{"id":6625,"date":"2025-08-18T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6625\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:48:08","slug":"new-tottenham-hotspaw-pet-partner-leaves-spurs-fans-howling-with-frustration-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6625\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tottenham \u2018Hotspaw\u2019 pet partner leaves Spurs fans howling with frustration \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mood of Spurs\u2019 fans would, you\u2019d imagine, have picked up a bit after Saturday\u2019s 3-0 win over Burnley, but they\u2019ve been less than content with the club\u2019s work on the transfer market during the summer, especially after losing their captain Son Heung-min to Los Angeles FC and James Maddison being ruled out for most or all of the season through injury.<\/p>\n

So when the club started a tweet with \u201cwe are delighted to announce …\u201d, little wonder that said fans got excited. Except? They were announcing a partnership with premium pet food brand Frontier Pets which would become it\u2019s \u201cOfficial Pre-Season Tour Sleeve Partner\u201d and \u201cOfficial Partner of our groundbreaking Supporters\u2019 Club for dog-owners, Tottenham Hotspaw\u201d.<\/p>\n

Alas, we can\u2019t repeat the gist of most of the replies from deflated supporters, most of them a bit obscene. There was one, though, from a West Ham fan by the name of \u2018Big Dave\u2019: \u201cWell it was never gonna be Winalot, was it?\u201d Unkind.<\/p>\n

Quote\"MoiseMoise Kean of Fiorentina battles for possession with Murillo of Nottingham Forest during the pre-season friendly match. Photograph: Carl Recine\/Getty <\/p>\n

\u201cI really like him. He churns the games out, reads the game really well. He\u2019s got a physique that makes him look like SpongeBob, but I think he\u2019s a real talent.\u201d Stuart Pearce on his admiration for Nottingham Forest defender SquarePants Murillo.<\/b><\/p>\n

By the Numbers: 335<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how many million Euros Liverpool have spent in the transfer window, making them the biggest spenders in world football this summer. And that\u2019s before they nail down Alexander Isak and Marc Guehi.<\/p>\n

Word of Mouth\"ManchesterManchester City manager Pep Guardiola. Photograph: Bradley Collyer\/PA <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to stop after this stage with City because I need to focus on myself. I want to watch the cows go by when the train goes by. My grandfather used to say, \u2018you look at me like cows watch the train go by\u2019.\u201d Pep Guardiola on career breaks and cow-watching. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a decent player, nothing more. He\u2019s no Marco van Basten.\u201d Arrigo Sacchi tries to contain his excitement over AC Milan\u2019s interest in Rasmus Hojlund.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIn medical terms, the operation succeeded but the patient died, so not that good in the end.\u201d Thomas Frank on Spurs giving up a two-goal lead with five minutes to go against PSG in the Super Cup, before being laid to rest in the penalty shoot-out.<\/b><\/p>\n

United fan sets up GoFundMe to try to send Baleba<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always touching to see supporters try to help out their clubs when they\u2019re in desperate financial need, and another such example arose last week when a man who identified himself only as \u2018Ian M\u2019 set up a GoFundMe page to help his club buy a very badly needed midfielder.<\/p>\n

\"BrightonBrighton and Hove Albion’s Carlos Baleba. Photograph: Gareth Fuller\/PA <\/p>\n

\u201cWe need this to happen we need this to happen we need this to happen we need this to happen,\u201d was all Ian wrote.<\/p>\n

His target figure is \u00a3120 million (\u20ac139m), but unfortunately he\u2019s only raised \u00a3506 so far. All of which means, Manchester United have to find another \u00a3119,999,494 to buy Brighton\u2019s Carlos Baleba. Just Google \u2018Baleba to Man Utd fund\u2019 and donate what you can.<\/p>\n

More Word of Mouth <\/p>\n

\u201cSaudi Arabia is a country where there\u2019s no alcohol, there\u2019s no nightlife. There are no distractions. He only has one option: to play and rest and be with friends and family.\u201d Al-Nassr coach Jorge Jesus confident that new signing Joao Felix will focus on his football, seeing as he\u2019ll have nothing else to be doing in Riyadh.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cItaly continues to be an elephant\u2019s graveyard \u2013 before it was [Cristiano] Ronaldo and [Franck Ribery], now it\u2019s De Bruyne and Modric.\u201d Paolo Di Canio suggesting that Kev (Napoli) and Luka (AC Milan) are over the hill.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201c**** off then. No good having whingers and moaners in the camp. Only want players that want to wear the shirt. He can **** right off.\u201d Former Brentford gaffer Martin Allen wishing the club\u2019s forward Yoane Wissa well in his pursuit of a move to Newcastle.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mood of Spurs\u2019 fans would, you\u2019d imagine, have picked up a bit after Saturday\u2019s 3-0 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,560,20,6795,795,132,3613],"class_list":{"0":"post-6625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liverpool-fc","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-pep-guardiola","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tottenham-hotspur"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}