when I first started supporting Spurs nobody warned me ...

[trevo]

I was just wondering if there were any forum members who had only just supporting Spurs. I remember that I started supporting Spurs after watching us beat the spammers 2-0 at Upton Park. Upton Park was closer than WHL and most of my peers were spammers suppporters. At that time Greaves, Gilzean and Jones & co were setting the pace and 2 weeks later we had beaten Chavscum in the Cup Final! Since that time I've always kept in touch with results if not being 'active as such. I was wondering what it was like to start such an addiction when the team is on such a downer anad the prospects so uncertain? And what made people start supporting? And what could make you stop?

 

[Yiddo1982]

7 years old. 1990. England v Cameroon. World Cup. Gascoigne throughball to Lineker. Lineker brought down by keeper. Scores penalty.

"Dad, who does Gazza play for?".

"Tottenham".

"Lineker?".

"Tottenham as well".

"I will support them then."

"I highly recommend you don't"

"Why?"

"Cos in 9 months Gazza will fuck up his leg, and a year later Lineker will twat off to Japan. And Gordon Durie and Ronny Rosenthal will be shit replacements. At best by the time you are 25, Tottenham will win an FA cup and 2 League Cups."

"Please don't swear Dad"

"Go to bed."


It was good for those 9 months though!

 

[rez9000]

I started supporting Spurs because my brother supported them. For the first few years, it wasn't 'support' as such, just if someone asked me who I supported, I'd answer Spurs.

The year that Klinsmann first arrived was when I really began to get passionate about Spurs. It was a little taste of home because I was at a boarding school where rugby was the favoured sport.

There have been great games. Like the 6-2 against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park, on my 19th birthday (I think) was great. That team had Gin and Klinsmann in it.

Or at achool, watching an FA Cup replay tie against Southampton at the Dell on TV. We were 2-2 at half time I think and everyone was taking the piss out of me saying that Spurs were going out of the Cup. That was when I learned the meaning of the phrase 'he who laughs last...' and I enjoyed pissing people off about the resut for the rest of the week.

Nothing could ever make me stop supporting Spurs.

 

[tippspur59]

Jimmy Greaves is who i can lay the blame on...I will support spurs through thick and thin and will never stop no matter what...

 

[hellava_tough]

7 years old. 1990. England v Cameron. World Cup. Gascoigne throughball to Lineker. Lineker brought down by keeper. Scores penalty.

"Dad, who does Gazza play for?".

"Tottenham".

"Lineker?".

"Tottenham as well".

"I will support them then."

"I highly recommend you don't"

"Why?"

"Cos in 9 months Gazza will fuck up his leg, and a year later Lineker will twat off to Japan. And Gordon Durie and Ronny Rosenthal will be shit replacements. At best by the time you are 25, Tottenham will win an FA cup and 2 League Cups."

"Please don't swear Dad"

"Go to bed."


It was good for those 9 months though!

Yiddo1982

I remember watching Lineker in Italia 90, turning to my older brother and saying "Who does Lineker play for?", to which he uttered the words that would haunt me for the rest of my life :grin:

I know loads of Spurs fans of our age that support Spurs because of Lineker, as I'm sure you do.

But despite the years of pain and torment, the abuse from our peers, and the club letting us down time and time again, like a dirty whore-wife that you love just too damn much, I wouldn't change it for anything.

Why?

Because I consider myself, and every other Spurs fan, true fans. We've experienced the highs, the lows, and all the mediocrity inbetween. So when we finally lift the European Cup, on a warm summer's night, in years to come, it will be so fucking sweet - sweeter than anything that a Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool fan will EVER be able to experience.

 

[miles_64]

Rez, I'm with you. Started supporting Spurs at the same time. I was born in North London and hated the idea of being a glory hunter so there was no choice but Spurs! At least when success comes our way, I really appreciate it.

 

[jimtheyid]

Was Gazza and Lineker for me aswell.... Damn them

 

[Kendall]

91' FA Cup Semi, probably my first memory of football at 5 years old, watched that and fell in love. My dad is Man Utd and tried to get me to follow them, bought me a shirt and I nearly came round to his thinking. I then watched the 93' FA Cup semi and cried all night - the first time I've ever gotten upset over football.

