Flump
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It's lump in the throat, hairs on your arms, goosebumps time everybody.
its so sad
skiathospurs
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Nearly finished reading THE LANE,excellent book every spurs fans should read it,beautiful photos and all the history.its not helping this feeling of malaise!!One nice touch is I can see myself in the crowd in one photo,"the lane in all weather" a pic taken from paxton road last year during the hailstorm at the NLD.I know its me front row,park lane next to the post as I was the only wanker just in a white shirt & no coat,guess now it was worth the soaking to see myself in history.I got the book online signed by Perryman,same price as the club shop £30 "COYS" i asked for he added "thank you for your support",I am sure no other club in the country makes you feel like family like spurs.I think the link to the online shop is in the tottenham small talk thread,if i find it I will stick it here if it still is doing the deal.
skiathospurs
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lamp post banners have been installed along the High Road ahead of Sunday's game...
Finchbee
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Wonder how many people will try and take them down !!
skiathospurs
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Triggers broom lol
(May make no sense to overseas fans)
(May make no sense to overseas fans)
Wotspur
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Knicked !!
Don Diaz
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Bought a copy yesterday for the old man, going to the training ground tomorrow with a mate who sells grass...!!!!! got me an invite. Can't wait.
skiathospurs
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Got to the end I also sneaked in another photo from fiorentina with steve the infamous hat night,so made the book twice.
Finchbee
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Its not in the shop now !!
skiathospurs
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The Lane, The Finale: Farewell Ceremony
Posted on 10 May 2017 - 14:58
Sunday’s match against Manchester United marks a momentous occasion in the Club’s history as we say a final farewell to White Hart Lane - our famous home of 118 years.
Fans are encouraged to remain in the stadium after the final whistle for a poignant Farewell Ceremony.
The event will feature former players, along with the current First Team and coaching staff and players from within the Club’s Academy - marking our past, present and exciting future.
Fans will be provided with a pack upon arrival into the stadium that includes a special edition t-shirt and flag, which we ask you to raise during the final Farewell to create a lasting vision of the Lane in all its glory.
Please note that there will be a brief intermission between the end of the match and the start of the Ceremony to allow us to make the preparations for the show. During this period, the catering kiosks on our concourses will remain open for refreshments. We would ask that you are back in your seats within 15 minutes of the final whistle.
For those unable to attend the match, Sky Sports will be extending their live coverage to air the Ceremony in its entirety for viewers in the UK and Ireland.
Lol Levy even punts selling a few more beers with a 15min intermission,
Posted on 10 May 2017 - 14:58
Sunday’s match against Manchester United marks a momentous occasion in the Club’s history as we say a final farewell to White Hart Lane - our famous home of 118 years.
Fans are encouraged to remain in the stadium after the final whistle for a poignant Farewell Ceremony.
The event will feature former players, along with the current First Team and coaching staff and players from within the Club’s Academy - marking our past, present and exciting future.
Fans will be provided with a pack upon arrival into the stadium that includes a special edition t-shirt and flag, which we ask you to raise during the final Farewell to create a lasting vision of the Lane in all its glory.
Please note that there will be a brief intermission between the end of the match and the start of the Ceremony to allow us to make the preparations for the show. During this period, the catering kiosks on our concourses will remain open for refreshments. We would ask that you are back in your seats within 15 minutes of the final whistle.
For those unable to attend the match, Sky Sports will be extending their live coverage to air the Ceremony in its entirety for viewers in the UK and Ireland.
Lol Levy even punts selling a few more beers with a 15min intermission,
Wotspur
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So what about all those who normally on the 80th minute, whether we're 5-0 up, 1-1 or 0-1 down , say alright Fred we're off now, see you next weeek, surely the parade could be done before the game, otherwise they'll have to stay, see the whole game, and judge when 10 mins before the finale end is before going home !! Gotta feel sorry for them ........not
J.spurs
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I'm actually surprised at how many people are saying more or less exactly this in all seriousness. My brother was at the Watford game last month, and talking to an old man who's had season tickets forever--he said he won't be all that nostalgic as the current version of the Lane is so little like what he grew up with, basically in his mind WHL was torn down years ago.Triggers broom lol
(May make no sense to overseas fans)
Finchbee
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Micky Hazard
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Wow Spurs Official showing the 84 Eufa cup final tomorrow on Facebook live at 3 o'clock, hope we win, I'm predicting a close game and maybe going to pens, don't miss it guys COYSSSS
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Wow Spurs Official showing the 84 Eufa cup final tomorrow on Facebook live at 3 o'clock, hope we win, I'm predicting a close game and maybe going to pens, don't miss it guys COYSSSS
Don Diaz
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Tottenham's White Hart Lane farewell: Saying goodbye to your old ground..
