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1st October 1966 Tottenham Score Four at Fulham Know Your Tottenham History

By Logan Holmes

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Terry Venables – first Tottenham goal

Going into October, and the match against Fulham at Craven Cottage, Tottenham were in third place in the 1st Division. The 1966-67 season had started brightly for Spurs with six wins and only two League defeats in their opening nine games. Bill Nicholson had been overhauling his team during the previous three seasons and the younger players he had introduced, like Pat Jennings, Joe Kinnear and Cyril Knowles were starting to show the benefit of their experience of playing in the 1st Division. The team was coming together with signings made in the previous couple of seasons becoming an integral part of the team – Alan Mullery, Alan Gilzean and Jimmy Robertson, while summer signings Terry Venables and Mike England were also having an impact.

1st October, 1966

Fulham 3 Tottenham Hotspur 4

Scorers: Robertson, Greaves, Gilzean, Venables

It was a remarkable game at Craven Cottage with an attendance of 28,628, as four goals were scored in the first thirteen minutes. The four Tottenham goals were of significance to the individual players:

  • Tottenham’s first was scored by right winger, Jimmy Robertson, his first of the season.
  • In scoring Spurs second goal, Jimmy Greaves took his scoring sequence to seven successive League games, his best for five years.
  • The third from Alan Gilzean ended his away famine, not having scored an away goal for eighteen months.
  • Terry Venables scored the fourth before the end, his first for Tottenham since signing from Chelsea the previous May.

The win took Tottenham up to second place, a point behind leaders, Chelsea.

Terry Venables and Jimmy Robertson celebrate after winning the FA Cup in May, 1967

This team would go on to win the FA Cup for Tottenham the following May, defeating Chelsea in the Final.

Team: Jennings; Kinnear, Knowles; Mullery, England, Mackay; Robertson, Greaves, Gilzean, Venables, Saul.

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