On 2nd Feb 1987, we saw West Ham United visit the Lane for the League Cup Quarter Final Replay. After drawing 1-1 at Upton Park, Spurs made up for a number of lost opportunities to win tie in first match., by thrashing the Hammers 5-0 at The Lane. Nico Claesen and Glenn Hoddle gave us […]
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Happy birthday to our wonderful former winger, David Ginola. David signed for the club in July 1997 for £2.5 million, where he was also joined by Newcastle teammate Les Ferdinand. His flair, skill and attacking play made him an instant hit with the adoring Spurs crowd, starved such skill and excitement during the mediocre years of […]
With the “Chelsea hoodoo” of us not having beaten Chelsea for 27 games, rammed down our necks at every opportunity by the media and us having to overturn a 2-1 first leg deficit, we arrived at White Hart Lane with our usual optimism but at the back of our minds feared what might be. However, […]
On this day 2008, a pulsating performance saw White Hart Lane bouncing as we run riot over our North London rival to book a place in the Carling Cup final. We got off to the perfect start when Jermaine Jenas angled in a shot to put them 2-1 ahead on aggregate. Arsenal’s Nicklas Bendtner then […]
Happy birthday to loyal Spurs servant, Phil Beal – his 420 appearances for the club over a 12 year spell, see him ranked as the 9th highest number of appearances for the club (at time of writing) Phil was the first of the modern youth team to climb through the ranks of the Trainees, Juniors and […]
On this day in 1982, we started the defence of the FA Cup that we’d won the previous May. Our North London rivals, Arsenal, were the team pulled out the bag and only the second FA Cup tie between the two clubs was eagerly looked forward to. 38,421 were in White Hart Lane to see […]
On this day in 1961, Jimmy Greaves made his Tottenham debut following his £99,999 transfer from AC Milan. His debut came on 16th December 1961, in front of 42,734 eager fans at White Hart Lane against Blackpool. He didn’t disappoint and started how he carried on, but scoring a hat-trick, including a spectacular bicycle kick goal, […]
On this day in 1994, Alan Sugar successfully appealed against the FA’s biggest punishment, which had seen the club start the 1994/95 with a £600,000 fine, thrown out of the 1994-95 FA Cup and docked 12 points after they were found guilty of alleged illegal payments made to players between 1985-1989. Alan Sugar had been […]
On this day in 1957, Spurs claimed their first away win of the season at the usually unlucky destination of Old Trafford. Even more remarkable, given Man Utd were third in the league at the time and took an early lead, but Spurs then came into their own (and went into overdrive) scoring 4 goals […]
Birthday wishes to Spurs legend Alan Mullery 373 club appearances, 25 goals. FA Cup winner 1967, League Cup winner 1971, UEFA Cup winner 1972. Scorer of the winning goal in the latter, this being his final match for the club. Away from Spurs, he won 35 caps for England and has the honour of being […]