Regression back to your Spurs childhood

[Mr Lurker]

I just have a scarf but my son wears my signed shirt from when I was a kid (Hoddle, Ossie etc).

Back then in the early 80s I remember painting my red grifter white with radiator paint in honour of the club. Looked absolutely shit, peeled like an onion and got nicked in Downhills Park. While I still very much feel like an 8 year old, I think my wife would cook my bollocks if I tried to spray paint her Kia Rio white and blue.

 

[1882]

I know this is gonna sound biased, but for those of us 'of a certain vintage' shall we say... the shirts of our childhood are ICONIC!!
my first shirt was the 1978 Admiral number, followed shortly by the Le Coq Sportif beauties of the early '80s... I kinda peaked there!!
So of COURSE we're gonna want to revisit those days and still look stylish!

I pity later generations who will only ever have misty-eyed, rose-tinted memories of late 90's chevrons and Zig-Zags and Millenial RED sponsors logos!! That's not a childhood memory, THIS IS:

 

[Mrs Perryman]

In my younger days, don't remember replica shirts being available (maybe they were but too expensive for my pocket).
I used to tie a silk scarf (white with navy cockerels) around my wrist and wear a Rubettes hat.
First time I bought a replica shirt was for the '81 cup final (up in the loft with all my other replica shirts I can't get into anymore!).
Now, I tend to buy an away shirt to wear to matches and I have a few tee shirts that I wear to zumba. I have flip flops that I use for the gym pool and at work, I have a Spurs lanyard with Spurs badges. To finish off my ensemble, I have white and navy plastic bracelets which I wear alternately, depending on my mood.
There's no doubting who I support!

 

[ArtyB]

Happy birthday to us...



Who's Mum is good at baking a cake, we can all pile round to their house and have a kick about in their back garden...

 

[Borodin55]

I have four of these 'retro' shirts (two short sleeved/two long). Bought from the Spurs shop they are superb quality and everyone asks what the badge logo is on the pocket.
Great to iron too (apparently ).
Wearing one now ready for the Saturday pub visit and 3pm kick off match

 

[DTM]

Does any of us of a certain age find themselves behaving like a kid again when it comes to Spurs.? I went for years without wearing colours,expect a small badge. Now I have polo shirts for every day of the week,should I choose and several retro kit tops.
My mate has just bought a pair of spurs trainers from the shop..
Doesn't seem so long ago he was tearing all over the country having "friendly chats" with opposing supporters. Now he is acting like an 8year me.
Discuss

Fans of a certain disposition today absolutely abhor the idea of an adult wearing club colours be it a replica shirt or a hat and scarf in winter when it’s cold. I think I understand the mindset going on there but I don’t actually agree with it. Whosoever chooses to wear the colours shouldn’t be criticised for doing so IMO; and at the same time those that choose not to shouldn’t be tarred as obvious hooligans.

But to answer your question: When I was a younger teenager ... walking from seven sisters to the lane was an expedition - we never took the bus. I loved the feel of football - the dodgy hamburger stands and the stalls selling hats scarfs and badges -the back then occasional punch up - it’s how it was: we had no money to buy the colours - we usually jibbed the train to get south to north and held on to our pennies to get in the boys entrance of the shelf; but I always wanted the current hat or scarf of the day. The first time I actually got myself a scarf and hat it was a discarded one after the 1982 FA cup final 1:1 v QPR.

My experience with the colours thereafter was that they make you a target for a right hander from some wanker so for decades Id never wear them but today I occasionally wear the 1967 away shirt or the 1978 home shirt but Id never buy any of the new stuff!

Im toying with the idea of a pin badge but Im yet to see one that i like.

 

[Pete27]

Only wear retro shirts these days. You just can't beat the classic kit of the early mid-70's.
As per Mrs Perryman, used to wear the scarf round the wrist.
Although that reminds me of the time I was walking back home up Creighton Road after a game and these two Spurs fans pulled up alongside me, decided to put half my scarf inside their car and pull up the window.
Spent the next 200 metres or so running like a maniac, much to their amusement.

