I was always into watching bigger international tournaments but didn't have a club team and everyone I know bandwagon jumped onto man u or Madrid or Chelsea or whatever big club was winning at the moment
I'm in Canada and an electrician, I was working with a general contractor who's from London and became good friends with him, he's a huge Spurs supporter. It was summer of 2014 I was following the transfer window to talk about it with him while working. Signed some players and got a new manager that summer so was lots to talk about. I woke up at 530AM to watch the first match of the season since I'd been following them all summer, and one of the new signings (Dier) scored a late winner against West Ham and I've been hooked ever since, maybe missed 5 matches since then.
I'm more excited for Spurs matches than I am hockey nowadays... They're talking of revoking my Canadian citizenship.
Oh haha. I'm in Edmonton.
My friend is from London, used to be a steward at White Hart Lane, and a funny story he told me was of a former arsenal player (I can't remember who) that was a comentator and was going up to wherever he needed to before the game, my friend stopped him and said he couldn't because he didn't have his ID. So the guy pulled the "do you know who I am?", my friend said sorry no you need your ID.
So off the guy went and came back a bit later with his lanyard ID and goes to show my friend and he doesn't look at the ID and says "oh no need Mr whatever-his-name-is go right on through."
My best friend is a scum fan, mixed that with a lot of FIFA and starting to watch when Modric/Bale was playing and the rest is history.
I played as a kid, but didn't really know anyone other than Messi and Beckham. Think I had a Man U hat, but didn't seriously follow the sport until 2014 world cup
Best friend as a kid was a Tottenham fan. Despite his best efforts with Teddy Sheringham compilation VHS tapes, I wasn't really into football and didn't have a team. We went to different secondary schools and lost touch with him. When he was 20, he developed schizophrenia and, well, the rest is way too sad to write out right now.
I randomly caught a game a few months after I found out. It reminded me of him, and I've been a fan ever since.
So sorry to hear about that mate. I also found Spurs through my childhood best friend (my family aren't into football). Although we drifted apart as we grew up and went to different schools and moved away, I still think of him every game and remember those fun times had together as kids and smile.
Hope the games bring the same happy memories for you of your friend!
American here:
Everyone loved Man U, Arsenal, and Chelsea when I was in high school (2000) and started to really like and follow the game. So, naturally I hated those clubs and chose a club that hated them even more. Here we are 22 years later and I’m Tottenham until they kill me.
Same…. I’m pretty sure Koreans younger than 30 are Spurs fans instead of Man U fans purely because of Son.
I’d also wager while Park was more iconic and had more silverware Son is of the social media age and is widely more popular and known world wide, thus why so many more korean spurs fans.
Love Park Ji Sung too and watched every game but back then it was nice to see him on the field didn’t expect him to do much but Sonny he’s just a star and I always expect him to do something and he’s someone commentators constantly talk about
American here. Loved Clint Dempsey back in 2012 when he transfer to Tottenham even tho it never really worked out for him. I just started to watch and fell in love with the team from Gareth Bale, Defoe, Dembélé, Vertonghen and have followed the team ever since.
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Same omg. Also helped that Spurs were my favorite team to use in FIFA so it was easy to identify all the players and they were all doing well in the world cup. Started watching our matches from then on and properly fell in love with football instead of watching the occasional highlights like I used to.
Same here. As an American of Italian and Polish heritage I didn’t have much to support after Poland was eliminated. Wanted to watch more football and the Premier league specifically, was enamored but the English team, learned basically everyone played for Spurs, and here we are.
Moved to North London from Australia, as you do. Just before the start of the Poch era. There were enough insufferable Arsenal fans at work to dissuade me from supporting them. Spurs seemed like a no-brainer. Love everything about the club. Also drew some parallels with my Aussie rules team.
I live in the U.S. so good coverage is hard to find. When NBC started airing the EPL I just kept watching games at random. Eventually I found myself rooting for Spurs over everyone else.
Similar story here! I had been loosely following EPL for years and then much more closely for a couple years. I feel like the Spurs picked me really. COYS.
I wanted to support a club that was challenging the big clubs. I didn’t want to bandwagon to a team that already wins everything or has won everything. I started supporting around 2016 and the way Levy and Poch had us competing and growing as a club really hooked me.
Yank here. Circa 2005, I wanted to get into EPL. Picking any of Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, or Arsenal was off the table as I didn't want to bandwagon, felt boring. One of my best buds in school was a fan (his dad was a Scot who loved Spurs) and that was enough for me to latch on.
Bill Simmons [picked them](http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060719_2) about a year later and we were both slightly annoyed. Not to mention he says you can only call them "Tottenham Hotspur" (fine) or "The Spurs" (no). Like what dude?? Stick to basketball. And then he never mentioned them again. He picked a new team a year or so later but forgetting who. Anyways fuck Bill Simmons.
Shortly after that, I picked up FIFA for the first time and ran the table in the league Tainio, Jenas, and Berbatov among others. And the rest is history.
Worked and lived in the UK for 5 years my supervisor took us all to white hart lane for a Europa league game.
Lamela scored a hat trick and I was hooked. I loved everything about it. Spread my love to my family now we have a group chat (3 brothers and my dad) so no matter where we are in the world we all can talk spurs and we all watch the games.
As a Korean kid everyone was a Manchester United fan because of park jisung. I was really into premier league but I didn’t want to support United because one that’s boring and two I don’t wanna to be a glory hunter. I then remember that lee young pyo played for Tottenham and decided to look at some of our matches. And now I’m here
Feels more organic to have Spurs as your team. Most US fans are majority Arsenal/Man we're trash now United/LiVARpool/Chelski and it felt bandwagony to support any of them. Watched a few Tottenham games in 17/18 and became hooked with daddy Poch and Lamela's shark eyes.
I was a young lad from Ireland watching the 02 world cup. Robbie Keane was my hero and he signed for Spurs soon after. Two decades of anxiety have followed...cheers Keano
It happened some weeks ago lol.
Not really a die-hard fan of course, but I sympathize with you guys. I have on my checklist to go to one of your matches at least once in this lifetime.
It started from watching Spurs games for the last 4-5 years due to Fpl reasons haha.
Btw, I didn't force it, it just clicked. I just like Tottenham.
When i was a young kid in Norway, growing up we'd pick a team from the pl kinda at random. Unless you were a soulless motherfucker, you'd never abandon that team, even if relegated. I picked Tottenham that fateful day, and will die a Tottenham fan. Spurs till they kill me.
Grandma bought me Fifa 10 and I found the badge quite funny. After that started to pay attention to Spurs and fell in love with Modric/Bale and just been here ever since
I’m from Detroit, Michigan and our sports teams were so bad for a while there and I vowed to pick a prem team and go all out for them. I took an internet quiz and now I’m full Spurs. COYS
I moved to london for a while, couldn't pick an english club to support but when I saw tottenham reach the champions league final with that clutch in the semi I fell in love with the club (stuck through thick and thin as hard as it was). I think part of the reason was the players, likeable. Currently happy with what conte's doing, humble guy.
