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I don't know what it is!..in 2 years time I would have been going to the lane for 50 years.
I cant explain how low the lows go, I cant explain the elation at the high's..
my dad was a Glaswegian & a massive celtic fan but he loved his football & every Saturday after finishing work .... sat mornings was part of the working week then!.. would go to a game with my uncle's & brothers & assorted cousins and hangers on from the neighbourhood.. whichever one nearby that was the most appealing...
i went to the lane first but as a small kid I went to highbury, the o's Brisbane road, upton park & Stamford bridge as well ( the chav game was unique as even the few chav fans about then still don't believe me who was in goal!).. but there was always something different & special inside me about thfc..
I firmly believe spurs chose me... the one thing I always remember to this day about my first game at the lane was getting of the 243 bus at bruce grove & from there you could see the old floodlights high above any buildings.. that knot feeling in your stomach happened.... it was still there last week outside the ground v west ham.
we've won the league in my lifetime but I cant remember..would be special if it happened again but i'm not holding my breath & would follow spurs whatever
league we ended up in !.. why!!!.......... I still don't know.
I cant explain how low the lows go, I cant explain the elation at the high's..
my dad was a Glaswegian & a massive celtic fan but he loved his football & every Saturday after finishing work .... sat mornings was part of the working week then!.. would go to a game with my uncle's & brothers & assorted cousins and hangers on from the neighbourhood.. whichever one nearby that was the most appealing...
i went to the lane first but as a small kid I went to highbury, the o's Brisbane road, upton park & Stamford bridge as well ( the chav game was unique as even the few chav fans about then still don't believe me who was in goal!).. but there was always something different & special inside me about thfc..
I firmly believe spurs chose me... the one thing I always remember to this day about my first game at the lane was getting of the 243 bus at bruce grove & from there you could see the old floodlights high above any buildings.. that knot feeling in your stomach happened.... it was still there last week outside the ground v west ham.
we've won the league in my lifetime but I cant remember..would be special if it happened again but i'm not holding my breath & would follow spurs whatever
league we ended up in !.. why!!!.......... I still don't know.
Can't imagine not being Spurs.
But it's not my world.
The "football club" has long gone. They treat me as a client reference number - says it all for me.
But it's not my world.
The "football club" has long gone. They treat me as a client reference number - says it all for me.
It's close to Chick King.
If you cut me in half, I bleed the colour of the club.
Only to about a million.......... probably more than you've had hot dinners or shags, young man! Now stop disrespecting your elders and betters and go back to your homework.
PS - So, are you going to change your name now?
you boys can use whatever language you like amongst yourselves but I don't appreciate it being used against me, please don't do it again
yes yes true spurs ,lets hear more
I actually pity the people I know who are a loose selection of Chelsea, Man Utd, Woolwich, Liverpool fans. They don't seem to share the same affection I do. It's common amongst my friends for their team to be playing and for them to be sitting in FIFA instead or up the pub not watching the game.
Yeah they might celebrate the victories and ignore the losses but I always know that their so called joy from a result is hollow and false, and even though this means when Spurs lose I feel a gut wrenching pain which sits so fucking deep it won't go, it also means I get to have the most ridiculous fucking highs imaginable when we win and they will never ever be able to expierience it.
Its very hard to put into words, all I know is I love Tottenham Hotspur as much as I love my family members. It's such a huge part of my identity. Part of me wishes I didn't feel the passion as much as I do, but it really can't be helped. I was hooked from the minute I walked into WHL nearly 45 years ago, I still remember it as if it was yesterday. Nearly all the best and worst days in my life are Spurs connected. You can't explain how you feel to someone who doesn't 'get it' but then you don't have to explain it to those who do. After we beat Chelsea 5-1 in the League Cup semi in 2002, I went into work with the biggest grin on my face.... I was asked if that was better than sex - I replied better than sex and chocolate put together!
Heartache and ecstasy, gut-wrenching and orgasmic, all in equal measure.
It is everything. Almost all of my life revolves around what is happening with Spurs. It has the power to render me happy or deeply sad, angry and disappointed. My week and life always looks forward to the next game and remembering the last and how my week has been ultimately depends on how Tottenham have done.
The control it has over me can lead to awful, awful times, but it is all made worth it when the glory comes, no matter how small the glory is.
The control it has over me can lead to awful, awful times, but it is all made worth it when the glory comes, no matter how small the glory is.
The typical douchebag glory hunters here in the States support Manure, Chelski, Man Shitty, and Woolwich but the Spurs supporters I have met are a different breed. They are the sort that love heartache, appreciate the fantastic highs, relish being the perpetual underdog, and know what it is to love your club through and through....I wouldn't have it any other fucking way!
To me supporting Spurs shows a real strength of character, especially at times like this when fans of other teams keep taking the piss! I'm always proud to say I support Spurs, and have done for over 30 years now. For me, its also something I share with my son - the highs and the lows, watching the games on tv, huddled round the laptop searching for an illegal stream or, when I'm not skint, at WHL.
I remember my dad taking me to my first trip to The Lane, and hearing "Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur" as the players came down the tunnel - real hairs standing up on the back of my neck moment. That was mid 1980's and I've never forgotten it.
I remember going to Gazza's last game and that was like a bereavement. Then when Bale left, that ruined my entire Summer. The feeling after we've lost a cup final or been knocked out of a competition is like nothing else - the depression is still there when I wake up next morning. Its mad that a football club can make me feel like that, and its not done much for my Christmas this year either.
Most of all, to me supporting Spurs means never-ending optimism every August ..... then come December, beginning to think "oh well, next season will be our year" and the cycle starting all over again!
I remember my dad taking me to my first trip to The Lane, and hearing "Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur" as the players came down the tunnel - real hairs standing up on the back of my neck moment. That was mid 1980's and I've never forgotten it.
