And if you know your history...

[Rocksuperstar]

Just looking through a few sites when i wombled across this gem:

http://www.spurshistory.com/

"A Romance of Football"

Reprinted from the 1921 edition of the Tottenham & Edmonton Weekly Herald, it's a really interesting read :up:

note: Try imagining it read by Mr Chumbley-Warner, it's brilliant :lol:

it also details that Hotspur FC were born on 5th September, 1882, which makes the club a Virgo

 

[Kendall]

Interestingly on page 24, we're referred to as the Tottenham 'Reds' ;-)

(yes I am aware we once had a red kit)

 

[WhiteStripe]

Interestingly on page 24, we're referred to as the Tottenham 'Reds' ;-)

(yes I am aware we once had a red kit)

Good find RSS. I was born in their centenary year, the year Italy won the world cup which was hosted in Spain.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

I posted that link in the History thread btw.:hump:

 

[stevenqoz]

One amazing thing that I never realised was that Spurs played many of their early games at London Fields....where I lived for over 20 years. Many of the sides they played seemed have been named after Roads and Pubs aorund by London Fileds.....Malvern, Malborough, Brownlow, Albion and Clifton

 

[TheChosenOne]

One amazing thing that I never realised was that Spurs played many of their early games at London Fields....where I lived for over 20 years. Many of the sides they played seemed have been named after Roads and Pubs aorund by London Fileds.....Malvern, Malborough, Brownlow, Albion and Clifton

Hi Steve

I was mugged in the middle of London Fields around the mid-seventies I was on my way home from work - I was a bus-conductor working out of Dalston Garage (Ash Grove) and two black fellahs jumped me, but I only had about
76p on me 'cos it was a Thursday night and wasn't getting paid until the morning. Myself a few of my mates caught up with them about a week later, they might have change their hunting ground after that little episode.


Rossi's used to store their ice-creams vans in a compound near the railway arches, we used to climb over the wall and nick their cones - no ice cream - just cones - how mad is that ?

 

[TheChosenOne]

Came acrosss this in the Times today..

Ron Reynolds..
http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame/2009/09/room-442-ron-reynoldss-contact-lenses.html#more

 

[CosmicHotspur]

I do recall seeing Ted Ditchburn play but not Ron Reynolds.

Those contact lenses would have been the hard type back then, so quite uncomfortable to wear.

 

[claw_diddy]

Would love to find any resource on the other sporting clubs affiliated to the Tottenham Hotspur name (especially their basebal team)

 

[Ironskull]

Would love to find any resource on the other sporting clubs affiliated to the Tottenham Hotspur name (especially their basebal team)

Yeah twice IIRC English national baseball champions. Not that I was around then....

 

[Mr. Green]

The owner of the http://www.spurshistory.com/ site, Nick Adams, is an extremely nice guy. I was staying in Malaysia in 2004, and when I contacted him to arrange for alternative payment method since I don't use paypal, he sent a copy of the CD to me FOC.