Most Spurs fans already own the scarf. They've probably got two mugs and a home shirt they bought in August and stopped wearing by Christmas. The good news is that buying for a Spurs fan got a lot easier in May 2025. Between the League Cup in 2008 and that night in Bilbao, Spurs won nothing. Now they've got a European trophy, and Arsenal have still never won the UEFA Cup or the Europa League, which helps.
At the new place
1. A stadium tour. Fine, it's the obvious one. But if they're old enough to have stood at the Lane, walking out of the tunnel at the new ground still does something to them. There are a few versions now, including Legends and Matchday tours, and which ones are running changes through the year, so look at the calendar before you promise anything.
2. The Dare Skywalk. This is the one I'd actually book. You go up onto the roof and walk over the top of the stands, 46.8 metres above the pitch according to the club, with the cockerel up there next to you. It's named after the motto, To Dare Is To Do, and for once a bit of club branding fits the thing it's stuck on. I've watched people who talk a big game in the pub go very quiet on that walkway. Minimum age is eight, so it works for a family too, and there's an add-on called The Edge from £10 if the walk alone doesn't scare them enough. If your Spurs fan says they're bored of football presents, this is your answer.
3. F1 Drive. Indoor karting inside the stadium, on the official Formula 1 karting experience. Sessions are split by age, so check that before you buy for a kid. Honestly it's more of a present for whoever in the house likes F1 than for the Spurs fan, but the Spurs fan will go along and pretend not to enjoy it.
Getting them in
4. One Hotspur membership. Membership is a dull thing to wrap, but it's how you actually get tickets. Without it you're mostly watching the Ticket Exchange and hoping. There are junior tiers with extras for kids, and you can buy it for someone else.
5. A Spurs Women ticket. They've played most home games at Brisbane Road in Leyton in recent seasons, with the odd big fixture moved to the main stadium. A ticket costs a lot less than a men's game, and for a seven-year-old who's never been to live football it's a much easier first trip than a full house in N17.
For the shelf
6. The Glory Game by Hunter Davies. Davies spent the 1971-72 season inside the Spurs dressing room. That was the season they won the UEFA Cup, and he wrote about everything he saw, Bill Nicholson included. It came out in 1972 and plenty of people still rate it the best book written about a football club. I'm one of them. What gets me every time I reread it is how ordinary the players come across, worrying about money and contracts like anyone else, in a side that was about to win in Europe. Nobody would let a writer that close now. Even fans who think they've read every football book usually haven't read this one, or read it so long ago it feels new.
7. Playmaker by Glenn Hoddle. His autobiography, out in 2021. Coming through at Tottenham, winning the league at Monaco under Wenger, the England job, and the cardiac arrest on his 61st birthday in 2018. If they stood on the Shelf in the early eighties, you already know they want this.
To wear
8. A Bilbao shirt. A 2024-25 shirt from the Bilbao season is the one present every Spurs fan under forty has never been able to get before. Brennan Johnson's name on the back is the popular choice, for the scruffy goal just before half-time on 21 May 2025. I'd go Romero, who captained them that night.
9. A retro shirt. Remakes are easy to find, though which years are in stock changes all the time. The 1991 FA Cup final shirt for the Gascoigne lot, 1983-84 for anyone who remembers the UEFA Cup run.
10. A vintage shirt, the real thing. Original Hummel, Admiral and Umbro Spurs shirts turn up with specialist sellers and on auction sites. Check the tags and photos closely. Anyone who still talks about Holsten on the front will know straight away if it's fake.
For the wall
11. An old matchday programme. The last game at the Lane was 14 May 2017, 2-1 against United, and that programme is the one people go looking for. The 1981 and 1982 FA Cup finals and the 1984 UEFA Cup final against Anderlecht are worth a look too. Dealers and auction sites have them. Stick it in a cheap frame and it beats most of what the club shop sells.
12. A framed team sheet. This is what we make. Our classic Spurs print is the 1984 UEFA Cup final XI, the night Tony Parks saved the penalty at White Hart Lane, from £69. Or build one yourself from £99, and the obvious one right now is Bilbao: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bentancur, Bissouma, Sarr; Johnson, Solanke, Richarlison.
That's my own all-time Spurs XI, and I've left Son out. I know. Kane and Greaves are the two highest scorers the club has ever had and I couldn't drop either of them for him, even after Bilbao. Perryman has more appearances than anyone and he's not in it either, which I feel worse about than Son. No Gascoigne, no Ardiles, no Modric. Ledley at centre half is the one bit I'd defend to anyone.
If you only buy one
Buy The Glory Game. It's a cheap paperback, and it's the only thing here they'll still be lending to mates in ten years. If you want to spend more, do the Skywalk.
Or have a look at the Spurs collection. COYS.