Why do you support Spurs?

[Tafspur]

When I first got interested in football (the early 60's) there were only two sides worth supporting - Spurs and those red Mancs, and since Spurs had a player with the same name as my father (the late, great John White) there really was no choice but to follow the mighty Spurs. 50 years on I have a son, grandson and son-in-law who are all Spurs supporters, so I feel like I've done my bit to keep the dynasty going! COYS GGTH

 

[RickyVilla]

Started supporting Spurs after the 1990 world cup, when I was 100 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.

Fixed :up:

 

[tobbi]

My dads family come from Newcastle and moved to London before he was born.He never had much interest in football but used to take me to Enfield town now and again.
But thankfully all on my mums side are yids first game was Luton at home with my cousin and step-dad 2-2 draw I think but was way hooked before then .
My mum told me that during the 81 final that when spurs scored I was so happy that it made her cry!(I was 9 at the time)

 

[gilzeantheking]

My Dad was Spurs mad and took me to my first game in 1965, I would never have been allowed to support another team.

My oldest son is a fanatical Spurs supporter, the younger one, was not really interested in football and had pretensions of supporting the bindippers, that was until I took him to WHL the first time, he soon changed his tune.

It's taken twenty odd years but even my other half is now even interested.

 

[mpickard2087]

My dad is a fan, took me to a game when I as young and I was hooked.

 

[Dubwise]

My Dad was Spurs mad and took me to my first game in 1965, I would never have been allowed to support another team.

My oldest son is a fanatical Spurs supporter, the younger one, was not really interested in football and had pretensions of supporting the bindippers, that was until I took him to WHL the first time, he soon changed his tune.

It's taken twenty odd years but even my other half is now even interested.

Had i grown up in the UK i am sure i would have been a leicester city fan, my dad has imposed his sporting will on me in other sports so i am sure football would be no different, had he sold me on supporting leicester though given our geographical location i think he would be heralded as a marketing genius

Now if i could get my gf to like spurs, that would be great, she like the AFL due to my influence so the potential is there but she suffers the Australian/Kiwi/American syndrome of thinking amount of goals/points = level of excitement

 

[Ionman34]

There never really was a definitive moment that decided me as a Spurs fan, I just was for as long as my memory goes back.
My dad was born and raised in Tottenham and raised me on stories of the double winning side. He can tell a yarn, my old man, so he really painted a picture of the greatest team ever to walk the planet, playing the game the way it was always meant to be played. There was never any pressure to be a Yid from him, there never needed to be.
There have only ever been 2 sports in our house, when I was kid, Football and Cricket (ironically I played cricket for Essendon village lol, the place Essendon in Oz is named after) so Football has been our religion and Spurs the object of worship.
I said in a previous post, WHL is the only place in the entirety of the UK that I miss since I moved to Oz and it always will be.

 

[Hot-Spur]

Because of my teenage crush on Mr Lineker

 

[gp13tot]

Me old man is a gooner, so i went the other way. Remember watching a NLD on the telly with him (the old 'Big Match') in 88 or 89. Spurs lost but i liked cheering for the opposite team to him, and i liked the sound of the team name - Tottenham Hotspur. So much better than Ar5ena1 FC.

Loved Gazza and Lineker when they played for England, around 89/90 - both were at Spurs at the time so as i got more into Football i 'followed' them to Spurs and the club quickly became permanently tattooed onto my soul, cheered on every game rather than just to wind me old man up!

 

[kaz Hirai]

we're popular and 3rd in the league.

I'm just a massive glory hunter

 

[Dubwise]

There never really was a definitive moment that decided me as a Spurs fan, I just was for as long as my memory goes back.
My dad was born and raised in Tottenham and raised me on stories of the double winning side. He can tell a yarn, my old man, so he really painted a picture of the greatest team ever to walk the planet, playing the game the way it was always meant to be played. There was never any pressure to be a Yid from him, there never needed to be.
There have only ever been 2 sports in our house, when I was kid, Football and Cricket (ironically I played cricket for Essendon village lol, the place Essendon in Oz is named after) so Football has been our religion and Spurs the object of worship.
I said in a previous post, WHL is the only place in the entirety of the UK that I miss since I moved to Oz and it always will be.

Thats exactly the same with me and supporting Collingwood, i can't remember not being a collingwood fan and I am not sure how much you know about AFL but collingwood has a very rich history and I was raised on similar stories (from my mum's side of the family that is), also getting to go to the games each week as a kid makes it so exciting

I wish i could swap that experience for Spurs though, i always wished i had been raised in the UK and could have had the same childhood experience with Football as i have with AFL

A lot of people from the UK who meet me find it odd that i follow Spurs so closely as i have no attachment to it, thats why i am curious about it i guess, sorry to ramble on about an entirely different code

 

[Ionman34]

Thats exactly the same with me and supporting Collingwood, i can't remember not being a collingwood fan and I am not sure how much you know about AFL but collingwood has a very rich history and I was raised on similar stories (from my mum's side of the family that is), also getting to go to the games each week as a kid makes it so exciting

I wish i could swap that experience for Spurs though, i always wished i had been raised in the UK and could have had the same childhood experience with Football as i have with AFL

A lot of people from the UK who meet me find it odd that i follow Spurs so closely as i have no attachment to it, thats why i am curious about it i guess, sorry to ramble on abwout an entirely different code[/QU

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We used to get late night AFL on channel 4 when I was younger, it always reminded me of a game we used to play at school during 'silly season', Murderball! Used to get battered by all the upper years in that game. You lot just added referees!

