SPURS V THE 'GERS

 

Tottenham Hotspur met Glasgow Rangers at White Hart Lane and won the 1st leg of this European Cup Winners Cup 1st Rd tie 5-2. It was described as "The Battle of Britain" and played in front of a 60,000 crowd. Goalscorers for the Spurs were: Johnny White 2, Les Allen, an OG and Maurice Norman.

This programme comes from the 5th December 1962 when Glasgow Rangers club was due to host Tottenham Hotspur in the Second Leg but due to fog it was re-scheduled to the 11th Dec (i.e. yesterday 1962!).

On that day, 80,000 turned up at Ibrox to see Spurs win 3-2 (goalscorers: Jimmy Greaves and Bobby Smith 2) making it an 8-4 aggregate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9gD5ILweVk This will show the goals and note the classic kick off with the three "middle attackers" numbers 8,9,10 standing at the centre spot.  Spurs went on to WIN the ECWC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMrrSt4m3lA yet another Pathe News! reel...

Previously Rangers had beaten Sevilla 4-2 on aggregate.  Spurs had no tie. They then met Rangers and

Spurs then Slovan Bratislava 6-2 winning on agg having lost 0-2 away in the q-f.

Then v OFK Belgrade 4-3 on agg in the semi-final and Athletico Madrid 5-1 in the final (Spurs above). Christmas Quiz-name the players!