Who Do You Support?

We are all supporters of Spurs here (even Luke likes us) but is that exclusive? The thought cropped up on Spurlock's thread about the future.

Do you ONLY support Spurs or do you follow another club as well?

I started life as Dulwich Hamlet supporter so I listen out for them sometimes.

I have to show an interest in Celtic because my Son in Law is a follower.

I follow APOEL in Cyprus when I am there because my Brother in Law is a season ticket holder

And lastly (Sharp intake of breath) I have a soft spot for Liverpool because of the way they took on Europe like no other British Club have and really put the English league back on the map.

So I have come clean, but by far away it is Spurs that is in my heart and Spurs that I love.

How about you?

 

Since moving from hayes middlesex to high wycombe some 30 odd years ago I met a load of new friends and my neighbour at the time was a chef at wycombe wanderers and I went along for a few games with him and enjoyed it.we used to have a group of mates that we drank with down the pub and they were all wycombe born and bred so ended up going to home and away games and when you're with mates you always have a good crack wherever you go. I now know loads of wycombe fans but due to my illness can't really go anymore. I have visited all but a handful of league grounds and a lot of non league grounds over the years but having gone to spurs since I was seven 50 years of following spurs kinda takes over your life. SO no doubt where my loyalties lie .once a shelf side spur always a spur.but I still have affection for the Chairboys

 

Leyton Orient because when I was growing up they were the closest club by location - but I didn't realise that at the time, hence Spurs. Makes the Wet Spam stadium debacle even worse as of course the true "legacy" club in the area should be Orient.

 

Back when Serie A was on Channel 4 I followed Juventus...mainly because they had Roberto Baggio in the team when I started watching.

 

Lazio for me when Gazza signed for them

 

I am Spurs through and through, but I make no secret that alongside that I have been going to Gillingham for over 25 years, and in terms of live attendance at matches I have probably been to over 3 times as many Gills matches as I have Spurs and until we played champions league at Wembley I had been there more often to see The Gills play too (3 play off finals)

 

I went to Gillingham away with wycombe a few years back I think it was boxing day it was bloody freezing at half time we went to get a snack and the bloke opened up the shutter and shouted anyone waiting for a beer my mate said only if it's feckin hot .
The away end had no sides roof or back the wind was howling across from the medway and we were on seating supported by scaffolding which I think they bought from Chelsea which made it worse.nothing against the gills but that was the coldest I have ever been at football and that includes going to Stoke

 

Back in the late 70's, when relegation from the old Division 4 was not automatic but required re-election, it always seemed to be a two horse race between Rochdale and Halifax Town. It seemed to me at the time that the mighty Rochdale could use all the support they could get, consequently I started keeping an eye out for their results. Season after season they continued to languish in the lower reaches so when they did finally win promotion to Division 1 I felt my work was finally done. Having said that I do still keep an eye out for them even now.

 

Lived in a Haringey until I was about 10. That’s where I started supporting Spurs, we could walk to the ground if it wasn’t pissing down.

Then we moved to South London - to Dulwich. Still used to go across and watch Spurs when I could afford it.

Like Spurf, I went to Dulwich Hamlet several times. The old ground at the bottom of Dog Kennel Hill. And used to go to watch Palace quite a bit too. So they’re my ‘other’ teams.

 

Very fond of Wednesday cos Mrs RCL is an childhood owls fan.

 

It is for me. I support one club, but I have interest in others.

The Os, because they are a club local to Spurs and one that
Spurs have had good links with (I seem to recall in the late
70s a number of ex Spurs players went there before finally
retiring) .

Soton, because of the performance of their academy, and
the fact they are in a kindred position to Spurs (how to
continue onwards and upwards long-term with their players
when all and sundry seek to - and do - asset-strip them etc) .

 

That 'temporary' away stand must have been there for nearly 20 years and makes The Gills one of the least hospital clubs to away fans so don't apologise its awful and really should be improved.

 

?
Do you mean hospitable ?

 

Been Spurs since the age of 6 through thick and thin, but brought up in Streatham and Croydon areas, so often went to Palace with schoolmates when not at WHL.
Moved to Enfield in the mid-80’s and adopted Barnet under Barry Fry, the year they got into the FL. Great little team they had there and despite their links to the Goons it always seemed like watching Spurs reserves somehow

Now? No-one - I hate them all

 

Indeed I do

 

I lived about a mile from Selhurst Park for over 20 years and ended up going to a fair number of games as one of my best mates was Head of Security for years. I can happily cheer them on but as they are singing "Eagles", I am singing "Yiddoo's". Nobody notices or if they do, nobody's ever raised it with me.

I remember being in one of Palace's executive boxes, the day when Spurs played Barnsley away in April 98 with Nicola Berti strolling around the pitch.I went mental when I heard on a radio that Colin Calderwood had scored for us, winning us a very valuable point. We survived relegation by 4 points with that win against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park shortly afterwards. Half the ground turned to look at the idiot screaming "Goal. ****ing GOOOOAAAAAALLLL." when the ball went out for a throw-in.

Palace won that day [3-1 I think]. A remarkable feat in the season when they were relegated bottom, with Attilio Lombardo [great player] and Thomas Brolin [ fat past-it ****er] in their team. It was a good day out and well done to them, but I really couldn't have given a hoot, other than it pleased my friends. Although when Simon Jordan took them to the edge of extinction, I did feel very sorry for the fans. I remember driving past the stadium with about 5,000 fans protesting the possible winding-up of the club and feeling like someone was walking over my grave.

You get to love one team and that's it for life. In my family, it's Spurs. My dad's brothers went to Spurs one week and Arsenal the next, in the preceding and immediate post-war years, as was the fashion in those days, but they were always Spurs when you asked them. The old man never went to Highbury with them, other than when we played there, even though he lived just down the road. Imagine that........your second team being THEM?

 

Some love for Qpr cos my old man was mates with a coach there back in the les Ferdinand days and gave us tickets most weekends

Leyton orient, stepmothers family were regulars, every boxing day match we went as tradition thing

Barca, liked the Jersey better than the Madrid one when I went to Spain as a kid plus they had ronaldinho at the time.

Fulham- cos I live near there

Celtic - pikey thing

 

Got a soft spot for Huddersfield Town as I have grown up here and see it as my town apart from that it's usually a season upon season thing but it all comes down to Spurs....if another teams quest will benefit Spurs in some way or another...I become a mini fan for the season. That's stretching it though....I can't follow any other team with any real passion. If Town go down I'll get over it soon enough...if Spurs upset me...ohhhh dear God help those around me.

I got a text from my City supporting brother yesterday saying 'I hear rumours that you aren't answering any calls since Saturday?' I didn't reply.

 

More favourite clubs than Robbie Keane

 

Lol not favoured just keep an eye out for