Ha! - became a fan in 1953 - when we finished 16th if you don't mind.
Indeed 60-61 was an amazing season start to finish. Expectations were high because of the sheer classiness of Blanchflower, White, Allen, Mackay and Jones and the fact we had looked like champions-in-waiting the previous season. But no one really imagined it would turn out quite like it did.
Was based at a Reading boarding school at the time so only managed to get to games during the holidays. I still recall the air of anticipation for the opening game of the season at home to Everton. The atmosphere was highly charged, everyone expected us to roll them over at a canter because of how well we'd played the previous season, but the Toffees made it very difficult for us and for much of the game you couldn't really tell that we were champions-in-waiting, the goals just wouldn't come until quite late in the game. In the end we ground out a modest 2-0 win without really setting the place alight.
The second game I recall watching was the 3-2 win at Highbury, now that really WAS a joy. From memory we blew them away with scintillating one-touch soccer and sailed smoothly into a 2-0 lead, but then to our alarm got pegged back, so in the end it was a relief when the final whistle went and we'd completed our seventh win on the spin.
Cannot pretend i remember too much detail from that season, I'm even struggilng to recall which other games I attended, but the general sense of euphoria at the style of football we played and the incredible impact it had on the media as it unfolded will always stay with me. Spurs were adulated by the press in those days, it felt like everyone supported Spurs and wanted them to break all known records. Something we went quite a long way down the road to achieving.
