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Ange Postecoglou says foreign fans who have just started supporting Tottenham have as much right to tickets as loyal locals who have been cheering on the club for decades.
Postecoglou’s comments come after controversial plans to increase season ticket prices for next season by six per cent and remove concessions for over-65s. The Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust has written to Premier League chief executive Richard Masters asking for support in their opposition to the plans. .
“The fact that a fan with a loyal support of 30, 40 or 50 years can now never purchase a season ticket at a senior concession rate is shameful and unacceptable,” the letter said.
Those affected fear being replaced by “plastics,” a derogatory term indicating fans with deep wallets but minimal emotional attachment to a club, or “tourists,” wealthy foreign fans.
Tottenham manager Postecoglou made it clear he wanted local loyalists to remain accommodated – “I want Spurs fans in the stands, I don’t want just anyone” – and the Australian also launched a passionate defense of the foreign fan.
Ange Postecoglou responded to Tottenham’s controversial plans to increase season ticket prices by six percent
There has been widespread criticism of the club’s decision, with the Supporters’ Trust calling it a “disgrace”.
Postecolgou made it clear that he wanted to embrace local loyalists and fans from around the world.
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“I’ll tell you why: I’m probably ‘plastic’ and ‘tourist’ because I come from the other side of the world and I’m really passionate about football and if I could have access to watch a Premier League match, that would be the world.” for me,’ she said.
“This football club has fans all over the world and I think we should always be able to welcome them.
“It doesn’t make them any less passionate and it’s really disrespectful to call fans who are willing to take the risk of going around the world that way.”
“You don’t know how passionate they are about their football club. They may have only started supporting it in the last two years, but that doesn’t diminish who they are.”
Postecoglou confirmed that Radu Dragusin, the January signing from Genoa, will make his first Premier League start at Fulham on Saturday, replacing Mickey van de Ven in central defence. Van de Ven is expected to have recovered from a hamstring problem by the end of the international break.
Tottenham’s match against Fulham comes almost a year after former manager Antonio Conte (pictured) launched a scathing attack on his team.
Postecoglou was quick to shut down any talk of Conte in the build-up to the game against Fulham.
The match comes almost a year after Antonio Conte, the previous manager, launched a furious barrage at his players following a 3-3 draw at Southampton.
Conte called them “selfish,” but most have flourished under Postecoglou, who said: “I didn’t need to look at the past or what happened last year, or the year before, or what happened in the last ten or fifteen years”.
“All I needed to see from the day I started was how people evolved in the environment I established.”