Tottenham discourse across the season MW1 → MW33
How often fans talk about referees, VAR, injuries, the owners, the DoF and past managers during Spurs matchweeks. Keywords pulled from the taxonomy (officiating · VAR · medical) and the TOT team dictionary (owners · DoF · historic managers) — 468 terms matched across every post and reply in 436,103 Reddit, X/Twitter and YouTube comments collected under every TOT fixture this season.
436,103
Posts scanned (TOT matches)
35,639
Medical / injuries mentions
8.2% of posts · peak MW26
29,402
Officiating mentions
6.7% of posts · peak MW4
21,518
Historic managers mentions
4.9% of posts · peak MW13
10,887
VAR mentions
2.5% of posts · peak MW4
1,624
Owners (ENIC / Lewis) mentions
0.4% of posts · peak MW29
857
Director of Football (Lange) mentions
0.2% of posts · peak MW28
Share of Tottenham conversation per matchweek
% of all posts/replies in each matchweek under a TOT fixture that mention a term from the group. Normalized so matchweeks with more posts don't distort the picture. Officiating and VAR tend to baseline around ~5–8% and ~2–3%; owners, DoF and historic managers spike in specific controversy weeks.
Taxonomy groups — top terms
Top officiating terms
Most-mentioned keywords from the officiating taxonomy across TOT matches.
| # | Term | Posts | % | |
|---|
| 1 | ref | 6,483 | 22.0% | |
| 2 | call | 2,466 | 8.4% | |
| 3 | refs | 2,376 | 8.1% | |
| 4 | decision | 1,995 | 6.8% | |
| 5 | penalty | 1,984 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | pen | 1,827 | 6.2% | |
| 7 | offside | 1,788 | 6.1% | |
| 8 | called | 1,442 | 4.9% | |
| 9 | decisions | 1,104 | 3.8% | |
| 10 | soft | 878 | 3.0% | |
Top VAR terms
Most-mentioned keywords from the var taxonomy.
| # | Term | Posts | % | |
|---|
| 1 | var | 2,455 | 22.5% | |
| 2 | wait | 1,811 | 16.6% | |
| 3 | joke | 1,772 | 16.3% | |
| 4 | waiting | 757 | 7.0% | |
| 5 | pgmol | 507 | 4.7% | |
| 6 | killed | 432 | 4.0% | |
| 7 | killing | 370 | 3.4% | |
| 8 | shambles | 349 | 3.2% | |
| 9 | ruined | 331 | 3.0% | |
| 10 | consistency | 272 | 2.5% | |
Top medical terms
Most-mentioned keywords from the medical taxonomy (injury-adjacent language).
| # | Term | Posts | % | |
|---|
| 1 | back | 14,482 | 40.6% | |
| 2 | out of | 5,012 | 14.1% | |
| 3 | injured | 2,214 | 6.2% | |
| 4 | injury | 2,205 | 6.2% | |
| 5 | break | 1,812 | 5.1% | |
| 6 | injuries | 1,443 | 4.0% | |
| 7 | foot | 1,208 | 3.4% | |
| 8 | fit | 1,187 | 3.3% | |
| 9 | out for | 804 | 2.3% | |
| 10 | sick | 789 | 2.2% | |
Tottenham-specific dictionary — top terms
Historic managers — mentions by person
Each post counted once per manager mentioned (longest canonical name wins on tie). Includes current head coach, caretakers and past permanent managers.
| # | Name | Posts | % | |
|---|
| 1 | Thomas Frank · manager | 14,970 | 63.0% | |
| 2 | Ange Postecoglou · manager | 3,842 | 16.2% | |
| 3 | Igor Tudor · caretaker | 2,527 | 10.6% | |
| 4 | Mauricio Pochettino · manager | 564 | 2.4% | |
| 5 | Antonio Conte · manager | 562 | 2.4% | |
| 6 | Nuno Espírito Santo · manager | 506 | 2.1% | |
| 7 | Ryan Mason · caretaker | 500 | 2.1% | |
| 8 | José Mourinho · manager | 249 | 1.0% | |
| 9 | Cristian Stellini · caretaker | 41 | 0.2% | |
Director of Football terms
Mentions of Johan Lange and variants from the TOT dof dictionary.
| # | Term | Posts | % | |
|---|
| 1 | lange | 827 | 96.5% | |
| 2 | johan | 93 | 10.9% | |
| 3 | johan lange | 62 | 7.2% | |
Ownership terms
ENIC, Lewis family, Vinai Venkatesham — from the TOT owner dictionary.
| # | Term | Posts | % | |
|---|
| 1 | enic | 785 | 48.3% | |
| 2 | vinai | 777 | 47.8% | |
| 3 | lewis family | 165 | 10.2% | |
| 4 | joe lewis | 30 | 1.8% | |
| 5 | venkatesham | 30 | 1.8% | |
| 6 | vinai venkatesham | 18 | 1.1% | |
| 7 | vivienne lewis | 5 | 0.3% | |
Sample posts from peak matchweeks
Officiating — peak MW4
- MW4Neither Romero nor van de Ven made a foul in that first goal. West Ham did it to themselves. They can't defend. Clear goal wish they would overturn goals sometimes or VAR should be held accountable for bad calls.
Man down or not result would have been the same.
- MW4Harsh red . Wish those types would stop being given. That should be a yellow. Maybe introduce a lower tier of card for lesser types of aggressions .
- MW4English referees are the worst in europe 😂
VAR — peak MW4
- MW4Neither Romero nor van de Ven made a foul in that first goal. West Ham did it to themselves. They can't defend. Clear goal wish they would overturn goals sometimes or VAR should be held accountable for bad calls.
Man down or not result would have been the same.
- MW4hammer ref disallowing Romero's goal.
What a joke !!
- MW4Where is Fabianski absolute joke
Medical — peak MW26
- MW26Won't order any Tottenham clothing until it get back into at least first 5 in the league. No more.
- MW26That's why Spurs were considered top 6, back then. Now they'll be lucky to be top 6 in the Championship.
- MW26spurs are beaten by injuries
Historic managers — peak MW13
- MW13wtf is going on I thought Frank be better than this I think he be gone soon
- MW13Everyone was ranting and raving about Thomas Frank...Something not adding up😅😂😂😂😂😂😂
- MW13Spurs, the gift that keeps on giving, was Postecoglou the real problem guys? HAHAHAHA
Director of Football — peak MW28
- MW28The idea of Lange and Vinai quietly getting a pay out and disappearing at the end of the season is driving me nuts. They should’ve so ostracised they never get another job in football ever again
- MW28Vinai and Lange still having their jobs really inspires me to do absolutely fuck all at my job and feel secure. They’re ruining our club.
- MW28The decisions made by Lange and Vinai are so inept that it genuinely feels like collusion.
Ownership — peak MW29
- MW29Levy indeed had standards. Look at us lurking in the relegation darkness. Still shocked to what Vinai and Lange doing at our club
- MW29Hi Lewis family, what are you going to do about it ?
- MW29Correct, the Lewis is sad due to the high income from the NLD, they hope Queen’s Park will provide the better income on match day next season, nice one Lewis family 😂😂😂