Bremner said he’s been to Floyd for almost every Spurs match this season and that his wife, whom he married in October, doesn’t mind.

“She supports me coming out and having my own thing,” said Bremner, who lives on the Upper West Side. “But she doesn’t understand my hatred for all things Arsenal. She thinks it’s rather irrational.”

Ah yes, Arsenal - the other North London club that a Spurs supporter must swear to always despise to be considered a dedicated fan.

“It’s very simple, Arsenal are evil and Spurs are good,” Bremner said.

Ian Harris, a 38-year-old trader from London who now lives in Manhattan and started the New York Spurs club, explained further.

“They are dirty and fouling,” said Harris, who is a third generation Spurs supporter. “They’ve brought the game into disrepute. They aren’t good for English football. We’d tend not to have them around at all.”

The rivalry started in the early 20th century when Arsenal moved to a stadium just four miles from Tottenham’s White Hart Lane and sucked up some of their fans. A few years later, Arsenal gained entrance into the top league of English football instead of Spurs. Tottenham’s fans claim to this day that Arsenal bought their way into the First Division. Thus this rivalry made Spurs’ 5-1 victory over Arsenal in the Carling semifinals all the more enjoyable.

“We hadn’t beaten Arsenal for something stupid like over 20 games,” Bremner said. “And we didn’t just beat them, we hammered them. We humiliated them, 5-1. It was fantastic. It was one of their chances to win a cup this year and we took it away from them.”

Bremner has enjoyed the passion of sports fans in America and has even become a Yankees fan. But he still has a tough time when he sees an Arsenal shirt on an American.

“People are really just getting into English football here, they don’t understand the good and evil thing yet,” Bremner said. “I have to try to temper my hatred when I meet an American Arsenal fan because they don’t understand what they’re doing wrong yet. See, that’s the trouble. It’s an education process and I’m doing it one person at a time in the U.S."

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