Spurs-loving hospital workers have set up the first official football supporters club especially for NHS staff.

The new Spurs NHS brings together fans from all over the country working in the health service.

They chat about “all things Spurs” through their NHS WhatsApp group, sharing pictures of them at matches or bumping into current and former Spurs players and people associated with the club.

It’s co-founder and chairman Lawrence Gareth Stockley, who works for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, appeared at Tottenham Hotspur's September 21 home fixture against Brentford.

“My role normally would be restricted reaching NHS staff,” Stockley says. “But our mutual love for Spurs has brought together a diverse group from all NHS roles and backgrounds which otherwise may not have happened.”

Tottenham Hotspur executive director Donna-Maria Cullen said: “A mutual love of our Club brings people together from all walks of life, anywhere in the world in any profession. NHS Spurs is an example of this.”

Spurs are a long-standing supporter of the NHS and stepped up during the Covid crisis to use the stadium car park as a...