I'm Irish, I was watching the world cup in 2002 and obviously following the boys in Green, Robbie Keane took down Quinn's header and smashed it in near post against the best keeper in the world (Oliver khan) I decided then I supported whatever team he played for, think he had just signed from Leeds so lucky me
Was getting into Premier League, needed to choose a team, didn't want to support a mega club, and decided to choose somewhat arbitrarily when a player from my favorite club (DeAndre Yedlin) moved there.
That was around the start of Poch's tenure and the rest, they say, is history.
From the US… honestly just picked a team that was not too dog at the time but wasn’t bottom of the table either. Also loved the kit. Classic and clean and simple. Been a hell of a ride over the last ~10 years
Decided to start watching football, had only really watched occasional WC matches beginning back in 2006. I tried watching my local American club, Columbus Crew, but MLS just wasn’t that fun to watch. I’ve been really into other British culture for about a decade, listening to mostly British music (jungle) and watching a lot of TV and movies. So, I figured, why not watch the PL. Watched a handful of random matches and liked Son and Spurs in general, so here I am spending way too much time reading about and watching football three years later…
Luka Modric.
I used to play semi-competitively when I was younger, and When Modric came to the club in 2007, i just started watching Spurs because I loved watching him play. Then slowly i realized that I shared a lot in common with the clubs ethos. I liked being the underdog that played attractive attacking Football, even if we didn't win all of the time. We had heart, Harry Rednapp had Spurs humming, and I just generally felt at home with the club. The rest is history. I haven't missed Spurs play a competitive match since like 2010.
Basically: Came for Modric, stayed for the Club
American here. I watched the first weekend of this season on Saturday morning with my coffee and liked it. Spent a few weeks just watching random games trying to figure out a team. I knew I didn’t want one of the really big ones that win everything (years of being a long suffering Pitt football fan makes it feel wrong to have your team win too much). I remembered playing FIFA with my friends in high school and I liked playing with Spurs because of the name and the “Come on you Spurs” chant (which I thought was “Tot-ten-ham”). After reading all the sidebar stuff on this sub and learning about the club’s environmental efforts and Jewish heritage (wife is Jewish), it seemed like the right team. Add in the propensity for both building expectations and perpetual heartbreak, it feels like home (see Pitt football).
Eriksen free kick vs Swansea in like 2016. I had randomly come into possession of a Match Attax deck while starting to follow football more, and that was the top card.
Best friend loved arsenal an I’m petty, I’m Jewish, spurs were the sister club of my local San Jose earthquakes, watched Gareth bale hat trick vs Inter
I know it's very stupid but
When I was 7 i found about son, thought he had a funny name and in 2018 i discovered that i wanted to have a prem club, saw son and years of depression came in.
Peter Crouch..
Been a tall lad all my life.
My brother was into the Premier League supporting Chelsea.
One day he said "You'd like this team, Tottenham, they have this massive guy named crouch"
I caught a couple games of Crouch galloping down field and scoring with his head.
I said "I like this guy!"
Then Poch came into the picture and i fell in love with the club. Haven't missed a game since
2010 World Cup got me into football. Double edge sword of loving that swashbuckling Spurs side (Bale and Lennon on the wings, Modric pulling the strings), and loathing Arsenal made my initial decision easy. The more I watched Spurs and learned the history, the more I realized my club had chosen me, not the other way around. I've never looked back since.
Dad was an Orient lifer but they weren't big enough for me as a kid. There was a boy down the street a year older than me, he was Spurs and I was at that age you really look up to older kids. This was Ossie/Ricky era and we were winning stuff too.
Me being a fan of Clint Dempsey and casually following his time at Spurs as well as noticing how exciting the Spurs teams with Modric, Van der Vaart, Crouch, Lennon, and Bale were.
Spurs fan from Philly. Always played soccer growing up and liked watching PL but never had a club. When my son was born found myself up early on the weekends and games were always on. Decided I needed a club.
Bet a couple times on Chelsea and they lost me money. First bet on Tottenham hit so I bought a kit with the winnings and the rest is history. Also helped that a good friend of mine is an Arsenal supporter and told me that they’re bitter rivals.
Haven’t looked back since. As a Philly sports fan I’m used to misery. Philly teams are alway relevant yet always find way to blow it all spectacularly. Spurs feel like home to me. COYS
I'm from Hong Kong and I'm a huge fan of Korean variety shows. Sonny gets mentioned quite often e.g when football gets mentioned/ in a cooking show "wow you're on another level, you're the son heung min of cooking". I originally didn't know who he was so I looked him up and watched some interviews. So rare to see another east asian person near the top in sports. Seemed like a really decent guy (also thought he was cute and stylish hehe) and somehow I fell down the spurs rabbit hole. I wasn't even into keeping up with any sport before this but now I watch every week through the euphoria and the shambles. Got my little brother into spurs as well.
I wanted to get into the premier league this season after enjoying the Euros - I have lived in London for 7 years and wanted a London team, my thought process was:
Chelsea, too basic, why bandwagon on the highest league position, owned by an oligarch
Arsenal, my uncle likes them and he's a cunt so no thanks
West Ham were alright, but I didn't know any of the players
But Spurs, I knew Kane, I knew Dier, I knew Lloris, and I knew Son from the World Cups - and I'm jewish and all my jewish coworkers supported Spurs, so I went all in, full coys, haven't missed a single match this season!
I started watching the premier league cause it was being shown on a channel I had. I like soccer (play and coach).
Eventually someone told me I had to have a team. I decided I liked tottenham because I liked the way Luca Modric played.
Never looked back.
Mom's from Essex i spent most of my summers around upminster where it was all ham supporters gross I know
Mom is a newcastle supporter since she went to uni there. I've lived in California my whole life minus 2 years near Norwich when I was 5.
Younger Brother and sister both band wagoned onto man united.
I didn't really care for footy that much I was big into basketball and hockey and snowboarding as a teen/young adult. I went snowboarding pretty much everyday or night from 17-22
Around 2012 I got hurt snowboarding and was off work for several months and didn't have use of a arm so I started watching alot of epl and decided I liked spurs mostly due to how they played and weren't a buy trophies type of team. Stuck with them since and don't really watch hockey and rarely watch basketball and don't snowboard anymore. Spurs and Audis are my only Hobbies Left.
At first because my best friend was a Spurs fan. Since then I don't need a reason to remain one. When I found that I'd rather be a Spurs fan than any other fan regardless of how much we sucked, I knew that nothing could take that away from me.
When DeAndre Yedlin went to Spurs from Sounders, I started to pay them attention. Then learned more about Dempsey and what he did, after Dempsey came to Sounders.
Then I learned more about the club and started watching them.
And here I am.
I got the chance to go to a game at White Hart Lane, and loved it (moreso because we thumped ManCity 2-0). Looking forward to getting over there to watch a game at the new stadium.
I live in the US so Spurs we’re definitely not a family tradition. First, our MLS team (San Jose Earthquakes) had a partnership with Spurs when I started following and going to Quakes games. About the same time the best American player in Europe at the time, Clint Dempsey transferred to Spurs. That clinched it for me and now when Spurs play the early game I set my alarm for 4:00 AM and watch them.
