“It’s 8.07pm and I am still staring at the TV, I just went through every emotion a human can go through. I need a whisky.”
A quote by a Spurs fan that perfectly summed up what Spurs put us through at Anfield on Sunday afternoon
Up until the 80th minute I’d resigned myself to us suffering our 6th league defeat of the season. After all we have only won 6 times in 74 league meetings against Liverpool at Anfield. Then suddenly Wanyama scores a 30-yard pile-driver – Yes!! I’ll take a draw now please.
Hang on penalty, we can actually win this.
Nope.
Just as I was thinking that a draw was a fair result Salah pops up to score what seems like the winner for Liverpool. I turn my TV off and sit on the stairs with my head in my hands, feeling the lowest I have for a very long time after a defeat (probably because of the manner of it), when my phone beeps. I look at it “PENALTY”. I quickly turn the TV back on in time to see Kane put away the equaliser.
I’m exhausted, emotionally exhausted as well as physically exhausted (from celebrating our two goals).
That feeling of just staring at the television resonates with me not only after yesterday’s game, but supporting Spurs in general. Beating Real Madrid so comprehensively at Wembley in November, the last two seasons of being so close to winning the Premier League title with only a few games to go as well as recent years gone by when we’ve narrowly missed out on Champions League qualification in the last game of the season. The feeling of staring at the TV thinking “What the hell just happened there?”
I’ve only ever supported Spurs so I have no idea if supporting another club feels as much like riding a rollercoaster as supporting my team does, but I’m pretty sure it’s a rare thing.
As we head to our Wembley tie against Newport County on Wednesday evening, I’m reminded that we’ve lost seven straight FA Cup semi-finals (a record) since winning it in 1991. Can we win it this year? I’d say we have a brilliant chance, just like we had a brilliant chance of winning the last two league titles. If we do though it will most definitely be a rollercoaster ride, but, as most Spurs fans would agree, there’s absolutely no way I’m getting off the ride.
