Everyone has an opinion on Tottenham Hotspur, but the one thing they can't be called is boring.
For a closer look at the history of the Lilywhites, get cracking with 90min’s A to Z.
A is for Audere est Facere
A Latin motto which translates as ‘To Dare is to Do’, you can’t help but be moved by Tottenham's noble mission statement.
Unless you’re the actual club and you took it off the logo in 2006.
B is for Bobby Buckle
Buckle was Spurs' co-founder and first ever captain at the age of 13 – and yet Troy Parrott is ‘too young’ for José Mourinho!
C is for Martin Chivers
Among his 118 goals for the Lilywhites, fans will fondly remember a rocket from Chivers which gave Spurs the advantage in the first leg of the 1972 UEFA Cup final against Wolves, leading them to their first of two UEFA Cups.
D is for Danny Blanchflower
An oft-quoted saying of Blanchflower’s - the steely defensive midfielder at the heart of Spurs' double-winning side - is that football is ‘going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom’, which makes you wonder what he would have thought about Tottenham’s draw at Turf Moor...
E is for European Cup Winners’ Cup
Arsenal have the Invincibles, Man City have the 100-point season, and Spurs’ own little slice of history is that they were the first British club to win a major European trophy,
F is for FA Cup
Tottenham weren’t always allergic to trophies, picking up eight of these bad boys, the first in 1901 being the one and only time a non-League club has won the FA Cup.
G is for Jimmy Greaves
This colossus among strikers makes Harry Kane’s record look like Roberto Soldado’s next to his own, bagging an incredible 266 goals during his time in North London, and top scoring in the top-flight a record six times in the process.
H is for Glenn Hoddle
Hoddle was basically the closest thing to Messi ever seen in a Spurs shirt, and h
I is for Intertoto Cup
The ignominious scene of Tottenham’s heaviest ever defeat, an 8-0 battering by Cologne.
For some reason Alan Pardew was playing.
J is for Johnathan Woodgate
Unless you count 2019’s stirring Audi Cup victory, Woodgate is the man responsible for delivering Tottenham’s last trophy after taking advantage of a mistake from Petr Čech at Wembley in 2008.
K is for Harry Kane
Kane is fast becoming a Tottenham legend. He's already the club's top scorer in European competitions, and with 181 goals to his name in all competitions for the club, he could be set to become Tottenham's top scorer ever in the future.
20 - Harry Kane has scored 20 Champions League goals in just 24 appearances - the fastest a player has reached 20 goals in the competition's history. Heroic. pic.twitter.com/vgpkIIXLl1
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) November 26, 2019
L is for Lasagne
For some, a delicious meal constructed of layers of pasta and baked meat.
For Spurs fans, dodgy dish which robbed them of Champions League qualification in 2006.
M is for Mauricio Pochettino
Easily one of Tottenham’s greatest ever managers, he lifted the side from the nightmarish Tim Sherwood era (Zeki Fryers played 16 times in one season!) to the heights of a Champions League final, but because Tottenham fans cannot have nice things he is sadly no longer here.
N is for Bill Nicholson
Nicholson is Spurs' undisputed GOAT manager, turning them into an offensive juggernaut on the way to a historic League and Cup double in 1961, and winning a further nine trophies thereafter.
O is for Ossie’s Dream
Spurs midfielder Ossie Ardiles teamed up with Chas & Dave in 1981 to celebrate reaching Wembley ‘in the cup for Tottingham’, producing a truly unique musical artefact before Tottenham beat Man City after a replay.
P is for Steve Perryman
17 seasons. eight trophies. 866 appearances. Perryman is undoubtedly Mr Tottenham, progressing through the ranks to become Spurs' record appearance-holder, spending a whopping 17 years at White Hart Lane.
Q is for Qualifying for the Champions League
There was a time where the thought of this never happening would keep Spurs fans up at night before Harry Redknapp secured the Holy Grail in 2010.
R is for Arthur Rowe
Before Nicholson there was Arthur Rowe, architect of the ‘push and run’ style of football which won
S is for Stephen Carr
Possibly the greatest defender with the initials SC to ever play for Spurs?
Well, probably not, but we don’t mention the other guy.
T is for ‘Taxi for Maicon’
This song could be heard ringing around White Hart Lane after the legendary Brazilian full-back was taken to the cleaners by a certain 21-year-old Welsh winger.
U is for Underachieving
Two League Cups in the last 30 years...despite having Robbie Keane, Ledley King, Harry Kane, Mousa Demebele, Gareth Bale, Luka Modric and co. on the books during said 30 years...is 'underachieving'.
V is for Ricky Villa
Did Villa score Spurs’ greatest-ever cup final goal?
W is for White Hart Lane
The futuristic new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is just not the same as White Hart Lane, a cramped 35,000 seater which smelled a bit but turned into a hostile matchbox on European nights and was a fortress by the time Spurs left it.
X is for Crewe Alexandra
Spurs’ record victory involves beating these guys 13-2, which is a pretty good day at the office by anyone’s standards.
Y is for Youngsters
While it is unclear whether Troy Parrott is actually a real person, the production line which gave us Kane and Harry Winks shows no sign of stopping with Oliver Skipp and Japhet Tanganga stepping up.
Z is for Christian Ziege
In the north London derby, @Christian_Ziege does this #GoalOfTheDay pic.twitter.com/qBPlFlf0UJ
— Premier League (@premierleague) July 20, 2018
This screamer from Spurs' former left-back is probably the perfect way to end this A to Z on a high note.
Source : 90min