Tottenham don’t wish to be often called ‘Tottenham’.
No, that’s not a joke, and it’s left talkSPORT host and long-suffering Spurs fan Reshmin Chowdhury fairly bewildered.
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The membership have written to broadcasters requesting they’re solely referred as ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ or ‘Spurs’ going ahead.
It comes amid a low-key rebrand from the north London membership, who’ve dropped the phrases ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ from their official membership crest, which – as seen on their shirts – is now only a cockerel standing on a ball.
Spurs have revealed an array of latest logos and textual content fonts, the place the phrase ‘Tottenham’ is definitely by no means used by itself. Anyplace.
As an alternative ‘Spurs’ is the most-used identify for the membership, with crests not that includes any phrases in any respect and as a substitute utilizing their founding 12 months of 1882 and LDN.
Cross-capital rivals West Ham have had the ‘London’ remedy already, with many Hammers followers complaining their historic membership determine has been sacrificed in favour of promoting.
Tottenham Hotspur have maybe taken that on board, with their N17 postcode and ‘NORTH LDN’ that includes within the new-look branding, in addition to an old-school THFC monogram.
And in equity to them, in a world the place ‘United’ and Metropolis’ are common sights on this planet of soccer membership suffixes, ‘there is just one Hotspur’ (as written within the new branding pointers).
It has been a membership coverage for years to not consult with themselves solely as ‘Tottenham’ , however have they maybe taken it a bit too far by demanding no person else calls them ‘Tottenham’ anymore, both?
The change has already been noticed on TV broadcasts, the place Ange Postecoglou was known as ‘Tottenham Hotspur head coach’ on-screen after a current match. League tables additionally now embrace ‘Hotspur’ or simply learn ‘Spurs’.
There’s a level to be made that some golf equipment aren’t known as their metropolis’s identify. You would not merely say ‘Nottingham’ or ‘Aston’ when referring to Forest and Villa – that may be bizarre, proper?
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However, Tottenham Hotspur haven’t got the identical points multi-club cities have in Manchester or Sheffield, and there’s no downside with dropping the ‘United’ from Newcastle and Leeds and the ‘Metropolis’ from Leicester – everyone knows who they’re.
There is just one ‘Tottenham’, too – so what is the level?
Lifelong supporter Reshmin doesn’t get it, and likewise thinks the timing of the request whereas the group languishes thirteenth within the Premier League desk is kind of crass.
England legend Stuart Pearce even branded the weird request ‘Donald Trump-esque’.
“Tottenham Hotspur have contacted broadcasters this month requesting that the membership are primarily often called ‘Tottenham Hotspur’, with ‘Spurs’ being the popular brief model,” Reshmin stated on talkSPORT GameDay.
“So the membership have principally requested that they are not known as ‘Tottenham’. I am simply shocked by this one.
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“I believe massive golf equipment normally are contemplating transferring their branding away from a geographical location and having the soccer membership itself as their model, versus the place they’ve come from.
“However given the place Spurs are within the desk, how dangerous issues have been and the doom and gloom across the membership in the intervening time, I believe it is fairly ridiculous that they are not focusing their energies elsewhere and that they take the time to to ship an e-mail to broadcasters to say, ‘oh, we actually wish to be known as Tottenham Hotspur’.
“I believe they need to deal with really getting it proper on the on the pitch and dealing their approach additional up the desk in order that they are often thought of a giant membership that performs in Europe recurrently, recurrently on the highest stage, fairly than attempting to maneuver away from what’s the the identification of the membership.
“Tottenham is the world. Tottenham is Tottenham Hotspur. It is a membership. It is a neighborhood. It is a tradition.
“And I discover it very, very unusual personally that the membership have made this effort to only even compose this e-mail and ship this out.”
Pearce added: “It sounds very Trump-esque. Toss stuff on the market that’s going to draw the eye of whoever. Divert from the precise, actual subject. That is the way it appears.
“It appears a extremely unusual one. You determine the soccer membership as you do. Typically you name them ‘Spurs’, generally ‘Tottenham’, generally ‘Tottenham Hotspur’. It is simply synonymous. It is what they’re.”
Reshmin replied as solely a Tottenham Hotspur fan would: “It is who we’re, mate!
“I fully agree. What absolute nonsense.
“Truthfully, focus your time elsewhere by attempting to turn out to be a giant membership and return to that standing fairly than flipping sending an e-mail to broadcasters saying we do not wish to be often called ‘Tottenham’, simply ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ or ‘Spurs’.
“Proper, rant over.”
Sorry Tottenham – the jury is out on this one.