May 9th

Results
(match reports accessible by clicking on opponent's name, where available)

1966	Bill Brown plays his last game for Tottenham. Midfielder Terry Venables makes his Spurs debut. This game had been postponed from the opening day of the season as there was a Polio outbreak in Blackburn.
1968	Neil Ruddock, central defender 1985-1988 and 1992-1995, born.
1973	Edwin Herod, full back 1928-1931, dies.
1981	The 100th FA Cup Final was to be contested between Spurs and Manchester City at Wembley. The processions before the game to celebrate the Centenary Final were performed in rain and the conditions added to the match that followed. A poor game was not helped by the wet pitch and Manchester City took the lead when Tommy Hutchinson scored with a flying header. Spurs looked lack-lustre and Argentinian striker Ricardo Villa was substituted by Keith Burkinshaw. The big man trudged around the track and down the tunnel looking forlorn as this was supposed to be a day to remember for him. However, when Ossie Ardiles was halted by a Gerry Gow foul, a Tottenham free-kick was awarded about 20 yards out on the right corner of the box from the City goal. Hoddle curled the ball towards the far side, but Tommy Hutchinson in the wall had read his intentions and moved to block the ball. However, he only managed to connect with his shoulder and inadvertently deflect it past his keeper and in for the equaliser. Spurs fans were relieved that they had got back into the match, as apart from a Hoddle drive that Corrigan managed to fist away, there was little else to commend this match. Extra time was played out in a manner similar to the rest of the game and the two sides had to return five days later to replay the Final.
1984	Spurs travelled to Belgium for the first leg of the UEFA Cup Final to meet Anderlecht. The Belgian side had overcome a semi-final first leg deficit against Nottingham Forest in suspicious circumstances, but took their chance in this match to prove it was not underhand (something that was confirmed years later). The atmosphere at Parc Astrid was tense, mainly owing to the death of a Spurs fan the night before the match after he had been shot by a bar owner. Police were everywhere and police dogs bit fans as they waited to go into the match. Once inside, it got no better, as Police tried to remove flags from the fencing and when fans tried to take them down, the Police charged into the terrace with no regard for who they were hitting with their truncheons. The match itself started well for Spurs, going close on a number of occasions before Paul Miller stuck his head onto a corner and grabbed a very important away goal in the second half. Captain Steve Perryman picked up a booking which would rule him out of the second leg and then just before the end, Tony Parks fumbled the ball and Anderlecht got an equaliser when the rebound was poked home from close range.
1986	Colin Lyman, winger 1937-1946, dies.
1995	Winger Gerard McMahon makes his Spurs debut. Nick Barmby's last Spurs match. Equal biggest losing margin in a home match to Coventry City.

Information gathered from "Spurs - A Day-To-Day Life" by Graham Betts, Spurs Handbooks,
"Spurs - A Complete Record" and "The Spurs Alphabet" both by Bob Goodwin and other sources.