Martin Cloake

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The Atmosphere at Spurs: Blame the Club before Blaming the Fans The supposed lack of atmosphere at White Hart Lane has become ingrained into the story of Spurs’ season. As each home game passes without a victory, so early season passivity turned to audibl…

Absolutely brilliant from @spursblogger

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Premier League clubs have crypto sponsors not covered by Britain’s financial regulators | The Observer

More here. Football, bloody hell.

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This.

All-time price chart of Spurs fan tokens, showing a peak of about £3.75 after launch in early 2024, with a sustained fall to the current price of 18p.

To be fair to Spurs, they are not wrong when they describe their fan tokens as "high-risk."

This new regime needs to be careful it doesn’t end up looking like the old regime. Clubs shouldn’t be putting this stuff anywhere near fans. @uglygame.bsky.social has done the research.

He gave very generously of his time, was a bright and insightful interviewee - and still very passionate about Spurs

He was really knowledgeable and a decent bloke. Just didn’t do flim flam. Both my tape machines failed and I had to rewrite the interview from memory. Really didn’t want to go back and ask him to do it again 😂

Lol. Luckily he wasn’t that ahead of his time. I interviewed him once. Not a man who suffered fools gladly. (Don’t do the obvious joke).

Wish they had made their move when we called for the board to be sacked after the ESL debacle. But better late than never. I guess, like Martin Peters, we were ahead of our time.

Looking more like they didn’t have faith that Daniel’s football judgment warranted more money being injected. Although they didn’t seem particularly interested for a very long time.

Is that all we get away? I have written frequently about the dreadful experience of away fans at European games. Things aren’t getting any better. That needs to change.

Latest edition of The Football Fan now out, with a European theme.

Is that all we get away?, by @MartinCloake open.substack.com/pub/martincl...

Probably the fault of an over regulated market 🙄

It’s terrible. First world problem I know, but jeez.

Shouting into the void perhaps, but the Outlook for Mac upgrade is possibly the worst software upgrade in the history of software. Has smashed the ability to autofill email addresses, and typing in every address every time is a significant time thief. Well done all at Microsoft Towers.

Last plug for my appearance on It Started With A Kick with @rcfoster.bsky.social Apologies for visual disturbance.

Outstanding work.

Interesting seeing the stories of how people came to support their club after my ISWAK episode with @rcfoster.bsky.social The accepted wisdom has tended to be that support is passed down the generations, but there is more to the story.

The 76 team

I’ve never had an issue with ‘em. Side that played good football, never known of any beef (although I’ve heard the stories about 82 at Wembley), proper ground, good day out.

Have you ever met a less likely social media influencer than me?

Haha. That’s my pitch to the publishers.

If there’s one thing the world doesn’t need… 😂

There but for the grace of Hod…

No footballing tradition in the family, see? But the bond stronger, arguably, because I found it myself.

I was 5.

Apologies for the disturbing video clip, I’ve always said I had a great face for radio. But I really enjoyed talking about the actual football on Richard’s excellent pod #coys

Coverage of #stopexploitingloyalty reaches Brazilian-based website ludopedio @wearethefsa.bsky.social

The Levy Legacy – What Might Have Been In evaluating the career of Daniel Levy as Tottenham Hotspur chairman, only one thing can be said with any degree of certainty. If someone reaches a straightforward conclusion, they’re wrong. Altho…

Fine stuff from @spursblogger

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