It couldn've been so much easier for me.

 

[Yiddo1982]

Yiddo1982

I remember watching Lineker in Italia 90, turning to my older brother and saying "Who does Lineker play for?", to which he uttered the words that would haunt me for the rest of my life :grin:

I know loads of Spurs fans of our age that support Spurs because of Lineker, as I'm sure you do.

But despite the years of pain and torment, the abuse from our peers, and the club letting us down time and time again, like a dirty whore-wife that you love just too damn much, I wouldn't change it for anything.

Why?

Because I consider myself, and every other Spurs fan, true fans. We've experienced the highs, the lows, and all the mediocrity inbetween. So when we finally lift the European Cup, on a warm summer's night, in years to come, it will be so fucking sweet - sweeter than anything that a Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool fan will EVER be able to experience.

Spot on bud, ha ha.

I cried when Lineker went. Actually cried.

But your right, when we lift that league trophy in years to come, it will mean so much more. I regular state this to my southern numpty Man Utd pals and they just dont get it. When Utd scored their goals tonight my friends just clapped hands - like they already knew they were going to win. I would not want it to be like that.

(Lets just hope its not next year's Championship trophy)

 

[Rocksuperstar]

My Grandad supported Spurs and played for them for a brief spell during war times - the club sent a floral version of the crest to his funeral. My dad supported Spurs too, obviously, and i was educated from a young age.

My first real memory is of Graham Roberts scoring the late equaliser and Tony Parks stopping the last penalty in the '84 Waffa Cup final - i was nine, i didn't know the meaning of over-excited :lol: Still got my old Holsten shirt in a box in my cupboard but it sadly doesn't even nearly fit anymore.

Our dominating midfield seems to fill my memories for the next few years, with Hoddle, Hodge, Waddle and Ozzie sticking around as wonderful to watch.

After that the next real memory i have is when we signed Gazza. He was an absolute magician, i'd never seen anyone play football like that - so easy and with such a big grin on his face. I idolised him. Got his number on my shirt and dreamed of one day even being close to that good (yeah, like that was ever gonna happen :lol: ). He was the player i was when i was toe-punting the ball into the fence at the end of my garden and who got me properly back into watching the game.

The '91 cup final, i cried :shrug: He wasn't the same Gazza i'd come to love, looked short tempered and would've been sent off if he hadn't been stretchered. I remember Paul Stewart's immaculate perm, belting down the right on the break, not long into the 2nd half, cutting inside and scoring a super goal that made it 1 - 1, after a young Stuart Pearce scored early in the first half. I remember seeing Des Walker sailing through the air to put it into his own net, only minutes into extra time. There was no golden goal so it was another 25 minutes or so of nail biting and hair pulling until that whistle went and i cried.

When we paraded the cup i went up the High Rd with a guy i went to school with and we ran the length of the road, from Seven Sisters to the Town Hall - i will never, ever forget the noise when Gary Mabbut and Terry Venables came out onto that balcony with the cup.

Immense.

Cheers for letting me waffle like that, i remember why i love Spurs now.

Bolton are fucked :up:

 

[JamieM]

I started supporting Spurs after watching a common-or-garden weeknight league match on ITV when I was very young. We beat Liverpool, I think Paul Walsh scored the winner? I grew up in Belfast and every other boy in my school supported Liverpool, It was amazing and really satisying to see the invincible Liverpool get turned over by some team I didn't know much about. And our vaguely Arthurian name had an otherworldly appeal(could have been so different if I knew what Tottenham actually looked like).

I remember getting really sucked in by the European cup run when we played Split, Porto and Feyenoord. Teddy was my first cast-iron hero though.

 

[JamieM]

But your right, when we lift that league trophy in years to come, it will mean so much more. I regular state this to my southern numpty Man Utd pals and they just dont get it. When Utd scored their goals tonight my friends just clapped hands - like they already knew they were going to win. I would not want it to be like that.

Never mind winning the league, when we get our 3 points this season I'll be walking on air! The CC win last season brought me more happiness than a Man Utd fan probably gets from five league titles- because nine years of suffering had gone into it. Indeed I know a Man Utd fan who's bought a Stockport season ticket this year because he doesn't get any pleasure from seeing ManU win every league match anymore.