You don't forget your first visit to your team's home stadium: how green the pitch looks, how big the stands seem, how tall everyone in front of you is. The noise, the suddenness of it. The speed of the football, the soft touch of the star names, the swearing.
And you don't forget your last, all those seasons of hope and frustration later, when your club upgrades to something altogether cleaner and smarter and more comfortable, and it is time to say goodbye to it all - cramped concourses, tight seating, reeking toilets and the cheap temporary fixes, all of it held together by old memories and faded promises, a shared past that binds you to friends and strangers alike.
You know when it is time to move on. Stadiums age just like the players and tactics they house. Stairs are too steep, sight-lines compromised. Stands that once felt huge and light and imposing begin to feel weary and archaic.
When Spurs play their final match at White Hart Lane on Sunday, the logic of their move to a 61,559-seat grand design built across much of the same site will be inescapable. So too will the sadness for an old home shortly to be reduced to rubble.
Football grounds should feel prosaic. The cheaper part of town, steel and grey concrete, painted wood and moulded plastic. A space that is empty and unused most days of the year.
And then, for a few hours every couple of weeks, like nowhere else you ever go - shouting like you can't shout anywhere else, feeling both totally immersed yet horribly powerless, singing in unison with people whose names you will never know.
Spurs have been at White Hart Lane for 118 years. Much of the ground, which now holds 36,240 fans, is unrecognisable to that history. The Shelf is long gone, the Paxton Road end transformed, even the new West Stand that once seemed so vast and modern in the 1980s, as you came in on the train or along the High Road, now a little tired and outdated.
Supporters can still look out at that rectangle of grass and know that was the stage where so many unforgettable moments played out. They can picture where, before their time, the great players ran and great goals were scored in glory games.
That pitch is the living connection to it all: where the league titles of 1951 and 1961 were finally won, both against Sheffield Wednesday; the left wing where Gareth Bale tortured Inter Milan's Maicon in November 2010; the goalmouth where Tony Parks saved a penalty from Anderlecht's Arnor Gudjohnsen to win the Uefa Cup final in 1984. The penalty boxes where Steve Perryman scored twice against AC Milan in the semi-final of the 1972 Uefa Cup; the little patch where Terry Dyson played a one-two with Danny Blanchflower before lashing in his third goal against Arsenal in August 1961.
The past: The famous Shelf is packed out as Tottenham host Manchester United in May 1984
There are the hauntings, too - Arsenal's 5-0 win at Christmas 1978, Manchester United scoring five in one half past Neil Sullivan as Spurs surrendered a 3-0 half-time lead in September 2001, being 3-0 up against a 10-man Manchester City in the FA Cup in 2004 and somehow losing 4-3.
And there are the sacred ghosts to go with them: the artists like John White, Cliff Jones and Jimmy Greaves, the entertainers like Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne and Jurgen Klinsmann, the tough nuts like Ted Ditchburn, Dave Mackay and Graham Roberts.
"Every supporter will tell you this about their own ground, but it's the memories you build up from when you're a kid," says Dave Bricknell, who has had season tickets on the Shelf, Paxton Road and now Park Lane over the past 40 years, and who as a coach up the road in Chingford 18 years ago picked a six-year-old kid called Harry Kane for the youth team he ran, Ridgeway Rovers.
"My first game was a home match against Millwall, League Cup, 1972. A night game, loud. My mate's dad picked me up. He'd built his son a little box so he could stand at the front and see. In the corner you had the bloke at half-time manually putting the scores on from the other matches.
"It's those memories, and it's the things you do now - parking at the same place, walking the same way. A lot of people have moved away from Tottenham, and the only time they come back now is for the game.
"It's the part when you walk into the ground, you've got all the terrace above you, and you look forward and the ground opens up around you. To me, that is it. That is the best part of the game, because it takes you back to your childhood.
"Over the years there have been some really bad games. Games when you think, why do I keep coming over here? But you do go back. And every supporter of every club will tell you the same thing. We all think our home ground is special."
Spurs will make Wembley their temporary home next season, before moving in to their new stadium - which is expected to set them back £750m.
