I find your posts unnecessarily belligerent and offensive too Mick. Is it because you feel attacked that you constantly resort to thinly vailed sarcasm? Whenever I read one of your posts it just reminds me of someone who is used to getting there own way and being in an environment in which there is no room for debate or differences of opinions. Maybe you don't realise how constantly aggressive your posts are.
I have tried to explain this before - and do something about the feedback I get, obviously more effort required........
I used to be in the army, and I spent the early part of my life being forced to communicate in a military fashion, and sometimes, for the sake of brevity I slip back into doing it in posts.
I would never stifle any debate, with anyone who wants to have one, if I appear abrupt I apologise. It might surprise you to learn that I am actually an unfailingly polite person, and I hate it when people are rude to me, particularly if I make an attempt to be polite to them.
I am disappointed that you think my sarcasm to be thinly veiled, I was hoping for it to be more obvious than that, I use sarcasm for the effect of poking fun or trying to extract humour out of a situation. Any belligerance in my posts is more an expression of trying to get the message across succinctly and without being overly voluble. Quite the opposite of having a conversation with me, where I tend to go into verbal overdrive.
I find it unnecessary for people to take such polarised views, particularly like you find on here - you are either a fan-boy or a hater, nothing in between.
I have no beef against Harry, and the quality and entertainment value of our current team is second to none, of all of the teams I have watched since the late sixties, with the possible exception of some of Ozzies teams - but they were just as likely to get thumped for 6 as they were to win 5-4.
I can forgive any manager who produces football like that, and it depresses me that people seek to slate the guy for everything he does or says, impugning his character, intelligence, tactical acumen, personal habits and even his progeny.
I can see the flaws in his character, I'm not blind deaf or stupid, but the cacophony of voices on here baying for his blood is irrational and dispiriting.
Everyone seems to think its OK to pitch in to the guy - I happen to think its wrong, surely my voice has the same right to be heard? Preferably without being insulted or having my intelligence questioned for doing so. I can see his faults and believe them to be grossly outweighed by what he has delivered to us all as fans, but there are a significant number on here who see absolutely no value in his continued employment. Why should that level of imbalance exist, without giving me or any other likeminded Spurs fan the opportunity to redress the balance?
If my tone - in print comes across as too much, I apologise. You would never believe it was the same person if you met me face to face.
Until I am insulted or talked down to, and then like anyone else, I will start to change my passivity state.
edit - one final point. I am passionate on what I believe support to be.
A lot of people on here are happy to make the most derogatory comments about the club I support, and it tinkles me off beyond belief. When people make inflammatory comments of that nature, on a Spurs site I wonder why its not treated as WUM activity, but it seems that its one of the rules not to questions someones allegiance when they do it (see my points tally.)
You have made several posts condemning the team, its performances, as well as those of the manager and club. I feel its disloyalty and I sometimes react. I do not think support is slavish sucking up, but neither do I think that its a licence to post continual tirades about everything that upsets you, when the club isn't winning every game or winning 5-0. Your posts tend to be more thoughtful, certainly more so than some of the carping ordure we see from the usual suspects, but if you throw your hat in the same ring, you have to accept when generalised statements are made, you get caught in the same net.
