Sorry but as has been mentioned already don't dare compare the Paxton to the Park Lane it's insulting. I'd never sit in the Paxton again....unless I wanted to read the programme cover to cover uninterrupted.
It wasn't the OP's intention to compare the Paxton with the Park Lane. The (laudable) intention was to point out that the constant sniping at the Paxton from some quarters is both tiresome and hardly conducive to a collective sense of goodwill among Spurs fans - especially since, as the OP so rightly points out, the atmosphere generated even by the Park Lane has been persistently dire over the past couple of seasons.
Perhaps less time sniping at each other might mean more time actually coming up with original songs?
And, by the way, those too young to remember might not be aware of the fact that, after the demise of the Shelf and especially after the move to all seater stadia, the Paxton was where it was at until it became the designated "family" stand.
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Jimmy I love reading your posts in the stadium thread so I won't shoot you down too much but the sniping at the Paxton are fully deserved. They offer nothing in volume in and around the ground. There are notices behind every seat asking you, politely I may add, to mind your language. Sorry but I didn't realise I was in a library! Family stand? Do me a favour!! I hate the fact we've got a family stand. It's a football ground for fudge sake it's embarrassing.
That has nothing to do with being loud though. It says you can be loud, just don't swear.
How many songs do we have that actually have swearing in?
If you want noise you buy a ticket for Park Lane or Shelfside. You don't have to look around you before saying anything, you already know you're in the family stand.
If you want noise you buy a ticket for Park Lane or Shelfside. You don't have to look around you before saying anything, you already know you're in the family stand.
Oh clap clap then that's alright then isn't it? To say what your saying means your happy that a whole stand won't be making much noise!! Great support that!!!
People shouldn't be allowed to come if they just want to watch the game with their kids and not spend it singing?
That's surely part of the problem though, not part of the solution.
Not all congregated into one library stand no. Not at all.
Maybe there are people that actually want to sit down for most of the match, that aren't really into singing and would like to bring their children without having to sit through a lot of foul mouthed abuse? I'm sure there were good reasons behind the decision to have a designated family stand and it's a good starting point for passing the supporter mantle on to the next generation.
Jimmy I love reading your posts in the stadium thread so I won't shoot you down too much but the sniping at the Paxton are fully deserved. They offer nothing in volume in and around the ground. There are notices behind every seat asking you, politely I may add, to mind your language. Sorry but I didn't realise I was in a library! Family stand? Do me a favour!! I hate the fact we've got a family stand. It's a football ground for fudge sake it's embarrassing.
I just don't think that it's necessary for anyone repeatedly to aim snide comments in their direction. We're all on the same side.