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| 15.08.1965 |
The Costa Del Sol
tournament threw Spurs up against Standard Liege of Belgium in the final, with Alan Mullery's goal being the only difference between the two teams
in a game that kicked off an hour before midnight !!
The goal came after 23 minutes, when Mullery netted
to take the giant cup for Tottenham.
Spurs lost Frank Saul with a stomach bug and
Jimmy Robertson, who injured a rib.
Teams :
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Spurs - Bill Brown, Norman, Knowles, Mullery, L. Brown, Mackay (c), Possee, Clayton (Saul), Gilzean, Greaves, Robertson (Beal)
Attendance : - 18,000
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| 14.08.1965 |
The semi-final of the Costa Del Sol
tournament drew Spurs to face Valencia.
Cliff Jones put Tottenham 1-0 up when
he took the ball on the edge of his own penalty area, passed to Alan
Gilzean in midfield and ran on to meet Gilly's left wing cross at the
far post, where he headed the ball into the net in the 43rd minute.
Valencia brought the score level in the 85th
minute, as Roberto took
advantage from the spot after a debatable penalty was awarded.
However, with full-time seconds away, Eddie Clayton burst through a
bunch of Spanish defenders to drive the ball home and see Spurs through
to a 2-1 win against the crack Spanish side.
Teams :
Valencia - , , , , , , Roberto.
Spurs - Bill Brown, Norman, Knowles, Mullery, L. Brown, Mackay,
Possee, Clayton, Gilzean, Greaves, Cliff Jones (Robertson 52)
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| 27.04.1965 |
Strikers Alan Gilzean and
Jimmy Greaves scored the goals that saw RSC Anderlecht beat Spurs 2-4.
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| 11.11.1964 |
Spurs faced a Scotland XI in memory of
John White, who had died four months previously, sheltering from a storm
on Crews Hill golf course.
Thick fog had prevented the game kicking off on
the scheduled date of the night before, but an entertaining game
thrilled the big crowd, with John's brother Tommy
(a centre forward with Hearts) guesting
and hitting the first Spurs goal. Tony Marchi added a second, with
David Wilson and Alan Gilzean equalising for the Scottish XI, before the
stepped up a gear and in the last quarter of an hour went on a scoring
spree to leave the score 6-2 to the opposition, thanks to Neil Martin's
brace and further goals from Gilzean and Willie Wallace
Teams :
Spurs - B. Brown, Henry, L. Brown, Baker, Marchi, T. White,
Scotland XI - John Greig (Glasgow Rangers), Ron Yeats
(Liverpool), David Wilson (Glasgow Rangers), Jim Baxter (Glasgow
Rangers), Willie Wallace (Celtic), Neil Martin (), Alan Gilzean
(Dundee), Ian St. John (Liverpool), .
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| 08.06.1963 |
Tottenham toured South
Africa after winning the European Cup Winners Cup and met a South
African XI in the Johannesburg Rand Stadium.
It was the start of a long relationship with
the South African public, who long remembered the trip and the 3-1 Spurs
win that night. With the woodwork struck four times in the match
by Tottenham, the goals from Eddie Clayton, Bobby Smith and Jimmy
Greaves were just reward as the Spurs players were denied time and again
by a great performance from keeper Trevor Gething. The goalie so
impressed Tottenham, they offered him the chance to play in England, but
he opted to stay in his home country.
Teams :
South African XI - Gething.
Spurs - Hollowbread, Hopkins, Henry, Marchi, White,
Clayton, Dyson, Bobby Smith, Greaves
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| 16.11.1959 |
Crack Russian team Torpedo Moscow came to
Britain on a tour and met Spurs at a foggy White Hart Lane.
Lev Yashin appeared as a guest in goal for
Torpedo, but he was unable to stop Spurs running out 3-2 winners with
goals from Dave Mackay, Bobby Smith and John White.
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Spurs - , , , , , Mackay,
White, Bobby Smith
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| 01.06.1959 |
Tottenham's end of season trek to Russia
saw them pitted against crack Kiev side, Dynamo.
Spurs had trained in the Kruschev stadium on three
mornings approaching the game and it filled with 60,000 fans to see
Tottenham win with two goals, one in each half, from Johnny Brooks in a
2-1 victory, after Bazilevich pulled a goal back for the home side.
