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Talking of the Final in 1984, I was there that night and recall Tony Parks saved a penalty...

Talking of the Final in 1984, I was there that night and recall Tony Parks saved a penalty.

My daughter had a birthday card from Spurs this year (we're Lilywhite members) featuring a photo from the game and it took me a while to realise the signficance of the date. I'll never forget the atmosphere at the Lane - it was long before the advent of the all-seater stadium - and remember starting off near the front in the East Stand but gradually being pushed further back by the end of the game.

It was a fab night and all the better because we won :-)))

P.S......twas Ian.

P.S......twas Ian.

.....and this from: http://www.mehstg.com/homepage.htm (then search for Richard Cooke) T...

.....and this from: http://www.mehstg.com/homepage.htm (then search for Richard Cooke)

THFC'S YOUNGEST EUROPEAN DEBUT APPEARANCES

John Bostock's UEFA Cup substitute appearance at home to Dinamo Zagreb on 6th November 2008 made him the youngest European Spur at the age of 16 years and 295 days.

He takes his place at the head of a list featuring some top names and just beating his Academy team-mate Ryan Mason, who was 17 years and 167 days old when he came on to replace David Bentley in the away UEFA Cup tie at NEC Nijmegen on 27th November 2008.

Other teenage European Spurs debutants are ....

18 years 66 days – Gareth Bale v Anorthosis (Greece) (Home UEFA Cup) 20th September 2007
18 years 70 days – Frank Saul v Feyenoord (Holland) (Away European Cup) 1st November 1961
18 years 76 days – Jon Obika v NEC Nijmegen (Holland) (Away UEFA Cup) 27th November 2008
18 years 94 days – Richard Cooke v Bayern Munich (Germany) (Home UEFA Cup) 7th December 1983
18 years 119 days – Adel Taarabt v Anorthosis (Greece) (Home UEFA Cup) 20th September 2007
18 years 131 days – Graeme Souness v Keflavik (Iceland) (Away UEFA Cup) 14th September 1971
18 years 212 days – Ally Dick v Bayern Munich (Germany) (Away UEFA Cup) 23rd November 1983
19 years 59 days – Chris Gunter v Wisla Krakow (Poland) (Home UEFA Cup) 18th September 2008
19 years 130 days – Giovani Dos Santos v Wisla Krakow (Poland) (Home UEFA Cup) 18th September 2008
19 years 186 days – Aaron Lennon v Besiktas (Turkey) (Away UEFA Cup) 19th October 2006
19 years 238 days – David Tuttle v Hadjuk Spilt (Yugoslavia) (Home European Cup Winners Cup) 2nd October 1991
19 years 243 days – Tony Parks v Coleraine (Northern Ireland) (Home European Cup Winners Cup) 28th September 1982
19 years 252 days – Phil Holder v Keflavik (Iceland) (Home UEFA Cup) 28th September 1971
19 years 259 days – Ian Hendon v SV Sparkasse Stockerau (Austria) (Away European Cup Winners Cup) 21st August 1991
19 years 260 days – Tom Huddlestone v Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) 14th September 2006
19 years 267 days – Steve Perryman v Keflavik (Iceland) (Away UEFA Cup) 14th September 1971
19 years 279 days – Terry Gibson v Coleraine (Northern Ireland) (Home European Cup Winners Cup) 28th September 1982
19 years 308 days – Ian Walker v SV Sparkasse Stockerau (Austria) (Home European Cup Winners Cup) 4th September 1991
19 years 329 days – Chris McGrath v Aberdeen (Away UEFA Cup) 24th October 1973

Happy New Year to all He would have had more.....as Lennon has now started delivering. Bu...

Happy New Year to all

He would have had more.....as Lennon has now started delivering. But even if he scored 30, I still wouldn't have liked his style (as I don't like Daffy's).

Remember when Dogba first arrived on the scene at Chavski? The ball bounced off his shins, elbow, kneecap, eyelashes...anywhere apart from his feet - but he still scored goals. That was because he was in the right place at the right time. That's what goalscorers do - have a knack of being in the right place. (Unless your Daffy, then you score goals by having as many shots as humanly possible and work off the law of averages - monkeys,typewriters and the complete works of Jacques Pierre etc)

Give me cross between Greaves/Lineker/Gilzean and Berbatov - I think I'll call him Grinzeanov The Impaler....he's mine I tell you, all mine....ha ha ha ha ha (in a pantomime 'baddy' voice). I register the copyright here and now.

John, your knowledge of Spurs legends is very good, especially considering you had only ju...

John, your knowledge of Spurs legends is very good, especially considering you had only just finished sucking your mum's nipples when Gilzean played at Spurs. One of my favourite players and similar to Berba except he was a much better header of the ball, even though he was pissed most of the time.

As for Ralph Coates, I seem to remember we got him from Burnley. I played with him after his pro career finished and he helped coach our team. Nice bloke and a proper gentleman, unlike Chivers who was a bit full of himself. As for Coates' hairstyle, he got the idea from Bobby Charlton.