Spurs - THFC My Club

By Pete 27
September 12 2006

There's just something special about the name. It has originality, uniqueness - not your mundane City, United or Rovers. Even our nickname: Spurs - has the same unique aura. And indeed, the history of our great club has bequeathed us these qualities down the years.

Tottenham Hotspur

There's just something special about the name.
It has originality, uniqueness - not your mundane City, United or Rovers. Even our nickname: Spurs - has the same unique aura.
And indeed, the history of our great club has bequeathed us these qualities down the years.

The side of 1901 becoming the only non - League club to win the F.A. Cup. Yes, a non-League club, breaking the northern stranglehold on domestic football at the time. And in the process, setting a world record for an attendance at a football match. Over 110,000
Centre forward Sandy Brown notched an amazing 15 goals on that Cup run - a record that still stands today.

A great team began to emerge after the Great War. With the likes of Tommy Clay, Arthur Grimsdell and the legendary Jimmy Seed. The 2nd division Championship was won in 1920 with an unsurpassed points tally of 72 (2 points for a win). A record 32 victories from 42 matches was also achieved.
But ask the older Spurs fan about his favourite player back then - and most will plump for Jimmy Dimmock, a local lad from Edmonton, Jimmy possessed superb dribbling skills.
And for a winger, his goal tally was tremendous. Above all else though, he will be remembered for scoring the only goal of the game in the 1921 Cup final against Wolves, at Stamford Bridge.
Still no other club south of Birmingham had won a major trophy in the 20th century - but Spurs were once again leading the way.

The post-war years again yielded a superb team. "Push and Run" was about to be born. Arthur Rowe, born and bred in Tottenham, was at the helm. Using sugar cubes on a train journey back from an away match, "Push and Run" was a brand of fast flowing, passing football. The club won the 2nd and 1st Divison Championships in successive seasons - the first to do so.
That side contained two players who were to later make their mark in football management....

Every true Tottenham fan is aware of the 1960's. The pinnacle of our great history. Not content with becoming the first club in the 20th century to win the coveted League and Cup double in 1961. On a glorious night in Rotterdam, Danny Blanchflower lifted the European Cup Winners Cup. Thus making us the first British team to win a European trophy.

Entering the 1970's Sir Bill was still at the helm. And with Eddie Bailey by his side, yet more history was to be made.1971 and '73 brought two League Cup successes, enabling the club to be the first to win the trophy twice. Sandwiched in between was a UEFA Cup triumph, in the only all--English European final to date. Tottenham Hotspur had notched another milestone; the first British club to win two different European trophies.

The 1980's dawned - and Keith Burkinshaw was now manager. In the true Tottenham tradition, attractive entertaining football was continually maintained.
Two successive F.A, Cups were won, in 1981 and '82. Bestowing upon us the honour of being the first club to win this trophy in successive seasons - on two different occasions.
On another memorable European night at the Lane in 1984, more UEFA Cup glory was gained, which meant we became the first British club to play in three UEFA Cup finals.

Since those heady days, success has been few and far between. But Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a true icon of English/British football.
Famed worldwide, for playing entertaining football. And uniquely famed, for attaining so many footballing firsts.

"Tottenham Hotspur isn't just a matter of life and death to me,
It's much more important than that."