Did you inherit or to support Spurs??

[GutBucket]

Chose. I was always more interested in basketball than football (because I sucked at playing football), but Ronaldinho made me fall in love with football, his Barcelona team was special. Place I grew up in (Croatia, in Istria which is near Italy) everyone was AC Milan fan, and I enjoyed watching them at times but just wasn't that interested in the sport. FIFA games, PES and football manager made me more interested and I liked playing with bad/decent but not great teams, so I liked clubs like Tottenham, Bolton, Aston Villa etc. Modric joining was the key though, plus Corluka, Kranjcar (even Pletikosa if anyone remembers) and I really liked style of football that Redknapp implemented. Lennon was so fun to watch and Dawson had a stretch where he looked like prime Vidic (minus the passing). Bale was a wonderkid and there was so much positivity and optimism around the club.

 

[Goobers]

Chose. Born in North London. My dad wasn't really into football. I also thought that my footballing life would be filled with enjoying a Spurs team full of players like Gascoigne and Lineker and winning FA cups like 1991. The innocence of youth ...

 

[Tottenham_God]

Chose. I was always more interested in basketball than football (because I sucked at playing football), but Ronaldinho made me fall in love with football, his Barcelona team was special. Place I grew up in (Croatia, in Istria which is near Italy) everyone was AC Milan fan, and I enjoyed watching them at times but just wasn't that interested in the sport. FIFA games, PES and football manager made me more interested and I liked playing with bad/decent but not great teams, so I liked clubs like Tottenham, Bolton, Aston Villa etc. Modric joining was the key though, plus Corluka, Kranjcar (even Pletikosa if anyone remembers) and I really liked style of football that Redknapp implemented. Lennon was so fun to watch and Dawson had a stretch where he looked like prime Vidic (minus the passing). Bale was a wonderkid and there was so much positivity and optimism around the club.

This was around the same time I started following spurs. Was a really exciting time and we had a lot of really endearing players through that era. Niko and Van Der Vart . Kaboul in his prime was a sexy player, Crouchy and I even rated Super Pav for a short period

 

[nipponyid]

Forced.

Same here, i was told if I ever wanted to eat again, i should not follow the rest of the Arse family!

needless to say I was fat as a boy!!

 

[Up From Dover]

The first FA Cup final I watched all the way through was Tottenham v Chelsea in 1967. I chose Spurs, they won and I've carried on supporting them ever since. My favourite players were Pat Jennings and Jimmy Greaves.
Incidentally there's a great book about that final by Norman Giller called Spurs '67.

 

[DarwinSpur]

Strong baron patch in the middle for the Hawks !!

My old man's a big west coast eagles fan as I'm from Western Australia, and we've been reasonably success. So it stems the Spurs bleeding ?

Actually many of my fondest memories of being a Hawk supporter were during that barren patch. Having been too of the tree for my entire childhood to almost go out of existence and be bottom made everything that much more precious.

became a club volunteer; even did data stuff for the coaching staff in 1998. Then moved to UK.

2008 made all those hard years so so sweet.

 

[Meercat]

I did it to myself, more fool me… I blame those pesky Agentinians Ossie and Ricky… my whole family are Chelsea supporters. But, amusingly, my uncle Harry’s best friend was one Keith Berkinshaw so back in the 80s I used to get all sorts of stuff, not club merch but cool odd things. I remember for instance a history of Spurs book signed by jimmy Greaves, I had a ball signed by the 1978 team…

 

[SonicSarr]

I became a supporter at about 6 yrs old. My first real memory was the FA Cup final and replay v Man City. My old man is a Gooner. He regrets turning over Basil Brush or the Muppet Show to see the Arsenal score now - proper pissed me off that did.

 

[Don_Felipe]

Hmm... I think I chose... Grew up in Enfield Lock and my primary school was heavily spurs - though there were gooners as well. I think I realised I'd heard of a place called Tottenham, and never one called Arsenal so thought I should support Spurs.

Have forced it on the kids now.