Teams :
Dynamo Kiev - , , ,
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Spurs - Reynolds, Baker, Henry, Blanchflower, Norman, Mackay,
Medwin (Clayton), Harmer, Dunmore, Brooks, Cliff Jones
Attendance : - 60,000
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| 08.12.1958 |
A floodlit friendly saw Tottenham host
our Romanian guests of the Bucharest Select XI and run out 4-2 winners.
An 18th minute Cliff Jones goal opened the scoring,
followed by Terry Medwin's strike in the 27th minute. When Jones
was fouled in the area, Tommy Harmer confidently swept home the penalty
to give Spurs a 3-0 lead with 50 minutes having elapsed. However,
Constantin powerfully headed past Hollowbread in the Tottenham goal to
pull a goal back five minutes later and with 66 minutes on the
clock, Eftimie set the same player up for the Romanian's second goal.
A goal with 13 minutes left saw Alfie Stokes ensure a 4-2 Tottenham win
with a shot from Harmer's cross.
Teams :
Spurs - Hollowbread, Hills, Henry,
Dodge, Norman, Iley, Medwin, Harmer, Bobby Smith, Stokes,
Cliff Jones
Bucharest XI - Toma, Popa, Motroc, Macri, Nunweiler, Bone,
Zanchel, Constantin,
Ene, Eftimie, Tataru.
Attendance : - 10,359
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| 24.04.1958 |
Brazilian side Canto do Rio travelled to
White Hart Lane as the first South American team to play there as part
of their European tour as Rio champions of 1956-57. They were no
match for Spurs, who ran out 4-1 winners with two goals from Eddie
Clayton and others from Danny Blanchflower and Bobby Smith.
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| 05.06.1957 |
Spurs travelled to Canada and met the
Manitoba All Stars in Winnipeg for a friendly match at Alexander Park.
Tottenham had an easy 12-0 win, but the players
will probably most remember being presented with a buffalo trophy as a
memento of their visit.
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Attendance : - 4,500
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| 05.06.1957 |
Spurs travelled to Canada and their first
game was against the Essex County All Stars in a friendly played in
Windsor. Bobby Smith hit a hat trick
as Spurs ran out 8-1 winners.
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| 19.03.1957 |
In a Olympisch Stadion in Beerschot that
featured a stand designed by ex-Spurs legend Vivian Woodward, a goal 13
minutes from the end of the match by Terry Medwin gave Spurs a narrow
2-1 win. The home side had gone ahead
in 58 minutes, but Bobby Smith levelled on the hour, with Medwin's
strike being the difference between the sides.
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| 08.05.1954 |
Spurs made their way up to
Hamburg from Brunswick, but had to stop a while to capture a cockerel
given to them as a memento of their visit. The game was equally as
eventful. Spurs took a 2-0 lead early
in the second half after a placid first period. Les Bennett and
Sonny Walters hit the goals, but the home side pulled one back with 20
minutes remaining. With only moments left, the referee awarded an
indirect free-kick to Hamburg, but then changed his mind to make it a
penalty. The award was converted and the final whistle blown
straight after, in what appeared to be a generous decision to allow the
game to be drawn.
Teams :
Hamburg SV - .
Spurs - Reynolds, Ramsey (Withers), Willis, Nicholson, Marchi,
Wetton, Walter, Bennett, Duquemin, Baily, Dunmore
Attendance : - 15,000
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| 29.09.1953 |
The first floodlit friendly
at White Hart Lane saw French side Racing Club de Paris visit N17, with
the second half of the game televised live on television.
Only a late comeback from Racing stopped it being
a bigger margin, as goals from Len Duquemin, Les Bennett 2, Ron Burgess
and George Hutchinson put Spurs into a commanding 5-1 lead, before two
late goals made the final score 5-3 in an open and flowing game.
Teams :
Spurs - Bennett, Burgess, Duquemin,
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| 15.06.1952 |
Spurs were on tour in
Canada, but travelled into the United States to meet Manchester United
in New York's Yankee Stadium. Wreaths
were laid to the home baseball team's Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig by
captains Ron Burgess and Johnny Carey ahead of the game in front of a
then record crowd for a football match in New York.
