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 […]
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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 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, […]
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 […]
On this day in 1964, a memorial match between a Tottenham XI and Scotland XI took place for John White, the game having been postponed due to fog from the night before. This game gave Spurs’ fans the opportunity to pay their respects to a ‘Legend of White Hart Lane’, the late John White, the […]
On this day in 1972, England star Martin Peters scored all four of our goals in front of a 52,497 crowd who saw our wonderful 4-1 victory over Man Utd at Old Trafford. It was our first point at Old Trafford (let alone win) in 10 visits to Old Trafford. It helped Spurs move to […]
Happy birthday to Spurs legend and personal boyhood hero, Glenn Hoddle. Glenn was born on 27 October 1957 in Hayes, Middlesex. Soon after, the family moved to Harlow, Essex. According to Glenn, he became a Spurs fan after attending a Spurs reserve match around 1968. He first came to the attention of Spurs when another Tottenham legend Martin Chivers and Ray […]
One of the great Spurs goalkeepers, Ted Ditchburn was born on this day in 1921. Having spent some time on the club’s ground staff before signing professional forms in 1939. Due to the outbreak of the Second World War, and Ted’s service with the RAF, saw his initial years being restricted to war league matches. […]
On this day in 1938 Alan Gilzean was born at Coupar Angus. After a superb early part of his career, with his 150+ goals for Dundee helping them to their only Scottish title in 1962 and reaching European Cup Semi Final in 1962. He scored 133 goals in 439 senior appearances for the club between […]
Jimmy Greaves scored the goal of the season in a 5-1 win over Manchester United at White Hart Lane. The famous goal where he waltz through the defence and around the goalkeeper, thankfully caught on camera as BBC were there for Match of the Day, is often played whenever there is an article on Jimmy. […]
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