Why do you support Spurs?

[Dubwise]

Ok i apologise if this topic has been done to death but as you can tell from my post count i only recently joined this community.

I am curious as to the reasons why people follow Spurs, I am sure a lot of it is geographical or family related.

I am 30 and spent my entire life in Australia, my fathers side of the family are all English so i have grown up with football being the real football in my family home

My first real memorable footballing experience was watching England get knocked out of the World Cup by Germany in 1990, the excitement of watching that with my Dad and Uncle really sparked my interest in Football.

All my Dad's family are Leicester City supporters and despite his best efforts trying to get a 9 year old Australian kid to take interest in a division 2 side in England was never going to happen

Role around the 1991 FA Cup final and we had a big party at my house with my dads mates and i remembered Gary Lineker from the world cup, so i went for Tottenham (the ironic thing being he is from leicester and was the catalyst for me following spurs, much to my fathers frustration)

Back in those days we got a match of the day type coverage, 1 hour of highlights on a Monday night at 11pm, i used to wake up every Tuesday morning before school to watch it, my favourite hour of TV all week

Suprisingly Football was quite popular in my home town , we had a strong sporting area, i grew up playing with Josh Kennedy (now striker for Australian national team) and also played Football with a couple of people who have gone on to play other sports at high levels (international cricket, AFL etc) so sport was my diet as most other rural Aussie kids have and English soccer was quite popular but it was all Liverpool , Man Utd, Arsenal and Leeds (the kewell factor), i was the only Spurs fan (sounds like something out of little Britain, the only Spurs fan in the village)

Once pay tv hit Australia Premier league really started to get a following amongst your average sports fan who had not been raised by English parents. So now you only seem to find Australians who support what used to be known as the big 4 (not sure where the leeds fans from my childhood descended to)

Anyway nowadays we get amazing coverage over here, every single premier league game is shown live, so i can follow Football just as closely as i can follow AFL, which is great

At the age of 30 and having grown up on a footballing diet I am still yet to meet an Australian born Tottenham supporter, i guess i have to consider myself a band wagon jumper as i started supporting us after we won an FA Cup but i have remained ever loyal through the good and bad times. The best time for me, beating Leicester City in the League cup final with my uncle and my dad there (my uncle trialed with leicester, played with shilton, he still refuses to acknowledge i support spurs as Lineker is leicester born and bred)

Anyway, i apologise for the length and self indulgent nature of the email, once i started writing i got reminiscent and the bile started pouring out

I have only been to England once, I had the choice of seeing Spurs v Bradford or Spurs v Southampton, i chose Bradford as i wanted to go to a game we had the best chance of winning, we drew 1-1 and then beat Southampton 7-2 , arghhhh, i should have taken the chance to see Le Tissier play as well so a double mistake on my part

So there is my somewhat incoherent and dull story as to how a boy in rural Australia has become a fanatical spurs fan, if anyone read this post then well done you have perserverence but i would love to know how other people got to supporting Spurs especialy those not from North London

p.s punctuation and grammer fiends i apologise

 

[Kendall]

The coverage here really is immense. So much better than the UK. It's just a shame you have to get up at silly o'clock to see it (5:45am for Everton, 1am is sweet for Wolves)

 

[Dubwise]

The coverage here really is immense. So much better than the UK. It's just a shame you have to get up at silly o'clock to see it (5:45am for Everton, 1am is sweet for Wolves)

My sleeping patterns have evolved around Spurs, my partner is happy as when we have a kid i will be used to getting up at all hours

Something appealing about getting up at 3am and watching spurs away at a place like WBA, my only fear is that my neighbours may think i suffer tourettes and insomnia as there are a lot of one way obscenties yelled at random hours

 

[TheChosenOne]

Why do I support Spurs?


Is there a sane and logical alternative ? NO.

 

[tototoner]

Because my dad did

 

[Gbspurs]

My parents support Coventry and it was when I was about 5 and my uncle and his son showed me video of all the glory days almost on repeat and used to lend me videos to watch. After that I was sold and I havent looked back. I should really thank him one day!!

 

[Niko]

I supported Southampton, like my dad, until I was about 6 or 7, then I decided I had to support a London team as I was born and raised in South London. However Teddy was my favourite player in the world and thankfully he was playing for Spurs at the time so it was an easy decision. Although one that didn't really pay off for about 13 or 14 years...