They have left their house move late compared to their neighbours. Arsenal departed Highbury's marble halls and Art Deco facades in 2006, West Ham the partisan, claustrophobic Upton Park a year ago. Of the football stadia in London also designed by the great football architect Archibald Leitch, only Fulham's Craven Cottage remains recognisable.
It was Leitch's East Stand that sheltered arguably the most iconic single element of White Hart Lane, the long stretch of terrace down the side of the pitch known as the Shelf. As the North Bank defined Highbury, as the old terraced Kop did Anfield, the Gallowgate End St James's Park and the Holte End Villa Park, the Shelf was what set the ground apart: its tribal heart, its noisy soul.
The future: A young Tottenham fan and the ground the club will soon call home
"People won't believe it, but in that 1984 season I went to White Hart Lane most midweeks," says former Chelsea, Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin.
"I was actually Chelsea's player of the year at the time, but I was standing on the Shelf, watching Spurs. If you've got Ossie Ardiles, if you've got Glenn Hoddle, if you've got the likes of Micky Hazard - they were brilliant players in that team, and I was really keen to watch those players and learn what I could.
"White Hart Lane was a brilliant place to play, because the supporters were so close to you. The atmosphere was always great. It's a small pitch, but because Spurs were almost always an attacking side, it was almost like an elongated five-a-side game. I loved playing at that ground."
For Tottenham's own guard the memories are more vivid still.
"When I was there you would regularly get 60,000 for a match," former club captain Alan Mullery told BBC Sport. "When we won the Uefa Cup in 1972, beating Wolves, the last match I ever played, and I scored the winning goal. I remember every minute of it."
Thirteen years later, Spurs would win the same tournament on the same pitch, 21-year-old Parks' two penalty saves in the shootout and all.
"We went out to an old building on the High Road that had a balcony, and the whole of the High Road was full of thousands of Spurs fans," remembers Gary Mabbutt, early, that night, in a Spurs career that would see him captain the club for more than a decade. "118 years of tradition and history, all embedded in White Hart Lane."
"It's an old cliche, but it's a proper football ground," says Dave Bricknell. "You're packed in. You're right next to the players, you're getting noise from most sides.
"The new stadium is eating the old stadium. It's like playing Pac-Man on a grand scale. You can see three new stands going up, and it looks fantastic.
"It will be bigger, and it will be better, and hopefully we can keep the team together and move on to the next level. You've got to look forward, haven't you?"
You do. But you can also look back, one final time. And when you do, no matter which ground you are saying farewell to, the days and nights that meant so much come alive one more time, as they have this past week for Bricknell.
"Parksey saving those penalties, Roberts stealing in to equalise. The noise!
"Harry scoring against Arsenal last year, fantastic. What a goal… But the other week against Arsenal was pretty special too - beating them 2-0, making sure we stayed above them.
"That 5-3 defeat by United - it was my son's birthday. One of his first games. The City loss was worse. It was Man Utd in the next round, so at half-time we were all looking at booking flights up to Manchester. Liam Brady smashing one into the top corner in that 5-0 in '78…
"Beating Arsenal 5-0 and Mark Falco scoring a volley from the edge of the box with his right foot, Terry Gibson crossing it, Chris Hughton scoring another belter in that match… beating Feyenoord 4-2 under the lights, with Cruyff in their team and saying before the match that Hoddle wasn't all that good and he was going to show it, and Hoddle absolutely destroying them…
"It's been special. And Sunday will be a very special goodbye."
You don't forget your first visit to your team's home stadium: how green the pitch looks, how big the stands seem, how tall everyone in front of you is. The noise, the suddenness of it. The speed of the football, the soft touch of the star names, the swearing.
And you don't forget your last, all those seasons of hope and frustration later, when your club upgrades to something altogether cleaner and smarter and more comfortable, and it is time to say goodbye to it all - cramped concourses, tight seating, reeking toilets and the cheap temporary fixes, all of it held together by old memories and faded promises, a shared past that binds you to friends and strangers alike.
You know when it is time to move on. Stadiums age just like the players and tactics they house. Stairs are too steep, sight-lines compromised. Stands that once felt huge and light and imposing begin to feel weary and archaic.
When Spurs play their final match at White Hart Lane on Sunday, the logic of their move to a 61,559-seat grand design built across much of the same site will be inescapable. So too will the sadness for an old home shortly to be reduced to rubble.
