Legends on legends - Leeds

Five-feet-five tall, yet a giant of the game, Billy Bremner is seen by many as the greatest of any number of greats who led Leeds United to glory in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A generation of football fans will be able to reel off the names of that team - Bremner, Hunter, Giles, Lorimer, Charlton, Clarke, Gray, Jordan - a team that won the First Division title in 1968/69 and 1973/74 and finished runners-up in 1964/65, 1965/66, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1971/72. Add the FA Cup in 1972 (runners up 1965, 70, 73), the League Cup in 1968, the old Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971 and reaching the European Cup Final in 1975, where they lost to Bayern Munich, and you get some idea of their dominance.

The driving force, Bremner. Often likened to Dave Mackay, the heart of our glory, glory team of the early 1960s - Mackay famously grabbed Bremner by the throat after a tackle at the Lane in 1966 - Bremner had it all. An inspirational leader, captain for 11 years, 772 appearances between 1959-76, 115 goals, the midfielder gave everything for club and country. He was capped 54 times by Scotland and captained the Scots at the 1974 World Cup.

He later moved to Hull and Doncaster, and returned to Leeds as manager from 1985-88, in-between spells in charge of Doncaster. He sadly passed away in 1997, aged 54, and has a statue in his honour at Elland Road.

Phil Beal joined Spurs in 1960, made his debut in 1963 went on to make 420 appearances for us, winning two League Cups and the UEFA Cup along the way. His career spanned a similar timespan to Bremner’s at Leeds - 1962-75.

“He was so tough for a little fella, he was only five foot five, but he was tenacious and a leader. When he was playing, the verbals... pushing his team on, praising them. He was very similar to Dave Mackay. Billy Bremner to Leeds was very much what Dave was to Spurs, that driving force. He was the leader of the pack.

“When you think of their team, Clarke, Lorimer, Hunter, Giles, that’s saying something. But he was a leader and a fighter. Like Dave, he would praise players to the hilt if they did something well but get into them if they didn’t. That’s what you need in any successful team.

“Don Revie, their manager, relied on him a great deal. He was the captain and, if anything needed changing, he would do that on the field, again like Dave or Danny Blanchflower would do at Spurs.

“That Leeds team though, tough, very tough. You always knew you in for a game. I always remember when you played at Elland Road, they would let the opposing team go out first. Then, when Leeds came out, the noise would be deafening. They hoped that would intimidate whoever they were playing but, to tell the truth, when I played there it had the opposite effect!”