 

[pablo73]

my dad's a spurs fan took me to see a game against Notts County round about 1980 when we had Hoddle, Ardiles etc - we won 3-1 and I was hooked for life

 

[recklessyido]

Grew up watching them through going to the lane and constantly on the TV. My dad is a massive fan since he was a child, he brought me up the right way you could say I would have been a Cardiff fan i guess if my dad wasnt a yid. Spurs born and bred. Oddly though my older brother is a manc....

 

[RickyVilla]

I was kidnapped by Irving Scholar and he brainwashed me.

 

[dav3j]

No one in my family was really into football, so I had to pick a team to support. I was born and lived in Neasden (near Wembley) till I was about two, so I picked Spurs, being the only proper team in North London and all.

Seeing as I started supporting Spurs when I was about 10 in '96, it was probably a pretty poor choice on my part initially! Earliest Spurs memory is listening to them winning the old Worthington Cup on the radio in '99.

 

[MrWoolley]

Because we win all the time:dance:

... and because my Dad supported them, so the love of the club has been passed down.

 

[montylynch]

All my family are West Ham and after growing up playing football in the back garden of a pub owned by Frank Lampard senior, surrounded by West Ham players, it was logical for me to support spurs. It broke my poor dad's heart bless him, he got me a West Ham tracksuit when i was about 6 or 7 and i remember saying to him, 'Dad, i like Glenn Hoddle, i want to support spurs'.

 

[Riandor]

I'm a glory hunter... GLORY GLORY TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR!!!

My estranged father was an Arsenal supporter (didn't find that out until recently), but for most of my childhood I grew up without any interest in football whatsoever.

I was living in Hamburg during the 1990 World Cup (I was 11) and remember really getting into football through my German friends at the time, but being English I obviously supported England... best 2 players for me were Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne and when I found out who they played for back in England I decided off my own back to stupport Spurs.

Oh and welcome to the site.

R.

 

[$hoguN]

I support Spurs because it has been passed down my family for years. My Dad is a Spurs fan, all the rest of family are Spurs fans (apart from one gooner that nobody talks to).

 

[spurslenny]

First team I ever saw play ('81 cup final. I was 8)

My old man was a closet Millwall fan in his youth (which I only recently discovered), and never really showed any interest in football when I was a kid, so kinda had to work it out for myself.

 

[northampton_yid]

Grew up in Gibraltar and football on tv was on once a week after 8pm. Had to get my parents to record match of the day for me.
I remember watching Glenn Hoddle playing for Spurs. Watching him and Ossie Ardiles back then made me support spurs much to the disgust of my dad and uncle (charlton and wetspam fans). Best decision i ever made.

 

[Azazello]

Went to WHL with a mate in 1977 and never looked back.

My dad and my mother's second husband were both gooners so it made sense to support Spurs.

 

[Dubwise]

All my family are West Ham and after growing up playing football in the back garden of a pub owned by Frank Lampard senior, surrounded by West Ham players, it was logical for me to support spurs. It broke my poor dad's heart bless him, he got me a West Ham tracksuit when i was about 6 or 7 and i remember saying to him, 'Dad, i like Glenn Hoddle, i want to support spurs'.

If my child followed sport and supported either Arsenal or Essendon (AFL) i think it would genuinely make me sad, i would be convinced it was an act of spite or rebellion, i would then cast him away from the family and let him fend for himself (well not quite, i hope)

I would not force them into being spurs or collingwood supporters and if they decided to even support a team like liverpool, i would be dissapointed but accept their decision, but Arsenal, i would feel like i have failed as a father

Even though you made the right choice just think of your poor dad, when you were born he would of dreamt of taking you to upton park and seeing them constantly yo yo from one division to the other. Infact he may have been accused of child abuse had that happened so i guess it worled out well for all involved

sorry, i am on my 2nd bottle of red

 

[Spurger King]

Started supporting Spurs after the 1990 world cup, when I was 10 years old. I still remember the semi-final against Arsenal, and going crazy when Gazza scored.

Certainly nothing to do with my dad. He's not really interested in football, which he confirmed by turning up at my house a couple of years ago wearing an Arsenal hat.