- May 8, 2005
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Some of you may remember the video that was leaked around Christmas time last year (I think). If you haven't seen it, I found it on youtube again so feel free to give it a watch (this may get taken down quickly, I'm not sure)...
This video is great! Everything about it is great! It gives me shivers down my spine every time I watch it. I can't help but watch it and think, "This is my team." And it is, it is my team, just like you will all say that it's your team too. Tottenham became my team, not because they were the best team, or because my favourite player played, or even that I liked the kit. No, the were my team because they were my Dad's team, and they were his team because they were his Dad's team.
Being 25-years-old now, there hasn't been a lot of glory in being a Spurs fan. I was too young to really appreciate the FA Cup win in 1991, but I have heard the stories from my Dad of UEFA Cup finals, FA Cup Final replays, Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle. My life as a Spurs supporter has mainly been cheering on a team that doesn't perform well. I think I sometimes didn't believe my Dad that we had been that good, and that we'd always been, well a bit rubbish really. I think I sometimes wondered why we didn't just support one of the other teams that won most of the time. A lot of my friends were Spurs fans when we were quite young, but they're all Chelsea, Liverpool, United, Arsenal and probably City fans too now, maybe even supporting a mix of all of them.
I remember going to my first game as a seven year old, sitting in the East stand behind a pillar. I can remember the whole day. I remember the burger van, I remember my navy and purple Umbro shirt, I remember walking up the steps out into the stand and seeing the ground for the first time. What I don't remember quite so well was the goal. I think it was combination of the pillar and the fact that I was smaller than everyone around me that I missed the moment when Jurgen Klinsmann scissor kicked the ball into the Leicester City goal to make it 1-0 in the 82nd minute, giving us all three points. I knew then, that I didn't have a choice, Tottenham Hotspur was my team.
It wouldn't matter over the next 16-and-a-half years that we had some awful players, performances, results and decisions. In fact more often than not, it was at those times that I love Tottenham more. I remember in particular being stood in the away end at Portsmouth watching us get beaten easily, and in our worst start to a season ever under Juande Ramos. The reaction on the terrace wasn't to boo, it wasn't to walk out, but it was to stand. We stood with our arms aloft and sang for minutes on end, "We are Tottenham! Super Tottenham from The Lane!"
Players come and go. Managers and Chairman come and go. Form and results will come and go. Glory will come and go. One thing that will not though, is this football club. We are Tottenham Hotspur.
So regardless of our feelings toward manager, players, chairman, form, etc. we must be behind this team for they are our team. And let's face it, it could be worse, we could be West Ham! LOL!!!1
This video is great! Everything about it is great! It gives me shivers down my spine every time I watch it. I can't help but watch it and think, "This is my team." And it is, it is my team, just like you will all say that it's your team too. Tottenham became my team, not because they were the best team, or because my favourite player played, or even that I liked the kit. No, the were my team because they were my Dad's team, and they were his team because they were his Dad's team.
Being 25-years-old now, there hasn't been a lot of glory in being a Spurs fan. I was too young to really appreciate the FA Cup win in 1991, but I have heard the stories from my Dad of UEFA Cup finals, FA Cup Final replays, Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle. My life as a Spurs supporter has mainly been cheering on a team that doesn't perform well. I think I sometimes didn't believe my Dad that we had been that good, and that we'd always been, well a bit rubbish really. I think I sometimes wondered why we didn't just support one of the other teams that won most of the time. A lot of my friends were Spurs fans when we were quite young, but they're all Chelsea, Liverpool, United, Arsenal and probably City fans too now, maybe even supporting a mix of all of them.
I remember going to my first game as a seven year old, sitting in the East stand behind a pillar. I can remember the whole day. I remember the burger van, I remember my navy and purple Umbro shirt, I remember walking up the steps out into the stand and seeing the ground for the first time. What I don't remember quite so well was the goal. I think it was combination of the pillar and the fact that I was smaller than everyone around me that I missed the moment when Jurgen Klinsmann scissor kicked the ball into the Leicester City goal to make it 1-0 in the 82nd minute, giving us all three points. I knew then, that I didn't have a choice, Tottenham Hotspur was my team.
It wouldn't matter over the next 16-and-a-half years that we had some awful players, performances, results and decisions. In fact more often than not, it was at those times that I love Tottenham more. I remember in particular being stood in the away end at Portsmouth watching us get beaten easily, and in our worst start to a season ever under Juande Ramos. The reaction on the terrace wasn't to boo, it wasn't to walk out, but it was to stand. We stood with our arms aloft and sang for minutes on end, "We are Tottenham! Super Tottenham from The Lane!"
Players come and go. Managers and Chairman come and go. Form and results will come and go. Glory will come and go. One thing that will not though, is this football club. We are Tottenham Hotspur.
So regardless of our feelings toward manager, players, chairman, form, etc. we must be behind this team for they are our team. And let's face it, it could be worse, we could be West Ham! LOL!!!1
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