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…
Just looked at another blog (VITALSPURS) and note that the idea of reversing sites has already been bruited by many of its participants. This is just to say that I posted my few words without knowledge of what was going on there. Minds can think alike.
Rat face interview.. http://audioboo.fm/boos/436439-modric-ireland-mixed-zone-august-9
Offski
That was on the Modders blog :-p
one of my earliest memories in life when the john white story was on the news, very sad for a 7 year old. changing track skysports asking to text in top PL scorer, no spurs player in the list of 8, fancy JD myself
Can anyone remind me:
1) does the 25 man squad limit apply across all senior competitions, or is it possible to have fringe players available for some comps, eg Europa League?
2) does the squad limit come into force on 1st September?
2) have the squad numbers been handed out for next season yet?
Thanks!
my dad’s mate who has been going since about 1958 told me that John White is his all time best Spurs player. Said that however good you’ve heard John White was, he was much better. Glory glory.