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Leafs, Tottenham a match maker's delight

STEPHEN BRUNT

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 2:32 PM EDT 30/04/08

From the blue uniforms to the championship droughts, there are plenty of natural synergies ...Read the full article

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  1. The Archer from Canada writes: NOOOOOO!!!!...leave the Spurs alone....comparing them to the Leafs is grasping at best....they don't need Peddie meddling in another sports industry he doesn't understand!
  2. Random Person from Heard and Mc Donald Islands writes: Where did MLSE get 1.5 billion dollars from? How come that their Board will let them just to take all that and buy a Team in England...

    To me that's insane...
  3. Mike M from Toronto, Canada writes: Random person - they got 1.5 billion from bilking leafs fans all these years (who have no one to blame but themselves).

    The Board will let them buy a soccer team if they think it will make money. Pension funds only care about making money - that's what they do.
  4. Chris B from Ottawa, Canada writes: Oh dear god no.... Please leave my beloved Spurs alone. I know we haven't won the league or a wee period, but Tottenham has been more about the FA Cup.. which.. er.. we won in 1991 (last).

    But to have these clowns from MLSE who are clearly more focused on bottom line than winning would be a disaster. Spurs would be perfect for them - no danger of relegation, fanatical fan base, and (most importantly) the need for a new stadium, where they could sell their beloved condos.

    I don't think the equaton would workout quite so well for us in the Tottenham camp.
  5. Duane Rollins from Toronto, Canada writes: I've made the Spurs = Leafs comparison for years...Who knows, maybe with its recent run of good form, TFC is proving that MLSE has been in the wrong business for all these years. It's not that it doesn't know what it's doing. It's just that it only truly understands soccer!
  6. Trilly B from Canada writes: Even if they're not interested in purchasing, MLSE has obviously been studying English football. They've made TFC a caricature of an English club.

    A major difference is many TFC fans are quite happy pretending. Across the pond, they'll burn you in effigy for failed campaigns and terrible management decisions.

    Imagine Leaf fans did that? It'd look like Montreal around the ACC. :)
  7. Jimmy Savile from Canada writes: I understand that Steve Nash's family is originally from North London and that he's a Spurs fan. Apparently there may be the possibility of him getting involved with the team financially in future.
  8. Piet F from Canada writes: What better way to write a one-way ticket to relegation? If only relegation existed in the NHL, we could be rid of the Leafs!
  9. Roy Anderson from Canada writes: Why can't writers get things right? Although seemingly unimportant, mistakes tend to indicate that the writer is sloppy, careless and hurried. None of which are good credentials for a responsible writer, surely?

    Tottenham Hotspur's colours are white! White shirt, white shorts and white socks - and have been since the inception of the Club in 1882 - that's right, 1882!

    The blue 'strip', the team might have been seen wearing by the uninterested - and certainly inexpert - spectator, is the 'Spurs' CHANGE STRIP- which they wear when playing away from home and when their uniforms might clash with the Home side's.
  10. the douglas from Haldimand, Canada writes: Lilly Whites. No blue. Even though success has been rare lately, Spurs and fans have something Leafs and fans don't.......class.
  11. Roy Anderson from Canada writes: I've commente4d upon the article already BUT, another correspondent has raised a most interesting point. IF ONLY Promotion and Relegation existed in the NHL, there would be far, far, better teams (still) throughout the League. The feather-bedded system, that allows the most abject failures to start the next season on equal footing with those who have gained real success, is utterly ludicrous. Success should be rewarded and failure penalised - IF the fans and spectators are ever to be considered truly important. There, again, we know this isn't true in North American Sport - generally speaking! There should be (ideally) two Divisions playing balanced schedules. At the end of the season, the top 4 clubs of the 1st Division play off for the Stanley Cup. (This method saving the totally unacceptable mayhem and injuries the present long and complex series' produce.) The bottom four clubs, of the 1st Division, get relegated to the Second Division; while the top four clubs of the Second Division are promoted to the 1st Division - and, hence, are able to challenge for the Stanley Cup from the next season on. Thi might all seem very revolutionary but, it is a first rate method employed by many Leagues and Sports round the world. REAL competition isn't a bad thing, it's a pity North America sees none of it!
  12. asdf asdf from Canada writes: I dont understand some of these arguments against MLSE. They're criticized for making a profit and fielding a losing team, but with the salary cap in effect, and the leafs spending at the salary cap, how would you like MLSE to correct this? If anything the blame should be placed on GMs who were spending money on veterans while drafting poorly and not buying any youth. The leafs were in a poor position to succeed in a post-cap era due to poor youth setup and veteran contracts. It has nothing to do with MLSE generating a profit.

    Maybe you could make that argument in the 1990s when the leafs didnt have the highest payroll in the NHL, but times have changed.
  13. Sober Second Thought from Toronto, Canada writes: Getting and EPL team could be a good way to train up the EPL kids with playing time on loan to the TFC farm club. Everybody wins.
  14. Chris B from Ottawa, Canada writes: Now, on to the last point, I would think it great if THFC and TFC formed some form of alliance (ala Colorado and the Gooners). I just don't want to see an organisation which is clearly not committed to winning buy Spurs.

    And as to who should receive the blame? Well, if the team is spending to the cap (consistently) and spending well beyond the other teams (pre cap) through a succession of GM's and coaches, with nothing to show for it but a trip to the conference finals 14 years ago, then you have to blame the organisation NOT an individual. After all if you blame each GM, then you have to ask why they buy such lousy GM's?
  15. Young Gunner from BMO Field, Canada writes: I wouldn't call Spurs fans 'class' there the douglas. Remember they're treatment of Sol Campbell defecting to Highbury. Granted these types of moves enrage North London fans, racism has no part to play in my sportsworld. They are passionate, loud, and volatile, so agree that they are everything Leaf fans are not.
  16. PG Tips from Mississauga, Canada writes: My beloved Spurs haviing any connection to the Maple 'Laughs' doesn't bear thinking about; so I won't.
    However, I think Mr Anderson, should take a leaf (sorry for pun) from his own book and count to 10 before he mouths off about news reporters ...."seemingly unimportant, mistakes tend to indicate that the writer is sloppy, careless and hurried. None of which are good credentials for a responsible writer, surely?"

    Mr Anderson, himself,speaks of 'all white' since 1882. Absurdly FALSE.

    Yes the shirts have always been white, but their shorts have always been Navy Blue. Socks of blue with white tops; since inception.
    They only took up the all white when they commenced European football (and often continued this new tradition in Europe) AFTER the 'double' in 1960-61 : eighty years after inception!
    However, in the last 30 years or so, anything has been acceptable, so long as it is different from the previous year, in order to sell merchandise. This year it is all white, last year it was white and blue, next year who knows - it's scheduled to be announced at the end of the season. Stayed tuned.
    Who's the "certainly inexpert - spectator" he talks of I wonder?

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