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<\/a><\/p>\nWe strolled on to the other side of Hyde Park and jumped on a tube.\u00a0 We made a quick detour for part 1 of Bret’s trip down memory lane and dropped by the Generator hostel, where he spent the first week of a six month stint in London 14 years ago, then passed by the Burger King around the corner he used to frequent.<\/p>\n We also caught a glimpse of the rival team’s (Southampton) bus.<\/p>\n And so it was time to make our way to White Hart Lane!!<\/p>\n We had planned to take the tube to Tottenham Hale station, but we were serenaded by young, Southampton supporters on the train (and exchanged supportive glances with fellow Spurs supporters), so we decided that we were probably heading to the same place as them and jumped off the tube when they did.\u00a0 It was a decent walk from the tube station to the stadium, so we got a good feeling for the neighborhood.\u00a0 Tottenham is a municipal borough of London, about eight miles northeast of the city center.\u00a0 Tottenham has been around for over a thousand years.\u00a0 In the late 1870s, the area was transformed from a semi-rural recreational area for upper class Londoners to a middle\/ working class neighborhood because of an influx of cheap housing and transportation into London (the train).\u00a0 Currently, it has a multicultural demographic.\u00a0 We saw more ethnic diversity on our walk to the stadium than we have seen on our journey so far (or around Corvallis).<\/p>\n The Spurs started playing football in 1882 and have been on location at White Hart Lane since 1899.\u00a0 There is controversy over the fan’s use of “Yid Army” to identify their support for the Spurs.\u00a0 Originally, Spurs supporters were subjected to anti-Semitic slurs because of the large contingent of Jewish supporters.\u00a0 They fought back by adopting “Yid” as a chant to diffuse the insulting nature of the name calling.\u00a0 Now, they are reluctant to let go of the chant, although there are fewer Jewish supporters and currently many find the chant insulting (the English Football Association, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and the Association of Black Lawyers have called for a ban on the chant).\u00a0 It is an interesting cycle.<\/p>\n It was also really interesting to walk from a very ethnically diverse neighborhood into the White Hart Lane game day zone.\u00a0 Not a lot of diversity there, but a lot of white men… occasionally a girlfriend or wife (Myself included, I suppose…I estimated the male: female ratio at 9:1 and Bret estimated it at 4:1).\u00a0 There were a lot of father\/ son combos too, but I only saw two little girls.\u00a0 It made me a little sad.<\/p>\n Anyway, we were there to support our team, so we got our beanies and scarves and found our seats.<\/p>\n Things were not looking good for the Spurs.\u00a0 Southampton scored 2 goals early in the first half.\u00a0\u00a0 This might be one of them:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n