United were quickly on the attack and a goal
from Jack Rowley gave them the initiative, but Spurs soon imposed
themselves on United and Les Bennett equalised with a header within a
minute of United's goal and then put Tottenham 2-1 ahead. First
Division champions United soon succumbed to a fine display by Spurs, as
a goal from Sid McClellan and four from Len Duquemin saw a masterful
performance end in a 7-1 win.
Teams :
Spurs - Ditchburn, , , , Burgess (c),
Bennett, , McClellan,
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Manchester United - Carey (c), Rowley.
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| 26.03.1952 |
League Champions Spurs faced the
"Champions of Europe" under the Brussels floodlights in front of a
45,000 crowd. The entertaining game
finished 2-2 with Les Bennett and
Len Duquemin netting for Tottenham, in what manager Arthur Rowe
described as "the finest game he had ever seen."
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Attendance : - 45,000
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| 06.02.1951 |
Spurs made the short trip across the
Channel to face a Combined Liege XI in Antwerp and won 4-1 courtesy of
two goals from Peter Murphy and one apiece from Sonny Walters and Sid
McClellan.
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Spurs - Murphy, Walters,
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| 27.05.1950 |
Antwerp was the venue as
Spurs travelled to play Royal Beerschot, in their 50th Anniversary match, but
Len Duquemin's goal was merely a consolation as the Belgian side won 2-1.
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| .05.1929 |
Tottenham tour of Malta
finished with a 5-1 win over a Pick of Malta XI played in Valetta.
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| .05.1929 |
Malta's Floriana gave Spurs
a spirited match in Valetta before losing out 1-2.
Ted Harper netted both Tottenham goals in the
friendly win.
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| .05.1929 |
Ted Harper's successful
penalty was the only difference when Spurs played the British Navy in
Valetta.
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| .05.1929 |
The British Army forces based on Malta
produced a team to face Tottenham, but lost out 0-5 to Spurs. Teams :
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| 12.05.1929 |
Spurs took to the field with Valetta
United and came out 2-1 winners. Teams :
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| 11.05.1929 |
Valetta hosted the first of a six game
tour of Malta against Sliema Wanderers and Spurs recorded a 7-1 victory.
Ted Harper scored three goals among the seven that
hit the Sliema net.
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| 12.05.1912 |
Spurs met Hull City in the
Beddeker Cup in Brussels and won 2-0.
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| 19.06.1909 |
The tour finished with defeat at the
hands of our English opponents Everton by 0-4 in Uruguay.
On leaving South America, the team won a fancy
dress competition on the ship home as Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday,
with the parrot used taken back to White Hart Lane as a memento of the
trip.
He lived happily at the club for 10 years until
the day that Arsenal got voted into the First Division in 1919 at the
expense of Tottenham Hotspur, when he died.
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| 16.06.1909 |
Our next opponents were a selection
from the Argentine league, but Spurs came out on top with a 4-1 win.
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| 13.06.1909 |
The second game of Tottenham's
Argentinian tour was against Argentinos and Spurs triumphed by a single
goal. Teams :
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| 10.06.1909 |
Spurs visited Montevideo to meet the Urguay League
representative side and ran out 8-0 winners. .
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| 05.06.1909 |
A match
against English rivals Everton was played in an unusual setting in
Tottenham's first overseas match in 1909. Palermo in Argentina was
the location and the area is now within the Buenos Aires conurbation.
The game ended 2-2 with honours shared.
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| .02.1908 |
Max Seeburg scored
Tottenham's goal against his old club in a 1-1 draw with Chelsea that
was the first time the teams had met.
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| 20.05.1907 |
Our London rivals were also in Ostend, Belgium on
tour, so they played each other with Alf Whyman and Walter Bull scoring
in a 2-1 win for Spurs. Teams :
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19.05.1907 |
A hat-trick from Max Seeburg,
two goals each from Vivian Woodward and George Payne and a single strike
from Alf Whyman saw Spurs beat Union Saint Gilloise of Belgium beaten
8-1 in Ostend. Teams :
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| 01.01.1902 |
Spurs played a friendly at
Goodison Park which Everton won 3-1 and the crowd included two or three
Tottenham supporters. Teams :
Everton: ,
Spurs: Griffiths, Erentz, Tait, Morris, Hughes, J. L. Jones,
Smith, Copeland, Cameron, Kirwan, Woodward
Crowd : - 30,000
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