Tottenham supporters boycotting club after Daniel Levy’s controversial decision

A gaggle of supporters have decided to boycott Tottenham after Daniel Levy’s decision to furlough the club’s 550 non-playing staff’s salaries. 

Levy has come under heavy scrutiny from supporters since he initiated the job protection scheme last week. Large swathes of Tottenham’s supporters’ group are apoplectic, believing strongly, and irrefutably, that this decision is the camel that broke Levy’s back.

Liverpool, who also made the highly controversial decision to furlough their non-playing staff’s salary, quickly reversed the decision after receiving extreme backlash from supporters.

Levy should take note and follow suit, or risk not only alienating Tottenham’s supporters group, but losing large portions of them entirely. If he continues to allow the government — or more accurately, tax payers — to cover up to 80 percent of his non-playing staff’s salaries, he risks wholesale mutiny.

Tottenham faithful have banded together, striking out at the club, and in particular Levy, on all social media platforms, including the team’s official Facebook page. Fans are no longer interesting in playing Levy’s shrewd, cavalier game.

Levy is familiar with playing the role of antagonist, oftentimes being sardonically compared to fiction characters like Dr. Evil or the Joker.

But this time nobody is laughing.

Still, a week since he made the highly contentious decision, Tottenham and Newcastle are the only Premier League clubs to turn to the government for their quasi-bailout. And that should tell you something. More damaging still was seeing Liverpool quickly rescind their decision, which evinced two things:

One, that Liverpool knew quickly they had made the wrong decision and held themselves accountable for it. And two, that Liverpool listen to his supporters’ base, knowing what the result would be had it persisted and turned a blind eye to their fan’s demands.

Based on seeing Levy in action for so many years, I can’t see him taking accountability or listening to fans. Can you?

I’m not sure which is worse: his knee-jerk, impulsive decision to furlough staff or his inability to take accountability and listen, due to his undeniably shrewd, callous and narcissistic nature, to the will of the public.

Either way, Levy is playing an incredibly high stakes game just to save some dosh. If he continually ignores and sidesteps public opinion, he’ll damage irreparably his life’s work.

As without a strong, loyal and devout fan base, what exactly is he left with?