Why Tottenham?

[alan1051]

How come you started supporting Spurs? I guess for some it was inherited through parents, and some because of the location, but we the supporters are allover the world, and considerating we havn't really been a successful club over the last 20 years I wondered why, what made you support this great club?
For me it started in about 1958 or 59, Born and bred in South Wales, parents from Birmingham, there was nothing really to make me choose Spurs. On a trip to London, I was to have my first football shirt bought for me, everyone tried their hardest to get me to buy a man u kit as they were the team in the news, Busby babs and all that, but I was having none of it.We left the market stalls empty (no sports shops in those days). Later that day, my father took me around to see some gounds, we visited Chelsea,west ham,fulham, arsholes and WHITE HEART LANE. As soon as I saw the ground, all empty and gates locked (summer break) I knew I had found the team I wanted to support. It might have been the name had a lot to do with it, TOTTENHAM HOTSUR, WHITE HEART LANE, no other club had a name like that, a ground that sounded like the first line of a poem, I was hooked. At the end of the day we managed to find a market open and in a short while I was the proud owner of a white football shirt. No club badges in those days, and a blue and white scarf, essential supporters gear in the 50's and 60's
I tried my best to find out what I could about Spurs, not easy living in Wales, no tele, and the local newspapers only talked about Cardiff City, who were not a bad team in those times. Of course we did "The Double" which helped, the papers and radio were talking of nothing else, and I felt justified I had picked the right team despite the stick I took from my friends who were Cardiff supporters first and Man. u. second. I first saw THE SPURS at Ninian Park Cardiff, If my memory serves me right we drew 1-1 in the first division. My first visit to White Heart Lane came, I belive, in 1967 v's Man.c.we lost 2-3. I think was the score, will have to check in case my memory is not what it used to be. Then came t.v. and match of the day. The rest is history. I remain a true supporter not just a follower of the results, I do my best to get to as many games as I can and can honestly say with hand on heart have never denied supporting Tottenham even when surrounded by other people giving me gip.lol. COME ON YOU SPURS.....

[spurslodge]

I support Tottenham because my dads side of the family are all from southgate and enfield in north london.

my grandads a yid, my uncle is a yid and 1 of the cousins is a yid (the other supports arsenal)

my uncle brought me a spurs shirt for my 5th birthday and thats what started it all off really. used to wear it around my village with pride and got a load of jip from swindon town fans:D

COYS!!!!!

[alan1051]

I support Tottenham because my dads side of the family are all from southgate and enfield in north london.

my grandads a yid, my uncle is a yid and 1 of the cousins is a yid (the other supports arsenal)

my uncle brought me a spurs shirt for my 5th birthday and thats what started it all off really. used to wear it around my village with pride and got a load of jip from swindon town fans:D

COYS!!!!!

But you stood by spurs, well done Tom

[traciebigtits]

when my dad first came to london he worked for l.t. he'd go to spurs one week& scum the next, he found he went less and less to scum games and finally not at all. although a die hard celtic fan all his life his team down here was spurs, he took me to my first game with my elder brothers when i was six after me pestering him for weeks!. from the moment i got into whl i was captivated and still am today ( aged 44) ,to this day i still get a knot in my stomach walking into the ground.
all i have left to say is that i have 2 constants in my life!
1. the love of mrs bigtits and my family.
2. my love for tottenham hotspur football club.
anything else is insignificant!.
irish blood
english heart
yid for life

[spurslodge]

But you stood by spurs, well done Tom

well i was hardly gonna support swindon town, there s**te!! i just used to ask them which team was in the higher league:D

[elliek9]

My mum is a Chelski fan!! When I was about 6 my best friend's dad was a yid and took us to a few games. I totally fell in love with Ossie and Ricky and that was it for me!

[petercre]

I used to watch the Spurs on MOTD in Malta, I supported them since I was eight or nine, Spurs came over whilst I was there for a couple of times and I remember I had arranged an excursion when Spurs played Malta (friendly) Spurs had won 2 or 3 nil, I have never stopped supporting them and since living here in the UK, I have always followed them through the bad and good patches, SO PROUD TO SUPPORT THE PRIDE OF NORTH LONDON THE ONE AND ONLY MIGHTY SPURS ........... COYS

[parklane33]

I am lucky enough to look at the reason I am a Tottenham Die-Hard in two ways.

Reason 1: My Dad is a Tottenham boy born and bred. along with the rest of his brothers, and he is responsible in the teachings that I've grown up on.

