Ian Sparham
@sparkyspar.bsky.social
Love art, love painting, love football (Spurs) and I also do some qualitative market research on the side.
@tehtrunk.bsky.social well done on 5Live just now. Good work 👏👏👏👏#COYS
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
@tehtrunk.bsky.social well done on 5Live just now. Good work 👏👏👏👏#COYS
Our loans out this season have been utterly, bafflingly bad - Donley not getting games, nor Ajayi and Yang isn’t even on the bench now. Why aren’t we better at this? #COYS
September 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Our loans out this season have been utterly, bafflingly bad - Donley not getting games, nor Ajayi and Yang isn’t even on the bench now. Why aren’t we better at this? #COYS
Cannot believe spurs fans on here are moaning we’re not playing pretty enough football yet this season. Has anyone watched any of the big teams yet? No one is. It’s about bedding in. Learning each other’s games. And we’re (mostly) winning still. Just enjoy it 🤷🏻♂️ #COYS
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Cannot believe spurs fans on here are moaning we’re not playing pretty enough football yet this season. Has anyone watched any of the big teams yet? No one is. It’s about bedding in. Learning each other’s games. And we’re (mostly) winning still. Just enjoy it 🤷🏻♂️ #COYS
Literally no one remembers who wins the super cup. So forget it. Remember though that we looked very competitive against the best team in the world for 70 mins. That’s the important thing. Move on. Everyone else does. I can’t remember the 2024 Super cup #COYS
August 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Literally no one remembers who wins the super cup. So forget it. Remember though that we looked very competitive against the best team in the world for 70 mins. That’s the important thing. Move on. Everyone else does. I can’t remember the 2024 Super cup #COYS
I don’t see why a ‘compromise’ with The Ange In/Out debate is to replace (or upgrade) one or two of the coaching staff. Mason looks set to take a job elsewhere. So a canny righthand man for Ange might be the best option all round? Someone who might work to balance attack and defence 🙏 #COYS
May 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I don’t see why a ‘compromise’ with The Ange In/Out debate is to replace (or upgrade) one or two of the coaching staff. Mason looks set to take a job elsewhere. So a canny righthand man for Ange might be the best option all round? Someone who might work to balance attack and defence 🙏 #COYS
Anyone else think it’s odd that the media narrative is ‘Spurs can’t make the same mistake that Man U did holding on to Ten Haag’ when patently they’re worse now than they were in November time. Amorim’s won about 6-7 games in the league 🤷🏻♂️ Seems such a flawed argument. #COYS
May 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Anyone else think it’s odd that the media narrative is ‘Spurs can’t make the same mistake that Man U did holding on to Ten Haag’ when patently they’re worse now than they were in November time. Amorim’s won about 6-7 games in the league 🤷🏻♂️ Seems such a flawed argument. #COYS
My Spurs shopping list:
A proper 6
Another creative attacking midfielder (cannot have the dearth of options we had at the end of the season)
Maybe another striker?
A genuine LCB back to VdV
Is 4 too many? #COYS
A proper 6
Another creative attacking midfielder (cannot have the dearth of options we had at the end of the season)
Maybe another striker?
A genuine LCB back to VdV
Is 4 too many? #COYS
May 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My Spurs shopping list:
A proper 6
Another creative attacking midfielder (cannot have the dearth of options we had at the end of the season)
Maybe another striker?
A genuine LCB back to VdV
Is 4 too many? #COYS
A proper 6
Another creative attacking midfielder (cannot have the dearth of options we had at the end of the season)
Maybe another striker?
A genuine LCB back to VdV
Is 4 too many? #COYS
The problem with the ‘nothing will change until no Levy’ argument is that this means we need a manager who can get the best out of an imbalanced squad. This season (Europe aside) Ange’s use of squad & tactics has been limp. There are definitely managers who’d set this lot up better tbh🤷🏻 #COYS
May 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The problem with the ‘nothing will change until no Levy’ argument is that this means we need a manager who can get the best out of an imbalanced squad. This season (Europe aside) Ange’s use of squad & tactics has been limp. There are definitely managers who’d set this lot up better tbh🤷🏻 #COYS
That was… straightforward?! Serene even. I don’t understand this. This isn’t us. How dare they confuse me. Haha. A EUROPEAN FINAL WOO HOO #COYS
May 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
That was… straightforward?! Serene even. I don’t understand this. This isn’t us. How dare they confuse me. Haha. A EUROPEAN FINAL WOO HOO #COYS
Sorry, but why do some Spurs fans on here act in such a sanctimonious, mocking manner when a group of fans are trying to change the way our club operates? You might not agree, you might well think it’s doomed to failure, but why be so churlish about it? 10 mins at half time. It’s no biggie 🤷🏻 #COYS
May 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Sorry, but why do some Spurs fans on here act in such a sanctimonious, mocking manner when a group of fans are trying to change the way our club operates? You might not agree, you might well think it’s doomed to failure, but why be so churlish about it? 10 mins at half time. It’s no biggie 🤷🏻 #COYS
Good performance tonight!
I think I’m in the ‘a conceded goal means we have to show up’ camp. Keeps them engaged. Just need a goal really. COYS!!
I think I’m in the ‘a conceded goal means we have to show up’ camp. Keeps them engaged. Just need a goal really. COYS!!
May 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Good performance tonight!
I think I’m in the ‘a conceded goal means we have to show up’ camp. Keeps them engaged. Just need a goal really. COYS!!
I think I’m in the ‘a conceded goal means we have to show up’ camp. Keeps them engaged. Just need a goal really. COYS!!
Not sure it’s worth even engaging in these league games now. It feels inevitable someone in the backline will have a catastrophic brain fart once or twice a game. Doesn’t matter what we do at the other end of the pitch unless this stops. And we shows no signs of stopping it. At all. #COYS
April 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Not sure it’s worth even engaging in these league games now. It feels inevitable someone in the backline will have a catastrophic brain fart once or twice a game. Doesn’t matter what we do at the other end of the pitch unless this stops. And we shows no signs of stopping it. At all. #COYS
New self portrait to scare people.
April 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
New self portrait to scare people.
End the year with a bit more of my art. My portrait of David Attenborough in oils. #oils #art #painting #oiloncanvas #contemporaryart #bskyart
December 31, 2024 at 12:28 PM
End the year with a bit more of my art. My portrait of David Attenborough in oils. #oils #art #painting #oiloncanvas #contemporaryart #bskyart
More of my art… a winter sunset locally, on Orford Road, Walthamstow. #oilpainting #landscapes #Art #painting #BskyArt
December 13, 2024 at 9:35 AM
More of my art… a winter sunset locally, on Orford Road, Walthamstow. #oilpainting #landscapes #Art #painting #BskyArt
Reposted by Ian Sparham
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December 4, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Some acrylic on acetate art I did for an exhibition this summer. Part of the E17 Art Trail in Walthamstow, East London. #art #paintings
December 4, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Some acrylic on acetate art I did for an exhibition this summer. Part of the E17 Art Trail in Walthamstow, East London. #art #paintings
Reposted by Ian Sparham
Sounds like a couple who’ve written a letter to the Telegraph about how they can only go skiing once a year because school fees have gone up
December 1, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Sounds like a couple who’ve written a letter to the Telegraph about how they can only go skiing once a year because school fees have gone up
Thought I’d start adding some of my art up here. Here’s a young Donald Sutherland painting in oils. From Klute (1971). #portraits #oilpainting #portraitpainting
November 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Thought I’d start adding some of my art up here. Here’s a young Donald Sutherland painting in oils. From Klute (1971). #portraits #oilpainting #portraitpainting