Fri 01 April 2016, 08:15
Tottenham HotspurLooking ahead and back on events on the same day in years gone by.
1 FRIDAY
1992 Gary Lineker scores a hat-trick in our 3-0 home win over West Ham United.
2012 Swansea City defeated 3-1 at White Hart Lane. Emmanuel Adebayor hits two.
2 SATURDAY
Cy Goddard’s 19th birthday.
LIVERPOOL v SPURS, Barclays Premier League, at Anfield, 5.30pm
1900 We play at Thames Ironworks in a benefit match for England winger Tom Bradshaw who had died following illness at the age of 26. Player-manager John Cameron scores twice in our 3-0 win.
1956 John Ryden scores on his Spurs debut at Preston where we draw 3-3. His brothers George and Hugh were also professional footballers.
3 SUNDAY
1974 Neil McNab (pictured, above) goes on as substitute at home to Chelsea for his Spurs debut. He is just 16 and still an amateur. We lose 2-1.
1982 We beat Leicester City 2-0 at Villa Park in our FA Cup semi-final clash, on our way to retaining the trophy.
4 MONDAY
1914 Our winger Fanny Walden makes his England debut to become the smallest player ever to represent his country. He was just 5’2”.
1993 We lose by the only goal to Arsenal in the semi-finals of the FA Cup at Wembley. Lee Dixon is sent off.
5 TUESDAY
1952 Alfie Conn born in Kirkcaldy. He would join us from Rangers in June, 1974.
1962 Richard Gough (pictured, below) born in Stockholm. He would leave us for Rangers in October, 1987.
6 WEDNESDAY
1949 The British army play their Belgian counterparts at the Lane.
2006 Prime Minister Tony Blair visits White Hart Lane to witness the local community work of the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation.
7 THURSDAY
1879 Our FA Cup record-breaking striker Sandy Brown born in Glenbuck, Ayrshire. He would join us from Portsmouth in May, 1900.
1928 We beat Arsenal 2-0 at home but it proves to be our last victory of the season and we are relegated at its conclusion.
8 FRIDAY
1975 Glenn Hoddle signs as a professional.
2006 We defeat Manchester City 2-1 at the Lane. Paul Stalteri and Michael Carrick both score.
9 SATURDAY
1917 Ron Burgess born in Cwm, South Wales. He would go on to captain Spurs and Wales and establish himself as one of our greatest ever players.
2000 Former Peterborough duo Simon Davies and Matthew Etherington (pictured, below) take their Tottenham bows at Liverpool – where we lose 2-0.
10 SUNDAY
SPURS v MANCHESTER UNITED, Barclays Premier League, at White Hart Lane, 4pm
1991 Ian Walker concedes twice on his Spurs debut at Norwich City as we go down 2-1. His father Mike, City’s coach, looks on from the home bench.
2005 Jermain Defoe scores the decisive goal against Newcastle United at the Lane.
11 MONDAY
Dele Alli’s 20th birthday.
1904 Bert Badger, who scored on his Spurs debut against Millwall just months before, notches his final goal for us at Fulham where we win 5-1 in the London League.
1987 We defeat Watford 4-0 at Villa Park to reach the FA Cup Final.
12 TUESDAY
1967 After a 0-0 draw at St Andrews, we beat Birmingham City 6-0 in our FA Cup quarter-final replay. Terry Venables and Jimmy Greaves both score twice as we head for Wembley.
13 WEDNESDAY
Kyle Walker-Peters’ (pictured, below) 19th birthday.
1872 Spurs legend John Cameron, so crucial to our early development, is born in Ayr and would totally reinvigorate the club after he joined us in May, 1898.
1899 Dartford hammered 9-0 in the Thames and Medway League. It was our last game of the season and Bill Joyce celebrated with five goals.
14 THURSDAY
1951 Our 1981 FA Cup-winning goalkeeper Milija Aleksic born in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Sadly he died in October, 2012.
1991 A memorable 3-1 FA Cup victory over Arsenal at Wembley. Anyone remember Gazza’s goal?!
15 FRIDAY
1963 Having lost 5-2 at Anfield just days earlier, we then defeat Liverpool 7-2 at White Hart Lane. Jimmy Greaves scores four times.
1981 Another FA Cup semi-final triumph with Arsenal connections – this time we beat Wolves 3-0 in a Highbury replay.
16 SATURDAY
1921 Despite sending out a weakened team against Bradford City, with manager Peter McWilliam having one eye on the following week’s FA Cup Final, we win 2-0. Charlie Wilson bags both.
