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Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Like many clubs Spurs started life as a cricket club. The Hotspur football club were founded as an off shoot of the cricket club in 1882. The club has played for over 100 years years at 748 High Road, Tottenham. The ground is more popularly known as White Hart Lane. Until the end of WW2 Spurs were a club of little success, they spent most of the 30's in the second division.

The club fortunes were transformed after the war by manager Arthur Rowe, the club managed to win the first division for the first time in 1951. The team featured a young Alf Ramsey. Featuring the inspiring Danny Blanchflower Tottenham were the first team in the 20th century to win the double. The season was 1960-61. The runners-up that year were Sheffield Wednesday, they were also the only club who managed to beat Spurs in the league that season.

The Spurs manager of this period was Nicholson, who created fast flowing football teams with star players like Dave Mackay, Jimmy Greaves, Mike England, Alan Mullery and Terry Venables. Nicholson managed Spurs for sixteen years until 1974. Winning eight trophies including the UEFA Cup 1972, he is without doubt Spurs greatest ever manager who presided over their most successful period.

Since 1960 Totthenham have been a club famous for playing football the right way. Usually more concerned with entertaining than winning, their attractive brand of football have endeared the club to many neutral supporters. Whilst they have failed to ever win the league again since 1960, and have largely failed to ever seriously compete for it, they remain one of England's biggest clubs.

When it comes to star players Tottenham has had more than it's fair share, the likes of Ray Clemence, Osvaldo Ardiles, Ricardo Villa, Glenn Hoddle, Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne, Gary Lineker, Teddy Sheringham and Jurgen Klinnsman have all graced the white shirt of Spurs.