Richard Cracknell - Tottenham

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Richard Cracknell - Tottenham

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About you

Full name: Richard Cracknell

Nickname(s): Crackers

DOB: 15/09/69

Born: Hackney

Lives: Buckhurst Hill, Essex

Marital status:Married to Spurs

About your team

Which team do you support? Tottenham Hotspur Football Club

How long have you supported them for? First game was in '76 so I'm a veteran of some 32 years.

What's your earliest memory of your team? Ralph 'comb over' Coates' hair breaking free from its scalp anchoring-point and flapping freely at a 90-degree angle as he bombed along majestically.

Are you a season-ticket holder? If so, where do you sit? I'm not a season-ticket holder but I go to the vast majority of home games and a fair few away ones too... Over a season I get to sit everywhere at the Lane.

Favourite player(s): Graham Roberts, Gary Mabbutt, Glenn Hoddle.

Favourite manager: I wasn't around for the Bill Nic era so I can only go with what I've seen... I would have to say General Keith Burkinshaw - that 1981 cup final team was the one I really fell in love with.

If you could sign anyone for your team, who would it be? A 20-year-old Glenn Hoddle - damn those time machines not being invented! OK, I'll go with Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (look it up).

Worst signing ever for your team: Never wash your family's dirty linen in public - they have all given their all!

Best moment as a football fan: Well it always was seeing Gazza's free-kick whistling past Seaman at Wembley. But it has been trumped recently by the 5-1 win at the Lane over the North London squatters. I went to the game with my Dad and we hadn't been to football together in a long, long while, so coming out of the Lane that night after that win and enjoying it with Pops made it a special night.

Any football superstitions? I really don't do superstitions at all.

What are you...?

...most likely to say on FanZone: "Please don't shoot Zokora...PASS IT!"

...least likely to say on FanZone: "Great goal Zokora or I feel sorry for that Sol Campbell chap."

Describe your style of FanZone commentary in three words: In...Your...Face!

Ideal WAG: Either Liza Tarbuck or Nadia Sawalah could make an old man very, very happy.

Favourite song/chant: A long slow version of 'oh when the Spurs go marching in' when sung by many at a real slow pace and building up and up to the end. A real taste of an English football fan doing what he does best!

Most prized possession: A signed ten pound note from Chris Perry. Chris asked me why I wanted him to sign a tenner and I said that at least I knew his autograph was always worth at least that! He didn't know whether to be flattered or angry!!!

What do you do when you're not in the FanZone commentary box? I love going shooting, both clays and rough shooting, on a farm in St Albans. Also getting tattooed. I'm currently up to the top of my right arm done, across the right-hand side of my chest, and most of my back. I'm in again soon to start on the ribs... ouchy!

For more from 'Crackers' visit www.playbackmedia.co.uk/the-spurs-show/ for his regular Podcast.

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