 

[wrd]

Forced upon me during my spell in the womb

 

[Admiralossie]

Sort of chose, sort of inherited. My Dad was a Burnley fan but never really pushed it on me probably because we were living in Leicestershire , a long way from Turf Moor. Could have easily ended up a Leicester City fan , them being my local club but my Uncle did scouting work for Spurs at the time, he used to send me club gear and I met one or two players so there was no contest really, Spurs it was. First game was Spurs vs Leicester City at WHL, we won ....and got relegated. That shoud have been a warning sign!
A couple of years later my Uncle moved to Arsenal and tried to convert me , I remember he sent me an Arsenal kit which I cut up into little pieces. We moved up North that year too and I was surrounded by United and Liverpool fans for the rest of my youth, following a London club was considered high treason up there in those days but I stayed loyal..for my pains!

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Inherited.

I was born in summer 85. From as soon as I had ears, whether or not a knew what he was speaking about, my father regaled me with tales of Hoddle, Greaves, Chivers, The Double, etc, and when they were relevant, Waddle and Gazza. As soon as I had eyes they were trapped open in front of VHSs that my dad had compiled hours of recordings on of our greatest moments.

And as soon as I could comprehend, by this point fully indoctrinated, I was drowning in a sea of Justin Edinburgh, Stuart Nethercott, Dean Austin and Rocket Ronny ‘Israel’s finest’ Rosenthal.

There were glimmer of light of course, but I can most surely say that has I had any day in the matter, I’d have not supported Spurs, not unless I was a severely screwed up child (well, more so).

 

[WaldotheCat]

Neither of my parents were remotely interested in football, though my mum used to do the pools, but she just chose numbers, and I only found out about it when I went to primary school and joined in some kickabouts. By the time I was 8 years old I was aware that I was supposed to have a team to support, but I really didn't have a clue and only a vague awareness of football club names from listening to the footie results while my mum checked her pools coupon. Some of the more savvy kids at school were going on about something called the FA Cup Final, which was going to be televised, and left to my own devices on a Saturday afternoon I sat down in front of the tv. But who to support? It was 1961 and the commentator was talking about a team called Spurs. I knew that spurs were things that cowboys, or knights in shining armour wore, and to my 8 year old mind Spurs seemed to be the coolest football club name - at any rate far cooler than the rather boring sounding Leicester City, who were also playing that day. Well of course I wanted Spurs to win, and they did and I was hooked for life.

 

[Guernman]

My Grandfather was and my father is a lifelong Spurs fan all thanks to a certain fellow Guernseyman, Len Duquemin, the legendary Duke who forged a strong connection between Guernsey and Tottenham and who was a key player in our first title winning team in 1951.

My father will turn 75 this year - he at least got to enjoy the Bill Nicholson years. I'm the poor mug who has suffered the most But then again, the future's lilywhite now

 

[mmmdoughnuts]

Inherited. My mother's side are all Irish and when they first came over lived in Haringey. The story is that a lot of them were adopting Arsenal as their team my grandad wanted to make the crac at the pub more interesting so picked Spurs.

 

[Pebble Dash]

Chose… from a young age in the 80s. My favourite player was Erik Thorstvedt closely followed by Gazza and Lineker.

 

[Joshua]

Chose. From West Wales where there’s no professional side locally. Dad supports Liverpool but prefers Moto GP to football so never lead me to support them. And then when I was getting into footy when I was young a cousin of mine happened to be playing for Tottenham at the time, so it seemed like an easy choice to follow them ?

 

[Flashspur]

My grandad fortunately was the one and I haven't fallen out of love yet...I must be a masochist

 

[chris1234]

The first FA Cup final I watched all the way through was Tottenham v Chelsea in 1967. I chose Spurs, they won and I've carried on supporting them ever since. My favourite players were Pat Jennings and Jimmy Greaves.

I have exactly the same story to tell.

By the way, I was born in Folkestone, and now live in Hythe. Maybe the Kentish air made us Spurs fans!

 

[Tottenham_God]

Chose. From West Wales where there’s no professional side locally. Dad supports Liverpool but prefers Moto GP to football so never lead me to support them. And then when I was getting into footy when I was young a cousin of mine happened to be playing for Tottenham at the time, so it seemed like an easy choice to follow them ?

Who's your cousin ?