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The bronze cockerel on the roof was made in 1909 by a former player and has become the emblem of the club. He chose a cockerel because Henry Percy, known as Harry Hotspur, owned fighting cocks fitted with small spurs. Why a football club in London is named after a 14th century nobleman from the far North of England in the first place is less clear. UTC Time: 15:58, Saturday 29 August 2015 Local Time: 16:58, Saturday 29 August 2015 Estimate of longitude: 0° 4' 5.12" W = -0.068090° Estimate of latitude: 51° 36' 4.86" N = 51.601350° Possible error on position estimate: 500 metres |