Football grounds should feel prosaic. The cheaper part of town, steel and grey concrete, painted wood and moulded plastic. A space that is empty and unused most days of the year.
And then, for a few hours every couple of weeks, like nowhere else you ever go - shouting like you can't shout anywhere else, feeling both totally immersed yet horribly powerless, singing in unison with people whose names you will never know.
Spurs have been at White Hart Lane for 118 years. Much of the ground, which now holds 36,240 fans, is unrecognisable to that history. The Shelf is long gone, the Paxton Road end transformed, even the new West Stand that once seemed so vast and modern in the 1980s, as you came in on the train or along the High Road, now a little tired and outdated.
Supporters can still look out at that rectangle of grass and know that was the stage where so many unforgettable moments played out. They can picture where, before their time, the great players ran and great goals were scored in glory games.
That pitch is the living connection to it all: where the league titles of 1951 and 1961 were finally won, both against Sheffield Wednesday; the left wing where Gareth Bale tortured Inter Milan's Maicon in November 2010; the goalmouth where Tony Parks saved a penalty from Anderlecht's Arnor Gudjohnsen to win the Uefa Cup final in 1984. The penalty boxes where Steve Perryman scored twice against AC Milan in the semi-final of the 1972 Uefa Cup; the little patch where Terry Dyson played a one-two with Danny Blanchflower before lashing in his third goal against Arsenal in August 1961.
The past: The famous Shelf is packed out as Tottenham host Manchester United in May 1984
There are the hauntings, too - Arsenal's 5-0 win at Christmas 1978, Manchester United scoring five in one half past Neil Sullivan as Spurs surrendered a 3-0 half-time lead in September 2001, being 3-0 up against a 10-man Manchester City in the FA Cup in 2004 and somehow losing 4-3.
And there are the sacred ghosts to go with them: the artists like John White, Cliff Jones and Jimmy Greaves, the entertainers like Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne and Jurgen Klinsmann, the tough nuts like Ted Ditchburn, Dave Mackay and Graham Roberts.
"Every supporter will tell you this about their own ground, but it's the memories you build up from when you're a kid," says Dave Bricknell, who has had season tickets on the Shelf, Paxton Road and now Park Lane over the past 40 years, and who as a coach up the road in Chingford 18 years ago picked a six-year-old kid called Harry Kane for the youth team he ran, Ridgeway Rovers.
"My first game was a home match against Millwall, League Cup, 1972. A night game, loud. My mate's dad picked me up. He'd built his son a little box so he could stand at the front and see. In the corner you had the bloke at half-time manually putting the scores on from the other matches.
"It's those memories, and it's the things you do now - parking at the same place, walking the same way. A lot of people have moved away from Tottenham, and the only time they come back now is for the game.
"It's the part when you walk into the ground, you've got all the terrace above you, and you look forward and the ground opens up around you. To me, that is it. That is the best part of the game, because it takes you back to your childhood.
"Over the years there have been some really bad games. Games when you think, why do I keep coming over here? But you do go back. And every supporter of every club will tell you the same thing. We all think our home ground is special."
Spurs will make Wembley their temporary home next season, before moving in to their new stadium - which is expected to set them back £750m.
They have left their house move late compared to their neighbours. Arsenal departed Highbury's marble halls and Art Deco facades in 2006, West Ham the partisan, claustrophobic Upton Park a year ago. Of the football stadia in London also designed by the great football architect Archibald Leitch, only Fulham's Craven Cottage remains recognisable.
It was Leitch's East Stand that sheltered arguably the most iconic single element of White Hart Lane, the long stretch of terrace down the side of the pitch known as the Shelf. As the North Bank defined Highbury, as the old terraced Kop did Anfield, the Gallowgate End St James's Park and the Holte End Villa Park, the Shelf was what set the ground apart: its tribal heart, its noisy soul.
The future: A young Tottenham fan and the ground the club will soon call home
"People won't believe it, but in that 1984 season I went to White Hart Lane most midweeks," says former Chelsea, Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin.
"I was actually Chelsea's player of the year at the time, but I was standing on the Shelf, watching Spurs. If you've got Ossie Ardiles, if you've got Glenn Hoddle, if you've got the likes of Micky Hazard - they were brilliant players in that team, and I was really keen to watch those players and learn what I could.
"White Hart Lane was a brilliant place to play, because the supporters were so close to you. The atmosphere was always great. It's a small pitch, but because Spurs were almost always an attacking side, it was almost like an elongated five-a-side game. I loved playing at that ground."
