Why this Spurs supporter (probably) won't be doing the north London Derby

One of my earliest memories is of my fingers gripping onto a window sill, peering out over a dull, grey, late afternoon sky over north London, and seeing what looked to three or four-year-old me like an eerie, almost alien light. That light was actually the White Hart Lane floodlights, dyed slightly yellow by the leaded petrol of the 1970s.

Supporting Spurs has always felt like the colour of my eyes. There’s little point in concerning myself whether I like it or not. It just… is. I’m stuck with them, they’re stuck with me, and at 50 years old, I am at ease with that. Spurs are in my blood and there’s nothing that anyone can do about it.

I’m one of those whose interest in the game is far broader than just one club. To put it another way, I love football more than I love Spurs, or any one club, one of those people who can sit down and watch a match from anywhere in the world, regardless of who’s playing. On a free Saturday, I’ll almost always go to a game somewhere, wherever it might be and whoever might be playing.

Partly it’s because even Spurs winning them only ever feels like a temporary respite from something terrible happening again in the future. In 1991, the north London Derby was played at Wembley for the first time for. They won that game 3-1, but this was about as far from a new dawn as could have been possible. Arsenal won the league a few weeks later, and Spurs only beat them five times over the next 17 years – including not at all between November 1999 and January 2008.

Broadcasters are in an invidious position over broadcasting them. They’re important, and everybody knows they’re important, but they usually only matter with any degree of intensity to the supporters of the two clubs involved.

twoht I think this must be the first piece of football writing I've ever read which has mentioned Bush Hill Park, where I also once lived as a child, although a bit later than Ian it would appear.

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