Did you inherit or to support Spurs??

[Buggsy61]

Somewhere in between.
Was aged 6 living in Akrotiri Cyprus (1972) and started collecting the football sticker album and just loved the name Tottenham Hotspur- there was something grand about it.
Then found out my Mum was from Chingford and Grandfather used to go and watch us a lot and that was it.
Been painful at times but am stuck with them now, and deep down don’t regret a minute of it.

 

[CanadaSpurs]

I’m a mix but I’ll call it inherited. I’ve shared the story of my dad being given a Spurs shirt by the son of a cab driver from North London back in the 90s. I was young at the time and Spurs were the first team I’d ever heard of and I liked the sound of them. Couldn’t be happier that he was handed a Spurs shirt and not some other terrible club.

 

[Flynn]

I supported my local team (Oxford Utd) until I was about 9 when they got relegated (87). My friend at the time (Ben) and i decided we couldn’t possibly support a team in the second division so we decided to support someone else.
I can’t remember exactly why but we decided we wanted to support a team in white. At the time that meant Spurs or Luton. We chose Spurs because they were in the fa cup final ?.
I’m from a family of Leeds fans.

 

[pook]

Definitely not inherited, but somehow 'chose' doesn't seem the right word, either. Perhaps 'contracted' works better, as one contracts malaria. I was exposed to, and tragically contracted, Tottenham Hotspur somewhere back in the mid-70s.

 

[DarwinSpur]

Grew up in Melbourne Australia in the 80’s. My Turkish mate across the road supported Spurs. So I did.

never regretted it once although it may help that my Aussie rules team Hawthorn have won 11 grand finals in my lifetime ?

 

[TheTanguy]

My father and idiotic uncles

 

[Gilzean at the near post]

I was 7 in 1967 and before the cup final my Dad said he was supporting Chelsea so I decided to go for Spurs. Never looked back

 

[Marty]

My grandad was ostensibly an Arsenal fan but from the era where you went to see whichever team played at home that weekend, he started going to football in the late 40s just after the war. So he was used to going to WHL and for some reason he and my dad went a lot more to WHL than Highbury when my dad was young, so my dad ended up a Spurs fan. I think it was the '67 cup final that ultimately swung it for him.

So it was really a coin toss with him but by the time I came around I didn't have much choice, and neither does my son now.

And our local team in Norway is about to be relegated from the top division for the second time in seven years so we've really known how to pick 'em.

 

[fatpiranha]

When I was 5 a kid I didn't like at school asked me which football team I supported. I knew nothing about football. I asked him which team he liked. He said Arsenal. I asked him which team he hated. He said Tottenham. I said "I support Tottenham."

 

[Spursmatty87]

Inherited my first memory of spurs was watching the 87 cup final with my dad and brother. An early lesson on spurs looking back.

 

[Spursberg]

Father and uncle

 

[CPHSpur]

My dad's a gooner! And my older brother one of us. Fiercely so.

I was a latecomer to be honest. When I went to uni my brother was in a deep depression, bordering on suicidal. The only thing that seemed to stir emotion in him was Spurs. So I went away basically feeling like if Spurs won, then he was more likely to be alive the next day. This was back in the nineties meaning that we didn't win much and also it wasn't so easy as glancing at your phone to see the results (fucking teletext sometimes...) So I started following obsessively out of concern for my brother. Then he started getting better, and a couple of years later I realized that even though he was fine now, I was still following as obsessively and reacting as emotionally as I had back when I saw it as life or death for him. I remember him being a little shocked at how gutted I was when we lost the Carling Cup final to Blackburn in 2002, because most of my obsession had built up unknown to him.

It probably seems weird for those of you that come from Spurs families or picked them as a little kid, but it ground the club very deep into me at the time.

As for why HE is a Spurs... he supported them since he was a toddler. Probably to piss my dad off.

Spurs have always won on the occasions we've managed to get to WHL together (including that awesome 4-0 drubbing of Middlesboro in 2009 - and we were right on the side where Lennon absolutely tore up the wing that day) - since I live abroad we haven't managed the new stadium together.

