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History When did you feel most connected to Tottenham?

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Think for me it was 14th May 2024.

We had just had our fifth defeat in 6 games. Conceded 15 goals and scored 5. But we had Ange Ball. And results and credibility ceased to matter and it was all about him. #angeballbiggerthamtottenham
 
This was my first ever game as a 6/7 year old with my Dad.
Paid cash at turnstile, stood on east lower.
Remember Gazza was meant to be injured - no name on back of programme. Then was announced he was playing and that roar was incredible.
1-1 Nayim scored I think.
I found some highlights of the game years ago on YouTube but think they got removed sadly.
You remember correct. No sign Gazza was playing until the teams was read out.
proper buzz went around the ground. We all knew inside that he was back we was wining the cup a fortnight later.
little did we know how he's affect the finak.
 
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My first game was 1990 at home to City. But my Dad took me to WHL some time before to look around. I loved the way the stadium looked as it appeared from the train line. The feeling of excitement of finally seeing the ground and going to my first match, the sounds around the stadium, wish I could relive that. I have an oldish print of the ground from that exact period. Still terracing on 3 sides. Beautiful. And football to enjoy with England’s two best attacking players.
Great day's sadly gone
 
This was meant to be my first game as an 8 year old with my dad. Still in summer holidays. We were going to meet up with my dad’s old school friend and his Tottenham supporting son.

I recall the night before, we sat down to watch The Land Before Time on rented VHS as a family whilst having fish and chips.

Then disaster struck. Stomach bug. I didn’t make it to the sink to throw up. Later that night my dad came down with the same bug.

Missed it. I remember this more than my first actual game.
1st game of the season 3-1 win
 
Have to say those golden moments following the club.

- Jol finding out he had been sacked during the match
- Replacing Redknapp with an accountant called AVB
- Selling Kane cos he didn’t want to be here anymore
- Furloughing the staff during Covid
- Our glorious application to move to Stratford
- Setting the record of 18 months in the premier league for not buying a player
- Conte going on his biggest ever rant

These are the moments that brought a tear to my eye and made me truly love the club. They all made me so connected.
 
Christ, lately when we had Pochettino as our manager (until we didn't invest in a UCL finalists squad), before that was in the time of Terry Venables and before that Keith Burkinshaw
 
My old man used to take me and my brother to Cheshunt in the early 80,s to watch us train, when you could just walk in, truely magical times when I fell in love with Tottenham. Only occasionally went to matches in the 80s as my old man was a semi pro coach.
The 90,s was the dogs bollocks, the absolute buzz of White Hart Lane and going away, i was 16 in 1990, house music all night long,Italia 90 and Spurs , what a time to be alive.
I was still a regular in the 2000,s, but it was the 90,s for me.
Now look at the state of it
 
Have to say those golden moments following the club.

- Jol finding out he had been sacked during the match
- Replacing Redknapp with an accountant called AVB
- Selling Kane cos he didn’t want to be here anymore
- Furloughing the staff during Covid
- Our glorious application to move to Stratford
- Setting the record of 18 months in the premier league for not buying a player
- Conte going on his biggest ever rant

These are the moments that brought a tear to my eye and made me truly love the club. They all made me so connected.
Good times, good times.
 
My old man used to take me and my brother to Cheshunt in the early 80,s to watch us train, when you could just walk in, truely magical times when I fell in love with Tottenham. Only occasionally went to matches in the 80s as my old man was a semi pro coach.
The 90,s was the dogs bollocks, the absolute buzz of White Hart Lane and going away, i was 16 in 1990, house music all night long,Italia 90 and Spurs , what a time to be alive.
I was still a regular in the 2000,s, but it was the 90,s for me.
Now look at the state of it
Imagine just being able to walk into our Training Centre today. It’s like Fort Knox.

1989-91 were beautiful years. Grounds still had character. And so did we. On and off the field.
 
The final game at WHL. Unbeaten whole season at home and our squad was INCREDIBLE. Gotten 2nd in the league. I could only watch it on TV but the moment the rainbow came, I just teared up - it's all so fitting and beautiful for a closure, you couldn't make that up.


I thought our next chapter will gonna be so glorious...
 
the DPleat season of 86-87 possibly, in that I was still living in London, didnt have kids, had a ST on the Shelf, went to quite a few cup games and away matches too when you could just rock up and get in. Hoddle and Waddle, the Clive Allen goals, Clem as keeper, some great football and seemed like lots of goals
Was so exciting to go and watch that team. None of the sterile environments of today. The anticipation of the match, speculating how many people were going to turn up. Standing on the shelf looking down at the away supporters and seeing them get closer to you as the police opened the next section of the Park Lane end as they filled up the already opened pens. And the attractive football itself played at a faster pace than today without a lot of the play acting and time wasting. A million miles from today’s offering. Take me back any day
 
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