Did you inherit or to support Spurs??

[theShiznit]

Inherited.


And i have reported my mum to child services for it, but they thought i was joking...

 

[glospur]

Chose. Started following the Premier League from Australia around the time that Bale destroyed Inter and was probably a Bale fan before I was a Spurs fan. Getting up in the middle of the night to watch Poch's Spurs every weekend is one of my fondest sporting memories tbh.

In fact, if you guys don't mind a bit of self-promotion, I wrote this piece for TFC a few years ago that is very relevant to the topic of this thread.

We're all Tottenham

Jesse Glover puts some beautiful words together to describe why that no matter how far you are from north London, we all fell in-love with this football club, and we're all Tottenham

thefightingcock.co.uk

 

[trevo]

The first First Division game I saw featured Gilzean and Greaves et al at Upton Park. They lost. But gracefully and skilfully.

 

[DaiT]

Inherited from my Dad who was born in Enfield. Saw my first game at WHL in 1960. I was 8 years old. At that time we lived in Wales so did not get to see many games. Went to the 67 Cup Final. Went to many games when I was a student in London. I still get up at all hours of the night to watch our games. It has been a really tough watch recently but lets hope we are going to get better with Conte in charge.

 

[bigfrooj]

Inherited from my Dad who was born in Enfield. Saw my first game at WHL in 1960. I was 8 years old. At that time we lived in Wales so did not get to see many games. Went to the 67 Cup Final. Went to many games when I was a student in London. I still get up at all hours of the night to watch our games. It has been a really tough watch recently but lets hope we are going to get better with Conte in charge.

I’ve travelled a fair bit in Australia and New Zealand and I know how wearing it can be keeping track of the matches. That feeling when you’re watching a really crap losing performance but just can’t turn off even though the eyelids are coming down…

 

[Kendrick]

I'm Australian, but my mother is from England and used to go with her old man to White Hart Lane as a kid, so I definitely inherited my love of Spurs. I couldn't imagine myself supporting another team, nor would I want to.

 

[littlewilly]

I was a little lad shopping with my mum somewhere in Edmonton. I knew little of football having been brought up in German and Cypriot army camps. I remember the pavement swelling and characters were climbing on balconies, some dressed in blue and white striped pyjamas. My mum put me on her shoulders and round the corner came a green bus. There were several men and two cups. I distinctly remember the flashing smile of the man in the middle. If you’ve ever read the Wind in the Willows youll recall Toad’s reaction when he first sees a motor car. I was just smitten and have spent the ensuing 60 years unable and unwilling to break the shackle.

 

[1961beavera]

Chose after 67 Cup Final, my real first memory of watching them play. Result tipped the balance.

For the fun of it I was born Liverpool Road Angel of Islington, lived just off Highbury Hill the first few years of my life. Rest of the family ardent goons.

 

[guiltyparty]

Inherited. My dad was brought up in Haringey in the 50s/60s, so him, his siblings, my grandad were all Spurs fans.

Although it was the era where you sometimes went to Spurs and Arsenal, whoever was home, just to watch a game, so my uncle’s kids ended up Arsenal

My dad bought me kits, made me watch the games etc so I can’t claim I chose to at all, although it was very easy to go along with it as I was born at the end of the 70s so we were amazing in my early years, we won the UEFA Cup the year before my first game. Once I got to high school we fell off a cliff

Randomly my two best mates, who I met at school miles away from Haringey, are both Spurs fans too, both of which they inherited from their dad too

 

[wrd]

Reading this, its clear to me that a lot of fathers should be done for child abuse

 

[DSpurs]

I chose Spurs. I grew up in SE London and most people were Liverpool fans with a smattering of Palace and Charlton. My dad was a Charlton fan and my grandfather but they had stopped going and weren't interested so I had free reign to choose.

 

[tototoner]

My dad supported them in the 60s so I had no choice

 

[Danfunkel]

Well, my parents were Chelsea, and other family members were goons . But growing up a 90s kid who wasn't really into footy much, I was obviously somewhat of a United fan and Cantona was a god to me.
I wasn't into football for a while after that, but was then given a Merlin 98/99 sticker book and pack of stickers . So I decided the first player to come out of the pack would be of the team that I would start to seriously support.

It was Sol Campbell.

fin.

 

[Hugh DeMann]

Inherited. Grandad used to go and watch all the London teams in the 50s but more and more kept going back to White Hart Lane. Then became a fan. Passed the passion on to us.

He used to end up on the Shelf most times and in 2000s onwards me and my old man had season tickets in that stand.

A lot of memories made and drunken escapades were had with my family.

Grandad just didn't make it to the new stadium which was a shame. He would of loved the spectacle. Couldn't beat the old stadium though for electric football nights.

 

[Cavehillspur]

Inherited for me, from a long family line of Spurs fans here in Belfast, my dads not really into football more his Irish sports but my uncles made sure I followed Spurs they all grew up supporting them in the 60s, my cousins are all Spurs fans, as is my son.

 

[dude573]

Chose them myself. My grandfather was an Arsenal fan and my dad was a Chelsea fan. I always thought that was strange as my family mainly come from Edmonton N18 and Northumberland Park N17.

When I was a kid I hated anything that wasn't a cartoon, so football never really registered with me. That started to change when I was 15 or 16 as I started to realise the social element of football - talking to random people about games, transfers, players etc.

I became a fully fledged Spurs fan during the 2009 season as I loved the buzz of being an underdog fighting for Champions League football. One of my favourite games to this day is the 1-0 win at City with Crouch scoring that header.

I never had the chance/money to go to the old WHL which I really regret. However I am doing my best to make up for that with the new stadium and have been a few times already. I've also converted one of my mates from South London and my partner to adopt Spurs too!

 

[Tiffers]

My stepmother was a friend of George Farm the blackpool goalkeeper and I was taken to see spurs play Blackpool which must have been 1953 and I was hooked. I was finally landed and sunk forever when I went to see Danny Blanchflower in his first game for Spurs after his £30,000 transfer from Aston Villa. Couldn't believe that anyone had that sort of money but of course Spurs was one of the richest clubs in the 1st Division in those days.

 

[jonola]

As the song says my old man was an Arsenal fan. I mean he didn’t leave me any choice, I had to be a spur just to annoy him ?

I mean a certain Mr Hoddle might have had something to do with my choice at the time too ?

 

[Joshua]

Who's your cousin ?

Simon Davies ?

 

[Duke of Northumberland]

I used to live there and got sucked in