What do you love about Spurs?

[Capocrimini]

Lets be honest, supporting spurs, especially 5 years or so ago was shit, mid table, occasional cup run nothing to jump up and down about. But I still brought the shirts, went to the games, trawled the net for any new information about Spurs in the news and defended the team like a religious nut. Ive been trying to figure out what it is, about a football fan that makes us follow a group of men, who probably don't care about us, with such passion and optimism. My conclusion it must be love. We all probably have a relationship with Spurs that's stronger then any of our human relationships. As no matter what the club dish out we always support, always comeback and dedicate often 2 - 3 days a week to supporting our love. So the question is simple, what is it about Spurs that we love?

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My earliest memories of Spurs and football in general a highs and lows, and what a high in the end!

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[VegasII]

5 years ago? Jeepers...1990s was worse than that. Supporting them during relegation battles while gooner mates laughed was a nightmare.

No idea why I love them...been 20 years now.

Good thread by the way!

 

[rebrab]

that every time I see Harry Redknapp's face, I feel a little better looking

 

[OmarsComing]

brainwashed as a child

The F DO

 

[nferno]

that every time I see Harry Redknapp's face, I feel a little better looking

I reckon that even my scrotum is less saggy than his face

 

[OmarsComing]

well he was in a car crash with 5 other people all of which died.

so yeah, his face is gonna be a lickle bit fucked up.

 

[peter_the_yid]

5 years ago? Jeepers...1990s was worse than that. Supporting them during relegation battles while gooner mates laughed was a nightmare.

No idea why I love them...been 20 years now.

Good thread by the way!

I started following in 94/95 as a kid.
One day after a defeat too many I ripped my
Chris Armstrong poster down and scribbled all over it.
Dark days indeed.

 

[riggi]

The fact that they can ruin my weekend. Powerfull mofos.

 

[Reado]

The unpredictability of Spurs, never a dull moment these days!

 

[alex3]

everything!!!!!

 

[Lanh]

I don't.

I used to, big time, in the old first division and the early years of the Premiership, then the money side became too pronounced to ignore and I lost my passion, which is why I used to go to a lot of non-league/local matches wherever I was living.

It came back briefly when Mr Jol was around because he helped me forget the money side of things and just enjoy the football.

 

[dickyid]

The sense of misguided optimism they give me every summer that can last well into November.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I recently found my old Corinthians big head football figure of Sol Campbell in a Spurs kit.

After all these years, head was still attached to body by blue tack, with face completely graffiti'd to make him look like a clown, the the word **** carved into his forehead (probably with a compass).

I love that Spurs can bring this part of my personality out.

 

[marvel]

It's like the inherent love for a family member. Not sure why it's there or how it got there but it always will be.

Tottenham is like having a brother who is a huge party animal, sure they let you down now and then but it's one hell of a ride.

 

[Spurger King]

It's like the inherent love for a family member. Not sure why it's there or how it got there but it always will be.

Tottenham is like having a brother who is a huge party animal, sure they let you down now and then but it's one hell of a ride.

That's a beautiful analogy :up:

The last time I saw my mum we went through some old photo albums, and one of the pictures was of me at about 13 years old, sat in my bedroom surrounded by Spurs posters (a lot of them were of Barmby, who I idolised at that age...thought he was going to be bigger than Jesus), and various other memorabilia. I've gone through so many changes in my life...so many ups and downs (and now thankfully up again), and my love of Spurs remains one of the few constants since I was about 10 years old.

On top of that, I've had the pleasure of seeing the team I love turn into one of the genuine entertainers in world football, and this goes back years and years. We've always had great players...we've been on the verge of having a fantastic team ever since I can remember...and we've always seemed just as likely to cause a huge upset, as be on the receiving end of a hammering from some supposed minnow. In short we were full of promise most of the time.

This carried on right up to the Jol years, when we finally gained some consistency...but even now Spurs have a reputation as being unpredictable. And I'm happy with that.

We're the mavericks...the dark horses...the fiddlers on the roof that you don't know is there...we're the voice on the wind...we're the spokes in Ironside's wheelchair...we're the match that lights Columbo's cigar...we're the unexpected knock on the door at 01:18 in the morning...we're the jokers in the pack...the wild cards...the rough diamonds...the trick up the sleeve..

..we are Tottenham, super Tottenham, from the Lane.

 

[StartingPrice]

Not having to wear RED!

 

[tommo84]

The gf has asked me this question a few times, and even said she wishes that one day I'll love her as much as I do Spurs.

The truth is, I can't explain it. I know a load of reasons why I enjoy watching Spurs and why I can't imagine not having them in my life, but I can't explain why it is that I love them so much to begin with. Sure, I know what made me first support them as a 5 year old, but this came at a time when I would flip through my brothers sticker album changing my allegiance from club to club on a regular basis based on kits/badges I liked the look of, or players I'd heard of - I have absolutely no idea why, when I finally found myself drawn to Spurs by Lineker and Gascoigne, that was the one which stuck.

I did say that I know loads of reasons why I enjoy supporting Spurs however, so here are a few:
that everytime we win it feels like a real achievment, because no matter who the opposition is, there is always somebody who expected us to f*ck it up (and sometimes that somebody is me).

that nobody else in my family supports them. This may sound odd, but as the youngest of 4 brothers in a hard-up family while growing up, it was always satisfying to have something which was just mine, and not something which had been passed on to me or had to be shared. It sort of still is.

that no matter what else happens in my life, Spurs will always be there, waiting to take my mind off all the crap with the next game.

One last thought about my own ties with Spurs (and I'm curious if this applies to anyone else), throughout my life I've tried watching other sports and have always found myself cheering on teams with a similar profile of the 'perennial under-achievers' in every sport, seemingly by accident without any prior knowledge about that team's history or stature. Might be the sort of thing a psychiatrist would have a field day with or might just be coincidence.

 

[Spurrific]

Gonna have to echo alex3 and say "everything!!!" - I was also brainwashed (like Omarscoming) by my dad's stories of Blanchflower, Mackay, Greaves, Hoddle, Ardiles, Villa and all the other legends.

 

[L.A. Yiddo]

 

[cooperman]

Ive been trying to figure out what it is, about a football fan that makes us follow a group of men, who probably don't care about us, with such passion and optimism.

‎"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship." (Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)