Golden Moments - A tonic to the tough times we are all enduring

When Crooks was known for more than his rather questionable punditry.

 

My first ever live match...
What.
A.
Night.

 

Typically, there doesn't seem to be any footage of my first trip to The Lane online anywhere

What's really annoying is that my knees got on MOTD that night too!

 

The highlights have already been posted, but here's the full match for anyone with some time to kill while in home prison.

 

Crooks was quite fast, and a bit of a beast in terms of physical strength.
He was also quite adept at "bullet" headers if I recall correctly.

Which is probably why the partnership with Archibald worked so well
(the latter having a style of play that was highly complementary to Crooks) .

 

Thanks for posting this PNP - was my first ever live Spurs match. Stood in the Park Lane end - brilliant day!

 

What an incredible first game. Hardly a Wolves fan in the place and it has heaving, especially in The North Bank where I was.

One of only two occasions that I've gone on the pitch after a game (Leicester 1977 after we were relegated was the other). I was digging it up for all I was worth, having taken a bit of a battering there in the league game much earlier in the season.

 

Dier looks like a completely different player in this game, compared to now.
Fair play to those poor Hull fans who stayed to the end, though.

 

My cousins lived by a park very close to Turnpike Lane Tube Station and back in 73 or 74 I was there on a NLD day. When spurs scored some of the neighbours on the cousins side of the street were cheering (guessing it was on the radio) and that is why I am a spur when I was 6 or 7!

I used to go there as often as possible to escspe my moron of a mother's child beating **** of a husband.
My cousins had no interest in football but going there at a weekend made me feel like I was close to the club.

For the first semi final (I was 14 then) I was st my cousin's and was in the park with a radio and a football getting score flashes.

I was outraged when it came up that Wolves got a last minute penalty for a blatant dive.

The next day my oldest cousin's boyfriend offeredto take me to the replay...he was s gooner! I suspect he thought we'd lose and he'd win some serious bonus points with my cousin for taking me!

Watching crooks score those 2 goals in front of us was so special but nothing compared to watch that Ricky Villa rocket.

To his credit he took me on the North Bank and actually gave me a great time. He joined in the cheering and singing...and tried to pretend he was pleased we won...not sure what he thought when she dumped his gooner ass at the end of the following week

I collect original Tottenham press photos and got a one of him celebrating that goal with Hoddle and Crooks...Villa signed the photo for me along with a press photo of him scoring THAT goal in the final.

 

Great header by Darren Bent

 

Me thinks you have missed the point of this thread

 

If anyone has time to kill...

 

My last visit to White Hart Lane

 

You may wish to skip the first 80 seconds, which largely consists of some bloody awful defending and questionable decisions.

 

Pretty sure that Harry Kane scored before this season

Oh, right...

 

Paul Stewart.
They really didn't try too hard to clear the snow off the pitch, did they?

 

Coventry deserved to lose based on the kit alone. It looks like someone stapled a load of shopping bags together.

 

This is probably my favourite

 

Surprised that the chip against Arsenal in the League Cup isn't in there. Some quality goals, though.