16. His Favourite Player Growing Up Was David Ginola
If Townsend comes anywhere close to producing the type of displays the Frenchman showed during his two-year stay on Tyneside, you can be sure that he'll be the favourite player of many youngsters of a black and what persuasion in years to come. As noted by the Evening Chronicle, lifelong Spurs fan Townsend said of Ginola: Ive always liked the flair players the ones who get the crowd on to their feet.