Why Spurs?

[recklessyido]

Been thinking and would like to know why people on here support Spurs, is there a story or just you live close to the ground?

I'm from South Wales and some of you may think.. "shouldn't he support Swansea or Cardiff" Soft spot for Cardiff that's about it. My old man has been a Spurs fan ever since he was young and when I was growing up all I seen was Spurs all over the place and went to games. So thanks to my Dad, I'm a Spurs fan and I couldn't support anyone else if I tried. There's a special bond with me and the club and nothing makes my heart race more than watching the Spurs play at the lane.

Most my mates down here are United fans and I get stick all the time but I always tell them I love my club, go to the games and will always stick by them. More than I can say for them.

 

[Kendall]

I didn't want to support United (like my dad and 8 out of 10 kids up here), Liverpool or Leeds.

I then fell in love with Linekar and Gazza.

 

[EastLondonYid]

called eastlondonyid cos moved there when i was 14

but brought up in edmonton ..opposite pimms park silver street.

could see floodlights from bedroom window as a kid...and hear the roar of the crowd

still get goose bumps.....

eveyone in my street was spurs or we beat them up..lol.

 

[Marty]

Dad's from Southgate and indoctrinated me from an early age. And having Klinsmann and Sheringham as our strike force when I first started going to games helped a lot.

 

[RichieS]

As I suspect with many people, my Dad is Spurs and I don't think I had any choice in the matter. He's from Enfield Lock so obvious choice for him.

 

[JonnySpurs]

Mine's a weird one really.......When I was six years old my auntie wanted to buy me a sports bag for my birthday, I knew bugger all about footy but my bro was already a Liverpool fan at this point so she'd bought him a Liverpool FC bag and figured she'd get me one and just happened to pick Spurs. I found out later it was between that and an Aston Villa one.........yikes.......dodged that bullet! LOL!

Having said that though I think I was destined to be a Spurs fan either way, I just can't see how I would've ended up supporting anyone else, bag from Auntie or otherwise.

I consider that to be the day I was first a Yiddo but my love of footy really began properly watchin World Cup '90 and then Spurs in the FA Cup final in '91, they are my earliest football memories.

 

[Yiddo1982]

 

[Yiddo1982]

I then asked my dad who they both played for, and he said Tottenham. I told him there and then Tottenham was my team!

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Back in the early 1960 my grandad returned home to Cyprus after a business trip to London. When my father, young and football mad, asked which football match he had been to, my Grandad told him that he'd seen Spurs, and that they stood out as being something special. My Father, and his young brother, became fans off the back of that, eventually moving to London and become season ticket holders (1970 for Father) and living, loving and breathing Spurs for ever more.

As a result, upon my birth the brainwashing began almost instantly. I was never told that we weren't as good as we used to be. I was merely told that Spurs had all the best players, Greaves, Hoddle, Gazza, Sheringham, Waddle etc. In my infancy I knew not that this history was just that, history, and that after 91 things would go downhill for at least the next 15 years, so I was brainwashed and like my father and uncle (and his two sons) Spurs pretty much forms the basis by which I live my life.

 

[kernowspur]

I lived in Edmonon until I was 21 so Spurs were my local team -and all my relations supported Spurs. You never lose your first love and they still cause me joy and heartbreak 40 years later.

 

[nedley]

My mother used to take team photos in the early 70's. Claimed she was seduced by Martin Chivers- but nothing happened.

I aint so sure. I look a little like him. Plus im shit hot a football.

 

[mil1lion]

My Dads side of the family are Spurs, my Mums side are Charlton. I chose Spurs, my brother chose Charlton. Ha.

 

[james82mckay]

For me it was a Mixture of things, like many of your my Dad's spurs. Gazza and Linekar had a bit to do with it but the thing that sticks out for me is the 91 cup final. I Was meant to be at a school fair thing with my Dad on Cup final day which obviously he wasn't to happy about. My mum who was a teacher at the school was running the fate was far to busy to keep an eye on us bot so we managed to sneak off to the local pub to watch the game.
Anyway my dad sat me down in the corner to watch the game with a bag of crisps and a can of coke, where i quite happily watched spurs claim the cup trophy and at the same time saw my first naked woman. Turns out the Bar lady was a massive spurs fan and at the final whistle decided to strip naked and dance on a table. Thus at the age of 9 my love for all things Spurs and the female form started.

 

[EastLondonYid]

Back in the early 1960 my grandad returned home to Cyprus after a business trip to London. When my father, young and football mad, asked which football match he had been to, my Grandad told him that he'd seen Spurs, and that they stood out as being something special. My Father, and his young brother, became fans off the back of that, eventually moving to London and become season ticket holders (1970 for Father) and living, loving and breathing Spurs for ever more.

As a result, upon my birth the brainwashing began almost instantly. I was never told that we weren't as good as we used to be. I was merely told that Spurs had all the best players, Greaves, Hoddle, Gazza, Sheringham, Waddle etc. In my infancy I knew not that this history was just that, history, and that after 91 things would go downhill for at least the next 15 years, so I was brainwashed and like my father and uncle (and his two sons) Spurs pretty much forms the basis by which I live my life.

maybe thats why we dont agree ..its a greek thing.

my dad is from cyprus too:rofl:

 

[llamafarmer]

This.

Everyone at my school supported either Liverpool, Arsenal or United - none of them appealed to me. Lineker and Gazza got me interested in Spurs and the rest is history.

I later learned that my grandad used to regularly go to the Lane way back in the day as a lad, although he claims to be a neutral now.

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

My story of being a Yid starts in 1982. I must have been about 2 or 3... my father bought me the centenary kit. There was no junior/child sized kits in those days. That shirt still fit me a decade later until it fell apart! (that's still my favourite Spurs shirt, it was just a better quality than they make these days!)

From there aged about 4, I'd drag my barely toddling 2 year old sister around playing football with me. I would be Hoddle, and I would call her Archibald. Something she still hates me for today, I bet!

I can't remember any of that, my earliest memory, unfortunately is the 1987 cup final... it didn't put me off though, just made me love Spurs all the more and that's how it's stayed ever since. Through thin... and thinner (since 1991, anyway...)...

No matter how bare the trophy cabinet in recent times, our class is still the classiest and the most stylish. That's what matters (though it would be nice to win stuff!)

 

[Dougal]

'Cos Robbie Keane plays for Spurs and he's like the best footballer ever in the universe!

 

[Coalhada]

Day I was born I was brought home to here.

And that was on this day.

Done deal, really.

 

[Gilzeanking]

Its buried in mystery and enigma . I suspect ,as a very young kid I mebbe saw the Double side win the cup on tv...but I don't remember it . All the locals supported Luton .

The World Cup 66 turned me into a Spurs fanatic..no idea why...by '67 cup win I was hopelessly lost...

 

[EastLondonYid]

Day I was born I was brought home to here.

And that was on this day.

Done deal, really.

:clap:
like your style fella