Dorset
The Voice Of Reason
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Once upon a time in a forum far, far away, some truly magical posts were made and here are some of them:
I'll start off with my favourite post of all time, by the much loved and sadly missed king of the forum Rudi.
Spurs History Questions 5th December 2013, Rudi responding to jayesar:
When the laws were updated and teams were made to swap ends each half, the club attempted briefly to get around this by having the players come onto the pitch in the second half from the other side, making them think they were kicking the other way. This, however, was soon stymied once the cockerel was installed at one end, somewhat giving the game away and the board were forced to flatten the pitch. By then, of course, the preferred style had stuck and we've played much the same way ever since.
The reason Jews became associated with the club, however, is because we were local and Jews, being as lazy as any other community (except Mexicans who invested all their energy into a single mouse, apparently),thought it easiest to just turn up and watch the local team.
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I'll start off with my favourite post of all time, by the much loved and sadly missed king of the forum Rudi.
Spurs History Questions 5th December 2013, Rudi responding to jayesar:
You've come to the right person.
"Audere est Facere" is actually product of slight mistranslation. On the inside of a toilet in the changing rooms of the Cricket Club from which THFC was formed in 1882, someone had written "Audrey is a goer", referring to the then girlfriend of the club captain and opening batsman. The collection of chaps who formed the first football team thought this hilarious and it became a kind of in-joke which was then crudely translated into the Latin as it stands today.
Bill Nic is certainly a touchstone for our relationship with an attacking kind of football but the team played that way, in fact, due to a rather peculiar piece of geography. Like Yeovil's famous sloping pitch, Haringey used to be on a fairly benign gradient all the way down into the Thames Valley. As such the ball would travel much faster towards one end meaning Spurs had little choice other than to employ speedy front men and for no player to dawdle on the ball as it would just roll off of its own accord!
When the laws were updated and teams were made to swap ends each half, the club attempted briefly to get around this by having the players come onto the pitch in the second half from the other side, making them think they were kicking the other way. This, however, was soon stymied once the cockerel was installed at one end, somewhat giving the game away and the board were forced to flatten the pitch. By then, of course, the preferred style had stuck and we've played much the same way ever since.
You're right to highlght that the world war was specific, it being confined almost solely to this world, but the Jews have long been associated with North and East London. You may have read about the Jewish defence of the area against Oswald Mosely's black-shirted fascists in 1938 (The Battle of Cable Street) but less known are the previous incarnations such as The Cable of Bottle Street when the community set up the first crude telephonic network ever seen in a major city, allowing any spike in the price of dradles, bagles or kreplach to be rapdily disseminated throughout the community.
The reason Jews became associated with the club, however, is because we were local and Jews, being as lazy as any other community (except Mexicans who invested all their energy into a single mouse, apparently),thought it easiest to just turn up and watch the local team.
To stand out as a genuine connoisseur of the game and of Spurs' rich history I'd suggest going for players such as Ghaly whose no 8 jersey is famous amongst fans as it covered more ground than the player himself, or, to be extra-refined, Rasiak. When youngsters ask who he was you can just patronisingly wink and pat them on the head, and when older folk ask who he was you can nod and say "I know, right?" making his shirt a win/win proposition.
Hey, if you don't ask you'll never know.
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