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Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 August 2010

DAVE MACKAY - SPURS - 0084



Dave Mackay was respected by team-mates for his courage as a footballer. ‘He was the physical leader' of the Double-winning Tottenham Hotspur side of the early 1960s,' Jimmy Greaves said. ‘He went into battle like a warrior.'
Mackay was ‘the greatest player in that great side,' Greaves added, ‘an individual who had just about everything: power, skill, stamina and enthusiasm. He was the best professional I ever played alongside. When he was missing we all hard to work twice as hard.' 

Profile by Robert Galvin, the author of The Football Hall of Fame, the official book of the National Football Museum Hall of Fame:

Monday, 26 July 2010

TOMMY DOCHERTY - SCOTLAND - 0074


Docherty won 25 caps for Scotland in an international career that spanned eight years. He was in the squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, defying the orders of Preston not to travel to the finals - a decision that resulted in his departure from Deepdale.


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