Roland Beurre
Peter Taylor
Judging by the votes in the Best XI of all time threads, it sounds like some of you should have asked Father Christmas* to have brought you DVDs of the two early sixties FA cup finals that Spurs won.
The footage is quite illuminating, although the camera-work leaves a lot to be desired.
The two players that stuck out for me were John White, as everything seemed to go through him, and Cliff Jones, who was playing at silent movie speed when everyone was in slo-mo.
Cliff Jones, he plays on the wing - except he didn't; he quite often dropped into midfield to pick up the ball, which gave him a lot of space to run into, and once he got running it was very hard to stop him.
His main problem was hitting warp speed as he got near the goal, as he was going too fast to do anything measured with the ball, so he often would run into the nearest defender and fall over to win a free kick.
Not that players ever dived or cheated in those days ... goodness me, no.
By the time I started going to WHL, Jones was usually the sub, but every time he got up to stretch his legs or unstick a testicle from the side of his thigh, a buzz would go round the crowd.
As for John White, what might have been, eh?
He'll not be one-tenth the player John White was, but I see a little bit of the Ghost of White Hart Lane in Tom Carroll.
Anyway, enough of the nostalgia. The supposed purpose of this thread was to garner recommendations of DVDs of the mighty Lilywhites from Glory Glory members, or is it all on YouTube these days?
* Santa Claus? Who he?
The footage is quite illuminating, although the camera-work leaves a lot to be desired.
The two players that stuck out for me were John White, as everything seemed to go through him, and Cliff Jones, who was playing at silent movie speed when everyone was in slo-mo.
Cliff Jones, he plays on the wing - except he didn't; he quite often dropped into midfield to pick up the ball, which gave him a lot of space to run into, and once he got running it was very hard to stop him.
His main problem was hitting warp speed as he got near the goal, as he was going too fast to do anything measured with the ball, so he often would run into the nearest defender and fall over to win a free kick.
Not that players ever dived or cheated in those days ... goodness me, no.
By the time I started going to WHL, Jones was usually the sub, but every time he got up to stretch his legs or unstick a testicle from the side of his thigh, a buzz would go round the crowd.
As for John White, what might have been, eh?
He'll not be one-tenth the player John White was, but I see a little bit of the Ghost of White Hart Lane in Tom Carroll.
Anyway, enough of the nostalgia. The supposed purpose of this thread was to garner recommendations of DVDs of the mighty Lilywhites from Glory Glory members, or is it all on YouTube these days?
* Santa Claus? Who he?
, He was majestic in the air and would always score 20 goals a season. He for me along with Waddle were the best flank players I have seen at the lane.
