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Showing posts with label Spurs. 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:

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

GARY LINEKER - ENGLAND - 0082


In 80 appearances for England, his goal total of 48 for his country places him second on the all-time list behind Sir Bobby Charlton. During his spell at Barcelona he became fluent in Spanish and while at Nagoya Grampus Eight he learnt Japanese.


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Thursday, 12 August 2010

PAT JENNINGS - SPURS - 0081

PAT JENNINGS - TOTTENHAM

Pat Jennings will be remembered as one of the finest goalkeepers to ever grace the game.
'Big Pat' played 673 games for Spurs between 1964-1977 and another 300-plus at Arsenal before winding down his career in a second spell at White Hart Lane. He also played 119 times for Northern Ireland, including two World Cups.

Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Sunday, 25 July 2010

MARTIN CHIVERS - SPURS - 0073


Third in Spurs all-time list of goalscorers, Martin Chivers bagged 202 goals in a total of 415 first-team appearances - 174 in 367 competitive games - for the Club.
Signed in January 1968 to accompany Jimmy Greaves and Alan Gilzean up front, 'Big Chiv' hit 16 goals in 34 games before an injury set him back. But he would soon return and the honours piled up with the goals.

Capped 12 times by England, Chivers scored both goals as Tottenham toppled Aston Villa in the 1971 League Cup Final and bagged another double as they beat Wolves to lift the 1972 UEFA Cup.

Thanks to www.tottenhamhotspur.com/history

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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

TERRY VENABLES - CHELSEA - 0063

Terry Venables was the heartbeat of the early 1960s team, the majority of which had come up through the youth team under the guidance of Tommy Docherty.
He made his debut in February 1960 shortly after his 17th birthday and was a regular within a year. Chelsea were relegated in 1962, after a season in which Venables was injured and restricted to 12 league games, but were promoted a year later with Venables an ever present.
He was outstanding as we finished fifth, third, and fifth back in the First Division. He dominated the midfield, was strong in the tackle and a brilliant passer of the ball. He also had an eye for goal and against Roma in a Fairs Cup tie in 1965 scored one of the most impudent goals ever seen at Stamford Bridge. With an Italian wall encroaching at a free kick Venables paced out ten yards before receiving the ball at the edge of the wall and turning to score.
Venables also scored in the League Cup Final win, his only major honour with Chelsea.
Sadly though Venables fell out with Docherty after being one of eight players sent home for breaking a curfew before a game at Blackpool in April 1965 and within a year was transferred to Tottenham.

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Friday, 9 April 2010

DANNY BLANCHFLOWER - SPURS - 0049


In 1954 he was bought by Tottenham Hotspur from Villa for the huge fee of £30,000, and during his ten years at White Hart Lane he made 337 league appearances.

The highlight of his time at Spurs came with the 1960–61 season. With Blanchflower as captain Spurs won their first 11 games, still a record for the top flight of English football and eventually ran out as league champions by 8 points. They then beat Leicester City in the final of the FA Cup to become the first team in the 20th century to win the League and Cup double, not achieved since Aston Villa in 1897.

In 1962 he again captained the Spurs team to victory in the FA Cup (scoring a penalty in the final against Burnley), only narrowly missing out on a second double when they finished a close third in the league behind Ipswich Town and Burnley, and in 1963 he captained his side to victory over Atlético Madrid in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Between 1949 and 1963, he earned 56 caps for Northern Ireland, often playing alongside his brother Jackie, and in 1958 captained his country when they reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup.


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