Same as Spurm. Right now the answer is yes I do regret being a Spurs supporter! This is the least I have ever been looking forward to a NLD and that is saying something given some of the ****e teams we have had over the last 20 years or so. I was thinking this may be the most depressing season I have had supporting Spurs. It's a combination of things. The pre-season expectiation with all the "world class" signings. The slow methodical football. 2 managers that I find it hard to like or enjoy them managing our club.
Its sounds crazy to say that when we are 5th based on some of the ****ty teams we've had over the years but i think you might be right. At least when we were ****ty on paper as well as on the pitch the defeats didn't seem so bad, and we rarely got thumped as often either. Plus we always had exciting players, even if it was Jose Dominguez.
My dad (a Southampton fan*) took me to a (the?) wartime cup final. Chelsea beat Millwall 2-0. So I decided to support Chelsea (I was only about 4). Tommy Lawton became my hero. I wrote to him to ask for his autograph. Never got a reply. So I picked out Spurs, then in the old second division, because (like one or two other posters) they had such a wonderful name. Little did I realise this would become a lifelong attachment/addiction! I got a job teaching in White Hart Lane in the seventies, which was a brilliant stroke of good fortune! Used to stand (yes!) with some of my 6th formers at home matches. Anyway, if anyone's in doubt about my commitment after 70 years, just listen to my new anthem (which I posted earlier in the week!): It's Tottenham I Love! (with apologies to The Cure â Itâs Friday Iâm in Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2nLEhUcZ0 ) I don't care if Chelsea's blue, Man Uâs red and Liverpool too. Arsânal I don't care for you! It's Tottenham I love! Premier League or FA Cup Sitting down or standing up, Spurs will always be my club â It's Tottenham I love! The Speclal (Specious?) One just makes me cringe I just laugh at Wengerâs whinge Moyesyâs talkâs beyond the fringe â It's Tottenham I love! Never com-plain! The weekend will come round again - And Iâll be down at White Hart Lane... Barcodes play in white and black; Fulham's down, not coming back; West Ham rent a running-track â It's Tottenham I love! Saints are always hard to beat Stoke just donât admit defeat But red-striped shirts arenât up my street - Itâs Tottenham I love! Swansea fly the flag for Wales West Brom, Villa tell us tales But all their bull**** always fails - Itâs Tottenham I love! Cardiff Bluebirds wear red shirts Everton know failure hurts Palace get their just deserts - Itâs Tottenham I love! Never com-plain! The weekend will come round again - And Iâll be down at White Hart Lane... Sunderland can fall apart Hull and West Ham break my heart But Iâm a Yiddo from the start - It's Tottenham I love! Pardewâs lost it in his head Pellegrini looks half-dead I didnât see what Wenger said - Itâs Tottenham I love! When I heard what my partner said I really could have stayed in bed But Iâm off to White Hart Lane instead â Itâs Tottenham I love! Tell me stories short or tall, Blanchflower, Hoddle, Chivers, Hall, Mabbutt, Ditchburn - love them all!! - It's Tottenham I love! Never com-plain! The weekend will come round again - And Iâll be down at White Hart Lane... I donât care if Chelseaâs blue Man Uâs red and Liverpool too Arsânal I donât care for you â Itâs Tottenham I love!!! Cheers, all! * and my mum supported Woolwich Wanderers! That was fun at home!
I cannot beat what Audrey had to say but no, I have no regrets. There has been some fantastic players to grace WHL in my time of supporting them since the mid 1970s. Many great memories and yes, equally some bad memories. But I imagine supporting Spurs is like the famous quote "It's better to have love and lost, than never loved at all".
11 out of that one,Audrey! Ican vaguely remember my "dad" taking me to a Spurs match in Div2 in the 40's. I suppose I must have been walking by then.......because the silly sod lost me in the crowd and had to walk home to the Great Cambridge Road on my own!!!!
Lived in Walthamstow as a kid and practically everyone supported Spurs. I started going as Hoddle was breaking into the first team. I used to go into the boys enclosure at the start and then up into the shelf. How could I support anybody else? It is a joyful, infuriating, exciting, frustrating, painful kind of a relationship. Not very often boring though.
