Why Spurs?

[LondonOllie]

Come from Finchley. Growing up it was either Spurs or the Gooners. In fact the 1st match I got taken to was a Gooner FA cup match back in the late 70s. My Mum's friends son who must have been in his early 20s took me when I was about 8 as he was a massive Goon fan.

From that point on, I supported Spurs :bigsmile:

 

[Shanks]

Most of my close mates are spurs fans as well as all my family.

Makes for great days down the pub, or trips to WHL.

Hopefully, the boys can get us to the cup final whilst I'm on holiday, but semi final day will be sweet, watching the game sat at a bar on a brazilian beach, with my brother, and old dear who are both spurs fans too.

 

[mattyspurs]

I'm the only one :-( my sister moved to the dark side several years ago and I can't get her back because of ger husband

shanks, you are a ****! but I mean that in the nicest possible way ;-)

 

[Dannyspur]

Born in North Middlesex hospital lived in Fore St until I was 5, dad was a spur as were most of the family who all lived around Edmonton.

Parents moved to Bournemouth when I was 5 but have been a Spur all my life!

 

[Dannyspur]

Most of my close mates are spurs fans as well as all my family.

Makes for great days down the pub, or trips to WHL.

Hopefully, the boys can get us to the cup final whilst I'm on holiday, but semi final day will be sweet, watching the game sat at a bar on a brazilian beach, with my brother, and old dear who are both spurs fans too.

I will be in Hawaii for the semi - don't know if they'll show it there!

 

[chadders]

First team I saw on TV pretty much, have no connection to that area of London, my Dad supported Burnley as a kid and my brother Everton... weird bunch!

 

[myhartlane]

I followed my older brother. My parents came from Caribbean in late 50s/early 60s and had no allegiances. We grew up in Hatfield, Herts and most kids at the time (70's) generally supported Arse or Tottenham.

Story goes that my brother and my Mum went to Hatfield town centre to look for a school bag for my brother (aged about 7) and narrowed the choice down to the "Red one or the Blue one", clearly my brother made the right choice! My mum then told him that he would have to support Tottenham now. 37 years later, here I am!

 

[Aero]

All my Mum's family grew up in Tottenham, my Grandad even had trial with before the war, but then he went off to war and then had a family, so that put paid to that dream. But they all used to go during the 60's, and even now my Mum tells me how good they were!

Still trying to figure out how my brother became a West Ham fan though!!!!!!

 

[spurs mental]

My Grandad supported Spurs, along with the rest of my Dad's side. My Grandad met Pat Jennings, I think it was, and he supported Spurs from then on. Watched most of the games with him, IIRC, and he taught me to play football too. Along with that, my Grandmother got me a couple of jerseys, and nothings changed since, apart from how much I get into watching games now.

 

[sim0n]

My great grand dad played for Spurs, so there's only ever been one team for me.

P.S. Check the signature team photo below -- he's second row from bottom immediately left of the shield. He's buried in Tottenham cemetery just next to the Antwerp. We visit his grave before matches for luck. His headstone faces the stadium.

 

[wearetheparklane]

My great grand dad played for Spurs, so there's only ever been one team for me.

P.S. Check the signature team photo below -- he's second row from bottom immediately left of the shield. He's buried in Tottenham cemetery just next to the Antwerp. We visit his grave before matches for luck. His headstone faces the stadium.

Winner.

 

[Shanks]

Yeah proper winner!!

 

[Durrrr]

My Dad was a Fulham fan and dragged me to a few Fulham and Wimbledon games as a lad. It would generally finish with us in a pub and my mum and dad rowing cos he was slaughtered again.
He wasn't a strong influence on my early life so I decided Fulham wasn't for me. I was more interested in this chap Hoddle. Everyone else seemed to support Liverpool in those days, but I had no affinity with them. I wanted to support a London side, and Spurs had Hoddle. Also somehow around that time I managed to pick up a Spurs scarf so it was fate really.

It's a real test of character supporting Spurs I believe. Only the strongest have the ability to do so. The weak support Man U, Chelsea or Arsenal.

If you were growing up in the 90's instead of the 80's would you have still chosen spurs? That Freud is a special player...

 

[soup]

Born in 1974 and my name's Glen.

Who else could I have supported?!

 

[soup]

His headstone faces the stadium.

Got a lump in my throat reading that.

May he rest happily in peace, watching us forevermore.

I can only hope to be as fortunate when I eventually pass on.

Great story, Simon.

 

[stormfly]

I supported them because my old man did. I grew up in Dorset in the 80's and everyone supported Liverpool and my mates would take the mick out of me for being the only Spurs fan. My old man told me to say to them "If I want to watch a bunch of robots boring teams to death until they win then I would support Liverpool but I would rather support a team that plays the best football in the league". Wise words but I never used them, I would just twat 'em.

 

[riggi]

I supported them because my old man did. I grew up in Dorset in the 80's and everyone supported Liverpool and my mates would take the mick out of me for being the only Spurs fan. My old man told me to say to them "If I want to watch a bunch of robots boring teams to death until they win then I would support Liverpool but I would rather support a team that plays the best football in the league". Wise words but I never used them, I would just twat 'em.

Beautiful :lol:

 

[Mr-T]

The main reason is a certain argie with a beard completely raping man city's defence (in the pardew sense of the word of course).

 

[yawa]

My best mate supported them when we were about 6/7 and so i ended up supporting them.

 

[chairman]

The 1921 cup final swung it for me