One of Spurs’ biggest activist groups, Change For Tottenham, released a statement containing protest plans for Sunday when the stage is set for Spurs to battle relegation with a game against Everton.
There is a lack of words to describe the extent of heartbreak and disappointment that Spurs fans have felt as a collective this season.
For a club the size of Tottenham Hotspur to face such likelihood of relegation should be unimaginable, yet Spurs are at genuine threat of playing their next football in the Championship.
This has left many fan groups understandably furious, and fan protests were a common occurrence in and around the grounds, especially during Thomas Frank’s reign.
With one last game left to save the club from relegation, fan groups are again making plans to protest the leadership that created the current situation at Tottenham.
Change for Tottenham announces plan to protest after Everton game, regardless of result
Change for Tottenham, as one of the larger fan associations at Tottenham Hotspur, has frequently taken the initiative to organise protests against the leadership of ENIC, the current majority owners of the club.
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Now, another protest has been announced and is set to take place right after the game, regardless if Spurs manage to avoid relegation.
“When the final whistle blows, regardless of the result, we need to stand up to the board for putting us in this perilous position. This isn’t just a one-off season, this is 2 disastrous league finishes back to back which has led to our Premier League status being decided on the last day of this campaign,”
Part of the statement from Change from Tottenham
Details regarding the specific time and place of the Tottenham fan protest are set to be announced.
Spurs fans are asked to get behind the team one last time, and focus on boardroom issues after
Despite the plans to protest after the Everton game, the group regardless asked the fans to get behind the team in the upcoming fixture.
“This Sunday, for 90 minutes, we need to get behind the team. Nothing else matters,” the Change For Tottenham statement read.
CFT places the responsibility for the current situation at Tottenham Hotspur on the club’s leadership, which itself endured an incredibly tumultuous year.
“Levy has gone and nothing has changed as it was never one man. It is ENIC & the Lewis family, who own us and say nothing. Promised success, delivering failure.
The decline in last 7 years has been frightening, from challenging for major honours to the brink of relegation with a “game changing” stadium that has changed nothing.
During this failure there has been one constant – the people at the top.”
After more than 20 years in charge, Tottenham’s then-chairman Daniel Levy was removed from his post by the ENIC leadership, installing a new boardroom structure led by Vinai Venkatesham and Johan Lange on the sporting side, and Peter Charrington as well as the Lewis family, on the financial and management side.
The fan statement calls for the expulsion of the current leadership from the club.
READ THE FULL STATEMENT BELOW:
“CFT statement:
This Sunday, for 90 minutes, we need to get behind the team. Nothing else matters.
We need the points and the players need every one of us behind them for one last time this season.
When the final whistle blows, regardless of the result, we need to stand up to the Tottenham board for putting us in this perilous position. This isn’t just a one off season, this is 2 disastrous league finishes back to back which has led to our Premier League status being decided on the last day of this campaign.
Thomas Frank should have been sacked months before he was and Igor Tudor should never have been appointed, which resulted in our worst losing run in the club’s history.
We were desperate in January for new singings, every fan could see it and the board did nothing. Their excuse? Johan Lange told us to “remain disciplined” and avoid “stress purchases.” January was a missed opportunity to safeguard the premier league future of this club – an error with potentially fatal consequences.
Levy has gone and nothing has changed as it was never one man. It is ENIC & the Lewis family, who own us and say nothing. Promised success, delivering failure.
The decline in last 7 years has been frightening, from challenging for major honours to the brink of relegation with a “game changing” stadium that has changed nothing.
During this failure there has been one constant – the people at the top.
Through all of it, you fans have been everything. The home support, the away fans across the country and Europe and fans gathering across the globe for the club they love.
So, on Sunday, our banners will go up in the North, East and South stands at full time regardless of the result. Join us to chant against the board and make your voices heard.
We can’t allow this to happen ever again.
ENIC OUT. VINAI OUT. LANGE OUT
OUR CLUB
OUR VOICE”