What do you love about Spurs?

[lillywhites61]

No matter who else in life let's me down spurs are always there, they may not be perfect or be the best but they are mine and will be till the day I die. Spurs are an addiction!!

 

[lillywhites61]

Lol, I wonder if the chick king realise just how famous and important they are!!! A tradition of mine for like 20 odd years, and the twins look the same as they did back then

 

[Bales Left Peg]

I've often been asked the same question.... Why football? Why Tottenham?
I never really followed a set team for a long while, being the only boy with 4 older sisters and a dad that doesn't like sport. So I used to follow the teams that my mates would....this changed like the weather, that was until I watched Spurs play. There was something about them that I liked. A certain style, a certain never say die attitude. I missed the times of Gazza and lineker. So I mainly got laughed at for supporting spurs, not known for their consistency, but as someone's already mentioned that made a win more enjoyable.
The only thing I know is that for the 90 minutes on match day I'm in my element. Happy as Larry, forget about everything else, for that 90 minutes its Tottenham who get my undivided attention.
Don't know what it is that keeps me coming back..... But I never want it to change.

 

[EastLondonYid]

Why Tottenham? i was brought up a stones throw away from the ground in the 70's..

Why do i love them? its a way of life and i don't remember my life without them.

Loving spurs to me is not an option....i really couldn't ever stop loving them....ever.

Unfortunately i have made my two sons the same....poor sods!

 

[mabolsa_ritchey]

I couldnt put my finger on a specific reason for loving Spurs. I must admit that I didnt see us play til I was 11 (Ive always lived in Oxfordshire), but up to that point Spurs had a mythical feel to them for me. I can remember getting a hummell holsten kit at the same time as my friend and never wore anything else. Our parents even nicknamed us Lineker and Gazza (he had big ears and I was always crying!).

Thinking about the kit, thats probably my favourite thing about Spurs. We wear white. There is nothing like watching us walk out on a european night in the all white kit with the floodlights on. Stunning.

 

[Corky]

Our kit - just love the white shirt and navy shorts - so crisp and clean

 

[spurslenny]

The wife always moans that I love Spurs more than I love her, to which I reply...

'Spurs are in my blood, but you are in my heart'


...at which point she throws up.

 

[spurslenny]

Our kit - just love the white shirt and navy shorts - so crisp and clean

Daz or Vanish?

 

[Vedi]

Probably because of this:

[SIZE=+0]In a world full of United's, City's and Rovers, there is only One Hotspur.

My love for Spurs right now is on the level that Im thinking about finding a job in London and moving to the UK just to be able to go to more games.



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[sweyid]

In the town where I grew up everyone's a Man Utd/Arsenal/Liverpool fan, and as a kid I wanted something different. One of the leaders in the football club I played for as a kid was a Spurs fan and in the clubs trophy room he had put a Spurs ball with the text "Tottenham Hotspur - The pride of North London" and that just stuck with me. For me it's about pride and it felt sort of exclusive being a Spurs fan, since no one else I knew followed them.

When I was 7 years old, Klinsmann joined, and that sense of pride just multiplied.

Then Spurs did their tour of Sweden the summer of 99 or 00 and my mates older brother (who pretty much every kid in my neighborhood idolized) played against them and he told us all about it, which just made me even more proud, I mean one of my idols played against my idols, that was just amazing.

I never really cared that things weren't going that well, that all my Man Utd friends could brag about winning this and winning that, that didn't really matter to me. It wasn't about winning, it was something else. Today it's no different, even though I've gotten used to Spurs winning big games, being up there competing with the big names of European football and becoming a big and well respected club world wide, it's still that little boy in me that loves Spurs. It's like falling in love. You can't really explain why, it just happens.

 

[Vedi]

In the town where I grew up everyone's a Man Utd/Arsenal/Liverpool fan, and as a kid I wanted something different. One of the leaders in the football club I played for as a kid was a Spurs fan and in the clubs trophy room he had put a Spurs ball with the text "Tottenham Hotspur - The pride of North London" and that just stuck with me. For me it's about pride and it felt sort of exclusive being a Spurs fan, since no one else I knew followed them.

I started about 10 times to somehow write that down in this thread but couldnt find the words, thats exactly what I meant to say :clap:

I think most Spurs fans abroad have that feeling, as most people only know the former top four and cant name you 5 other clubs in the prem or even 10 players of their so called "favourite club". It was always something special supporting Spurs and not being just a plastic fan as the rest.

 

[Deathrod]

I simply watched the Spurs v Coventry FA cup final, and remember the mini game prior to kick off that took place, I think Daily Thompson played? either way, we went on to lose 3-2 I think after extra time.

I remember being pretty upset.. I decided I had to follow Spurs to see them win after that...

Then my Dad took me to the Lane to watch us play Norwich, Robert Fleck scored either 2 or 3 and I remember telling my dad to ask Spurs to buy him.. we lost. Pretty much all we did when I was young - but we always had a flair player that made it all worth while. gotta love the spurs!

 

[Hot-Spur]

I think my love of spurs is like being with a man, they can let you down, ruin your weekend, be a pain in the backside but you keep coming back because when they make the effort they can make you feel wonderful :razz:

 

[Spurger King]

I think my love of spurs is like being with a man, they can let you down, ruin your weekend, be a pain in the backside but you keep coming back because when they make the effort they can make you feel wonderful :razz:

...and like Spurs we don't do clean sheets either.

 

[spurslenny]

I think my love of spurs is like being with a man, they can let you down, ruin your weekend, be a pain in the backside but you keep coming back because when they make the effort they can make you feel wonderful :razz:

Matron!!!

 

[StartingPrice]

I think my love of spurs is like being with a man, they can let you down, ruin your weekend, be a pain in the backside but you keep coming back because when they make the effort they can make you feel wonderful :razz:

Too much info, Hottie mg:

 

[spurslenny]

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I think my love of spurs is like being with a man, they can let you down, ruin your weekend, be a pain in the backside but you keep coming back because when they make the effort they can make you feel wonderful :razz:

use more lube? :shrug:

 

[jurgen]

I love our 'smug air of ersatz sophistication' to quote a clunky piece of prose from some old duffer who wrote a book once.

 

[cwhite02]

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.

One things for sure is Spurs will always be with me. As for the gf, who knows!!

 

[matty182]

Even though I was born in Maidstone my folks moved to north wales for a year or 2 in 1990 which was pretty awful..full of mancs and scousers..i was about 5 and getting into football as my old man never really followed it..every one around me had manure or bin dippers shirts and then Italia 90 happened..Lineker was there and Gazza happened, tears 'n all and i started to follow them a bit..then we beat the scum 3-1 which even at the tme I knew was special even if i couldnt quite work out why then gazza was a twat in the final and des walker made sure we won it..for years after we were total shit but i kept following, buying shirts, going to games and i think it's starting to pay off..now my weekend is ruined if we lose, i get so angry, frustrated, happy and over joyed, all in the space of 90mins and i love it!!!!!