Enough already!

I'm old enough to remember the days when away supporters would scream "YIDS!" at Spurs fans in a vile display of racial tribalism. West Ham fans went further, of course, with their goose-stepping and Nazi salutes. Mind you, they'd answer our chants of "North London, la, la, la!" with "West London la, la, la!" (The Hammers have never been the brightest tools in the box).

Meanwhile, black players would have bananas thrown at them and ape noises would ring round the Lane whenever Justin Fashanu, John Barnes or even our own Garth Crooks touched the ball.

Those days are long gone thankfully, with the FA busy kicking racism out of football. And Spurs fans took the hateful "Yids" chanting on the chin. First we claimed that we were "proud of that" and eventually, in a further bid to disarm the nasty bigots, we adopted it as our own kosher battle cry.

Today, 20 years on, no one shouts "Yids" at us any more. They wouldn't care to. They wouldn't dare to. Why would they? When Spurs fans got so busy out-Yidder-yidder-yiddering each other?

"Yido" and "Yid Army" (after four pints of Stella Artois, pronounced respectively as "Yeeedow" and "Yiarmee") have become by far the most popular chants at the Lane. Spurs fans even tell a disinterested world - alcohol clearly blurring our collective vision - that, wait for it, "Jermaine Defoe, he's a Yido!"

In an age where, quite rightly, those chanting racial abuse at our football grounds are ejected and can even be prosecuted under the Public Order Act, why does our out-dated "Yid Army" fascination persist? When Israeli armed forces ensure millions of Palestinians live in virtual open prisons in both Gaza and the West Bank are we still "proud of that"? Or are we, perhaps, the unwitting victims of another Jewish conspiracy? When will Mr Levy et al have the cohones to instruct stewards to put an end to this ugly, racist nonsense?

If Spurs had had the misfortune to be located in Brixton and/or had a number of Africans on the board of directors, would we now be "Niggers" and proud? Would we be announcing to the world that Jermaine Defoe was a "Niggero"? Have Spurs fans replaced the Hammers as football’s biggest tools?

Enough already! Spurs need this self-professed "Yid" connection like we need a whole in head.