Intresting Spurs trivia you might not be aware of........

[TheChosenOne]

Yep I've 'boasted' that fact to a Spam supporting mate in the past who replied 'that's why England have won naff all since the Hammers delivered the World Cup in '66'

I always like to rationalise their claim with the simple and undeniable fact that
the England manager who won that World Cup was Sir Alf Ramsey. An ex-Tottenham player !

 

[Dougal]

Sandy Brown (Spurs ) was the first player to score in every round of the FA cup.

Scoring 15 goals on the way to us becoming eventual winners of our first FA cup in 1901.

A triumph that saw Spurs become the first non league club to lift the trophy. A feat that still stands today some 116 years later.

90 years later Gazza scored in every round between the 3rd round and the final. Paul Stewart filled in for those other two games.

 

[VegasII]

We once sold a player on the way to a match (Chimbonda [or Shimbomba if you're David Pleat], second time around) meaning we had one less player on the subs bench.

 

[VegasII]

Question: since we're a club that likes a swoop and a transfer, have we ever signed a player for the first team and then sold him again before he's even played for us?

 

[Lilbaz]

Question: since we're a club that likes a swoop and a transfer, have we ever signed a player for the first team and then sold him again before he's even played for us?

Pardew although he was a loan.

 

[riggi]

Fun fact. Tottenham Hotspur isn't actually a true London club.

@Gb160

 

[Gb160]

Fun fact. Tottenham Hotspur isn't actually a true London club.

@Gb160

Yeah I know about this one ...wasn't it due to where the London boundary is/was about 100 yrs ago?

 

[Qualsonic]

A triumph that saw Spurs become the first non league club to lift the trophy. A feat that still stands today some 116 years later.

Surely it will last forever....

 

[yid1o]

Surely it will last forever....

The way most of the big clubs seem to trivialise the FA cup, I can see this record being equalled within 20 years

 

[Spurrific]

The way most of the big clubs seem to trivialise the FA cup, I can see this record being equalled within 20 years

Even if the big clubs played in full suits of armour, they'd still beat every non-league team. Trivialisation will never lead to a team of plodders lifting the cup.

 

[Dougal]

Even if the big clubs played in full suits of armour, they'd still beat every non-league team. Trivialisation will never lead to a team of plodders lifting the cup.

And yet they've won it 3 out of the last 4 seasons.

 

[Spurrific]

And yet they've won it 3 out of the last 4 seasons.

Hehe*, I h8 them too

*Yes, this is how I laugh.

 

[Gb160]

Hehe*, I h8 them too

*Yes, this is how I laugh.

Im trialing out laughing along the lines of 'Bwahahahaha', as I keep reading it on the internet and it seems to be all the rage, thought my laugh could do with a spruce up...If the trial's successful I'll roll it out in the new year.

 

[Mycroft Jones]

Glen and Chris might disagree.

Archibald was the only person do do two in the same episode.

 

[Mycroft Jones]

Sandy Brown (Spurs ) was the first player to score in every round of the FA cup.

Scoring 15 goals on the way to us becoming eventual winners of our first FA cup in 1901.

A triumph that saw Spurs become the first non league club to lift the trophy. A feat that still stands today some 116 years later.

Strictly speaking every winner prior to 1888 was a non-league team as there was no league. Spurs win in 1901 wasn't any kind of shock as at the time the difference in standard between the mostly Northern Football League and the Southern League was minimal, hence Southampton FC, also of the Southern League, being losing finalists in 1900 and 1902.

 

[Teemu]

According to fans of other clubs, apart from all of the titles and trophies they have won, Tottenham have bottled 100% of titles and trophies they have contested in their history

 

[ERO]

Sandy Brown (Spurs ) was the first player to score in every round of the FA cup.

Scoring 15 goals on the way to us becoming eventual winners of our first FA cup in 1901.

A triumph that saw Spurs become the first non league club to lift the trophy. A feat that still stands today some 116 years later.

Unless non-league clubs invent time travel I'm pretty sure our feat as first winners will stand for some hundred years more...

 

[whitesocks]

Strictly speaking every winner prior to 1888 was a non-league team as there was no league. Spurs win in 1901 wasn't any kind of shock as at the time the difference in standard between the mostly Northern Football League and the Southern League was minimal, hence Southampton FC, also of the Southern League, being losing finalists in 1900 and 1902.

Even more strictly speaking, Premier league teams do not play in the English Football league, and so you could say we have non-league FA cup winners every year!
If we mean we were the last non-professional team to win the FA cup, then maybe, but we had professional players back then...

 

[Dougal]

Strictly speaking every winner prior to 1888 was a non-league team as there was no league. Spurs win in 1901 wasn't any kind of shock as at the time the difference in standard between the mostly Northern Football League and the Southern League was minimal, hence Southampton FC, also of the Southern League, being losing finalists in 1900 and 1902.

 

[cider spurs]

Strictly speaking every winner prior to 1888 was a non-league team as there was no league. Spurs win in 1901 wasn't any kind of shock as at the time the difference in standard between the mostly Northern Football League and the Southern League was minimal, hence Southampton FC, also of the Southern League, being losing finalists in 1900 and 1902.

Yes for sure. I am aware and understand your point totally.

For me, it still seems nice that in all that time Spurs are still considered the only non-league club to win the FA cup.