I don't find it odd at all that you follow Spurs tbh. I have always felt that Tottenham were always synonymous with flair Football and always had an air of Footballing romance around them. I've always felt that is why every other big London club detests us with a passion, we have something they have never had and never will.


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[Spurrific]

Well initially I thought this site was for the San Antonio Spurs, recently found out it wasn't and haven't looked back.

 

[Dubwise]

Thats exactly the same with me and supporting Collingwood, i can't remember not being a collingwood fan and I am not sure how much you know about AFL but collingwood has a very rich history and I was raised on similar stories (from my mum's side of the family that is), also getting to go to the games each week as a kid makes it so exciting

I wish i could swap that experience for Spurs though, i always wished i had been raised in the UK and could have had the same childhood experience with Football as i have with AFL

A lot of people from the UK who meet me find it odd that i follow Spurs so closely as i have no attachment to it, thats why i am curious about it i guess, sorry to ramble on abwout an entirely different code[/QU

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We used to get late night AFL on channel 4 when I was younger, it always reminded me of a game we used to play at school during 'silly season', Murderball! Used to get battered by all the upper years in that game. You lot just added referees!

I don't find it odd at all that you follow Spurs tbh. I have always felt that Tottenham were always synonymous with flair Football and always had an air of Footballing romance around them. I've always felt that is why every other big London club detests us with a passion, we have something they have never had and never will.


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You said you now live in OZ, which part? If you have not been to an AFL game you shoud, its a good spectacle, the game is not very tactical or hard to understand, but its incredibly physical, in my view the most physical sport that is played professionally, its amazing how fit the players are, its not a sport you can take seriously as the League is absurd and not a fair competition

Anyway, if you are in OZ i hope you have foxtel, unless u have a season ticket at WHL you get to see a lot more spurs here than in the UK

 

[doowaa]

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=58672

This is an older thread that has some great fan stories in it. Happy reading

 

[dav3j]

We used to get late night AFL on channel 4 when I was younger, it always reminded me of a game we used to play at school during 'silly season', Murderball! Used to get battered by all the upper years in that game. You lot just added referees!

Sounds like a variant we used to play at school called "Deathball"! If half of you weren't out with sprained ankles within 10 minutes, you weren't playing it right!

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Don't apologise, it wasn't boring at all, it was very interesting and I enjoyed reading it.

Spurs was the only option, quite literally. I think I'd have been thrown off a cliff like a Spartan baby girl if I'd chosen anything else. My dad and his brother both supported Spurs from when they were little boys growing up in Cyprus. Why? Because my grandad went on a business trip to England and when he came back and was asked by the two boys what football he saw in England, he told them all about Jimmy Greaves. Fast forward to now and you have 5 c.6ft men (well, my cousin Nick is 6ft4) piling into my uncles Fiat 100 every home game to trek down to the lane, and until I cut my hair we all sported mullets Waddle would've been proud of. My dad and Uncle had been going since the beginning of the 70's, and me my whole life pretty much (I'm 26 and in my 15th season ticket year but had been going a long time before that on my uncles ticket as he often had business abroad when I was young).

So yeah, it's in the blood. My boys will support Spurs, and their boys, and their boys and their boys boys.

 

[RickyVilla]

My boys will support Spurs, and their boys, and their boys and their boys boys.

But will they have mullets?

 

[akie]

Took to my first game (2-0 victory over Newcastle at WHL), and never looked back, however being in the north west means most games ive seen have been against bolton, blackburn, liverpool, everton, utd, city, ive seen many losses!!!

 

[Dubwise]

Don't apologise, it wasn't boring at all, it was very interesting and I enjoyed reading it.

Spurs was the only option, quite literally. I think I'd have been thrown off a cliff like a Spartan baby girl if I'd chosen anything else. My dad and his brother both supported Spurs from when they were little boys growing up in Cyprus. Why? Because my grandad went on a business trip to England and when he came back and was asked by the two boys what football he saw in England, he told them all about Jimmy Greaves. Fast forward to now and you have 5 c.6ft men (well, my cousin Nick is 6ft4) piling into my uncles Fiat 100 every home game to trek down to the lane, and until I cut my hair we all sported mullets Waddle would've been proud of. My dad and Uncle had been going since the beginning of the 70's, and me my whole life pretty much (I'm 26 and in my 15th season ticket year but had been going a long time before that on my uncles ticket as he often had business abroad when I was young).

So yeah, it's in the blood. My boys will support Spurs, and their boys, and their boys and their boys boys.

Thats awesome, i would love to be able to share my fanaticism with my family like that

The day i went to the Lane is probably the best day of my life, i was only 18 and by myself, didn't realise how far the walk was from seven sisters station(?) to the lane and i thought i would stop off at a few pubs on the way, well as it was a long walk and theres a lot of pubs i ended up somewhat drunk, but i was very merry, went to the pub right next to the ground (the corner flag?), which was a bit of a thrill for me to be in a pub full of spurs fans for the first and so far only time in my life.
It was a drab game, Stephen Iverson scored, David Ginola was flying and Benito Carbone tore us apart. I got to shout some abuse at Gorge Grham, eventhough he was our manager it had been building in me for years
The thing i really loved was on my way home (i had to catch the bus back to loughborough) i was at victoria bus station and there were fans from all over the country travelling home from their away days, it was a cool atmosphere and i met some Man City fans who i went for some beers with and just talked football.
If i could repeat that weekend every week my life would be grand, although a better result may help.
Anyway, that was fun for me to remember that, would have been cool to share it with someone but as an 18 year old Aussie by himsefl it was a memorable day, If i was to have a dying wish it would be to go to a NLD derby, yu have no idea how lucky you are to have been a season ticket holder for 15 years! (well i am sure you do)