"No one today would dream of calling their club Hotspur"

[Shea]

I * wasn't being flippant, yes i do know that we played in a red strip a very long time ago but we have been known as the Lilywhites and played in navy and white for a much longer time and that's long been part of the identity of the club.

I never said you were being flippant

I said the person who replied to you about the fact we played in red was being flippant about your comment that we must never play in red by showing you that long ago we already have (I assume the poster who replied to you was a he so I don't know why you felt to change what I wrote to a she)

I also just said all white shirt is now part of our identity and we're the Lillywhites (in the very post you quoted) so you don't need to tell me we're known as the lillywhites

 

[CosmicHotspur]

I never said you were being flippant

I said the person who replied to you about the fact we played in red was being flippant about your comment that we must never play in red by showing you that long ago we already have (I assume the poster who replied to you was a he so I don't know why you felt to change what I wrote to a she)

I also just said all white shirt is now part of our identity and we're the Lillywhites (in the very post you quoted) so you don't need to tell me we're known as the lillywhites

I sit corrected.

 

[Annabel]

Apparently some of my first words were "todnam hobspur", my older cousin brainwashed me...

However IF there is a super league breakaway, and IF we are a part of it, I can eventually see some new owners trying to call us the London Spurs.

Whatever TTID

 

[myhartlane]

I agree, that's why I've always been a bit lukewarm about "Spurs".

 

[myhartlane]

Hull FC and Kingston Rovers are the only super league teams in recent times not to have adopted such unutterably naff monickers

However, I heard some sports reporter on Radio 4 this morning referring to them as Hull KR which got me ranting in the shower on this very topic. Interesting coincidence.

Hull Kingston Rovers like Tottenham Hotspur has a great aura of historical gravitas

 

[HotspurFC1950]

Our stadium is not in White Hart Lane. Not even close enough in my book.

 

[HotspurFC1950]

We have displayed a propensity to change our club name in the past.

 

[HotspurFC1950]

That's one of the things I've always liked since I was a kid. That only Spurs were so well known they could be known by their nickname. Only Wolves come close in that respect. And then we have the utter naffness of the others' nicknames such as Gunners, Reds, Ree Devils and Pensioners

Agree.

 

[SpursManChris]

That's one of the things I've always liked since I was a kid. That only Spurs were so well known they could be known by their nickname. Only Wolves come close in that respect. And then we have the utter naffness of the others' nicknames such as Gunners, Reds, Ree Devils and Pensioners

Did you mean to rate my post instead of reply to it? How was I even particularly friendly there?

 

[Dharmabum]

I suggest that Patrick Collins comes up with not just new names for football clubs but also for the whole of UK. In fact, UK in itself "seem like an hoplessly archaic" name. Most of the streets should be changed and as well name of places.
And why use "hopelessly archaic" names like Patrick

 

[Ironskullll]

Did you mean to rate my post instead of reply to it? How was I even particularly friendly there?

No I did mean to rate it as friendly. I didn't mean to repeat anything you'd said or paraphrase you - I don't even recall seeing your comment - my "friendly" rating was of a "great minds think alike" nature where you share a wry smile over a pint, smugly realising that the rest of the world might not quite be on the same wavelength. And I felt all warm and friendly towards you in that you perhaps had said something very similar. Should I change it?