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davlathom said:
FC Hotspur although thankfully I will never have that decision to make. It's a simple geography thing. Don't think I could ever have gone and watched Tottenham Hotspur FC in East London. I have no doubt Levy would have made a superb purpose built football stadium similar to what we are seeing go up now however thankfully the powers that be decided they wanted the athletics legacy to remain and I will always be thankful for that. Football fans in London have always made the area you are from be of huge importance to where they are based. Changing postcodes e.g from an N to an E just shouldn't happen. Never. Not sure if other cities like Rome, Madrid etc have the same strict boundaries they have to keep to.
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Exactly how I feel. Might just be a London thing but would be interesting to know about other cities too.
 
palmers_green_yid said:
Exactly how I feel. Might just be a London thing but would be interesting to know about other cities too.
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Just checked the location of Atletico Madrid's new stadium in comparison to the Vicente Calderon. Would say the distance is about 7-8km away as the crow flies. Basically moved from Central Madrid out to the Eastern suburbs by the looks of it.
 
ChiversRegal said:
That's fair enough but i happen to think our name means everything, we are Tottenham Hotspur not Stratford Hotspur, Kensington Hotspur, Richmond Hotspur. It's important for me for a club to remain as close to it's roots as possible but i understand not everyone feels that way.
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I agree we are Tottenham Hotspur, and wherever we built a stadium the name should never change.
 
From where I live now both are/would have been a pain in the arse to get too so probably wouldn't have made any difference. Would have followed both clubs but still mainly THFC.
Grew up more NW London so again don't have that local connection.
 
This is a really interesting question, I'd not thought of this before. My first thought is that I would follow Tottenham to Stratford however, I can't really be sure of that with a ground roots club rising from the ashes of Tottenham (so to speak).

Perhaps I would have rekindled old acquaintances at Wealdstone, not sure to be honest.
 
palmers_green_yid said:
Was having this discussion on the train back from Manchester on Saturday...

If we had moved to Stratford (let's say without the running track) and a phoenix club (FC Hotspur) based in Tottenham had been formed starting right at the bottom of the pyramid, which club would you have followed?

For me, FC Hotspur. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted we didn't get the OS and can continue as THFC in Tottenham (best thing that's ever happened), BUT as well as the fact that I could not follow an East London club, I can actually see the attraction of being a small club of proper, hardcore supporters away from all the trappings of modern football. FC United of Manchester fans look like they have more fun than most of the home supporters looked like they were doing at a soulless Old Trafford on Sat.

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palmers_green_yid said:
I think for many of us it just strikes at a tribal sense of territory. I've got various links to Tottenham but I think you don't need to be from the area to have a sense of it as ours. I know someone from up north who was present at the Stratford protest. There's probably an evolutionary explanation for it- football brings up these emotions of tribe and community and linked to that is an area. Not for everybody but for some of us.
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I get that. But I was born in Enfield, grew up on in North London and have continued to live in London ever since. My parents are from Chingford. So I'm one of those that should in theory be there with you on that, but I think there is more to the club that just where in Greater London it sits. I wouldn't like the move but it wouldn't be enough to turn me away.
 
if it were in that shambles of an OS, I'd only be going to away matches.

but the deal with Stratford was to build identical to NDP. I'd've been ok with that. I think its 10 mins Northumberland Pk to Stratford on train.

we just need Northumberland Park tube depot to be converted to a tube station on the Vic line. 61,000 going to WHL overground or Tottenham Hale tube will be a right pain.
 
Smoked Salmon said:
I get that. But I was born in Enfield, grew up on in North London and have continued to live in London ever since. My parents are from Chingford. So I'm one of those that should in theory be there with you on that, but I think there is more to the club that just where in Greater London it sits. I wouldn't like the move but it wouldn't be enough to turn me away.
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Yes I agree there is more to the club. But personally I think it would be the hardest thing to deal with... for instance I could watch us play 10 years of Sam Allardyce type football which goes against our footballing traditions (even though I wouldn't like it), but I'd find it hard, maybe impossible, to watch us in South/East/West London. Maybe someone else would be the opposite.

I guess the club means slightly different things to each one of us (with there being different sub-groups within our support of more likeminded people) but we are all bonded by our love for the club.
 
I never thought about it as I never thought it would happen.

But I think I'd still stick with the club, but it would lose some shine
 
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