That’s right. Son of John White, Rob White has along with co-author Julie Welch signed a copy of The Ghost Of White Hart Lane.
This is a really lovely book. There’s something about boys and their fathers when it comes to football. My first memories of Spurs were Saturday teatimes in the 1970’s. Dad took charge of the kitchen on Saturday nights and this invariably meant chips which for some reason he cut into ‘coins’ rather than well… chip shaped chips.
My job was to bring him in the scores for Tottenham (his London side) and Hibs (his Scottish side). I can’t remember the first time I went into the kitchen and referred to Tottenham as, ‘we’ but at some point I must have because it was in that front room sometime before the Generation Game came on one night that I became ‘one of our lot.’
This book is about a boy (about the same age as I was in the tale above) who’s father is tragically killed in a freak accident. A boy that has to go in search of a man he never really got to know.
Beautifully written from so many perspectives.
And you could win an autographed copy of it. Simply play my Audioboo and find out how…
oh dear, on abrighter note tho got my black 3rd shirt delivered today ;-) best none white kit we’ve had.
Chelsea’s new third kit looks more like one of ours!! This part of the ‘let’s make Modric feel at home’ initiative, you think??!
I was 7 years old. My mate said he supported West Ham so I asked my Dad which team he supported. He said Tottenham as his Dad did, so I instantly decided to ‘keep it in the family’ and be a third gen Spurs lad. Thank god I did! And thanks Dad & Grandad (both RIP). Cheers HH
I can’t access that to enter the comp :(
Whats the question for the Luddites amongst us?
According to The Sun, the Everton game has been called off because “White Hart Lane is just a stone’s throw from the starting point of the unrest in North London.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3746559/Tottenham-v-Everton-called-off-after-London-riots.html
Tactful as ever.
That’s rubbish mate, it’s down to the stability of a few buildings.