Also Christian Ziege ,Oyvind Leonhardse, Jamie Redknapp, John Scales , Robbie Keane, Peter Crouch, Ronnie Rosenthal, Nick Barmby.
Have you seen the Spurs fans in Madrid from Australia? Calling themselves Tottenham OzSpurs. Can’t get much more plastic than that.
Hoping for Spurs bu think it'll be Liverpool. It would be ****ing hilarious for Liverpool to have an almost perfect season, yet win nothing.
Im now more desperate than ever for Spurs... excitement rising amongst the Hull Reds here... can feel the first heave of my stomach coming soon..
Maybe the latter, emigration wouldn’t give a broad Australian accent though. Plus there was a fairly large contingent.
Think part of the agreement for giving them the contract in the first place was that the finals (EL and CL) must be shown free to air.
Would like Spurs to win because of a couple of people I knew. One supported Spurs from schooldays. Loved football and we to City as well. When he started work used to go to Spurs regularly home and away and one year won the Spurs Supporter Of The Year Award. To say he was hefty is an understatement, but he knew his football but he started a team up, no prizes for guessing their name, and later the pub team my lads joined. He used to do quizzes for charity and one week I went in and he wasn’t there. Turned out he had gone into hospital for an operation for a mole on his back and they discovered that he was riddled with cancer and he never came out. He was only just turned 50. Must have been the most popular person I have known. Never heard a single person say a single word against him. The other one I ran a junior team with. He was a teacher from London who moved to Hull before moving round our way. He ran a team in Hull called Hotspur. A number went on to play for league clubs, the most successful of them being Neil Thompson. I was the last person to see him alive. I was coming down the hill into Brid and saw him cycling up it. I couldn't stop As there was a car right behind me.I said to the wife I would ring him later. He turned off up Woldgate. Shortly after he was found dead by the side of the road. Only 42, a vegetarian and one of the fittest people of that age I have ever met. It just shows you never can tell. Neil Thompson came to his funeral and brought a signed Ipswich shirt to be raffled at a later event. My mother won it and I appropriated and gave it to a lad at work who was from Ipswich. I wouldn’t mind a win for those two who never got the chance to see it.
Modern day football, unfortunately. Look at those in Baku. Of course anyone from the other side of the world is creditable and understandable.
Definitely Liverpool for me. I always prefer a northern team against the south. But also as just a football supporter i have enjoyed the football they have played over the last two seasons and i also love the Robbo connection.
Graeme Souness was on the books @ Spurs '70-'72, but I'm not sure if he ever started for them as he went out on loan to Montreal Olympique for a brief stint before ending up @ 'Boro. How do I know this - a mate I played with was with Montreal when Souness played there.
I'm not old enough to remember anyone singing anything in the 60's, I just read it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Glory_(football_chant) There's quite a few sites that say Spurs were the first English club, though most suggest Hibs were singing it in the 50's.
Yes, Hibs are credited with being first. Best to take the word of people who say they recall things. Especially over a lot of stuff on Wikipedia. The I’d walk a million miles for one of your goals was started by Forest fans when they had a winger called Sammy. That one spread quickly. More spontaneity and originality back then. We playedvavfriendlybagainst Newcastle when Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance was released. They were singing All We Are Saying Is Give Us A Goal that afternoon. After Liverpool were beaten 5-1 by Ajax, a game of which Shankly said they were never very good against defensive teams, the chant the following week all over was “ Who does the washing up in Liverpool...?”. A good one was Huddersfield, and one that fitted their history, when Mary Hopkinscwas in the charts - “ Those were the days my friend We thought they’d never end We won the league three times in a row We won the FA Cup And now we’re going up...”
