Exciting facts and important events in the history of the Tottenham Hotspur club

Until 1882, the corner of Tottenham High Road and Park Lane was no different from hundreds of cast-iron counterparts scattered throughout London boroughs. Then, on September 5, 1882, the local boys, members of the cricket club, decided to establish a football club, Hotspur. In those years, football clubs in England grew like bee-eaters, crowded and large numbers. In 1884, the club took its current name Tottenham Hotspur, not to be confused with the players of the North London team with FC London Hotspur. The following year the club received professional status, but for two decades, “Spurs” played only in the city competitions; the team managed to break into professional football until 1908, when Tottenham won the right to play in the Second Division. This club is often bet on. Even cricket betting in Indian rupees is ready to compete in the field of betting.

History of Tottenham Hotspur

But even before that, in the 1900/1901 season, Spurs won their first trophy, the FA Cup, held for the 30th time. Tottenham Hotspur faced Sheffield United in the final. The first leg in London was a 2-2 draw. A week later, on April 27, Tottenham got a confident 3-1 win in Bolton. The FA Cup was a record-breaking tradition in the history of British football. For the first (and, most likely, the last time), the Cup was won by a team that had never played in a professional league (at the time, Spurs represented the Southern Football League, which was not a professional league). And at the awarding ceremony, the wife of the Tottenham director, in her joy, sacrificed her hair and tied some colorful ribbons on the Cup. This improvisation has since become a tradition.

Team Development

Two FA Cups in the nearly 70-year history for a club with such ambitions as Spurs is almost nothing. But since the last century, Tottenham slowly began to acquire a reputation as a big club.

When Arthur Rove became head coach of Spurs in 1949, the club won the Second Division. However, the new coach did not come up empty-handed; he invented a rather primitive, by today’s standards, system of “hit-and-run,” in which the player gave a pass to a partner and immediately sought to open up in a favorable position. Now such a system does not carry any surprises, but the opponent Tottenham does not immediately pick up the keys to the new tactics. As a result, in 1950, we won the Second Division, ascended to the First Division, and won it outright. 1951 – the first championship of Hotspur in the elite of English football. But the following season, the rivals had already figured out the secret of successful performance players of North London, and Spurs success came to naught.

Have you noticed the pattern of numbers – all the achievements of Tottenham come at the beginning of the decade: 1901 and 1921 – FA Cup, 1951 – the champions. Fans were waiting for the season 1960/61 with high expectations, the more so because the club was headed in 1958 by Bill Nicholson, the legend of Tottenham, the player and coach of Spurs, whose name is associated with the best years of the team. However, the magic of numbers has not failed: 1961 – and the FA Cup and the championship, “Tottenham” – the first English club, made the “golden double” for one season.

In 1963 Spurs under Nicholson became the first English club to win the European Cup, the Cup Winners’ Cup. Tottenham paved the way for Liverpool, Manchester United, and Chelsea to win European trophies. And you say, “He’s achieved nothing”!

Bill Nicholson managed the team for 16 years until 1974. Out of 23 national trophies of the Lilywhites and four internationals, he won 11 – Champion of England (1), FA Cup (3), Football League Cup (2), FA Super Cup (3), UEFA Cup (1), and Cup Winners’ Cup (1). Even Brian Clough, for whom there was no authority in football, worshipped Nicholson and called him “Mr. Tottenham Hotspur.” In 1974 he resigned as head coach with the words:

“I don’t want to be part of a game where the players don’t respect the coaches anymore, and the fans cut each other up with knives.”

After Nicholson, coaches did not last long at the helm of Tottenham. That is why there were no results worthy of a club of that level – local successes were replaced by playing the role of the average or even stagnating at the bottom of the standings.

Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame

Throughout the club’s history, many outstanding players have worn the Tottenham Hotspur shirt with honor. As a result, there are 39 names in the Spurs Hall of Fame. Each one is worthy of a separate article; at the mention of each word, the heart of a loyal fan of the great club from North London sinks.

Bill Nicholson and Steve Perriman. A paragon of immense devotion to the club. To both, the Spurs are the team of life. 

Seventeen seasons, 866 official matches in the lily-white colors. These are the examples of the young stars at the Tottenham Academy who are brought up.

The British do not often celebrate foreigners, but their achievements are really weighty if they do. The duo of Argentinian world champions Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa are etched in gold letters in the annals of Tottenham. Likewise, Germans Jurgen Klinsmann and Steffen Freund, France’s David Ginola, and current Spurs leader Son Heung-min of Korea all earned the right to be inducted into the club’s Hall of Fame with their fighting qualities.

• Gary Lineker
• Glenn Hoddle
• Teddy Sheringham
• Pat Jennings
• Chris Waddle – “Spurs” with a capital letter! How many times has White Hart Lane exploded with applause in response to the magic of football? How many other English stadiums have applauded these heroes in tribute to their art?

Paul Gascoigne, Peter Crouch, Robbie Keane, Ledley King, Luka Modric – these players are not represented in the Hall of Fame. But they have contributed significantly to the history of the London club, and the fans remember the legendary players with gratitude and consider them their own.

Tottenham emblem and shirt

The first emblem of Tottenham was very plain: on a red background, a big blue letter “H” – Hotspur. A cockerel appeared on a Tottenham shirt in 1901. The first Spurs trophy, the FA Cup, was won with the direct participation of the cocky cockerel Chirpy. In 1909 the symbol of the club took its rightful place in the stadium White Hart Lane. Symbolically, the statue of a rooster riding a football ball was handcrafted by the club’s former player William James Scott.

The Chirpy rooster is now both the club’s emblem and mascot, but it wasn’t always that way. For 11 years, from 1908 to 1919, Tottenham’s mascot was a live parrot brought back from a tour of South America. Then, by a strange coincidence, he died on the day when Arsenal unfairly took Hotspur’s place in the English First Division.