I was born on 29 th December 1960, exactly halfway through the most successful season in our history, when we won the League and FA Cup double. To arrive in the world at such a zenith has always made me feel that my bond with the club is as strong as it gets.

You Can’t Choose Them, They Choose You! This article looks at how my love affair with Tottenham Hotspur began all those years ago.

As a Hearts fan, my grandfather had become aware of an emerging talent who, like many of his peers at the time, had just transferred to an English team. That player was Dave Mackay. “I want you to look in the English newspapers and write to me to let me know how he’s getting on in England,” my grandfather said.

John Ellis truly is a superfan (my word, not his). In this first of two parts we discover how his passion was ignited and what travelling home and away was like in the 1970s.