially, we are still miles behind Manchester City and Manchester United in terms of revenue generated by the club.
Thus they still have a huge advantage, a gap we have to bridge to achieve the goal of winning trophies regularly.
“But you look at people like Wenger and Fergie and the legacy that they left, it would be great to do something like that but they were winning stuff and we need to be doing that as well. It’s only been five years under Poch but we need to start doing that.”
Again, no arguments, yes we do and as supporters we should be doing what we can to aid that, but many of you don't, you work against it and complain when your work (all be it you may not know you are doing it) is successful.
Back to Bernie for a moment:
They, not we, he is divorcing himself from that showing he doesn't believe he has any effect, which is wrong and quite frankly completely wrong if he is a THST member.
OK, back to Sean and the big tell tale quote that shows a problem, he, and so many anti-ENIC anti-Levy fans have not seen.
“A lot of it comes down to the attitude of rival clubs and fans and pundits. In their minds Spurs are still that mid-table team, we’re trying to change opinions and we are doing that slowly.
“It comes down to that, if we’re treated as bottlers in the eyes of the media and rival fans we are always going to be that until we start winning stuff, it’s hard in that regard it feels like you’re running uphill the whole time.
“It hurt us last year after the Juventus game when Chiellini said ‘this is the history of Spurs it’s what they do’, that was a killer blow.
“Beating teams like that and getting to the next level and attracting players like Chiellini and his colleagues, until we start getting those people on board and start winning things that mentality will always be there from other clubs as well.”
Now by "we are trying to do that slowly", he means Spurs, not himself and the anti fans, who do the opposite.
OK, take careful note.
"If we’re treated as bottlers in the eyes of the media and rival fans we are always going to be that until we start winning stuff."
OK, so you need to change the perception of the media, yet you guys feed the failure perception every day on social media.
How do you expect the media to change their view when you keep pumping them full of your negativity?
You are just feeding the beast, feeding the wrong mentality, feeding the negative atmosphere that journalists then fuel themselves.
You can't ask the media to change their perception when you haven't changed yours, supporters need a success mentality mindset too, supporters need to create an atmosphere of success BEFORE it is achieved.
That's how the successful people operate, they live the life of success because then the mind is in the right place to achieve it.
To be successful, you don't associate with the negative mindset of the unsuccessful as all they will ever try to do is drag you down to their level, never give you a helping hand up.
They will tell you it won't work, you can't do that etc.
To be successful you associate with the successful and through your actions they can see you are made of the right calibre and will help you succeed.
Failure mentalities don't see that and can't accept that.
Failure mentalities dismiss what they don't understand while telling you they understand it, when their opinion is formed with a huge lack of knowledge about the very subject.
Sports psychologists are a case in point, coaching is another, mentality is another and the formula of success, another.
Positive, confident mentalities see far more than negative mentalities because they are looking for opportunities to feed success, not latching onto what feeds failure.
The Nissan chief executive, Ashwani Gupta, has just said, after announcing huge investment into the car industry in this country, suggesting this is a renaissance of the British car industry;
"And thanks to the Brexit, I think Nissan is going, moving forward, to use Brexit as an opportunity.”
The successful look for opportunity, not dwell on the negative.
Managers, players look for positives, you don't hear them in interviews constantly talking negatively.
Anyway, back to Sean.
Again, he talks of getting players like Chiellini on board BEFORE success, but to do that we have to act like a successful club, as if it is inevitable, as if it is the norm, as if it is expected.
No top player is going to sign while the supporters still have a failure mindset and feed the media the perception of failure.
Daniel Levy has done the right thing building the infrastructure of a successful team, that's exactly what was needed and it is unfortunate that Covid has negated the impact of the income generating stadium for the moment.
The funds that generates is what is going to be pumped back into the team, we all know that, or should, but again the negative mentality fan tried to paint a different picture and feeds that negativity through social media, through the media to the general footballing community, home and abroad.
If you actually want people to feel positive about Spurs and see a positive message from the media to create a general air of positivity surrounding the very words Tottenham Hotspur or Spurs, then you have to first feel and portray that positivity yourself.
That can be achieved by either greater understanding or looking for the good in everything, not the bad, of thinking before reacting, of trying to understand why from a positive aspect rather than a negative one, of looking for opportunities.
Why do most people not do that, because it is human nature to be negative and it is those who rise above that and embrace positivity, who are the successful 1%.
That 1% comes from a study of OAP's from the same classes at school and how their life had faired, only 1% supported themselves without benefits, 96% were reliant on benefits, the remaining 3% faired a bit like Spurs now, nearly there but not quite.
Do you want Spurs to be a part of the 1% or the 96%?
Because the 96% is reliant on a Sugar Daddy giving money for player purchases, which is not allowed under FFP rules.
If it were, ever club across Europe would be doing it, but Michel Platini, when he was boss of UEFA, said that was the very thing he wanted to stop, that clubs had to be self sufficient.
Tottenham have developed a 1% mindset, a self sufficient model that is now I would say, 2 seasons of a full stadium to build the team nearer to where we all want it to be.
So are you going to continue to feed the media a negative outlook on Spurs or act like the success orientated people do and seek out and promote the positive?
Are you going to support properly or not?
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Also nearly all of them moan about lack of funds, inaction in the transfer market, managers or owners. The exception it seems are Chelsea and Man City that have sugar daddys.
I hate the word "spursy" however moaning is just a natural response from all fans from top of the premiership to the bottom of league two but it doesn't mean they don't love their teams.
If you social media narrative is negative then you are promoting a negative message to everyone else and to the media.
Moaning all the time is a failure mentality, not a success mentality, 99% have that failure mentality, only 4% do something about it and only 1% turn it into a success mentality.
That tells you that most people are wrong, most people don't know how success is achieved, don't know the formula for success and don't know how to help their team achieve success.
What you do 7 days a week on social media matters.
It isn't about loving your team, it's about helping them.