TOTTENHAM — Tottenham Hotspur fans staged a protest against owners Enic and chairman Daniel Levy ahead of their team’s Premier League match against fellow strugglers Manchester United.
Supporters of all ages began to congregate on the corner of Lordship Lane and the Seven Sisters High Road two hours before kick-off to join an organised, peaceful march towards the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Numbers were unconfirmed but it looked like comfortably over a thousand.
Plenty brought banners with them. Two sprawling yellow and blue ones bearing the words were paraded at the front of the crowd: “Our Game Is About Glory, Levy’s Game Is About Greed,” and “24 Years, 16 Managers, One Trophy – Time For Change.”
There was the constant hum of chanting accompanying them as they walked. “We want Levy out,” “Daniel Levy, get out of our club,” and “We want our Tottenham back,” were sung on repeat. Anti-Levy chants were occasionally punctuated by pro-Tottenham ones.
“I just think it has got to a point that Ange is one who is the straw who broke the camel’s back,” one fan called Sot told The i Paper.
“I think everyone’s realised you can’t keep changing the manager and just expect something to be different. We are a football club, we [the fans] pay high season ticket prices and we are just treated like customers. People are just frustrated that year in and year out it is the pound [that matters] before the football team.
“Tottenham were a big club before Daniel Levy. He did not invent Tottenham. There was a stadium there before him.”
Protests against the owners have occurred on and off since the stadium move in 2019, but have spiked during a difficult season which is on course to be one of the worst of Enic’s 24-year tenure.
Discontent has risen as an injury-ravaged Spurs have slipped to 15th in the Premier League table and crashed out of both domestic cups. Their last remaining chance of a trophy this season – and only a second under Enic – is the Europa League.
It was a well-attended and vocal protest, organised by Change For Tottenham, a protest group that sprang up in late 2021 and has since amassed over 15,000 followers on X/Twitter.
Hundreds of Tottenham fans are taking part in a protest march against the club's ownership.
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Among their objectives are “reclaiming our football heritage” and seeking clarification from the board over its “plans for on-pitch success that rivals ambitions off it”.
The group urged fans to continue their complaints in the stadium concourse before kick-off and to gather at the bottom of the South Stand after full-time for a sit-in protest.
Besides the lack of trophies in the cabinet and a perceived lack of investment in the transfer market, fans have become increasingly disillusioned by some of the decisions the club has made.
Last year the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust launched the “Save our Seniors” campaign in retaliation to the club’s decision to reduce concession tickets for over-65s.
As at other Premier League clubs, there was a fierce backlash from fans to plans to join the European Super League in 2021.
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