Reason 2: ( The main reason ) I was born and bred in Islington, and to me, the reason to support Spurs was easy. Not because they're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen, but purely down to the fact that I know my history. We are the ONLY team in north London.

Islington, Highbury, and the surronding area's of north London is Tottenham territory with south London squatter scum in it. The sooner we get them out the better!!!:D

Up The Spurs!!!

[crazykeane]

I am lucky enough to look at the reason I am a Tottenham Die-Hard in two ways.

Reason 1: My Dad is a Tottenham boy born and bred. along with the rest of his brothers, and he is responsible in the teachings that I've grown up on.

Reason 2: ( The main reason ) I was born and bred in Islington, and to me, the reason to support Spurs was easy. Not because they're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen, but purely down to the fact that I know my history. We are the ONLY team in north London.

Islington, Highbury, and the surronding area's of north London is Tottenham territory with south London squatter scum in it. The sooner we get them out the better!!!:D

Up The Spurs!!!
welcome back parklane, have you been on holiday?

[parklane33]

Thanks for the welcome Crazykeane it is much appreciated.

Hope you are well.:D

No I haven't been on holiday, just busy working and following our beloved lillywhites.

I was at the Fulham game, least said about the last 10 mins of the game the better.

Having said that though, I can't help but wonder if BMJ took Keane off as a precaution, because as you may recall, Keano went in for a diving header and seemed to clash heads with a Fulham player (who's name escapes me) and was down in our area for a few seconds. Maybe that could have been a deciding factor for his descision to take him off?, especially with the scum game coming up that he had to put Keane's long term health first?

I also met most of the boys after as they were making their way back aboard the team coach. It came across loud and clear from Jol's body language that he was seriously pissed off. And Keane is a top man as he signed my girlfriend's book of his biography, and spoke to her for a few seconds. Which made her day.

There was something else that I noticed on the day while the players were getting back on board the coach, everyone got on it bar Robbo!:confused:

Embarrasment maybe? (Joking wise)

I'm behind Robbo 100%

Up The Spurs!!!

[andyh60]

1987 was first year I got into football and I had a few friends who had spurs shirts which I did liked, the one with diagonal type stripes. Another main reason was we had football session at school and watched videos of... HODDLE (great example to show how to play football) and teacher saying he plays for Spurs. Also at the time the biggest game of them all was the FA cup final which of course we were in but lost to Coventry so it really all took off from there. My first game was that season away to Luton which we actually lost 3-1 on the plastic pitch. I never even heard of Arsenal.

[glenspurs1188]

mine is simple...my dad is a spurs supporter....he watched......i learnt that there is only one team in the world i want to follow......

[keanosmissus]

went to first spurs game aged 10 1981, versus watford, we won 3-0, amazing.. fell in love with hoddle, had his posters on my wall, knew all the words to ossies song....
aged 17 , worked for company who filmed all games,and sold the videos to the club shops..great job..got to work with jonathon pierce,trevor brooking(who did the commentary on the games).. filmed a chelsea game with my boss, walked across the pitch with all the equipment, and spat on the grass in front of chelski fans... great feeling!!

the rest, as they say is history..

[rdless]

Mine's quite simple really. My first Infant School was either Tottenham or Manure. 1965 and the double, the FA Cup and the European Cup Winners Cup were all fresh in the memories. I was only 5 and my best mate Ian (Can't remember your surname but god bless you mate) said he was Spurs. So I was too.

I went home and told my dad. He supported AEL (Limassol) in Cyprus and the scum used to visit Cyprus so were well known to him. He went to scumbury and watched a 0-0 boring game against Leicester. He tells me he was relieved I chose Spurs coz he didn't want to go back there.

Went to my first game in 1967. Jimmy Greaves was my hero but when I actually watched him, the electricity throughout he ground everytime he got the ball was incredible.

[steve_mcqueen]

Well my dad's actually a West Ham fan (as he grew up in Dagenham), but he never forced supporting them upon me (thanks Dad).

I'd always watched out for Spurs' games since I was five and I was a big fan of Clive Allen when I was growing up, when he scored 49 goals in the '86-'89 season (stick that up your Ars*nal Henry) I found myself totally loyal to Spurs. My grandad (all my mum's family are Spurs) took me to see my first Spurs game in Dec 1991 when we beat Norwich 3-0. We left the Lane early to avoid the traffic and I missed Nayim's 90th minute goal - I vowed then *never* to leave the Lane early again (and never have, whatever the score).

Oh and parklane, I've been to many away games and often Robbo doesn't get on the team bus for some reason...

[steve_mcqueen]

That was supposed to say '86-87' season for Clive Allen by the way...

