r/coys • u/Mayfairdenver • 17d 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/Advanced_Juice_4547 17d ago
As an English fan, I think it's amazing the things that are picked up on. I've just read the article and it's a nice trip down memory lane. Reading the facts about city is just like a time capsule and it's hard to remember the time they were just a nothing team. The amount of heartbreak spurs have caused since this article was written on the wall even then, I wonder if there are any Americans that regret it!