Oldest Spurs Programme?

[JerryGarcia]

Fantastic. Imagine if you could bottle the match day atmosphere that you got down at WHL back then. Apologies if you have seen this before but I bet it'll bring back some memories for you:

I was one year old when this was filmed, it seems so dated now and like a completely different world. Was already making me feel old and then the guy mentioned an “old man of 40”. The bloody cheek!

 

[ralphs bald spot]

Some great memories there. It would have felt like the club really belonged to the fans back then.

exactly the opposite with Scholar on board the club moved away from the supporters - the new stand had been built with the executive boxes prices had gone up supporters were treated poorly it was open season with the government of the time going to games was a million miles away from what its like now

 

[DenverSpur]

The 70s must have been a challenging time at many away games.

In Gooner Nick Hornby’s book Fever Pitch he tells of his first away game when he was about 16. It was at Derby. He’s loving the atmosphere in the away end - to be honest it is a special atmosphere, much different from home games; very much a band of brothers against all odds feeling. Anyway then Charlie George scores the winner a few minutes from time and gives it the big one to the home crowd . Hornby and the rest of The Walking Dead go mental and then he suddenly thinks “ Oh crap how are we going to get back to the Station”? Everyone I know who’s been regularly to away games recognized that moment in the book. It’s a classic away game scenario; late winner/ equalizer to really piss off the home support.
It was especially true at Derby’s old ground, The Baseball Ground, back then as you came out of the away end into a warren of alleyways before coming out onto the roads to get to the Station. Always fun getting back to the station back in the day.

Footnote 1. The premise of Fever Pitch was that following Arsenal took over his life meaning he missed family get togethers, friend’s wedding etc. Then he won an award for the book. The award ceremony was on the same evening as Arsenal’s FA Cup Final replay against Sheffield Wednesday. He went to the Award ceremony!!!!!
Surely the classy thing to do would have been to go the match and send his agent to pick up his award and have him read a note from him saying “sorry, Arsenal were playing; you know how it is?”

Footnote 2. When he was a kid Hornby’s parents divorced and his dad had him at the weekend. One week he took him to WHL and he saw Spurs win 5-0 with Jimmy Greaves scoring a hat trick. The next week his dad took him to Highbury where he watched Arsenal draw 0-0. So he choose that lot as his team. I always thought that perfectly summed up Arsenal supporters.

 

[Houdini]

V Leeds United. Tuppence! Must be from the 1940s.
It's basically a piece of paper folded in half.

 

[Metalhead]

exactly the opposite with Scholar on board the club moved away from the supporters - the new stand had been built with the executive boxes prices had gone up supporters were treated poorly it was open season with the government of the time going to games was a million miles away from what its like now

He was definitely of the 'new breed' of football chairmen and although there were several commercial ventures that were unsuccessful under his tenure, his mind was definitely in that direction and not so much what was in the fans' interests.