[crapshoot]

I suppose I was about 5 back in 65 when I got set up. Lived in Wood Green, and bascially just fell into Spurs, mates were spurs fans of sorts, my mates dad took us to see Spurs v Stoke I think it was, Gordon Banks was in goal, it was a night game, I think we won, but that was it.

have to confess when greaves went to West Ham I actully considered changing allegences to WHU, thank god I came to me senses before the next home game.

Of course for the rest of my time from 7-about 14 I spent most of my time sneaking in the turnstiles. Great years, all part of the fun, even when you didnt have the money to get in, you'd get on your bike with your mates, and wait outside until 15 minutes from time, when they opened the gates, and go watch the last 15 minutes...

Miss those days, all too polished these days, dont even get wet when it rains anymore.......seats, covered stands, no excitement about being on MOTD anymore, I remember almost passing out at the thought of seeing us on the box on Saturday night....now we expect to be on...

But luckily the boozer hasn't changed, still makes the whole thing worth while....

COYS
Steve

[crapshoot]

That was supposed to say '86-87' season for Clive Allen by the way...

The year we lost to Coventry in the cup wasn't it? great season, Hoddle, Waddle, Ardiles?, Allen, grat footie that year, probably the best we ahve had up until last year. I think we finished third in the league that year too.

[djshay]

In 1972, I felt left out of Football Conversations in our house as I did not support a football team. My Dad didn't really have a favourite team but he did like football. My Mother supported the Woolwich Squatters and my older brother supported Birmingham City as he was born there. I didn't Like the idea of copying someone else so I just simply put a Pin the in league table and hoped for the best. It looks like I got the Best and I have followed Spurs for the past 35 years.

[paxton49]

My Dad has been a Spurs fan since he moved to London from Ireland back in the 50's. I used to listen to his stories of the great double winning side of 61 and the players. From then on Spurs were my team.
He took me to my first game in 1981, the FA cup final, what a game to start with.
I have a son of my own now, who goes with me to the Lane week in week out and his devotion to our club is the same as any yid. I hope as he gets older and has kids of his own the tradition will continue.

[spurskati]

I'm Spurs cos all the boys at primary school were - early 80s - so I guess I have to say I was a glory hunter???? didn't get to my first game till 91 tho, couldn't afford it before then and had no-one to go with, my mum paid for my first game - Spurs-Forest 2 weeks before the cup final - and I've never looked back!!!! Mum's Man U - she felt sorry for them after Munich - and my brother's not even into football!

[phaedon]

When, before I was born, my family moved over here from Greece in the mid fifties, they moved to Tufnell Park in Islington. Not far from scumbury. I was born in Archway, Islington, not far from scumbury. That would have made me a gooner if , thankfully, we hadn't moved to Palmers Green.
My brother took me to Spurs around 1969/70. The for me is history. I have have supported them ever since.
The funny thing is that NONE of my family who all lived in Tufnell Park, and that include my uncle and cousins who moved there around the same time, are gooners. They are all Spurs. my cousin is also a member as is one of my daughters and my son. My other daughter doesn't follow football.

[suthie]

for me it started with subbuteo.....

When i was seven i was given the game...one team had white shirts and blue shorts.......i looked on my league ladder that i used to do religiously each saturday moving the teams up and down and found a team called tottenham hotspur.....it just stuck with me.....i still have the game although some of the players have seen better days......

They are in my blood and my passion has transferred to my sons.....my eight year old is now a true die hard yid...will not have a word said against them....the six year old has his moments but is almost there......

coys thru thick and thin, spurs till i die

[alan1051]

for me it started with subbuteo.....

When i was seven i was given the game...one team had white shirts and blue shorts.......i looked on my league ladder that i used to do religiously each saturday moving the teams up and down and found a team called tottenham hotspur.....it just stuck with me.....i still have the game although some of the players have seen better days......

They are in my blood and my passion has transferred to my sons.....my eight year old is now a true die hard yid...will not have a word said against them....the six year old has his moments but is almost there......

coys thru thick and thin, spurs till i die

Nice story suthie, glad your passing on good habits to your children.

[puddy1]

Born in Holloway (not the prison) my family all supported Arsenal. When my son was about 8 we were coming back from Burnt Oak shopping - it was cup final day 1982 I think - stopped at a roundabout and the Spurs official coach went round in front of us. We sat there open mouthed as Glenn Hoddle waved at us!

We never looked back. I took my son to his first game at WHL and we became members.

He's 32 now, and still a Yid!!!!!!!!!! So am I, at 54!!!!!!!!!