Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Division One 1967 1968 Manchester City Tottenham

Maine Road Manchester
Saturday 9 December 1967


Genial Joe Mercer and his radical coach, Malcolm Allison, were two of television's first soccer pundits as the profile of the manager grew in the 60s. Their Manchester City team came out of the Second Division to win the Championship within two years.  One of the exuberant performances produced by their star-studded forward line came against Spurs on a frozen pitch. Francis Lee, Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee, Neil Young and Tony Coleman made light of the conditions to perform a football ballet on ice.

F.A. Cup 1975 1976 Manchester United Derby County resume

Semi  Final
Saturday 3 Avril 1976
Hillsborough Sheffield
Attendance 55,000

FA Cup semi final day 1976 and one tie was undoubtedly demanding the lions share of the attention. Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty, with typical sensitivity, described his teams' meeting with Derby County as "the first time the cup final has been decided at Hillsborough". Such dismissive arrogance might have irritated many but he was probably saying exactly what most people actually thought. United, with their bright young side, were riding high in the first division after their one year exile in the second, and Derby, reigning league champions, were right up there with them.

Amical 1981 Bresil Irllande

23 Septembre 1981

Estádio Estádio Rei Pelé, Maceió

 

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Champions League 2010 2011 Tottenham Milan AC

Round of 8 Second Leg
9 March 2011
White Hart Lane, London

Referee: F. De Bleeckere
Attendance: 34320 


One of the biggest nights in Tottenham's history lies ahead as AC Milan travel to White Hart Lane for the second leg of their UEFA Champions League last-16 tie. Arsenal may have surrendered a winning position to bow out of Europe at the hands of tournament favourites Barcelona on Tuesday evening, but Spurs have home advantage against Milan and an away goal in the bag after winning 1-0 at the San Siro last month. Harry Redknapp's men earned plaudits for their organised, professional approach in Italy, where Peter Crouch netted a potentially decisive late strike following a lightning break from Aaron Lennon.

FA Cup 1967 1968 Leeds Nottingham Forest

Elland Road Leeds
17th of Febuary 1968
Attendance 51,739

  Most football lovers have an allegiance not just to a club but to a particular team, the sequence of their names hard-wired into the memory, ready to be produced at the appropriate moment. It's a way, not least, of proving one's authenticity: by rolling out the names of Thompson, Whare, McDonald, Burkitt, McKinlay, Whitefoot, Dwight, Quigley, Wilson, Gray and Imlach, I demonstrate my right to be considered a Nottingham Forest fan. But maybe remembering an FA Cup winning team, even one from 1959, is not much more of a feat than reciting the names of Alf Ramsey's England heroes of 1966. So I reinforce my claim by rattling off another XI: Grummitt, Hindley, Winfield, Hennessey, McKinley, Newton, Lyons, Barnwell, Baker, Wignall and Storey-Moore, runners-up in the old First Division in 1966-67, left. And it's amusing to realise that such feats of memory are extended even to the enemies of that era: Sprake, Reaney, Cooper, Bremner, Charlton, Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones, Giles and Gray.

Uefa Cup 1984 1985 Real Madrid Tottenham

Quarter-finals, First and Second Leg

The only time these sides have met in a competitive tie was in the quarter-final of the 1984-85 UEFA Cup. Real Madrid won the first leg at White Hart Lane 1-0 when Tottenham's Steve Perryman turned Emilia Butragueno's cross from the right into his own net after only 15 minutes. It was the first time Tottenham had lost at home in European competition. Up until that point they had won 35 and drawn seven of their 45 matches. Flashback: Perryman and Camacho exchange pennants prior to their UEFA Cup quarter-final 2nd leg at the Bernabeu It was also the first time they had failed to score at home in European games. That goal was enough to settle the tie as the second leg at the Bernabeu finished goalless with Perryman having another howler - getting sent off in the 78th minute for a body check on Jorge Valdano. Madrid went on to win the trophy that year with a 3-2 victory over Inter Milan in the semi-finals and a 3-1 aggregate win over the Hungarian side Videoton in the final. Seeing red: Perryman is sent-off by referee Bruno Galler for a foul on Valdano...