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Justin Edinburgh RIP

nailsy

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Jul 24, 2005
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I'm struggling to get my head round this one. He looked so happy and healthy when Orient were promoted recently.
 

Lifelong

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Aug 22, 2013
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This really hits to the core, whenever one ours goes it hurts but this one has really kicked me in the doodahs...as most have said not the most gifted of footballers but it really mattered to him..just like it does to all of us, and he had the privilege of wearing the shirt and he knew it...RIP Justin...one of us...
 

TheChosenOne

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Dec 13, 2005
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I'm struggling to get my head round this one. He looked so happy and healthy when Orient were promoted recently.

I'm 63 - but I failed an annual workplace medical - the blow test when I was 49 and after checks with my GP and a heart specialist I was found to have cardiac artery disease with one artery that was 90% blocked, fortunately I was double stented and able to make severe lifestyle changes. I was lucky.
 

spursfan77

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Aug 13, 2005
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He was far from being a favourite of mine. For me the Austin/Edinburgh pairing at the back was part of the dreaded 90s and it’s associates memories. My avatar and other pics of the last day at the Lane with Poch, Hoddle and Jennings don’t tell you the tale of how I bumped in Edinburgh at the Lane gates and remained unimpressed while he chatted to fans and took pictures with them. He showed up for them. I didn’t stop for a pic. If not for Paolo Tramazzani I think he’d probably get into most Spurs fans teams of worst players. But it seems like there’s a lot of love. And thinking about it probably for the first time ever I can see why.

We hated a decade, but he showed up and put a shift in every week at a club that had bigger problems than who was playing left back. I only ever had his back for the Savage thing. But memory probably hated Savage more for it. The love Edinburgh must have had for Nielsen. Most decorated Spurs player in 35 years. A sad reflection on our trophy drought, but there he is again. Showing up. Didn’t he coach our under 9s at some point? Showing up. One of the last opposition managers at the Lane for Gillingham in the Cup? The fanzone last week, he showed up. I had already left.

He pulled on our shirt many times, clearly with obvious pride and he did get slagged for it. Like Richards, Bunjevevic, Fulop... Rest in peace to them all. And more importantly, respect to them all. They lived our dream, but also lived a day to day existence with wives, kids and all that encompasses. What a remarkable life, and such a desperately sad loss.

RIP Justin.

Nice post and that’s exactly how I feel.

It just makes me think, we can’t waste our lives and I’m sure we all do to some degree. He didn’t though, he played football for the club we love and probably enjoyed most of it. He was lucky to do something he loved. It’s just so sad though because he was only 49 and with a family.

The love he is getting on social media from our fans and lots of people in football and supporters of other teams is really great to see. I can see why, he always seemed to be smiling.
 

yankspurs

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Aug 22, 2013
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Fuck. RIP. True legend. He just got Orient promoted too. He would have loved it next season. Taken from us entirely too soon. This one hurts.
 

spursgirls

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Aug 13, 2008
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It's been a real shock to hear this news tonight. A real Tottenham man, he still played for the legends. It's just incomprehensible that he can be gone at 49. I remember going to his leaving party at a place on Park Lane. To be in Madrid last weekend and gone this one is just unbelievable. RIP Justin.
 

Flynn

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Sep 2, 2004
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He was far from being a favourite of mine. For me the Austin/Edinburgh pairing at the back was part of the dreaded 90s and it’s associates memories. My avatar and other pics of the last day at the Lane with Poch, Hoddle and Jennings don’t tell you the tale of how I bumped in Edinburgh at the Lane gates and remained unimpressed while he chatted to fans and took pictures with them. He showed up for them. I didn’t stop for a pic. If not for Paolo Tramazzani I think he’d probably get into most Spurs fans teams of worst players. But it seems like there’s a lot of love. And thinking about it probably for the first time ever I can see why.

We hated a decade, but he showed up and put a shift in every week at a club that had bigger problems than who was playing left back. I only ever had his back for the Savage thing. But memory probably hated Savage more for it. The love Edinburgh must have had for Nielsen. Most decorated Spurs player in 35 years. A sad reflection on our trophy drought, but there he is again. Showing up. Didn’t he coach our under 9s at some point? Showing up. One of the last opposition managers at the Lane for Gillingham in the Cup? The fanzone last week, he showed up. I had already left.

He pulled on our shirt many times, clearly with obvious pride and he did get slagged for it. Like Richards, Bunjevevic, Fulop... Rest in peace to them all. And more importantly, respect to them all. They lived our dream, but also lived a day to day existence with wives, kids and all that encompasses. What a remarkable life, and such a desperately sad loss.

RIP Justin.

Great post. We might of been crap for much of that time but some of my fondest spurs memories are from that time and Justin played a big part in them.

RIP Justin.
 

TheBlueRooster

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May 10, 2005
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Deeply deeply saddened. When a family member dies it hurts a few but when one of ours dies it hurts thousands. Players come and go legends will live forever. Thanks Justin for the memories, my thoughts are with you and your family.
 

DenverSpur

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From the beginning of the 1990/91 season until the end of the 2001/2002 season I ivied in England and saw virtually every game Spurs played (I had one of the first away season tickets) so I probably saw every game Justin played for us. We weren’t great back then but he was one who always gave his all. He may not have come they the ranks but he was one of ours. He took pride in the shirt.I loved that he was out in Madrid last week. I’ve followed his managerial career from afar and felt he had the makings of a good to great manager. A real loss to Orient, football in general and for us the SPIRS family. A charity game against Orient to help his family would be fitting.
RIP Justin Edinburgh YIDDO
 

Matthew Wyatt

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