I do not like the word "hate", but my precise feelings about Spurs ...might send me searching my dictionary for a suitable synonym.
For many (younger) fans, this is the next game against the second place club that we want to win in order to have a chance to qualify for Europa League.
For many of my generation, games against Spurs have been a catalogue of defeats and despair and uncompromising insults from an arrogant fan base.
I've seen Saints defeated by Liverpool, whose fans comiserated with us for trying hard, and Man Utd fans who admitted we played well, but still lost.
However, the memories that comes from, what Rupert Lowe once called, ..."
those North London yobbos " has stuck in my craw for generations.
They have
scre*ed us in nearly every transfer deal for the last 50 years, and laughed at us in their arrogance.
A win next weekend will, for me, rate far above the wins against Emirates Marketing Project, United, Liverpool and Chelsea - even if we don't qualify for Euro League.
There
....RANT OVER !