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Have Spurs fans engineered the crisis?

Looking at today's relegation battle between West Ham and Spurs, Alyson Rudd writing in The Times states: 'Both clubs have a grumbling fan base, but more West Ham supporters have been able to place their concerns to one side while matches are in full flow. Spurs fans, by comparison, have practically engineered the present crisis by making sure their cavernous stadium bridles and sneers and jeers, thereby undermining the efforts of the players and leading to the unenviable statistic that Tottenham have won only twice at home in this league campaign.'

I would hasten to add that most fans enjoy moaning and complaining about their own team.  I should know that as a Charlton fan whose supporters are among the leading negativists and pessimists in the EFL.  Win a game and social media is quiet.  Lose it and the armchair managers pile in explaining how they would have won and demanding that the manager be sacked.

West Ham fans have never really settled in at the London Stadium and have justified grievances about the club's leadership.  Much the same applies at Spurs.  Nevertheless, with all due respect to friends who are Spurs fans, they do seem to have expectations that are out of kilter with performance on the pitch.

Nevertheless. my hunch is that Spurs will stay up.

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