Tottenham Fans Shouldn’t Be Proud of Destroying Urinals

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Eight Tottenham Hotspur fans have been arrested and six of them were charged during the north London derby at the Emirates Stadium.

Revenge might be a b***h but this situation is clearly getting out of hand between these two fan bases. There comes a time when being the bigger man — or in this case, the bigger fan base — is the right move to make. It shows that you were willing to put aside any differences to show sportsmanship and respect to one another no matter the outcome of the match: win, draw or loss.

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Well, that obviously didn’t last. While Arsenal fans vandalized White Hart Lane following their team’s 2-1 win over Tottenham during the third round of the Capital One Cup on September 23, 10 Arsenal fans were eventually arrested for their involvement in an article published by The Guardian.

The game in September should have sent a clear message to Arsenal to help them tighten up security so that nothing would happen when traveling Spurs fans showed up for the first Premier League north London derby of the season. It turns out they took Tottenham fans too lightly, unfortunately.

A small minority group of Tottenham fans decided that it was smart to retaliate so that they could get “revenge” for what had happened. Of course they probably didn’t factor in any consequences afterwards or didn’t care at all. Because eight Spurs fans were arrested with six of them being charged according to a Metropolitan Police spokesperson speaking to to the Press Associate Sport.

“A total of eight arrests were made at the Arsenal versus Tottenham Hotspur game on Sunday 8 November at the Emirates Stadium,” a Metropolitan Police spokesperson told Press Association Sport [quotes provided by Eurosport].

The arrests were for public order offenses, missile throwing, possession of drugs and assault. Six of those arrested have been charged.”

Adding both of these incidents together and it amounts to a total of 18 arrests being made with six people being charged between two fan bases. Not a single person in these two groups were smart for what they did and none of it is justifiable.

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The thought of seeing this childish-like mentality, of retaliating because something you didn’t like, happen, will only get worse. Much worse.

Tearing down signs and smashing urinals is the first step. What comes next will most likely involve fisticuffs that will lead to men, women or children in the hospital whether it’s inside the stadium or outside the stadium. As soon as fan bases reach that kind of level in violence, severe punishment will rain down upon both Arsenal and Tottenham from the Football Association.

So far, Arsenal and Tottenham are working closely, once again, to identify the culprits who have committed these two separate incidents. Back in September, the Football Association described Arsenal fans’ acts of vandalism as criminal issues and both clubs wouldn’t be charged by the FA. Unfortunately this incident involving urinals — while charged as “public order offenses, missile throwing, possession of drugs and assault” — would most likely see both clubs being charged by the Football Association this time around. Which is a must.

They have to, because Arsenal and Tottenham will meet again in the Premier League on March 5, 2016 meaning another retaliation, this time by Arsenal fans, could happen at White Hart Lane. But before that there’s a slight possibility that there could be a FA Cup fixture between both clubs. There might even be a possible Europa League knockout fixture — assuming that Arsenal can’t make it out of their group stage in their next two games in the Champions League.

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These are all what-if-scenarios, but it’s time for both teams to take a stance and ban traveling supporters from visiting each others’ stadiums. Doing this will cut out any kind of idiotic reaction if their team wins, draws or loses which will happen. Why wouldn’t it? It’s happened twice in a span of only 47 days, barely two months.

If fans of either team wants to move on from these two incidents, it would be best to do so in two simple manners: forgive but don’t forget, or forget but don’t forgive.