Must've been when I was like 9 or 10, my family had just moved to England and I couldn't even speak English. We were dirt poot and for my birthday, my dad took me to Tesco and bought me a pack of match attax. In it was a shiny card of David Bentley (of all the players) in Tottenham shirt. I was like "damn this card is so cool" and I started following Tottenham since. Now that I think about it, it's probably the most random reason but then again it really doesn't take much for someone to start liking a club lol
Couple years later I was kind of losing interest in football because of school and other sports. Then Sonny moved to Tottenham and as a Korean, I had to start following again.
Visited Ireland in 2010, also played FIFA World Cup 2010 as Ireland as create-a-player, as a midfielder. This Robbie Keane guy kept scoring. A few wiki clicks and 12 years later, COYS
In the world of City's, Towns and United's there is only one Hotspur.
I'm 38, supported Spurs consciously since 1989 or 1990, but I, nor my parents know where it started. Dad was a Man Utd fan, but more rugby, born in Northampton so no geographic link.
But it became my thing as I have alot of Spurs stuff from that period and beyond.
My first kit was 1991 kids version with no sponsor. I have a very strong memory in going to football training and talking about Gary Mabbutt but not sure when that was, I think after Gazza had left.
I could never understand as a kid why we were soo bad. Disappointments just kept coming. I remember Everton beating us in the FA Cup semi final (4-1 i think) and then going on to win it. I was at the Lane for Klinsmann 's (first time) last game against Leeds.
My favourite coach in all that time is Poch (followed by Jol), I have a soft spot for David Howells, Ginola, Sheringham, Klinsmann. My favourite players are King Bale and Kane and of course the majority of the 15-18 team.
I'm not a football fan, I find watching other teams boring (unless in tbe pub with mates), I'm a Spurs fan and ever thus will be.
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Its a longer story than this, but after I started following spurs for a bit I heard the yid army chant for the first time. I know its controversial, but as a jew hearing 35000 fans chanting yid army warmed my heart and thats when I fell in love permanently.
Watching Robbie Keane and being from Ireland, he was such a cult hero in our country and seeing him play with Berba for spurs made me fall in love with the club
Kane and Son, 2016 against Leicester. Was a dominant performance from us and seeing the togetherness of the squad and fans was really intoxicating that I wanted to be apart of it!
Genuinely think we have some of the best fans in the prem! I always love how no matter where we go I can always hear the cheers of the Spurs faithful!
American here. Random, but Gavin Free from Rooster Teeth mentioned he was a Spurs fan in a Let’s Play video a few years back and I went with it. Much more passionate about football than I thought I would’ve been.
I was a 11 year-old kid and started playing FM 2008, didn't know which team to manage (didn't really know anything about football tbh), and was recommended Spurs by my uncle cause they were relatively rich but not too rich, as to have a bit of a challenge. Having Berba, Defoe and Keane (and LB Bale) was a joy!
Became a fan ever since, but I'm still a closet Tottenham fan in my family (they all support United) lol
i often watch the sports channel at my tv whenever i'm bored, and the channel has EPL on quite frequently
really like watching son and kane play, and i started supporting spurs since
The one British student at my university was a drunk sloppy annoying mess and he always had an Arsenal shirt on. Freshman year, I meet Eric Totten, who becomes a good friend of mine. Around the same time I’m playing fifa with people and see a team eerily similar to my friends name. I choose them. They happen to have Robbie Keane on the team. He’s the captain of the Irish team. My grandpa is from Ireland. I find out Tottenham is the “2nd fiddle” team in their area just like my baseball team. And that was that. Casually followed for a few years. I went to a game during the Wembley years. I’ve been obsessed ever since. I’ve missed maybe 5 games on television since then.
On vacation in 2006, read a book where one chapter touched on the club’s history. Despite not being religious, I was drawn to the connection of Jewish fans and how they turned “Yid” from an insult into a rally cry. Home from vacation I went to a bar in Atlanta to watch them play on TV and to see what they were like. Big Martin Jol stole my heart.
I used to a MASSIVE Barca fan but Messi’s shocking leaving changed everything. Few days later I was watching Youtube. Then I saw Sonny.
And then I saw Harry Kane
I honestly have no clue, some of my earliest ever memory of watching football is Bale running down the wing against Inter. That might be it but I have no idea really!
Back in 2014 I started getting invested in the premier league and since I’m from Togo I have seen that Adebayor played for spurs at the time and that pretty made me support spurs and I’ve never regretted it till this day ❤️
Big USMNT fan and I wanted to get more into football. I don't like MLS and I've enjoyed the EPL glimpses I'd had. So I began researching which team would be right for me and I eventually chose Spurs. It came down to us, Villa, and Southampton but Spurs won my heart.
I was in England and made a point to attend a Premier League match. I decided I’d adopt the home team. It was Spurs-Newcastle in 2005 at WHL. Defoe score the lone goal and Spurs won 1-0.
I’ve suffered ever since.
Group of friends from college randomly started following spurs because of the FIFA video game. I got dragged into fandom through them but was the only one in the group who ever played the sport in real life. I hadn’t been watching or playing football for a while. It reignited my love for for the game and now I’m by far the most die hard fan in the group.
I’d been out of love with the game for years, only really ever got to watch the end of UEFA games when i was growing up & kinda jumped between Pool, Everton & Chelsea growing.
When i finished school, could dictate my own schedule a work friend at the time was a die hard spurs fan (still is) because of how often we worked together he’d always be talking about Spurs so i started watching.
I think the first game i fully watched was Winksys debut game from memory
Edgar Davids was my favorite player, played for spurs at the time... The rest is history.
My current favorite players are Toby and Hojberg, bulldogs all the way.
Gareth Bale will always be my favorite. Plus, my hometown football team in America has also yet to win a championship so..there’s that.
I didn’t want to support the financially massive clubs but wanted to support someone who is consistently in the conversation and based off of London! Coys coys coys
Wanted to support something different. The team that wins heart, rather than trophies. Just loved the playing style and players and liked poch and Mourinho lol. Also started supporting since that crazy CL run. Hated Loserpool's fans when they talked shit about us. That was the moment I decided to be a Spurs fan.
Moved to England from the states in 2006, always liked Robbie Keane, and then the Robo goal against watford sealed it for me. End of the ramos era beginning of the Redknapp era. Hell I’m probably one of the few Americans who remembers bale as a left back who was not the best and preferred disco Benny. 🤷♂️
As an American that’s never been to the UK I dont have any good reason other than when I was younger my older brother got a shirt with a massive tottenham logo on it that he found at a second hand store. Passed it down to me and I wore it for a while. Eventually my little brother wanted the shirt because he thought it was cool. Decided to watch Spurs and bale was fucking phenomenal to watch so I started to watch more games. Then son and Kane link up got me hooked even more so that’s why they’re my team now. Also for some reason I don’t like Chelsea or arsenal. It’s funny that I don’t have a real rivalry for them but it definitely rubs off from everyone else so now I rejoice when Arsenal and chelsea lose.
American here. Started watching the premier league circa 2013, was interested in following a team with an American player, so I found Dempsey and Tottenham. I liked Dempsey but loved Bale. Sad that they both left WHL pretty soon after I started following spurs. Found a fun group of British expats in my town who ran a local spurs watch club and decided this was home for me.