1979 We draw 3-3 at Southampton where John Pratt, Chris Jones and Peter Taylor (pictured, below) all score.
17 SUNDAY
1961 We move closer to our famous ‘Double’ by beating second-placed Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 at the Lane.
1993 Teddy Sheringham converts two penalties as we defeat Oldham Athletic 4-1.
18 MONDAY
STOKE CITY v SPURS, Barclays Premier League, at the Britannia Stadium, 8pm
1907 Former referee Fred Kirkham announced as the new Spurs manager on a five-year contract worth £350 per annum.
1998 With both clubs fearing relegation, we grab a crucial point at Barnsley – where we had been knocked out of the FA Cup in February. Colin Calderwood is our scorer with Ramon Vega sent off. Barnsley would go down at the end of the season.
19 TUESDAY
1935 Goalkeeper Percy Hooper keeps a clean sheet on his debut as we beat Blackburn Rovers 1-0 at White Hart Lane. Sam Bell scores but it is not enough to save us from relegation. We would score nine goals in our final three games – but still go down. To compound our misery, Arsenal are crowned champions!
20 WEDNESDAY
1901 Our first appearance in an FA Cup Final pulls in a 114,815 crowd – not bad for a Southern League side and a world record at the time. We draw 2-2 with Sheffield United at the old Crystal Palace.
1962 Jimmy Greaves, in his first season as a Spur, scores for a record ninth game in succession – at home to Blackburn. Unfortunately he fails to net against WBA in our next match but does go on to score in our final three games, so the sequence came so close to double figures.
21 THURSDAY
2003 Teddy Sheringham scores his last Spurs goal – in a 3-1 triumph at The Hawthorns.
2012 Brad Friedel makes his 300th consecutive league appearance at Loftus Road. Our former player Adel Taarabt scores the winner for QPR – and is sent off.
22 FRIDAY
1987 We draw 2-2 at Wimbledon – watched by just 7,917 fans. Mark Bowen scores in what is his last game for Spurs.
2006 Robbie Keane nets in a 1-1 draw at Arsenal.
23 SATURDAY
1977 Young-Pyo Lee (pictured, above) born in Hongchun, South Korea, and would join us from PSV Eindhoven in August, 2005.
1995 London Monarchs play their first game at White Hart Lane.
24 SUNDAY
Ben Davies’s 23rd birthday.
Jan Vertonghen’s 29th birthday.
1965 A hat-trick for Cliff Jones as we beat Leicester City 6-2 to complete an unbeaten season at home.
1974 We march on to the UEFA Cup Final with a 2-0 home win over Lokomotive Leipzig as we record a 4-1 aggregate.
25 MONDAY
SPURS v WEST BROMWICH ALBION, Barclays Premier League, at White Hart Lane, 8pm
1936 After six games out through injury, Ted Harper returns to the side to score twice against Barnsley and take his league total to 36 – a record that stands until 1963. But for injury the prolific Harper would probably have recorded an even higher tally and we may have gained promotion. As it was we finished third in the final Division Two table.
1964 Scottish international John White nets his final goal for the club – the winner at Filbert Street.
26 TUESDAY
1946 Ralph Coates born in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham. The England midfielder would join us from Burnley in May, 1971.
1986 We beat QPR 5-2 on the old plastic pitch at Loftus Road. Mark Falco (2), Clive Allen (2) and Glenn Hoddle all score.
27 WEDNESDAY
John Onomah’s 19th birthday.
1993 It’s Fiorucci Cup time at White Hart Lane as we host Inter Milan and Real Madrid for one-half games. We lose both to finish bottom. It is also the first opportunity for home fans to see future Spur Paolo Tramezzani (pictured, above) in action for Inter.
2002 Gus Poyet’s strike is enough to see us beat Liverpool at the Lane.
28 THURSDAY
1888 Walter Tull born in Folkestone. He would turn professional with us in May, 1909.
1975 Great night at the Lane as we beat reigning champions Leeds United 4-2 to ensure our First Division survival.
29 FRIDAY
1902 We beat Woolwich Arsenal 2-1 in a semi-final replay on our way to winning the Southern Charity Cup.
1989 Three goals for Paul Stewart as we hammer Millwall 5-0 on their own ground.
30 SATURDAY
1979 Steve Perryman’s testimonial ends in a 2-2 draw with West Ham in front of a 17,702 crowd.
2011 Sandro scores his first Spurs goal – but we lose 2-1 at Chelsea.