 

[Deleted member 13260]

Don't know about anyone else, but everything I have owned in the past 30 ish years - nothing has been red.
Cars always blue - clothes all white/blue/ grey/ black/ purple/yellow - even lighters and such. Just nothing red at all. Old habits die hard I suppose.

Some fans are proud to wear colours, others are proud they don't wear colours. Whatever makes you feel proud is great. I would feel ridiculous wearing red, so in the same regard just avoid that.

As a boy, my mum got me the 90/91 shirt for Christmas. Putting that on.. the way it felt against my skin - the way I would search for it on non school uniform day, or going for a kick about on the road - it's something special to me. Every Christmas since then I have always asked mum to get me one. Partly due to lack of present ideas, but also for what it represents to me personally. A single, unemployed mum, with 2 Spurs supporting boys on a council estate.. she would put a few quid away each month starting in January in order to make sure her 2 boys felt like kings wearing that Lilly white shirt. The other kids on the estate were envious of the official badge shirts we wore.
There never came a time I felt like I wanted to say 'not this year mum' - it's basically tradition now.

I still get a little bit of that feeling the first time I put on my new shirt. It would be ruined if I went and bought it for myself on the day its released - she puts them in a box with blue and white ribbons around it an everything.

I get to the stadium around 10 games per season. The rest of the games, I sit at home with my girlfriend/friends/brothers watching - and always make sure I'm wearing a shirt all day. It's not about what other people see, or other people think, or representing colours - or showing I'm a bad boy by not wearing colours.. it's just a personal thing. Shirts then become 'lucky' for whatever reasons - and they are the ones I wear to games, usually under a zipped up jacket.. not on display, it's the feeling of it against my skin I want, like that Christmas in 1990.

I'm so fucking proud that my team is Spurs. I'm proud that we are shit, that we never win anything, that we have signed disasters, that I have spent decades taking that shirt off at night time - looking at the badge as I throw it in the laundry basket, and wondering "why have you let me down again Tottenham" but I wouldn't want it any other way.
So in that regard, I do like to have visible slices of Spurs for people to see.. blue and white scarves, the car mobile phone holder magnet thing, my grass from the lane key ring - and I love it when these smaller things are noticed by a fellow loser supporter.

After all that, I feel full of optimism and passion. I'm not going to cry, but I seriously think we could get a point this weekend now.

COYS!

 

[Guido 🇺🇦]

Strangely I never wear more than a small badge to matches which is a throw back to away days in the 70s and 80s but had loads of casual items that I used to wear during the rest of the week.

Although as they have worn out/been thrown out I haven't bothered replacing them.

Navy Blue and/or white for match days but only casual clothes, even my suits are navy and I wear a white shirt blue tie. And if I'm wearing a coat I too will go for a Spurs pin, I like the silver ones they have in the shop, really plan, just a cockerel on a ball.

I don't know if it's sad or not but if I look at my entire wardrobe it's practically all navy blue and white!!

But I don't feel comfortable in merch, apart from a pair of Spurs track bottoms for slouching about on a Sunday morning I've never owned any since I was a kid.

 

[Tottenham Sean]

Does any of us of a certain age find themselves behaving like a kid again when it comes to Spurs.? I went for years without wearing colours,expect a small badge. Now I have polo shirts for every day of the week,should I choose and several retro kit tops.
My mate has just bought a pair of spurs trainers from the shop..
Doesn't seem so long ago he was tearing all over the country having "friendly chats" with opposing supporters. Now he is acting like an 8year me.
Discuss

 

[Nutter-Naylor]

Strangely I never wear more than a small badge to matches which is a throw back to away days in the 70s and 80s but had loads of casual items that I used to wear during the rest of the week.

Although as they have worn out/been thrown out I haven't bothered replacing them.

 

[Mrs Perryman]

I looked like Perryman when wearing it though, so it was all worth the torture.

