The Archive | Wimbledon 2-6 Spurs | 02.05.98
Sun 05 April 2020, 09:59|
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As football remains on lockdown, we’re hoping to stir your Spurs memories, reminisce about the great games and goals and rekindle, a little, the thrill of matchday that we’re all missing at the moment.
Following our first trip down memory lane and that never-to-be-forgotten victory at City in May, 2010, we now turn the clock back almost 22 years and another crucial win in the Premier League - for completely different reasons.
With a run to the Champions League Final still fresh in the memory, and, when football returns after the coronavirus, the team fighting to get back into Europe's premier competition for the fifth-successive season, a glance at the Premier League table in April and May, 1998, doesn't make as pleasant reading.
Indeed, with five matches left of the 1997/98 season, we were in 17th place and just one point above the drop zone - we were on 35 points, Barnsley and Bolton on 34 and Palace marooned on 24.
A draw at home to Coventry only just improved matters and we then picked up a crucial point at Barnsley on 18 April. Colin Calderwood grabbed that late leveller at Oakwell which meant we stayed out of the bottom three by two points with three matches remaining. Without that goal, Barnsley would have gone above us.
Worries were eased with a key win over Newcastle in game 36 of 38 as Jurgen Klinsmann - who returned for his second stint at the Club in December, 1997 - and Les Ferdinand struck at the Lane on 25 April.
Victory against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park would extinguish any remaining fears and Jurgen - whose four goals up to then contributed to three wins and a draw - delivered in magnificent style...
Wimbledon 2-6 Spurs - the highlights
Match data
Wimbledon: Sullivan, McAllister, Perry, Thatcher, Roberts, Kimble, Leaburn (Gayle 46), Hughes, Fear, Kennedy (Hughes 63), Euell (Francis 36).
Spurs: Walker, Carr, Campbell, Calderwood, Berti, Nielsen, Anderton, Ginola, Fox (Saib 72), Klinsmann, Ferdinand (Armstrong 61).
Goals: Wimbledon - Fear 21, 30. Spurs - Ferdinand 18, Klinsmann 41, 54, 58, 60, Saib 79.
Venue: Selhurst Park.
Attendance: 25,820.