 

[Johnspur]

My dad and his two brothers are all Spurs fans.

The first game I saw was in the 1992/93 season (The first Premier League season) and my Dad took me to Spurs vs Oldham. Spurs looked pretty good and won the game 4-1. I asked my Dad "is it always this good at Tottenham?" He said yes...what a liar.

In hindsight I feel I was tricked into this, he didn't tell me that Oldham were terrible and everyone was beating them. Ah well.

 

[Bulletspur]

I was never into football but was home sick in bed, so was not able to be outside playing as I usually did on that Saturday, so I ended up watching the FA Cup final between Man City and Spurs in 1981.

I started off rooting for Man City but 15 minutes into the game a little fellow and a lanky one caught my eyes the way they were playing for Spurs, namely Ardiles and Hoddle. I changed allegiance straight away and have not looked back since.

A few years down the road, I have now had two sons who I tried to indoctrinate, taking them to white White Hart Lane several times, one purchasing a Chris Armstrong Jersey and the other Ruel Fox if I recall correctly.

But ............ the elder later became a fan of Thierry Henry and inevitably started following Arsenal. He is now a scum season ticket holder with them and has even have the temerity to have both of his calves tattooed with the Arsenal badge!

He now has a son of his own who just turned 5, where it is a tug of war between us trying to get him to supporter each other's club. The younger remained and is still a lily white though, so 50% success is better than none!

 

[popstar7]

Inherited. My Dad came over from Ireland in the early 60s and him and his best mate (later my godfather) had a flat in Archway. My Dad loved football growing up but I don't think he supported any particular English team. Anyway, newly arrived in North London my dad went with Tottenham and his mate with Arsenal. He didn't push Tottenham on me and I was a Man Utd fan for the first few years I was into football. First trip with him to WHL changed all that on the spot though. Never regretted it. My younger brothers support Liverpool and United. I support my Dad's team and wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[KeithStone]

Inherited. My grandfather started supporting Spurs in 1921 and that’s been the deal since. 100 years this year and my dad still apologizes to me for it!

 

[bigfrooj]

My dad was Maltese and everyone supported Manchester United in the late fifties but his allegiance was pretty loose. However, thank Christ, my mums family were East End Jewish and were going to Spurs from the beginning of the last century to my certain knowledge, so are part of that traditional fan base. My only memories of my maternal grandfather are Spurs related. I literally can’t remember not being Spurs.

 

[Tottenham_God]

Grew up in Melbourne Australia in the 80’s. My Turkish mate across the road supported Spurs. So I did.

never regretted it once although it may help that my Aussie rules team Hawthorn have won 11 grand finals in my lifetime ?

Strong baron patch in the middle for the Hawks !!

My old man's a big west coast eagles fan as I'm from Western Australia, and we've been reasonably success. So it stems the Spurs bleeding ?

 

[Tottenham_God]

Inherited. My Dad came over from Ireland in the early 60s and him and his best mate (later my godfather) had a flat in Archway. My Dad loved football growing up but I don't think he supported any particular English team. Anyway, newly arrived in North London my dad went with Tottenham and his mate with Arsenal. He didn't push Tottenham on me and I was a Man Utd fan for the first few years I was into football. First trip with him to WHL with Dad changed all that on the spot though. Never regretted it. My younger brothers support Liverpool and United. I support my Dad's team and wouldn't have it any other way.

A strange human quirk this. The joy in carrying on something from our fathers besides their genetics

 

[Pochemon94]

I'll be 100% transparent with it, about 13-14 years ago I was playing Fifa and for some reason Tottenham was just always my team. I started watching the games around that time as it was slowly becoming more available in the states. I honestly didn't even feel like I picked the team the team picked me (i know that sounds corny as fuck). The funny thing is that I feel so much more die hard about tottenham than any other sports franchise and have been able to see them twice luckily both times they have come to Los Angeles. I'm trying to make it out at some point this season or next with my father as I feel like that will truly be a memory that I'll have for the rest of my life