Did you now? Pics please

 

[bobby smith]

I remember the silk scarfs tied round the wrist! Never really saw anyone wearing shirts in the 70's.
I also recal the tartan scarfs even tartan turn ups on jeans, funny thing was as soon as the bay city rollers came out the tartan disappeared overnight!!!

 

[For better or worse]

Bought my first shirt in years at the Newcastle game. Wife hates them... don’t blame her, will wear it around the house on match days and when working from home. Might wear it to a few games... we’ll see. Have a plain silver badge that I sometimes wear when appropriate...

 

[DTM]

Only wear retro shirts these days. You just can't beat the classic kit of the early mid-70's.
As per Mrs Perryman, used to wear the scarf round the wrist.
Although that reminds me of the time I was walking back home up Creighton Road after a game and these two Spurs fans pulled up alongside me, decided to put half my scarf inside their car and pull up the window.
Spent the next 200 metres or so running like a maniac, much to their amusement.

I’ve never seen an early to mid 1970s retro available. 1950’s yes - but not my era, 1960’s I’ve got a couple and 1978 home and away - I have both. I’d like the plain yellow 1975 away shirt but nobody does that retro period. I think THFC are missing out on an obvious market - oldens that want the shirts of their youth rather than today’s utter garbage!

 

[Flannerz]

I haven't bought any shirts since the first Under Armour shirt, I just grew out of buying and wearing football shirts. I also don't play football anymore so have no reason to buy any. I am tempted by the new third shirt though and am also tempted by the yellow Hummel retro away shirt.

 

[Eskimo]

I've got half a dozen or so of the nike pre-match t-shirts which i wear for running, also have the wind cheater and also the hoody again to wear for running.

Wouldnt wear them to football mind - although did wear one to the final screening.

Prior to that i'd boycotted nike for being woolwich.... Sad man that i am.

 

[Tottenham Sean]

I know this is gonna sound biased, but for those of us 'of a certain vintage' shall we say... the shirts of our childhood are ICONIC!!
my first shirt was the 1978 Admiral number, followed shortly by the Le Coq Sportif beauties of the early '80s... I kinda peaked there!!
So of COURSE we're gonna want to revisit those days and still look stylish!

I pity later generations who will only ever have misty-eyed, rose-tinted memories of late 90's chevrons and Zig-Zags and Millenial RED sponsors logos!! That's not a childhood memory, THIS IS:

The fact we kept the kit for a few season helps as well.
The classic 70s home shirt we had from the mid 60s and only changed it to a nylon version and molded plastic cockerel in 75(i think).So we had the same shirt for 10 years.The one in your photo ,3 years. That's what makes kits classic and iconic ,along with childhood/youth memories imho.
That said,when i see the couple of home shirts we have had with yellow in them, i am glad we only had them for a season.

 

[Guido 🇺🇦]

The fact we kept the kit for a few season helps as well.
The classic 70s home shirt we had from the mid 60s and only changed it to a nylon version and molded plastic cockerel in 75(i think).So we had the same shirt for 10 years.The one in your photo ,3 years. That's what makes kits classic and iconic ,along with childhood/youth memories imho.
That said,when i see the couple of home shirts we have had with yellow in them, i am glad we only had them for a season.

That nylon version was my first football shirt! A few embarrassing pics lying around in the loft of me in that I'm sure.

To this day that was the most uncomfortable thing I have ever worn in my life, it was stitched together with fishing line, the ends of which would stab you. The nipple rash that was brought on with anything more than a gentle jog was truly horrendous. I looked like Perryman when wearing it though, so it was all worth the torture.

 

[Tottenham Sean]

That nylon version was my first football shirt! A few embarrassing pics lying around in the loft of me in that I'm sure.

To this day that was the most uncomfortable thing I have ever worn in my life, it was stitched together with fishing line, the ends of which would stab you. The nipple rash that was brought on with anything more than a gentle jog was truly horrendous. I looked like Perryman when wearing it though, so it was all worth the torture.

Was my first shirt as well.
Unfortunately i looked more like Willie Young than Steve Perryman...