what good has Tottenham brought you?

[theShiznit]

with all the doom mongers and dreadlines (that's headlines of dread) going on at the mo' just wanted to think to happier times and particularly ask:

What good things has being a Spurs fan brought into your life?

it doesn't have to be football related, maybe you fell in love with someone on the way to a match, or were given a job you perhaps wouldn't have got if you weren't a Spurs fan :shrug:

I shall start the ball rolling...

They gave me my 2 first experiences of Wembley in only my second season as a regular visitor to the Lane, in 91, where i also learned it was OK to jump on random fat blokes who you have never met (don't try this with ladies though )

nearly all my mates are only friends because they are Spurs fans (we'd hate each other otherwise) and we have to stick together in the Chelsea infested area we live in... also playing in a Spurs only football team (although not fully Spurs every week :roll: )

Spurs gave me the experience of living on the streets (well almost) when we had to camp outside the Lane for 91 Semi-tickets till stupid O'clock. (thank god for the Intra-web)

Gave me my first experience of mingling/talking with 'Celebrities' at the Spurs dinner and dances, where i was also to utter the line "Is Gascoigne going to have a Crap?... He is you know!" with perfect timing as Gazza headed in the direction of, and eventually into the toilet. (well it was funny at the time :shrug: )

They gave me my first experience of a multiple car pile-up on the motorway towards Anfield for the first time, which may not sound great as we missed the match and feared for our lives, but it ended up being one of the funniest days, and no one was seriously hurt (well no one i know...)

Spurs taught me that Gambling pays, with the £100 mansion offer on Spurs V Bolton, which was shortly followed by a £500 NFL offer. which paid for a nice week in Cyprus.

Spurs also taught me that Mansion are the WORST bookies ever, full of complete numpties who just read certain scripts at you! (yes i'll still take their VIP trips to Spurs though :hump

And they also bought me to SC (well you win some...)

so there's a few there to get the ball rolling...

So what good things has being a Spurs fan brought into your life?

 

[Rackybear]

Hope, Expectancy, Sadness, Joy, Irratating, Nail Biting, and Depressing.

Pretty much every season, always in a different order however.

 

[Ryana]

Some great friends, a good community, something to talk about, a real EPL match experience. For all of this I'm most grateful for the friends...

 

[Jody]

bomberh Eek

 

[DC_Boy]

something to fill a big gap in my life - I guess I might have found something else - but ever since I was a kid it was like this filled a gap that I didn't know existed till spurs came into my life, and then I couldn't live without it

 

[General Levy]

drug addiction

 

[PT]

scrapbooks of newspaper reports from the 70's of Spurs glory and not-so-glory days.

 

[spiderniall]

Spurs Community Humour! It gets me through these drab nights in work!
A wardrobe full of football shirts
Being the laugh of the neighbourhood as everyone else supports utd, chelskum the arse and liverpool

 

[CosmicHotspur]

An amazingly exciting childhood and teenage years watching games, with all the glory of the 60s (including the Cup Final in 1962), holding the European Cup Winners Cup, mixing and socialising with the players, babysitting for some of them and still keeping in touch with a few, a wonderful autograph collection that I still look through to to revive those memories.

The ups and downs, the joy and despair - but I wouldn't change a thing. Then moving away from London but finding SC so I can keep my finger on the pulse of WHL and not lose contact with the team that I love, win or lose.

 

[TopSpurMan]

pace maker

 

[AngerManagement]

The ability to take dissapointment in my stride

 

[tippspur59]

Winning the carling cup was the last good thing i remember, not so long ago thankfully.

 

[trevo]

That the light seen at the end of the tunnel IS often an oncoming train!

 

[sunnydelight786]

A sweet childhood watching the team of the early 80's aswell as the best Spurs team of my lifetime (86-87). That now has all been replaced by depression, envy and anger in my adulthood. To see nothing teams all of a sudden become the media darlings (scum + chavs) because they play the beautiful game (sic) aswell as win trophies is making me fall out of love of football by the year. We always seem to be turning a corner but the truth is we are stuck ar a roundabout!!!

 

[Spurs_Q8]

feel about your love whatever happen !

 

[Makkaveli101]

Met one of my best mates through being a Spurs fan. I'm in my late twenties, and as we all know as you get older you can count your true friends on one hand...and it's rare you meet true friends as the pages of life fly by so quickly. I've met some great people through being a Spurs fan. Get quite pissed off with football and the way the sport is these days, but I always remember how virtuous the sport is still from a social/fan point of view.

What good does Tottenham do for us? It brings people together. I've met some f**king excellent people through being a Yid....and wouldn't change it for the world!

 

[Andy]

Met one of my best mates through being a Spurs fan. I'm in my late twenties, and as we all know as you get older you can count your true friends on one hand...and it's rare you meet true friends as the pages of life fly by so quickly. I've met some great people through being a Spurs fan. Get quite pissed off with football and the way the sport is these days, but I always remember how virtuous the sport is still from a social/fan point of view.

What good does Tottenham do for us? It brings people together. I've met some f**king excellent people through being a Yid....and wouldn't change it for the world!

I can say the exact same thing too, Made a few mates through spurs over the years, it has its down side too though, i met Seany, Nicdic and Flatters through here!, still, rough with the smooth and all that....

I remember camping outside the ground in 91 overnight to get a ticket, didn't get one, mind you as they announced there weren't any the next morning :lol:
I remember the cup finals in 81,82,91,99 and last season, and the nearly ones in 87 and 93 too,
those memories will stay with me forever too.

 

[Banjo]

:hello:

Good question! Apart from the grief, frustration and ulcers - well the chance to sue the club for psychological damage - one could mention the occassional joy, friends and a real reason to hate Arsenal!

:grin:

 

[rez9000]

David Ginola!!!

 

[Bill_Oddie]

Lovely thread, shizzle. Thought you were being sarcastic in the title at first, though. :lol:

Same old for me, but Tottenham also gave my Dad 200,000 pounds sterling some years ago. Well, not him per se but he agreed a deal for Brighton to stage Intertoto cup matches and that was the fee for 2 matches.

Although, I seem to recall Albion might have given them more back for Jeff Minton and Junior McDougald. Just think what Spurs might have achieved had they stayed at the Lane...