The hugely popular Martin Cloake and Adam Powley book, ‘The Boys From White Hart Lane’ has just been republished in paperback form. It’s a fascinating chapter by chapter account of the Tottenham players of the Burkinshaw era.
These were the sides I grew up with. My first game was Bill Nick’s testimonial at home to West Ham. I thought I was obsessed by Spurs until I went to that game. It was my initiation ceremony. I’d thought I’d never care about anything like I cared about this from that day on. Spurs were my first love.
‘The Boys From White Hart Lane is the only book you’ll need to recapture the unique mood of the time. ‘
Harry Hotspur – 2010.
‘There is a time in a football fan’s life when one team comes to symbolise all that is best about his or her club. For a large number of Tottenham supporters now comfortably settled into middle age, that side was the one managed to cup winning glory by Keith Burkinshaw.
Burkinshaw’s Spurs were appreciated by a wider audience too. While football fans, more than fans of any other sport, tend to follow teams rather than the sport itself, a side occasionally comes along that commands respect or admiration across the partisan lines of the football tribes.
Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest were one such team, their rise from second tier also rans to double European Champions in in four consecutive seasons is still fondly remembered because it kept alive the very essence of sport – that everyone has a chance of winning.
“If every team played like Spurs, football’s only problem would be pacifying the herds of supporters being able to get into packed grounds. They bring beauty to the game and people like that.”
Patrick Barclay – 1982.
The games themselves naturally stands out. 1984’s epic UEFA Cup Final and the vocal support for Danny Thomas following his missed penalty. The first half demolition of Feyenoord in tha same campaign; the fans’ takeover of Highbury for the 1981 semi final replay. Ricky Villa’s FA Cup final goal in 1981 became our ‘JFK moment’ : we all remember where we were when it happened.’
i remember being in the north bank with hundreds or more spurs fans when our away FA cup game was called off and we joined the lower league team supporters who also took the north bank.
Find it amazing how you guys remember your first game from the 60s and 70’s… I started going with my dad in the late 90’s and am till this day… I can’t remember my first game.. upsetting really.
No, that’s just the way it goes with memories. I can’t even remember some of my kids being born. Booger it the more I think about it the less I can remember. No sleep tonight then.
We need new memories. The old ones are fading.
I remember defoe aways being behind the defender,I remember crouch grinning at missing chances,I remember ***** skipping around the pitch alongside the opposition and marking no one in particular ,usually stays near the ref for protection and passing the ball into danger or to the opposition.Oh what about the bent years. ah memories. :shifty:
my first was huddersfield at home we won 4-1 my dad took me to get out of the shit with my mum,if the row was a week later i could well now be a stinking gooner,it gives me nightmares i can tell you
Because _**** has run out of letters to omit, the underscore now has to be deployed so we can correctly gauge his dreadfulness. An above average game gets a star back, bellow average replaced with an underscore.