What do you love about Spurs?

[Hot-Spur]

Too much info, Hottie mg:

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use more lube? :shrug:

Such dirty minds on here :snooty:

 

[DiamondLites]

"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom."

Pretty much sums up why I love my club

 

[VegasII]

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

hahaha - well at least we can't be 'chintzy'. Besides, the writer must have been talking the pseudo fans from the gooners.

 

[Spurger King]

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!!!!!

Oooh unlucky. Used to go to college in Maidstone and I can honestly say it's a complete dive of a place. Still have to go there every now and then when I see relatives, and if anything it's got worse.

Other than that, your reason for supporting Spurs is exactly the same as mine. Started off with Italia 90, then the next season I started supporting Spurs...obviously culminating in us winning the FA cup.

Hang on a minute...born in Kent and now living in the South West, and identical stories for beginning to follow Spurs...you're not one of my alternate personalities are you? :think:?

 

[StartingPrice]

Such dirty minds on here :snooty:

Hey!

My mind is pure!

It's just...well...my soul is INSANE mg:

 

[Ionman34]

Because there is only one team out there that can inspire everyone else, who saw them play, to refer to 2 seasons as 'The Glory Years.'

Utd have had nearly 20, Liverpool over a decade. Bu neither inspired the same sort of awe in other fans that Bill Nicholsons team did.

THFC has been my religion since the age of 5. Nothing else inspires the kind of passion that I experience when watching and talking about my team.

 

[matty182]

Oooh unlucky. Used to go to college in Maidstone and I can honestly say it's a complete dive of a place. Still have to go there every now and then when I see relatives, and if anything it's got worse.

Other than that, your reason for supporting Spurs is exactly the same as mine. Started off with Italia 90, then the next season I started supporting Spurs...obviously culminating in us winning the FA cup.

Hang on a minute...born in Kent and now living in the South West, and identical stories for beginning to follow Spurs...you're not one of my alternate personalities are you? :think:?

Hmm and we like good music..mum and dad never spoke of a twin...:shrug:

 

[kishman]

everything!!!!!

+1

 

[SelbYido]

Like Matty182 & Spurger King, I caught the Spurs bug watching Gary Lineker & Paul Gascoigne playing for England at Italia 90. Also, where I live, the local loyalists support Leeds Utd, York City or Hull City, otherwise its mainly Man U or Liverpool & the Leeds & Man U fans when I was growing up were...well, mainly ****s.

So yeah, I jumped around the room like a loon when Gazza hit that free kick against the goons at Wembley & when I was away on a school trip to the Lake District (age 10) on cup final day, I got my parents to tape it for me & watched it back every day until some heathen recorded over it. I've been Spurs ever since.

Thing is, the longer I've been a Spurs supporter, the more perfect the club has become - I've read all about Billy Nick, the double winning side '60-'61, the "year that ends in a 1", Glenn Hoddle finding God (that must have been one hell of a pass...);I nearly gave my Nan a heart attack with my reaction to the pics in her Sunday Mirror of Alan Sugar & Jurgen Klinsmann shaking hands on Sr'Alan's yacht in Monaco; I remember the thrill of seeing Ginola dance through Barnsley's defence like a ballerina; I remember the horrible sinking feeling & the look on Martin Jol's face during the Getafe game, when he knew his time was up; I remember dancing & singing Spurs songs on my own in the beer garden at the Red Lion in my Yorkshire village when we won the Carling Cup...

I've never even been to see Spurs play but I can't imagine supporting any other team, it'd just be...wrong.

 

[pook]

there's quite alot more than just this, but there are two things, in particular, that come to mind when reading this thread's question:

1) white hart lane
2) N17

yes, the stadium (as it is, anyway) is inadequate, and ok, tottenham isn't exactly upscale ... but i love them both. keep in mind that this is merely a response to the question at hand, and not part of any debate/discussion on where we'll be playing 10 years from now; so i need not be told the necessity of their jettisoning. and perhaps it is the fact that these two aren't secure elements of the club going forward that makes them come to mind so quickly, but they really are at the heart of my conceptualization of tottenham hotspur fc.

i'll be gutted when/if going to see spurs doesn't include either.

 

[Legend10]

It's all about the badge!

when you're young in your mind you swear allegiance to that badge and spend a lifetime through thick and thin honouring it!