It's weird but the more awful Spurs are, the more I love them.

 

[spursfan1991]

Was Gazza and Lineker for me aswell.... Damn them

Me too

 

[SydneySpur]

I remember watching the 91 FA cup final with my dad in Australia, who was born in London and was a Spurs fan. I was hooked for life after that!

 

[st@rbug]

Being a Londoner i knew i had to support a london based club.(1986) i hated Spurs, all my friends hated spurs, and the boys i played sunday football with hated spurs. i was 13 and i didnt even know WHY i hated spurs. This got me thinking , why do i hate spurs? there was no reason, i didnt even know anything about them, other than they had a nice looking kit, they apparently had sum good players. i went against the flow, i CHALLENGED my peers, i became a spurs fan!! i discovered other spurs fans, i discovered there were many of em, infact ! Good good too, cos these days i need them, a shoulder to cry on.

 

[jimmy_the_yid]

Bloody Gazza and Lineker for me too, my first ever pair of boots were Linekers Quaser boots, the 91 semi final is the first i actually remember.

Weird situation but my older brother started to support Arsenal just to annoy me, i remember the 92 charity shield, i would have just turned 7 and i was convinced arsenal had scored late in the game, my brother laughed and i punched him in the face which gave him a nose bleed.

Happy days

 

[SpurSince57]

Several times related now, but my first experience of a First XI game was Bill Nicholson's first game in charge. We stuffed Everton 10-4, and, seven years old, I was understandably hugely excited. On the way out, my grand-dad (who'd been following Spurs since about 1900) said: 'It won't be like that every game, son.'

How true.

 

[3Dnata]

I had been to games with my dad but I only really started going when we were in the second division.
I was there for the nervous 1-nil win over Hull which was crucial for are promotion.
I suppose seeing the relegation side and the season in the lower league can give you a more reallistic outlook.

 

[AngerManagement]

My dad came over to England when he was about 6, he lived in Sheperds Bush. His father naturally became a QPR fan (although at the time they were in the 3rd divison I believe, so my dad wanted a top flight team I suppose).

As such, one day he and one of his sisters were at a local circus which had a dog football match as part of its entertainment. One team dressed in Chelsea blue the other in Tottenham white.

My aunt chose to follow the pack of Chelsea dogs whilst my old man followed the mighty Spurs muts.

With the Spurs K9 team victorious my father went on to be a fulltime Tottenham supporter (as good a reason as any I suppose, although probably did'nt help that we were Double winners around that time)

Add to that my Granddad (mothers father) was also a life long Spurs fan who bought me my first Spurs kit (81 strip) when I was a baby and you can see that my fate was sealed.

My earliest memories of being a real Spurs fan are from the 1988 season, with Waddle tearing up the left wing. I went to my first game (a nil all bore draw aganst Luton) that year and I became obsessed.

To be honest I miss the days when football and Spurs in particular were my life, nothing else seemed to matter as much as my beloved club. I still blame the film 'Bronx tale' for somewhat dampening my passion somewhat (although still I have a great affection, I just seem to have some sort of perspective for footballs value now days)

Anyway, Spurs are my fathers team, my granddfather (who is no longer with us) team and a common passion I could share with these people as well as my friends who I have shared season tickets and countless matches with......If this year we go down, of course I will be gutted, but none the less I will be a Spurs fan and proud to be so.

You know I actually wear my Spurs shirt more often when we have lost then if we have won, kind of like I wish to show I support them regardless, I dont feel the need to shout out my support as much when we have won as I wish to show my alligence when we have lost .....go figure.

Anyway, I am rambling so I will leave you with a COYS and a wish for us to smash Bolton and turn our season around.....good night my fellow Spurs sufferers.

 

[rez9000]

Rez, I'm with you. Started supporting Spurs at the same time. I was born in North London and hated the idea of being a glory hunter so there was no choice but Spurs! At least when success comes our way, I really appreciate it.

It was great with Klinsmann and Sheringham up front. But as I'd only really started getting into Spurs fater he arrived, I never understood why it was such a big deal that we had signed him in the first place. I was a little heartbroken when he said he wanted to go back to Germany at the end of the season. When he came back I was so thrilled.

Two of my favourite Spurs players, Gin and Klin in the same team. Beautiful!