Thing with Spurs, a lot like Chelsea and City, is they are so irrelevant that they long to be loathed. They're dying for us to really hate them.
Don't see why we should get on the hook really. They aren't our rivals and I've no reason to hate them because they're just desperate.
Let's twat them and worry about it later
This. 100%
Agreed with everything except the bold part. I can think of a few.
And more than that, the entire team seems to have a proclivity to dive and cheat. And not to forget the flying tackles and blatant fouls when losing.
Loads of teams have players like this. Other teams will say similar about our players.
I don't get why Spurs fans would want a rivalry with us. Chelsea, WHU and Arsenal all view Spurs as a rival and a hated team. More so than they do each other. They all hate Spurs the most!
Think City are in the same boat as Spurs. They seem to want to generate a rivalry with us. Don't take the bait.
I actually don't think the Chelsea rivalry was like this. It came about because of a number of factors that built into something bigger - Mourinho v Benitez, Mourinho's antics at the League Cup Final, Terry, the Alonso ankle injury, the different political leanings of the 2 clubs supporter bases. That all really only made a difference because they beat us in a league cup final, and then we beat them in the CL semi final. Then we beat them in an FACup semi final. Then another CL semi final. Before 2 QF losses against them. In between there were league games and the CL group in 2006. And they bought Torres off us. There was melting pot of things that made this an intense rivalry for about a 6 year period. Now that's gone I think the rivalry has begun to subside. There was a time during 2005-2010 that I 'hated' Chelsea on sporting level. Not really now.
City and Spurs have literally nothing with us that compares to that period we had with Chelsea. Never mind United or Everton.