Glory Glory

Have just read this in the Guardian about the Mighty Spurs. This bit is from halfway down.

" ''Based on original reports from contemporary Guardian and Observer writers, Tottenham: 20 Defining Matches – part of our Football Classics ebook series – retells some of the club's most significant moments, from their 19th century origins as a team led by their bible class teacher through to the glorious 60s, Ricky Villa's cup final and two dramatic nights in Milan.

The story begins on a warm, breezy April afternoon in 1901, as Spurs prepared to face Sheffield United in their first FA Cup final.

The Guardian's correspondent that day set off for Crystal Palace looking forward to a game full of significance – the emerging London club challenging the English game's northern dominance. To his surprise, 115,000 others had the same idea.

"No such crowd has ever been seen … The wide, sloping banks of the amphitheatre were covered, then people flowed into every corner as the incoming tide among the rocks, and the fringe of trees was peopled. Up one elm no fewer than 36 persons had climbed, and the poplars looked as if they were affected with bunches of blighted growth.
"The layers of shade on a beautiful cedar were thickened with people in every story, and black shapes appeared through the already green boughs of a chestnut.
"To the despair of policemen, men scrambled along the corrugated roofs of the sheds, but in spite of it all there was no tumult, no accidents, and a minimum of bad temper.
"[When] a goal was kicked from close quarters, the effect upon the crowd was wonderful to watch. The tiers of heads shook as from one cause, and, together with the movement of applauding hands and waving cards, they gave the appearance of an aspen forest in a gust of wind.
"Any rousing feature of the play repeated the effect – but the gust seemed stronger when the Hotspurs gathered the applause." ''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/oct/04/tottenhams-20-defining-matches-ebook

Brought a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye.
COYS!