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Still remember this game clearly. Was living near the junction of White Hart Lane and the Great Cambridge Road. Went with my dad ( I was 8) and along the way we picked up a friend of mine. It also happened to be his first THFC game. We stood in the Shelf, not far from the corner.....near the Paxton. Can, even now, vividly see Peters scoring at the Paxton Road end.
Was also at that Villa game. we scored those 3 goals in the last 11 minutes. Unreal.
Always thought that Hodd got 2 and Jonah 1. Might be wrong though.
We did the same with my nephew's first game, he was only 3 or so. No chance of getting a milk crate through the gates now!
Spurs v Coventry
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May 97, i was 9
Coventry had to win to stay up, we duly obliged
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May 97, i was 9
Coventry had to win to stay up, we duly obliged
Years ago - there used to be small wooden steps leading up to the pitch from the terraces at the Paxton and Park Lane. If you got in the ground early enough, you could sit at the top of the one located right behind the goal.
Was that
The thing I remember about that game was the shit brown shirts Coventry were wearing?
Spurs 1-1 Leicester 1973...Gilly + Weller for them.Sat above the old west stand enclosure with my Italian Dad who didn’t give a fuck who won! I’d have been 7.Next game was when we were in the old 2nd div when I started going with my pals.
I have just googled it and stand corrected-Hod did score 2 and Jones got one.I also got the year wrong, it was 1979.The advancing years have clearly played havoc with my memory.
First game: I grew up in rural Norfolk. Dad hated all sport apart from snooker and wrestling, bizarrely, which to his death he refused to believe was fixed. He took me to a Norwich game when I was 7 or so, they were in the second, maybe third division then. We sat in the posh seats, no programme, he didn't know any of the players or much of what was happening as I remember. My memory of it is that we sat and watched an unremarkable game in near silence, then went home.
Second game: a few years later I'd got more into football, decided Spurs were my team, partly because I liked the name (initially I picked three teams before I realised you could only have one. The other two were Wolves, understandably, and West Brom, which defies explanation). I'd gone to saty with my sister who was at Uni in London, her new boyfriend was from New Southgate and a mad Spurs fan who'd seen us win the double. He asked me if I fancied going to the game vs West Ham on Boxing Day, of course I did. So he bought me a navy blue silk scarf, which were all the rage at the time, tied to your wrist, which had Tottenham Hotspur on one side and Park Lane End on the other. He took me down the front of said end and just after we got there, Bill Nic was walking round the perimeter, shaking hands with fans. Ian (now my brother-in-law, still a huge fan, our last game together was me treating him to a tour of WHL just before it got pulled down then Leverkeusen at Wembley) stuck out my hand and I got to shake the great man's. Can't remember anything of the game or the result, just being in awe the whole time.
YIDS
Second game: a few years later I'd got more into football, decided Spurs were my team, partly because I liked the name (initially I picked three teams before I realised you could only have one. The other two were Wolves, understandably, and West Brom, which defies explanation). I'd gone to saty with my sister who was at Uni in London, her new boyfriend was from New Southgate and a mad Spurs fan who'd seen us win the double. He asked me if I fancied going to the game vs West Ham on Boxing Day, of course I did. So he bought me a navy blue silk scarf, which were all the rage at the time, tied to your wrist, which had Tottenham Hotspur on one side and Park Lane End on the other. He took me down the front of said end and just after we got there, Bill Nic was walking round the perimeter, shaking hands with fans. Ian (now my brother-in-law, still a huge fan, our last game together was me treating him to a tour of WHL just before it got pulled down then Leverkeusen at Wembley) stuck out my hand and I got to shake the great man's. Can't remember anything of the game or the result, just being in awe the whole time.
YIDS
It never started with a game. It started with the 1978 panini sticker pack with Ricardo Villa, and Ossie Ardiles.
Something about Ricky, the kit, it looked special. Some how magical. Then I saw hoddle score a goal on match of the day and I was in. Went to my first game after two years of nagging my totally uninterested dad to take me. Would have been 1980 and I was 6 .
I can't even recall the exact first game. My freind Chris *twenty years my senior )said he saw the Hendrix Experience in Kent in 67 and it was like seeing colour tv in a black and white world. I felt that about the Argentines at Spurs.
Something about Ricky, the kit, it looked special. Some how magical. Then I saw hoddle score a goal on match of the day and I was in. Went to my first game after two years of nagging my totally uninterested dad to take me. Would have been 1980 and I was 6 .
I can't even recall the exact first game. My freind Chris *twenty years my senior )said he saw the Hendrix Experience in Kent in 67 and it was like seeing colour tv in a black and white world. I felt that about the Argentines at Spurs.
Tottenham Norwich for the Fa cup this year 
