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That's a fine picture. In my teens I shared your admiration for Spurs, particularly Blanchflower and White (Greaves was very good, but I didn't revere him quite like you do). When I couldn't get to Utd away matches, I used to try to get to Spurs away matches when they were in the area, and I attach pictures of 2 such occasions. The first was a 4-0 win at Forest, which made their record 13 matches, 12 wins, one draw. That were 3 up in 25 minutes, and played some terrific football. White was able to glide around the pitch, and I remember thinking this was the best football I had ever seen. Of course, they went on to do the double that year, and thank god they did. In a 'normal' year, Wednesday's record would have been good enough to win the league. And Spurs were great box office - Forest had averaged 20,000 at home, and that day, they had over 37,000 in.
The second one is Man City away, a few days after Spurs had become the second English team to reach the European Cup semis. That must have taken it out of them, and they were hammered 6-2, a result that dented their chances of repeating winning the League. In fact, Ipswich went on a run, and overtook both them and Burnley, who were top at the time. United had a part to play - at the time, we were newly-promoted and in 5th place. We set Ipswich on their way by losing 4-0 there that day, but we hung on to 5th position to the end of the season, 1 place above Wednesday. Oh, and Greaves scored both Spurs goals that day.
Final memory: I could recite the Spurs back 6 (Brown, Baker, Henry, Blanchflower, Norman and Mackay) as quickly as Hodgkinson, Coldwell, Shaw G., etc. at that time. They had that same consistency of selection.
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That's a fine picture. In my teens I shared your admiration for Spurs, particularly Blanchflower and White (Greaves was very good, but I didn't revere him quite like you do). When I couldn't get to Utd away matches, I used to try to get to Spurs away matches when they were in the area, and I attach pictures of 2 such occasions. The first was a 4-0 win at Forest, which made their record 13 matches, 12 wins, one draw. That were 3 up in 25 minutes, and played some terrific football. White was able to glide around the pitch, and I remember thinking this was the best football I had ever seen. Of course, they went on to do the double that year, and thank god they did. In a 'normal' year, Wednesday's record would have been good enough to win the league. And Spurs were great box office - Forest had averaged 20,000 at home, and that day, they had over 37,000 in.
The second one is Man City away, a few days after Spurs had become the second English team to reach the European Cup semis. That must have taken it out of them, and they were hammered 6-2, a result that dented their chances of repeating winning the League. In fact, Ipswich went on a run, and overtook both them and Burnley, who were top at the time. United had a part to play - at the time, we were newly-promoted and in 5th place. We set Ipswich on their way by losing 4-0 there that day, but we hung on to 5th position to the end of the season, 1 place above Wednesday. Oh, and Greaves scored both Spurs goals that day.
Final memory: I could recite the Spurs back 6 (Brown, Baker, Henry, Blanchflower, Norman and Mackay) as quickly as Hodgkinson, Coldwell, Shaw G., etc. at that time. They had that same consistency of selection.
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Mention of Spurs getting to the European Cup semi-final......
Bert wasn't there but he does have the programme.

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Mention of Spurs getting to the European Cup semi-final......
Bert wasn't there but he does have the programme.

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Dare I ask if you went to the game at S6 when Spurs lost their unbeaten record in the 1960-61 season? I never went there more certain that Wednesday would lose, and that is the closest I have been to coming away from a match feeling as bad as I do when Utd lose. In part because I seem to remember feeling that Wednesday deserved their win that day...
 
Dare I ask if you went to the game at S6 when Spurs lost their unbeaten record in the 1960-61 season? I never went there more certain that Wednesday would lose, and that is the closest I have been to coming away from a match feeling as bad as I do when Utd lose. In part because I seem to remember feeling that Wednesday deserved their win that day...
Bert would have loved to have seen that game but there was nobody to take the very youthful Bert.
 
It's the one above Atkinson's.

I've been wondering for a long time if this has anything to do with you, Andingmen as it ticks several boxes. This photo is taken from the Sheffield History forum.

When we were about 10 or 11 - mid-1970s - we used to wander up to Broomhill from Endcliffe Park, past Tony Christie's gated pad, and onto the Rolls Royce garage on Peel Street where we would then stand outside and gawp at the beautiful cars in the showroom window. Why we never went in to cadge some brochures, I'm not quite sure.

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Name please and is it unknown.pngUnknown2.jpgKevin Arnott in stripes and what a great shirt with the long sleeves. Thank You, in advance.
 

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