-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actually, the cricket club was in existence for only two years before it became a football club. http://thebeautifulhistory.wordpress.com/clubs/tottenham-hotspur/ The original Hotspur FC were formed two years prior to this in 1878 Andy Porter, Official Spurs historian Therefore the original Hotspur club, Hotspur FC predated both the club that became THFC and the cricket club from which it was formed - and laid claim to the name Hotspur long before the imitators THFC were even playing cricket.
