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Is that the great Alan Gilzean?
 
A bit of trivia about this day and consequences...
Some fixtures are jinxed. The Division 1 match between Spurs and eventual champions Everton at White Hart Lane in 1969/70 was one of them. The match was originally scheduled for Saturday 29th November 1969 but a heavy fall of snow just before kick off time forced a postponement. The re-scheduled date was Wednesday 17th December and the match started but only lasted 30 minutes before being abandoned when a fault at a sub-station caused floodlight failure.
Wednesday 7th January 1970 was the next date pencilled in for the fixture but that one didn't happen either when Spurs had to play an FA Cup replay that evening. The match was finally played on Wednesday 11th March and after a near three month wait and three different programmes being printed Spurs lost one-nil! Ironically Spurs' next match was three days later and was the return fixture against Everton at Goodison. That went ahead at the first attempt and Spurs lost that one too 3-2.
 
A bit of trivia about this day and consequences...
Some fixtures are jinxed. The Division 1 match between Spurs and eventual champions Everton at White Hart Lane in 1969/70 was one of them. The match was originally scheduled for Saturday 29th November 1969 but a heavy fall of snow just before kick off time forced a postponement. The re-scheduled date was Wednesday 17th December and the match started but only lasted 30 minutes before being abandoned when a fault at a sub-station caused floodlight failure.
Wednesday 7th January 1970 was the next date pencilled in for the fixture but that one didn't happen either when Spurs had to play an FA Cup replay that evening. The match was finally played on Wednesday 11th March and after a near three month wait and three different programmes being printed Spurs lost one-nil! Ironically Spurs' next match was three days later and was the return fixture against Everton at Goodison. That went ahead at the first attempt and Spurs lost that one too 3-2.
Yes I was at the home game Joe Royle was getting stick from older blue fans as mike england was a cultured rough big centre half moan, the older fans moaned at him all through the game - I told them to shut up and was vindicated when Joe won us two pens in the box as England was all over his back as he had been all the game- they shut up then, and I told them - told yer!;)
 
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