DIVING HEADERS

Seeking a football match to watch this afternoon (buoyed by the great Rugby win this morning), I tried the local Hepworth United and found that the game had been postponed. Hade Edge FC played not more than a kilometer away on a slightly mucky pitch....so I went to Penistone Church expecting to watch their Reserves but that was cancelled..... HOWEVER I was treated to an FA County Youth match between Sheffield and Hallamshire FA and Cumbria FA. A national competition that will run through the season. The home team won.....

Chatting to a couple of club "officials", the Spurs result at the time was 0-1 v Watford after 6 minutes. We discussed great Spurs' teams and Bobby Smith (below) and Jimmy Greaves got a mention, of course.

On 19th October 1960 as Spurs were on the way to their record making Double Year, Smith and Greaves were picked for England, away against Luxembourg, in a World Cup qualifier. England won 9-0 with Greaves scoring 3 and Smith 2. Bobby Charlton got 3 also and Johnny Haynes 1. 9,000 watched this drubbing. In the return fixture it was 4-1 on September 28th 1961.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2oFv3yUCAk
The number 9 was Ray Pointer of Burnley, whom I saw score against Spurs on December 8th 1960 in a 4-4 draw at WHLane. Over 58,000 watched the game. Spurs were 4-1 up!
The side that day:
Springett, Armfield (c), McNeil, Bobby Robson, Swan, Flowers, Douglas, Fantham, Pointer (1), Viollet (1), Charlton (2).
Some of you will have no idea about these players...Johnny Fantham,,,who he?

Over 33,000 in the crowd  at Highbury.
England had to play Portugal in their qualifying group drawing in Lisbon 1-1 and winning at Wembley 2-0.
In the World Cup REAL quarter-final in Chile, England eventually lost to Brazil 1-3 in the quarter-final:
Springett, Armfield, Wilson, Moore, Norman, Flowers, Douglas, Greaves, Hitchens, Haynes, Charlton R.