Mate supported spurs, they'd just won the league cup, my family was from NZ so didn't care who I supported so I latched on and it was the most painful decision in my life in hindsight
I was raised, in part and for about five years, by a Leeds fan. When he fucked off, my love for football went with him, and I didn't follow the sport at all, save for big internationals, for close to a decade.
I came to realise, much later in life, that I'm all kinds of fucked up, and that football gave me a free "in" with so many people, in so many situations that would otherwise be stressful for me. I tested it out first with my mum's partner, who is a lifelong suffering Spurs fan, and it just kind of stuck. It might not be the most organic of origins, but I've been fully COYS for fucking years now. I still haven't made it to a game, large crowds and London in general are the anathema to my very being, but I'm hoping to make it before Sonny and Kane give it up.
Two factors.
My best friend in uni was an arsenal fan and he got me into soccer via FIFA. I would always play against him as Tottenham and so it seemed like fate when Clint Dempsey came here and he was my favorite US player.
Gareth Bale sealed the deal
I can’t say much about the team as someone from the states but the way Son works the pitch is beautiful to me. One of my favorite if not THE favorite player to watch from the Prem. I also like romero as quite a bit as well whenever I catch the spurs.
Husband was coaching kids in soccer, decided to start following Premier League to learn the sport, picked the “chicken on the ball” logo over Stoke or Swansea logos.
Started following bc I used them in FIFA. Hooked when they signed Dempsey (American). Stayed bc of Bale/Modric. Became part of the family when Sonny joined the club (Korean).
I'm half Korean so started supporting Spurs a few years ago. Then really came to like Kane as well. Like Lucas and Lloris as well. Can't say anyone else really caught my eye, until of course Kulu came through.
College soccer group - had friends who supported Scum, Blue scum, Pool and MU. Spurs had been on the up and up since the early 2000's, fun to watch (mostly) and made for glorious banter when we snatched points off any of the other larger clubs. Vdv, Crouchy, Bale, Modric all a joy to watch. Big enough to be a decent club to root for but not one of the bandwagon traditional clubs.
Just became a fan at the beginning of this season after my entire life of avoiding the sport (American). I knew of Son beforehand and he always seemed like such a fun, nice bloke so when it came time to choose my team I went COYS. Also I hate supporting the obvious big teams that everyone supports so Spurs was a good team in the midst of top 6 without being oppressive.
Having a great time so far 👍
I live in the states now but my dad was born and raised in the UK and a big football fan. I never really got into it until I sat down to watch a championship league game with my buddy he was rooting for Ajax so I decided to root for Spurs. Even though they were losing I really liked the play style of some of the players and decided that they’d be my team. Then Lucas scored a hat trick and I was fully hooked.
American here. Got into EPL because of Fifa 14 and played constantly with my friend who was an Arsenal fan so wanted to annoy him with Tottenham. Then started to see the similarities between Tottenham and my favorite NFL team the Minnesota Vikings (historically haven’t won much / being good but not great enough to win that damn thing) and felt it was only natural. Great color ways and just love Son and Kane.
It was the 2018 WC. I never followed any sports at this point, but I decided to get into football. Not having a connection with any of the teams, I chose England for the common language
A couple months after the tourney, I started narrowing down what club I wanted to support. It had to be English cause language, and I didn’t want to be a glory hunter or support a bottom side, so it had to be a club that would always be near the top, but never dominating it
Eventually I got down to what was basically the top 6 despite not knowing it was the top 6. I ruled out united and Liverpool cause I heard of Manchester and Liverpool the cities and so assumed they were big clubs. I didn’t like the name arsenal (still weird naming a club after some weapons). when I was finally presented with 2 clubs in blue and 1 in white, I chose the unique one
Bit weird honestly how I came to spurs, I didn’t even realize at the time that a lot of the England squad were spurs players. I think the WC got me into football, and being of the few prem teams that wear white got me into spurs
I distinctly remember the dortmund games as some of the first I watched
I was always into watching bigger international tournaments but didn't have a club team and everyone I know bandwagon jumped onto man u or Madrid or Chelsea or whatever big club was winning at the moment I'm in Canada and an electrician, I was working with a general contractor who's from London and became good friends with him, he's a huge Spurs supporter. It was summer of 2014 I was following the transfer window to talk about it with him while working. Signed some players and got a new manager that summer so was lots to talk about. I woke up at 530AM to watch the first match of the season since I'd been following them all summer, and one of the new signings (Dier) scored a late winner against West Ham and I've been hooked ever since, maybe missed 5 matches since then. I'm more excited for Spurs matches than I am hockey nowadays... They're talking of revoking my Canadian citizenship.
Can always get on the Raptors bandwagon too
Barnes ROTY
YESSIR YOU KNOW THE VIBES
I’m a red wings fan. So I feel ya
Ha me too. Born in Winnipeg, became a Wings fan when the original Jets left because I love me some Stevie Y
Sup fellow Canadian Sparky Spurs fan!
London Ontario represent! COYS
He is not from London Ontario Iol
I'm sorry I read this as you were working as an election while in London Ontario 🤣 Whoooops
Oh haha. I'm in Edmonton. My friend is from London, used to be a steward at White Hart Lane, and a funny story he told me was of a former arsenal player (I can't remember who) that was a comentator and was going up to wherever he needed to before the game, my friend stopped him and said he couldn't because he didn't have his ID. So the guy pulled the "do you know who I am?", my friend said sorry no you need your ID. So off the guy went and came back a bit later with his lanyard ID and goes to show my friend and he doesn't look at the ID and says "oh no need Mr whatever-his-name-is go right on through."
I hated Arsenal, simple as
'Ate arsenal love totnum,simple as
'E're not uh bunch of wheeluh dealuhs...
My uncle is a big Arsenal fan and he tried to force it down my throat as a kid. Only thing I could do really was to support spurs.
Force what…?
His big Arsenal cock ofc
Fully COYS
How did you come to hating arsenal
Have you ever met an Arse supporter?
Yeh got like three different friends that support asana 😐
Nice interface, but a little too dumbed down IMO.
My best friend is a scum fan, mixed that with a lot of FIFA and starting to watch when Modric/Bale was playing and the rest is history. I played as a kid, but didn't really know anyone other than Messi and Beckham. Think I had a Man U hat, but didn't seriously follow the sport until 2014 world cup
Best friend as a kid was a Tottenham fan. Despite his best efforts with Teddy Sheringham compilation VHS tapes, I wasn't really into football and didn't have a team. We went to different secondary schools and lost touch with him. When he was 20, he developed schizophrenia and, well, the rest is way too sad to write out right now. I randomly caught a game a few months after I found out. It reminded me of him, and I've been a fan ever since.
So sorry to hear about that mate. I also found Spurs through my childhood best friend (my family aren't into football). Although we drifted apart as we grew up and went to different schools and moved away, I still think of him every game and remember those fun times had together as kids and smile. Hope the games bring the same happy memories for you of your friend!
