ALLEN'S AND ALLAN'S KEY

On February 2nd 2013 Hartlepool United beat Notts County in League One with goals from Peter Hartley and James Poole. Now that's what I call interesting; it's something you can take down the pub with you and win friends.

On February 3rd 1974, two weeks after the Football league gave permission for clubs to play on a Sunday, Swindon Town's goalkeeper, Jimmy Allan, refused to play on a Sunday, missing a game against Bolton Wanderers at Swindon in Division 2. Allan had been an ever present in 27 league matches for the Robins during 1973-4 and manager Les Allen (of Spurs' Double fame) said fair enough and appreciated the player's commitment as a committed Christian. After that Allan, (the one with an "A"), only played in two of the next 8 fixtures.
Below are the two Cup tie programmes from January 1960, one from Crewe Alexander at Gresty Road and the replay at White Hart Lane with Les Allen would have played in.
I have the original programme from the White Hart Lane cup tie, which recorded the match between Tottenham and Crewe Alexander. This game was an FA Cup 4th Round replay at Spurs', which was needed after Crewe held Spurs 2-2 in the first tie on January 30th 1960. Les Allen scored the Spurs' first goal and Cliff Jones the second.

Four days later on February 3rd, Tottenham got their own back, winning 13-2! Les Allen scored 5 goals, Bobby Smith 4, Cliff Jones 3, Tommy Harmer 1. Over 64,000 watched the replay.

The two clubs met again on 28 January 1961 in the FA Cup, Spurs won 5-1. On 8th October 1975 Spurs won at Crewe 0-2 in the League Cup and on 13th October 1999 Spurs won at home 3-1 also in the League Cup. The clubs have met 5 times with five wins to Spurs and a draw.

Here are the Spurs-Double winners!