I remember going to Gazza's last game and that was like a bereavement. Then when Bale left, that ruined my entire Summer. The feeling after we've lost a cup final or been knocked out of a competition is like nothing else - the depression is still there when I wake up next morning. Its mad that a football club can make me feel like that, and its not done much for my Christmas this year either.
Most of all, to me supporting Spurs means never-ending optimism every August ..... then come December, beginning to think "oh well, next season will be our year" and the cycle starting all over again!
Pretty much the same as Mrs.P above, was April 1970 when I got to go to WHL for the first time and I too can still conjure up the image 43 years on. It was a mixture of smells...roll ups, westles hot dogs and horse shit!.
It was a night game too which just added to the drama, excitement and sheer thrill of seeing Tottenham Hotspur live.
At school in Kent you were either Spurs or Woolwich, no chelscum or man utd or liverpool in those days and me and my mates we firmly Spurs. Since then I, like many others, have experienced the highs and lows of supporting Tottenham. The best way I can describe it is when my son was born i was naturally delighted but that feeling of happiness comes nowhere near the feeling I had when we beat the chav vermin at Wembley in 2008. I asbsolutely despise chelsea, so when we did them that day it was a feeling like no other. I have seen us win 4 league cups, 2 eufa cups and 3 fa cups...9 trophies in 43 years..one every 5 years near enough....and the last was in 2008..omen??
I just love Tottenham Hotspur they mean the world to me.
It was a night game too which just added to the drama, excitement and sheer thrill of seeing Tottenham Hotspur live.
At school in Kent you were either Spurs or Woolwich, no chelscum or man utd or liverpool in those days and me and my mates we firmly Spurs. Since then I, like many others, have experienced the highs and lows of supporting Tottenham. The best way I can describe it is when my son was born i was naturally delighted but that feeling of happiness comes nowhere near the feeling I had when we beat the chav vermin at Wembley in 2008. I asbsolutely despise chelsea, so when we did them that day it was a feeling like no other. I have seen us win 4 league cups, 2 eufa cups and 3 fa cups...9 trophies in 43 years..one every 5 years near enough....and the last was in 2008..omen??
I just love Tottenham Hotspur they mean the world to me.
Piss taking aside, why do I love this club? For me it was installed from a young age by a Father that saw the Double team of the 60's and the European Trail blazers, a club that had the highest average attendence of the 1st division in the 1960s'.......my first game was the charity shield of 1981, up on the coaches from Somerset, even now we have shed loads of supporters in the south west, people scaling the wallls to get in, all the kids down the front, being offer whisky by a Spurs fan, politely declining, but looking round to see him having a glug and a laugh with a fellow Yid, someone he would not even notice on a normal day in work or just out and about, but bonded by the bond that we all know and acknowldge when we go to WHL or go away......( fuck this is good even for me!!) we are Spurs, we are not United or City our Roots are true and our supporters are faithful. Going to WHL in the 90's was a mare, looking back my Dad was hurting on what we had, I never knew it, my boy knows we can play in the Champs league, the recent beatings by the Scousers and Citeh have showed him what being Spurs is.....But to my delight he has bounced back after the Utd victory, like we all do, and cant wait for the Palace game, which is our next visit.
So why? Having the piss taken by my Cov City mates after getting beat 4-1 at highfield, getting beat 7-0 at Newcastle, the points deduction, Everton 4-1 in the cup semi final, losing 5-3 to man fucking city after being 3-0 up, going to the 93 semi final and losing to that lot, Seeing Ian Wright giving the salute to us on the shelf when they got a lucky late winner, watching a bunch a wannabe fans celebrating in south west london, yes it all sticks in the throat, i was there at Oldham where we HAD to win, when we drew away at Peterborough in the FA cup, when we got dumped by ipswich in the cup, losing to Port Vale in the FA cup.........but fuck it, because for all those losses we had the Forest win in 91 and Gazzas free kick in the semi, We had Alan Neilsen's head, we had Woodys deflected header, Crocuhy at Citeh, watching my team in Milan was the ultimate..........and through it all despite players, coaches, kit changes is the one thing that unites us......ourselves, we are Spurs, we are the Yid Army, you know it, i know it, you see a fellow Spur and you say Hello or give him the Yiddo!! It can be on tube, on the piss, on holiday. We would probably disagree on anything else in life but we have that one bond and come what may tomorrow, if we win I share the news and beers with fellow yids, if we lose, so what they are wankers and we move on, we are spurs......
So why? Having the piss taken by my Cov City mates after getting beat 4-1 at highfield, getting beat 7-0 at Newcastle, the points deduction, Everton 4-1 in the cup semi final, losing 5-3 to man fucking city after being 3-0 up, going to the 93 semi final and losing to that lot, Seeing Ian Wright giving the salute to us on the shelf when they got a lucky late winner, watching a bunch a wannabe fans celebrating in south west london, yes it all sticks in the throat, i was there at Oldham where we HAD to win, when we drew away at Peterborough in the FA cup, when we got dumped by ipswich in the cup, losing to Port Vale in the FA cup.........but fuck it, because for all those losses we had the Forest win in 91 and Gazzas free kick in the semi, We had Alan Neilsen's head, we had Woodys deflected header, Crocuhy at Citeh, watching my team in Milan was the ultimate..........and through it all despite players, coaches, kit changes is the one thing that unites us......ourselves, we are Spurs, we are the Yid Army, you know it, i know it, you see a fellow Spur and you say Hello or give him the Yiddo!! It can be on tube, on the piss, on holiday. We would probably disagree on anything else in life but we have that one bond and come what may tomorrow, if we win I share the news and beers with fellow yids, if we lose, so what they are wankers and we move on, we are spurs......