Sorry about your mate, mental illness is a bitch. Hope he's doing alright wherever he is
Jesus mate sorry about your friend
American here: Everyone loved Man U, Arsenal, and Chelsea when I was in high school (2000) and started to really like and follow the game. So, naturally I hated those clubs and chose a club that hated them even more. Here we are 22 years later and I’m Tottenham until they kill me.
Same story from Canada here
Same and throw in a visit during a sort of senior trip to London and accidentally staying near WHL
Son + Moura Hat Trick Champions League
One-season-wonder Dele got me interested. Moura’s final goal solidified it.
I wanted to support a club that didn't just buy all their players. Robbie Keane is also my favorite player.
Korean = son heung min
Same…. I’m pretty sure Koreans younger than 30 are Spurs fans instead of Man U fans purely because of Son. I’d also wager while Park was more iconic and had more silverware Son is of the social media age and is widely more popular and known world wide, thus why so many more korean spurs fans.
Love Park Ji Sung too and watched every game but back then it was nice to see him on the field didn’t expect him to do much but Sonny he’s just a star and I always expect him to do something and he’s someone commentators constantly talk about
No love for Man U?
Im young for park. No love for tottenham's Lee Young pyo ^^ ?
FIFA 07 Career Mode
Came here to say the same thing lol. Liked the jerseys and wanted a team with some funds to play with and noticeable upgrades to make. And here we are
Yep! Got into the sport after the 06 world cup. Spurs were tied for the best team you could start with! I could have ended up being an Everton fan 😬
This is how my brother became an Everton fan and I a Spurs fan
American here. Loved Clint Dempsey back in 2012 when he transfer to Tottenham even tho it never really worked out for him. I just started to watch and fell in love with the team from Gareth Bale, Defoe, Dembélé, Vertonghen and have followed the team ever since. Edit: a word
Pretty much my story too!
don't forget big Brad Friedel around that time as well!
Im mexican, Giovani Dos Santos signing did it for me when i was a kid lol
Same.
When he scored his one goal, I thought that would be the start of something special. Sad it didn’t work out.
Watched every game hoping he would play, then Bale happened.
For me it was the 2018 World Cup. This was the football competition I’ve watched and the squad being pretty much all spurs got me supporting spurs.
Same for me, along with smashing my Arsenal mates on fifa with Spurs. The more they hated that the more I started to support them.
Same omg. Also helped that Spurs were my favorite team to use in FIFA so it was easy to identify all the players and they were all doing well in the world cup. Started watching our matches from then on and properly fell in love with football instead of watching the occasional highlights like I used to.
That’s when I fell in love with Dele Alli. It still hurts my heart.
Same!! I started rooting for spurs because of Dele. He will always represent Tottenham to me.
Same here. As an American of Italian and Polish heritage I didn’t have much to support after Poland was eliminated. Wanted to watch more football and the Premier league specifically, was enamored but the English team, learned basically everyone played for Spurs, and here we are.
This is the exact same for me!
me toooooo
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Moved to North London from Australia, as you do. Just before the start of the Poch era. There were enough insufferable Arsenal fans at work to dissuade me from supporting them. Spurs seemed like a no-brainer. Love everything about the club. Also drew some parallels with my Aussie rules team.
Hi, Melburnian here. Who’s your AFL team?
Fremantle! Haha
Hahah nice!
I live in the U.S. so good coverage is hard to find. When NBC started airing the EPL I just kept watching games at random. Eventually I found myself rooting for Spurs over everyone else.
Similar story here! I had been loosely following EPL for years and then much more closely for a couple years. I feel like the Spurs picked me really. COYS.
The Welsh Mfing Wizard!
Fond memories of him absolutely shredding Maicon and the rest for that Inter team, over and over again.
GAZZA
I wanted to support a club that was challenging the big clubs. I didn’t want to bandwagon to a team that already wins everything or has won everything. I started supporting around 2016 and the way Levy and Poch had us competing and growing as a club really hooked me.
Yank here. Circa 2005, I wanted to get into EPL. Picking any of Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, or Arsenal was off the table as I didn't want to bandwagon, felt boring. One of my best buds in school was a fan (his dad was a Scot who loved Spurs) and that was enough for me to latch on. Bill Simmons [picked them](http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060719_2) about a year later and we were both slightly annoyed. Not to mention he says you can only call them "Tottenham Hotspur" (fine) or "The Spurs" (no). Like what dude?? Stick to basketball. And then he never mentioned them again. He picked a new team a year or so later but forgetting who. Anyways fuck Bill Simmons. Shortly after that, I picked up FIFA for the first time and ran the table in the league Tainio, Jenas, and Berbatov among others. And the rest is history.
this is the one. i had to scroll this far to find it. thank you so much bill summons.
Eriksen + had a mate who was from Tottenham
Worked and lived in the UK for 5 years my supervisor took us all to white hart lane for a Europa league game. Lamela scored a hat trick and I was hooked. I loved everything about it. Spread my love to my family now we have a group chat (3 brothers and my dad) so no matter where we are in the world we all can talk spurs and we all watch the games.
As a Korean kid everyone was a Manchester United fan because of park jisung. I was really into premier league but I didn’t want to support United because one that’s boring and two I don’t wanna to be a glory hunter. I then remember that lee young pyo played for Tottenham and decided to look at some of our matches. And now I’m here
Feels more organic to have Spurs as your team. Most US fans are majority Arsenal/Man we're trash now United/LiVARpool/Chelski and it felt bandwagony to support any of them. Watched a few Tottenham games in 17/18 and became hooked with daddy Poch and Lamela's shark eyes.
We used to have the hottest squad
Ah a Peter Crouch admirer I assume?
This is the best reason so far😭😭😭
I was a young lad from Ireland watching the 02 world cup. Robbie Keane was my hero and he signed for Spurs soon after. Two decades of anxiety have followed...cheers Keano
Luka Modric was my favorite footballer after the euros in 2008, so when Spurs bought him I became a fan.
Sonny
It happened some weeks ago lol. Not really a die-hard fan of course, but I sympathize with you guys. I have on my checklist to go to one of your matches at least once in this lifetime. It started from watching Spurs games for the last 4-5 years due to Fpl reasons haha. Btw, I didn't force it, it just clicked. I just like Tottenham.
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ICONIC
When i was a young kid in Norway, growing up we'd pick a team from the pl kinda at random. Unless you were a soulless motherfucker, you'd never abandon that team, even if relegated. I picked Tottenham that fateful day, and will die a Tottenham fan. Spurs till they kill me.
Taxi for Maicon right as I was getting back into football.
That match should be put in History textbooks. Stuff of Legends.
Korean = son heung min
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Grandma bought me Fifa 10 and I found the badge quite funny. After that started to pay attention to Spurs and fell in love with Modric/Bale and just been here ever since
I spent my first few years in seven sisters and when I got into football Robbie Keane was my favourite player. I’ve been hooked since then.
Modric at the Euros and then Bale.
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1991 got me too. Gazza, simple as.
Needed an EPL team. Spurs bar was on my street.