For Tottenham's own guard the memories are more vivid still.
"When I was there you would regularly get 60,000 for a match," former club captain Alan Mullery told BBC Sport. "When we won the Uefa Cup in 1972, beating Wolves, the last match I ever played, and I scored the winning goal. I remember every minute of it."
Thirteen years later, Spurs would win the same tournament on the same pitch, 21-year-old Parks' two penalty saves in the shootout and all.
"We went out to an old building on the High Road that had a balcony, and the whole of the High Road was full of thousands of Spurs fans," remembers Gary Mabbutt, early, that night, in a Spurs career that would see him captain the club for more than a decade. "118 years of tradition and history, all embedded in White Hart Lane."
"It's an old cliche, but it's a proper football ground," says Dave Bricknell. "You're packed in. You're right next to the players, you're getting noise from most sides.
"The new stadium is eating the old stadium. It's like playing Pac-Man on a grand scale. You can see three new stands going up, and it looks fantastic.
"It will be bigger, and it will be better, and hopefully we can keep the team together and move on to the next level. You've got to look forward, haven't you?"
You do. But you can also look back, one final time. And when you do, no matter which ground you are saying farewell to, the days and nights that meant so much come alive one more time, as they have this past week for Bricknell.
"Parksey saving those penalties, Roberts stealing in to equalise. The noise!
"Harry scoring against Arsenal last year, fantastic. What a goal… But the other week against Arsenal was pretty special too - beating them 2-0, making sure we stayed above them.
"That 5-3 defeat by United - it was my son's birthday. One of his first games. The City loss was worse. It was Man Utd in the next round, so at half-time we were all looking at booking flights up to Manchester. Liam Brady smashing one into the top corner in that 5-0 in '78…
"Beating Arsenal 5-0 and Mark Falco scoring a volley from the edge of the box with his right foot, Terry Gibson crossing it, Chris Hughton scoring another belter in that match… beating Feyenoord 4-2 under the lights, with Cruyff in their team and saying before the match that Hoddle wasn't all that good and he was going to show it, and Hoddle absolutely destroying them…
"It's been special. And Sunday will be a very special goodbye."
J.spurs
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/13/goodbye-white-hart-lane-iconic-stadium
Fascinating, and made me more than a little sad to read. Most is familiar, but didn't know, in particular, that part of the ground was a morgue during the blitz.
Fascinating, and made me more than a little sad to read. Most is familiar, but didn't know, in particular, that part of the ground was a morgue during the blitz.
Wotspur
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I really can't understand with all the celebrities and party atmosphere, bringmyour flags and "ripped up papers " that Mike Deanmwasnt chosen to say his goodbyes to WHL ......perhaps he'll be part,of,the after game stuff
Thfcire
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Really kicking in now can't believe I won't be there tomorrow
J.spurs
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Style And Glory
On My High Trojan Horse
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Looking at, & bidding farewell to WHL, no doubt it will be emotional. But if you look north, there is something even more magnificent.
A brand new palace accompanied by an even brighter future.
There'll be some impressive residents creating more emotional times.
A brand new palace accompanied by an even brighter future.
There'll be some impressive residents creating more emotional times.
Chavhater01
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That corner would make a very impressive back 3!
Don Diaz
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My Eyes have seen the Glory of the cups at White Hart Lane,
My Eyes have seen the Glory of the cups at White Hart Lane,
My Eyes have seen the Glory of the cups at White Hart Lane,
And the Spurs go marching on.
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur,
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur,
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur and the Spurs go marching on...
My Eyes have seen the Glory of the cups at White Hart Lane,
My Eyes have seen the Glory of the cups at White Hart Lane,
And the Spurs go marching on.
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur,
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur,
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur and the Spurs go marching on...
J.spurs
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It bears repeating:
Ted the Yid
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Goodbye my sweet darling x
x
Dorset
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It looked magical on the telly, I expect it was even more magical being there. Seeing those ex-players and the fans singing in the rain - and the rainbow over the Lane at the end was a nice touch. Truly magical, if I meet any of you lot next year at Wembley and you bang on about how great it was being there I will hurt you.
The old songs throughout the match, and the 'one Aaron Lennon' almost made my arty hay fevered eyes even more watery. What a great way to end an era, well obviously it's not an end, it's a beginning and I am looking forward to visiting the new Lane, I won't like it of course because it will be new and modern and I don't like that sort of thing at a all.
