Tot-ting-ham
Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 3:14PM Tot-ten-ham [Tot-ting-ham]
-adjective
1. conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained torment; unbearable but yet remarkable; bizarre, heart-stopping, emotional: It was tottenham but I got through it okay.
2. fanciful but yet frustrating, as persons or their ideas or actions: We never know what that tottenham creature will do next.
3. imaginary or groundless in not being based on reality; foolish, delusional or irrational: I have tottenham fears.
4. extravagantly fanciful; full of swagger, never dull or boring; roller-coaster at any given moment without warning; beautiful, majestic, yet never far from abject face-palming: It was an absolute tottenham but I'd never have it any other way.
5. incredibly great or extreme; exorbitant: to spend tottenham sums of money.
6. highly unrealistic or impractical; outlandish: a tottenham scheme to make an impossible dream reality.
7. Informal. extraordinarily good: that was fantastical, it was tottenham.
Origin:
1882, Tottenham Marshes, however the true essence of the word was birthed in the 50's, becoming everlastingly prominent in the early 1960's.
-Synonyms
1. SPURS shares a sense of deviation from what is normal or expected. SPURS suggests a wild lack of restraint, a fancifulness so extreme as to lose touch with reality: a spurs scheme for room on the trophy cabinet for silverware. In informal use, SPURS often means simply "exceptionally good when on game, exceptionally stressful all other times": That job interview was a bit spurs.
Two games left. I still believe.
COYS.
Reader Comments (32)
Excellent post! Raised a chuckle.
Good post
Love the gif, and the reaction of the people to the right of goal, just waiting for the goal to fly backwards with the power of the shot
haha i think they're more worried its gonna hit em in the face! oh ye have little faith! WHAT A GOAL!!!!
esp the guy with the brown cardy on! haha
On the way home yesterday we were discussing our reasons for being positive or negative about the run in. I have watched us for so long that a part of me is scared to believe.....now is not a time to be fearful, now is the time for audere est facere, now is a time for 100% belief, now is a time for heart and fight.
TO DARE IS TO FUCKING DO!!!!
I hope this definition of Tottingham no longer applies: "I was up for the award, it was mine to loose, but I completely Tottenhammed it at the last minute, it must have been something I ate.
Next week this time + 1 hr more- and it will be over!
I loved that quip that Harry made last night in the post-match interview about requesting a couple of keepers on loan, after a question about Gomes' groin injury
Here's a link of the video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/8656452.stm
Classic Harry, I bet he was itching to use that one. Probably asked Gomes feign injury just so he could say it.
So say Gomes is out and I hope to God he isn't, why can't we make an emergency loan for a keeper like City have done? Nothing is stopping us. Big win yesterday and so glad Bale went back to playing on the left wing where yet again he was fantastic. That first time cross on the volley, so sweet. Kaboul played very well at right back and it was good to see Ekotto back at left back. Really hope we keep those posiitons the same for the HUGE game in the week. I think Harry has lost 4 home games in 34, or 35 matches!!!! Wow.
Young man.
Tottenham first won the Championship in 1951 with the "Push and Run" side which paved the way for others to copy its methods in modern one-touch football. By this time, Tottenham had already won the FA Cup twice in 1901 and 1921.
Early 1960's indeed! The 1960's sides carried on the Tottenham tradition.
Ah, I knew the old folk would notice the err. I'll correct it. Shame on me.
:)
Champions League by 10pm Wednesday!
Really can't be doing with a draw. Last game of season again is too much for my weak heart. Have to win at Eastlands.
Stlil shitting it :(
make it or not. at least the last two games aren't meaningless bids to get 10th instead of 12th. this season has been constant entertainment.
Qué Será, Será
So far this season, it was a great fun for Spurs’s fans to witness the emergence of their team from a sudden brainfarted and despaired situation just a year ago. Phoenix Firebird legend comes to mind.
If we don’t reach desired heights this year, we should still be content with the achieved results. And look ahead to the next, salivating all summer till the kick off day.
Footy is no different from our lives and how we go about through it. There are goals we would not be able to achieve this year for whatever reason. We’ll have a go at it again next year, but at that time armed with the wisdom enhanced with the experience and lessons learned. Giving up on goals and dreams is not an option for us and neither is for the Spurs club.
'If we don’t reach desired heights this year, we should still be content with the achieved results. And look ahead to the next, salivating all summer till the kick off day.
Footy is no different from our lives and how we go about through it. There are goals we would not be able to achieve this year for whatever reason. We’ll have a go at it again next year, but at that time armed with the wisdom enhanced with the experience and lessons learned. Giving up on goals and dreams is not an option for us and neither is for the Spurs club.'
Spare me the cheese.
Anything less than 4th is failure.
Sounds like your making excuses already. You're not related to Redknapp by any chance?
'We would have all taken 5th and a good cup run this time last year'
Yeah, yeah....zzzzz
No. Don't fail. JUST FUCKING DO IT!
TMWNN;
I’m sorry, but you completely “missed the boat” here (misread my intention). And I am not in the mood to “translate” it to you. As I said, Qué Será, Será…..
Does anyone know of any link to possible footage or a picture-gallery of the post game celebration on WHL yesterday? Having access to such treat would be memorable for us fans “over the pond”, “down under” and anywhere else around the Globe. Thanks.
Not to mention us 'armchairs' (nowadays I might add) who got too pissed and missed MOTD in a drunken haze.
Not that MOTD would show it....I'm pissed again aint I?
Your right, WW61, including the fans at home, cause there is only a limited space at WHL to witness it in person.
that guy in the brown cardi is a good friend of mine!
his facebook profile pic is that still of him looking on gormlessly from MOTD
COYS
Regardless of whether we come 4th or 5th, if we can get a top notch striker or two for next season, we can push on and have a crack at the title.
Win or god forbid lose i will be proud to wear my shirt and Walk amongst Manx City Oilers Liverskinters Everton late starters. All will be walking round my . town in the north west . While i will be like a Red Indian amongst thousands of Cowboys with my Spurs top on. But unlike some players we cant leave our club to win cups and i wouldn't want to you cant buy Moments like when we beat Chelsea Millonaires my tears where real Utd Fans expect to win all the time . Me i want to win but also expect to lose sometimes supporting Spurs means you never have a dull moment and that's part of the charm of being a Spurs fan , we have no bell ringer but our History is full of first so if you are watching god make us fourth just this once and after that we can go back to being first. COYS NO OIL SLIP UPS 3-1 TO Spurs
Viera. I want nothing more than to see his wheezing old goonerspank arse red carded after one too many cynical lunges at any of our three wizards in bale, Lennon and modders. Viera shouldn't blunt us, Roberto, it should motivate us even more.
I'm feeling good about Wednesday, have too, and we have to do it. The time for excuses was pre the Death Run of Three. What the fuck ever, now. Fourth is all there is.
HAHA classic!
COYS lets do this!!!
mr spooky a very witty blog...me finks benitez was a bit tottenhamised when he promised his fans that liverpool would finish fourth.....ha ha ha
If we win our next two games and the Gooners lose theirs.....We will finish on 73 points and them on 72. Leaving us in 3rd and them below.
Ok enough of that....its all about Wednesday.
Come on the Tottenham!
Positive team selection will do it for us. Let's do it in style and not screw around with positions like we did against Man U. I fear that Harry will set out for a draw though and switch things around if we are a goal down on 60 mins. Scary.