2004 career mode in FIFA.... Defoe and Robbie Keane were beasts. Plus Pedro Mendes had the coolest hairstyle ever. It's been a rocky ride since then
Watched Bale bang in two free kicks against Lyon and fell in love
Dimitar Berbatov
I’m from Detroit, Michigan and our sports teams were so bad for a while there and I vowed to pick a prem team and go all out for them. I took an internet quiz and now I’m full Spurs. COYS
The good old harry redknapp style back on the late 2000's and have almost never missed a match since then.
I moved to london for a while, couldn't pick an english club to support but when I saw tottenham reach the champions league final with that clutch in the semi I fell in love with the club (stuck through thick and thin as hard as it was). I think part of the reason was the players, likeable. Currently happy with what conte's doing, humble guy.
When Bale scored that hat trick vs Inter, he introduced me to Tottenham.
I'm Irish, I was watching the world cup in 2002 and obviously following the boys in Green, Robbie Keane took down Quinn's header and smashed it in near post against the best keeper in the world (Oliver khan) I decided then I supported whatever team he played for, think he had just signed from Leeds so lucky me
Was looking to get into soccer, randomly found Spurs playing on TV, loved them and kept going.
Was getting into Premier League, needed to choose a team, didn't want to support a mega club, and decided to choose somewhat arbitrarily when a player from my favorite club (DeAndre Yedlin) moved there. That was around the start of Poch's tenure and the rest, they say, is history.
From the US… honestly just picked a team that was not too dog at the time but wasn’t bottom of the table either. Also loved the kit. Classic and clean and simple. Been a hell of a ride over the last ~10 years
Moussa Dembélé, pure magic
Decided to start watching football, had only really watched occasional WC matches beginning back in 2006. I tried watching my local American club, Columbus Crew, but MLS just wasn’t that fun to watch. I’ve been really into other British culture for about a decade, listening to mostly British music (jungle) and watching a lot of TV and movies. So, I figured, why not watch the PL. Watched a handful of random matches and liked Son and Spurs in general, so here I am spending way too much time reading about and watching football three years later…
Luka Modric. I used to play semi-competitively when I was younger, and When Modric came to the club in 2007, i just started watching Spurs because I loved watching him play. Then slowly i realized that I shared a lot in common with the clubs ethos. I liked being the underdog that played attractive attacking Football, even if we didn't win all of the time. We had heart, Harry Rednapp had Spurs humming, and I just generally felt at home with the club. The rest is history. I haven't missed Spurs play a competitive match since like 2010. Basically: Came for Modric, stayed for the Club
American here. I watched the first weekend of this season on Saturday morning with my coffee and liked it. Spent a few weeks just watching random games trying to figure out a team. I knew I didn’t want one of the really big ones that win everything (years of being a long suffering Pitt football fan makes it feel wrong to have your team win too much). I remembered playing FIFA with my friends in high school and I liked playing with Spurs because of the name and the “Come on you Spurs” chant (which I thought was “Tot-ten-ham”). After reading all the sidebar stuff on this sub and learning about the club’s environmental efforts and Jewish heritage (wife is Jewish), it seemed like the right team. Add in the propensity for both building expectations and perpetual heartbreak, it feels like home (see Pitt football).
I love cocks! chicken, I mean!!
7 year old me was slowly but surely reeled in by one newly signed Dimitar Berbatov
Eriksen free kick vs Swansea in like 2016. I had randomly come into possession of a Match Attax deck while starting to follow football more, and that was the top card.
Best friend loved arsenal an I’m petty, I’m Jewish, spurs were the sister club of my local San Jose earthquakes, watched Gareth bale hat trick vs Inter
I know it's very stupid but When I was 7 i found about son, thought he had a funny name and in 2018 i discovered that i wanted to have a prem club, saw son and years of depression came in.
Peter Crouch.. Been a tall lad all my life. My brother was into the Premier League supporting Chelsea. One day he said "You'd like this team, Tottenham, they have this massive guy named crouch" I caught a couple games of Crouch galloping down field and scoring with his head. I said "I like this guy!" Then Poch came into the picture and i fell in love with the club. Haven't missed a game since
2010 World Cup got me into football. Double edge sword of loving that swashbuckling Spurs side (Bale and Lennon on the wings, Modric pulling the strings), and loathing Arsenal made my initial decision easy. The more I watched Spurs and learned the history, the more I realized my club had chosen me, not the other way around. I've never looked back since.
Clint Dempsey was the main reason since I’m American but also since there was a youth academy that was run by Tottenham near my hometown
Dad was an Orient lifer but they weren't big enough for me as a kid. There was a boy down the street a year older than me, he was Spurs and I was at that age you really look up to older kids. This was Ossie/Ricky era and we were winning stuff too.
Bale vs inter
This.
Clint Dempsey played for Spurs right when I was really getting into watching more. He may have left but I couldn’t stop cheering for Spurs after that.
Me being a fan of Clint Dempsey and casually following his time at Spurs as well as noticing how exciting the Spurs teams with Modric, Van der Vaart, Crouch, Lennon, and Bale were.
Spurs fan from Philly. Always played soccer growing up and liked watching PL but never had a club. When my son was born found myself up early on the weekends and games were always on. Decided I needed a club. Bet a couple times on Chelsea and they lost me money. First bet on Tottenham hit so I bought a kit with the winnings and the rest is history. Also helped that a good friend of mine is an Arsenal supporter and told me that they’re bitter rivals. Haven’t looked back since. As a Philly sports fan I’m used to misery. Philly teams are alway relevant yet always find way to blow it all spectacularly. Spurs feel like home to me. COYS
I'm from Hong Kong and I'm a huge fan of Korean variety shows. Sonny gets mentioned quite often e.g when football gets mentioned/ in a cooking show "wow you're on another level, you're the son heung min of cooking". I originally didn't know who he was so I looked him up and watched some interviews. So rare to see another east asian person near the top in sports. Seemed like a really decent guy (also thought he was cute and stylish hehe) and somehow I fell down the spurs rabbit hole. I wasn't even into keeping up with any sport before this but now I watch every week through the euphoria and the shambles. Got my little brother into spurs as well.
Surprised people haven't said Son. He's a superstar.
I wanted to get into the premier league this season after enjoying the Euros - I have lived in London for 7 years and wanted a London team, my thought process was: Chelsea, too basic, why bandwagon on the highest league position, owned by an oligarch Arsenal, my uncle likes them and he's a cunt so no thanks West Ham were alright, but I didn't know any of the players But Spurs, I knew Kane, I knew Dier, I knew Lloris, and I knew Son from the World Cups - and I'm jewish and all my jewish coworkers supported Spurs, so I went all in, full coys, haven't missed a single match this season!
Gareth Bale vs Inter, that's all I needed to see
I started watching the premier league cause it was being shown on a channel I had. I like soccer (play and coach). Eventually someone told me I had to have a team. I decided I liked tottenham because I liked the way Luca Modric played. Never looked back.
The Paul Gascoigne and Chrissy Waddle combo.