The old songs throughout the match, and the 'one Aaron Lennon' almost made my arty hay fevered eyes even more watery. What a great way to end an era, well obviously it's not an end, it's a beginning and I am looking forward to visiting the new Lane, I won't like it of course because it will be new and modern and I don't like that sort of thing at a all.
Don Diaz
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It was a brilliant day.
Ted the Yid
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Founding Member
Was it? What did you get up to?
Finchbee
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Buzzing after a great day and send off, so happy i could be there! Beating ManUre is always nice but a season unbeaten 53 points from 57! 17 wins a brilliant send off to the lane!
So proud to be a spurs fan, new chapter starting
So proud to be a spurs fan, new chapter starting
Dorset
The Voice Of Reason
Founding Member
Who cares? I planted out some tomatoes, earthed up my spuds, made some bread and told a cow to fuck off because it was looking at me in a funny tone of voice - that's what you call a brilliant day
Don Diaz
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Ha ha ...The alternative 'brilliant' day featured a few pints in the Bricklayers Arms with some fine gentlemen from this parish and friends of friends. We practised our singing and drank weak beer from plastic glasses but it didn't matter...it was already emotional with a fine array of different shirts adorning different shaped bodies from the past 30 years, many commorating different triumphs from the UEFA Cup to various FA and League Cups.
The atmosphere and expecatation in the crowd was second only to the noise, with all 4 stands singing, the flags and a goal after 5 minutes, it was extraordinary. The players ran and ran, made United look ordinary and thanks to De Gea we only led 1-0 at half time....at which point we acclaimed our Spurs ladies, Chas & Dave, ballboys and someone else I've forgotten. The second half was the same as the first, apart from with 20 minutes to go Rooney scored the last goal at the Lane, ironically right in the middle of a chorus of 'your fucking shit'.....
Then it was full time, we'd played really well, maintained our fantastic home record, sang our hearts out all game, and confirmed second place in the league. An amazing achievement in itself and then some more when you look at the gap to billionaire teams and so-called superstar managers in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th places.....I'd say the real superstar manager this season resides in N17....but that's just me.
Then there was a pitch invasion...couldn't get angry with the lads and lasses really. I would have done the same if I'd been sat in the lower tier. They all behaved and buggered off back to their seats in reasonable time so we could enjoy a classy farewell parade of some of our former stars....and a lot more singing.
From a personal point of view it was a treat seeing Ginola, Archibald, Roberts, and some of the boys from the 80's. I missed Burkinshaw and I'd liked to have given Chris Hughton a clap, but this particular brilliant day at the Lane wasn't missing very much. It finished with a rainbow over the famous old stadium and the new one surrounding it. Another brilliant thing in the making, I can't wait now it's over.
Brilliant day.
The atmosphere and expecatation in the crowd was second only to the noise, with all 4 stands singing, the flags and a goal after 5 minutes, it was extraordinary. The players ran and ran, made United look ordinary and thanks to De Gea we only led 1-0 at half time....at which point we acclaimed our Spurs ladies, Chas & Dave, ballboys and someone else I've forgotten. The second half was the same as the first, apart from with 20 minutes to go Rooney scored the last goal at the Lane, ironically right in the middle of a chorus of 'your fucking shit'.....
Then it was full time, we'd played really well, maintained our fantastic home record, sang our hearts out all game, and confirmed second place in the league. An amazing achievement in itself and then some more when you look at the gap to billionaire teams and so-called superstar managers in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th places.....I'd say the real superstar manager this season resides in N17....but that's just me.
Then there was a pitch invasion...couldn't get angry with the lads and lasses really. I would have done the same if I'd been sat in the lower tier. They all behaved and buggered off back to their seats in reasonable time so we could enjoy a classy farewell parade of some of our former stars....and a lot more singing.
From a personal point of view it was a treat seeing Ginola, Archibald, Roberts, and some of the boys from the 80's. I missed Burkinshaw and I'd liked to have given Chris Hughton a clap, but this particular brilliant day at the Lane wasn't missing very much. It finished with a rainbow over the famous old stadium and the new one surrounding it. Another brilliant thing in the making, I can't wait now it's over.
Brilliant day.
Dorset
The Voice Of Reason
Founding Member
OK, so your the first one on my list, I'm going to be busy at Wembley next season.