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, […]
Category Archives: On this day
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 […]
On this day in 2010, saw a wonderful North London Derby comeback from the Lilywhites. 2-0 down to Arsenal at half time and having the prospect of the media’s nonstop ramming down our throats of 17 years without an away win going to go into overdrive, hadn’t accounted for Harry Redknapp’s halftime talk and the […]
On this day in 1887 a rivalry started – The North London Derby, as we now know it, was first played on this day on Tottenham Marshes – obviously, wasn’t the NLD then, given our neighbours were Royal Arsenal from Woolwich at the time and from south of the river. Not only did a rivalry […]
On this day in 1991, the club entertained Luton Town at home in the league. Trailing 1-0 into the second half, the floodlights failed at White Hart Lane, plunging the pitch into semi darkness. The club’s precarious financial state at the time was not lost on the crowd, with witty chants and comments about putting […]