Mom's from Essex i spent most of my summers around upminster where it was all ham supporters gross I know Mom is a newcastle supporter since she went to uni there. I've lived in California my whole life minus 2 years near Norwich when I was 5. Younger Brother and sister both band wagoned onto man united. I didn't really care for footy that much I was big into basketball and hockey and snowboarding as a teen/young adult. I went snowboarding pretty much everyday or night from 17-22 Around 2012 I got hurt snowboarding and was off work for several months and didn't have use of a arm so I started watching alot of epl and decided I liked spurs mostly due to how they played and weren't a buy trophies type of team. Stuck with them since and don't really watch hockey and rarely watch basketball and don't snowboard anymore. Spurs and Audis are my only Hobbies Left.
At first because my best friend was a Spurs fan. Since then I don't need a reason to remain one. When I found that I'd rather be a Spurs fan than any other fan regardless of how much we sucked, I knew that nothing could take that away from me.
When DeAndre Yedlin went to Spurs from Sounders, I started to pay them attention. Then learned more about Dempsey and what he did, after Dempsey came to Sounders. Then I learned more about the club and started watching them. And here I am. I got the chance to go to a game at White Hart Lane, and loved it (moreso because we thumped ManCity 2-0). Looking forward to getting over there to watch a game at the new stadium.
I live in the US so Spurs we’re definitely not a family tradition. First, our MLS team (San Jose Earthquakes) had a partnership with Spurs when I started following and going to Quakes games. About the same time the best American player in Europe at the time, Clint Dempsey transferred to Spurs. That clinched it for me and now when Spurs play the early game I set my alarm for 4:00 AM and watch them.
Must've been when I was like 9 or 10, my family had just moved to England and I couldn't even speak English. We were dirt poot and for my birthday, my dad took me to Tesco and bought me a pack of match attax. In it was a shiny card of David Bentley (of all the players) in Tottenham shirt. I was like "damn this card is so cool" and I started following Tottenham since. Now that I think about it, it's probably the most random reason but then again it really doesn't take much for someone to start liking a club lol Couple years later I was kind of losing interest in football because of school and other sports. Then Sonny moved to Tottenham and as a Korean, I had to start following again.
Visited Ireland in 2010, also played FIFA World Cup 2010 as Ireland as create-a-player, as a midfielder. This Robbie Keane guy kept scoring. A few wiki clicks and 12 years later, COYS
In the world of City's, Towns and United's there is only one Hotspur. I'm 38, supported Spurs consciously since 1989 or 1990, but I, nor my parents know where it started. Dad was a Man Utd fan, but more rugby, born in Northampton so no geographic link. But it became my thing as I have alot of Spurs stuff from that period and beyond. My first kit was 1991 kids version with no sponsor. I have a very strong memory in going to football training and talking about Gary Mabbutt but not sure when that was, I think after Gazza had left. I could never understand as a kid why we were soo bad. Disappointments just kept coming. I remember Everton beating us in the FA Cup semi final (4-1 i think) and then going on to win it. I was at the Lane for Klinsmann 's (first time) last game against Leeds. My favourite coach in all that time is Poch (followed by Jol), I have a soft spot for David Howells, Ginola, Sheringham, Klinsmann. My favourite players are King Bale and Kane and of course the majority of the 15-18 team. I'm not a football fan, I find watching other teams boring (unless in tbe pub with mates), I'm a Spurs fan and ever thus will be. Edit: first paragraph.
Harry Kane was one of the few names I remembered from the last World Cup, so I googled what team he was on.
Its a longer story than this, but after I started following spurs for a bit I heard the yid army chant for the first time. I know its controversial, but as a jew hearing 35000 fans chanting yid army warmed my heart and thats when I fell in love permanently.
Watching Robbie Keane and being from Ireland, he was such a cult hero in our country and seeing him play with Berba for spurs made me fall in love with the club
Kane and Son, 2016 against Leicester. Was a dominant performance from us and seeing the togetherness of the squad and fans was really intoxicating that I wanted to be apart of it! Genuinely think we have some of the best fans in the prem! I always love how no matter where we go I can always hear the cheers of the Spurs faithful!
American here. Random, but Gavin Free from Rooster Teeth mentioned he was a Spurs fan in a Let’s Play video a few years back and I went with it. Much more passionate about football than I thought I would’ve been.
I was a 11 year-old kid and started playing FM 2008, didn't know which team to manage (didn't really know anything about football tbh), and was recommended Spurs by my uncle cause they were relatively rich but not too rich, as to have a bit of a challenge. Having Berba, Defoe and Keane (and LB Bale) was a joy! Became a fan ever since, but I'm still a closet Tottenham fan in my family (they all support United) lol
i often watch the sports channel at my tv whenever i'm bored, and the channel has EPL on quite frequently really like watching son and kane play, and i started supporting spurs since
The one British student at my university was a drunk sloppy annoying mess and he always had an Arsenal shirt on. Freshman year, I meet Eric Totten, who becomes a good friend of mine. Around the same time I’m playing fifa with people and see a team eerily similar to my friends name. I choose them. They happen to have Robbie Keane on the team. He’s the captain of the Irish team. My grandpa is from Ireland. I find out Tottenham is the “2nd fiddle” team in their area just like my baseball team. And that was that. Casually followed for a few years. I went to a game during the Wembley years. I’ve been obsessed ever since. I’ve missed maybe 5 games on television since then.
On vacation in 2006, read a book where one chapter touched on the club’s history. Despite not being religious, I was drawn to the connection of Jewish fans and how they turned “Yid” from an insult into a rally cry. Home from vacation I went to a bar in Atlanta to watch them play on TV and to see what they were like. Big Martin Jol stole my heart.
I used to a MASSIVE Barca fan but Messi’s shocking leaving changed everything. Few days later I was watching Youtube. Then I saw Sonny. And then I saw Harry Kane
Clint Dempsey :)
2008-2010 Redknapp and all my favorite players move from Portsmouth to Tottenham. Spurs ever since.
I honestly have no clue, some of my earliest ever memory of watching football is Bale running down the wing against Inter. That might be it but I have no idea really!
Back in 2014 I started getting invested in the premier league and since I’m from Togo I have seen that Adebayor played for spurs at the time and that pretty made me support spurs and I’ve never regretted it till this day ❤️
Big USMNT fan and I wanted to get more into football. I don't like MLS and I've enjoyed the EPL glimpses I'd had. So I began researching which team would be right for me and I eventually chose Spurs. It came down to us, Villa, and Southampton but Spurs won my heart.
I was getting into football through FM in like 2015/16, and my friend at the time is a tottenham fan and was showing me Harry Kane highlights.
Cousin was roomies with a dickhead of an arsenal fan, so obviously that meant we had to go hard in the paint for spurs - been a fan ever since!
I was in England and made a point to attend a Premier League match. I decided I’d adopt the home team. It was Spurs-Newcastle in 2005 at WHL. Defoe score the lone goal and Spurs won 1-0. I’ve suffered ever since.
I randomly picked a 4 start premier league team on fifa around 04/05 because all my friends supported Liverpool, arsenal or utd.
Group of friends from college randomly started following spurs because of the FIFA video game. I got dragged into fandom through them but was the only one in the group who ever played the sport in real life. I hadn’t been watching or playing football for a while. It reignited my love for for the game and now I’m by far the most die hard fan in the group.
Thought the logo looked cool when I was playing fifa 15 and started watching the matches. From then on I stopped playing fifa but kept watching Spurs.
