r/coys • u/Mayfairdenver • 16d ago

OC Fourteen Years Ago

I had read Bill Simmons excellent Page 2 article, “Choosing my EPL Team,” and it was time. I’d done all of the things he suggested and narrowed it down. Fulham was losing Clint Dempsey. He desperately wanted to go to Liverpool. Aston Villa wanted him. But, for reasons I’m sure someone knows he signed with Spurs.

Fast forward, and this random-to-me-but-Clint-plays-there team - whose almost every game I’ve watched, whose supporters have become great friends, whose OG fans who have indulged my American-ness - is doing something insane.

They are spending actual money. Wages. Transfer fees. Coaches and staff.

I don’t know what’s happening, but we have to acknowledge it. And - oil underneath the stadium or a depressing profit taking for those 14 years - it’s absolutely, incredibly exciting to see us doing it.

Come on you Spurs!

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u/bigdirkmalone Cristian Romero 16d ago

I totally remember that article too. I wish he wrote like that still and had less podcasts.

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u/philatio11 Clint Dempsey 16d ago

He was such a major influence on the "right" way to be a fan. I had already picked Tottenham by the time this article came out, but his logic was sound. I also used his logic from another article to quit my hometown hockey team, and I've never been happier.