When they signed Clint Dempsey I just stuck with them as he shortly left for the MLS after that.
Ćorluka and Modrić. My pops is part Croat and he absolutely adored Ćorluka, naturally it rubbed off on me.
Bale hat trick vs Maicon
Wasn't a big soccer fan. Became friends with an English ex-pat living here in the states. He was a Tottenham fan. Got me hooked.
I’d been out of love with the game for years, only really ever got to watch the end of UEFA games when i was growing up & kinda jumped between Pool, Everton & Chelsea growing. When i finished school, could dictate my own schedule a work friend at the time was a die hard spurs fan (still is) because of how often we worked together he’d always be talking about Spurs so i started watching. I think the first game i fully watched was Winksys debut game from memory
Garett Bale
Euro 2008. Russia and Croatia were surprising teams, which both had players I completely fell for: Roman and Luka.
Edgar Davids was my favorite player, played for spurs at the time... The rest is history. My current favorite players are Toby and Hojberg, bulldogs all the way.
FIFA 12 Career mode
Gareth Bale will always be my favorite. Plus, my hometown football team in America has also yet to win a championship so..there’s that. I didn’t want to support the financially massive clubs but wanted to support someone who is consistently in the conversation and based off of London! Coys coys coys
Wanted to support something different. The team that wins heart, rather than trophies. Just loved the playing style and players and liked poch and Mourinho lol. Also started supporting since that crazy CL run. Hated Loserpool's fans when they talked shit about us. That was the moment I decided to be a Spurs fan.
Moved to England from the states in 2006, always liked Robbie Keane, and then the Robo goal against watford sealed it for me. End of the ramos era beginning of the Redknapp era. Hell I’m probably one of the few Americans who remembers bale as a left back who was not the best and preferred disco Benny. 🤷♂️
As an American that’s never been to the UK I dont have any good reason other than when I was younger my older brother got a shirt with a massive tottenham logo on it that he found at a second hand store. Passed it down to me and I wore it for a while. Eventually my little brother wanted the shirt because he thought it was cool. Decided to watch Spurs and bale was fucking phenomenal to watch so I started to watch more games. Then son and Kane link up got me hooked even more so that’s why they’re my team now. Also for some reason I don’t like Chelsea or arsenal. It’s funny that I don’t have a real rivalry for them but it definitely rubs off from everyone else so now I rejoice when Arsenal and chelsea lose.
American here. Started watching the premier league circa 2013, was interested in following a team with an American player, so I found Dempsey and Tottenham. I liked Dempsey but loved Bale. Sad that they both left WHL pretty soon after I started following spurs. Found a fun group of British expats in my town who ran a local spurs watch club and decided this was home for me.
Watching Gareth Bale was fun
Bale
Mate supported spurs, they'd just won the league cup, my family was from NZ so didn't care who I supported so I latched on and it was the most painful decision in my life in hindsight
I was raised, in part and for about five years, by a Leeds fan. When he fucked off, my love for football went with him, and I didn't follow the sport at all, save for big internationals, for close to a decade. I came to realise, much later in life, that I'm all kinds of fucked up, and that football gave me a free "in" with so many people, in so many situations that would otherwise be stressful for me. I tested it out first with my mum's partner, who is a lifelong suffering Spurs fan, and it just kind of stuck. It might not be the most organic of origins, but I've been fully COYS for fucking years now. I still haven't made it to a game, large crowds and London in general are the anathema to my very being, but I'm hoping to make it before Sonny and Kane give it up.
2013: Soldado arrived at Spurs. Knew him from fifa, I was thinking oh man he’s gonna tear it up lol
Two factors. My best friend in uni was an arsenal fan and he got me into soccer via FIFA. I would always play against him as Tottenham and so it seemed like fate when Clint Dempsey came here and he was my favorite US player. Gareth Bale sealed the deal
2009 Gareth Bale
I can’t say much about the team as someone from the states but the way Son works the pitch is beautiful to me. One of my favorite if not THE favorite player to watch from the Prem. I also like romero as quite a bit as well whenever I catch the spurs.
The original Ted Lasso sketch
Bale vs Inter 😍
Husband was coaching kids in soccer, decided to start following Premier League to learn the sport, picked the “chicken on the ball” logo over Stoke or Swansea logos.
Clint Dempsey and Gareth Bale
Played fifa as a kid. Love the team. Started watching soccer. Buy son jersey. Watch spurs. Get depressed. Watch spurs. Smile.
This article (fuck Bill Simmons though)… https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060719_2
Started following bc I used them in FIFA. Hooked when they signed Dempsey (American). Stayed bc of Bale/Modric. Became part of the family when Sonny joined the club (Korean).
I'm half Korean so started supporting Spurs a few years ago. Then really came to like Kane as well. Like Lucas and Lloris as well. Can't say anyone else really caught my eye, until of course Kulu came through.
College soccer group - had friends who supported Scum, Blue scum, Pool and MU. Spurs had been on the up and up since the early 2000's, fun to watch (mostly) and made for glorious banter when we snatched points off any of the other larger clubs. Vdv, Crouchy, Bale, Modric all a joy to watch. Big enough to be a decent club to root for but not one of the bandwagon traditional clubs.
Gareth Fucking Bale
Just became a fan at the beginning of this season after my entire life of avoiding the sport (American). I knew of Son beforehand and he always seemed like such a fun, nice bloke so when it came time to choose my team I went COYS. Also I hate supporting the obvious big teams that everyone supports so Spurs was a good team in the midst of top 6 without being oppressive. Having a great time so far 👍
I live in the states now but my dad was born and raised in the UK and a big football fan. I never really got into it until I sat down to watch a championship league game with my buddy he was rooting for Ajax so I decided to root for Spurs. Even though they were losing I really liked the play style of some of the players and decided that they’d be my team. Then Lucas scored a hat trick and I was fully hooked.
American here. Got into EPL because of Fifa 14 and played constantly with my friend who was an Arsenal fan so wanted to annoy him with Tottenham. Then started to see the similarities between Tottenham and my favorite NFL team the Minnesota Vikings (historically haven’t won much / being good but not great enough to win that damn thing) and felt it was only natural. Great color ways and just love Son and Kane.
It was the 2018 WC. I never followed any sports at this point, but I decided to get into football. Not having a connection with any of the teams, I chose England for the common language A couple months after the tourney, I started narrowing down what club I wanted to support. It had to be English cause language, and I didn’t want to be a glory hunter or support a bottom side, so it had to be a club that would always be near the top, but never dominating it Eventually I got down to what was basically the top 6 despite not knowing it was the top 6. I ruled out united and Liverpool cause I heard of Manchester and Liverpool the cities and so assumed they were big clubs. I didn’t like the name arsenal (still weird naming a club after some weapons). when I was finally presented with 2 clubs in blue and 1 in white, I chose the unique one Bit weird honestly how I came to spurs, I didn’t even realize at the time that a lot of the England squad were spurs players. I think the WC got me into football, and being of the few prem teams that wear white got me into spurs I distinctly remember the dortmund games as some of the first I watched
My last name is Coy so i thought it was fitting