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1 6OurHeadCoachpaystributetoaspecialmanwho
touched the lives of everyone he worked with

PIERRE-EMILE HOJBJERG

2 9Our Danish midfielder reflects on a difficult week and

says: “We will honour Gian Piero by continuing his work”

OPPOSITION

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ACNOTONNTEIO

G ood evening and welcome to career, always finding the right words to
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium push you through and better you.

for tonight’s UEFA Champions What always impressed me was that he
never became complacent in his role. He
League fixture against Eintracht was like a scientist, studying continuously
to improve himself and his knowledge of
Frankfurt. the industry, in order to help the players
I should like to welcome Oliver and the team. And he did so with a smile on
his face because he had so much passion for
Glasner, his players, staff and everyone who his job.
has travelled from Germany for this match.
As well as being an incredible fitness
I would like to use this space to pay coach, he was a truly special person.
tribute to Gian Piero Ventrone, our fitness
coach and friend who passed away last It speaks volumes for his selfless char-
week. The love of everyone at the Club is acter that when he fell ill, his first thought
with his wife Cinzia, son Ivan and daughter was not for himself but concern that he
Martina at this desperately sad time. wouldn’t be able to train the team.

I first met Gian Piero in the early 1990s, In these moments, everything else –
when I was a player at Juventus and he including football – is inconsequential and
was on the coaching staff. He arrived with preparing for a game at Brighton on Satur-
Marcelo Lippi and we were together at Juve day was very difficult because of the grief
for 10 years. and emotion that everyone was feeling.

When my playing days finished and I I always knew I had good players,
became a coach, we worked together in however at Brighton they showed them-
Siena, Bari and Atalanta. And when I was selves to be great people, too. They needed
appointed as Head Coach of this Club last no extra motivation to go out and earn all
year, I knew exactly who I wanted on my three points. It was done for Gian Piero and
backroom staff – Gian Piero – because in I could not be prouder to be Head Coach of
my opinion, he was the best. this fantastic group.

As a player, he showed me a different The impact he had on the players and
way to work and pushed me to exceed staff here in just 11 months is clear to see
what I thought was possible. You loved and whether you had known Gian Piero
him because through that hard work you for one year or 30, he will live in our hearts
improved, not only in your physical condi- forever.
tion but also your mentality. He did this for
every player he worked with throughout his

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NEWS DESK JOHN DUNCAN

GIAN PIERO VENTRONE We were deeply saddened to hear of

We were devastated to announce that man. I’m devastated by the passing of our the passing of our former player John
coach Gian Piero. My love and strength is
fitness coach Gian Piero Ventrone passed with his family at this time. His words and Duncan, who died on Saturday at the
wisdom will live on with me for the rest
away last Thursday morning, at the age of my life and I’m just grateful I had the age of 73.
opportunity to spend time with him.” Born in Dundee in February 1949, John
of 61.
Having joined the Club in November Captain Hugo Lloris added: “Even if grew up watching his local side Dundee as
we try to move on, we cannot forget. We a youngster and signed professionally for
2021, as part of Antonio Conte’s backroom cannot forget the man; we cannot forget them on leaving school. Over the course of
staff, Gian Piero previously held roles at the coach he was and the importance he the next eight years, he scored 109 goals
Juventus, Catania, JS Suning, GZ Ever- had in the changing room.” in 188 appearances – including finishing
grande and AC Ajaccio. as Scottish football’s top scorer when
He will be greatly missed by everyone netting 40 goals in 46 games in 1972/73.
As loveable off the pitch as he was at the Club and our thoughts are with his He also helped Dundee to League Cup
demanding on it, Gian Piero quickly became family and friends at this impossibly sad glory over Celtic in 1974 and remains their
a hugely popular figure with players and time. seventh top scorer of all time.
staff. Tributes poured in from across the
game following his passing, among them In October 1974, he left Scotland for
Harry Kane, who said: “A truly remarkable north London when he became Terry
Neill’s first signing as our manager and
his 12 goals that season effectively kept
us in the First Division, as he top scored
for us. John repeated that feat in 1975/76
and 1977/78 and his notable average of
a goal every other game while with us is
testament to his goalscoring prowess.

Following a move to Derby County in
September 1978, after scoring 62 goals
in 120 Spurs appearances, he joined
Scunthorpe United three years later and
quickly moved into management when he
became player/manager. His first taste
of success as a manager came with Ches-
terfield, who he led to the Fourth Division
championship in 1985 and, after a spell
in charge at Ipswich Town, he returned
to the Spireites in 1993. Two years later,
he guided the club to promotion from
Division Three via the play-offs and in
1997, led third-tier Chesterfield all the
way to the FA Cup semi-finals, only to lose
to Middlesbrough in a replay.

Having become involved with the
League Managers Association during his
time in club management, John became an
employee of the organisation in 2009 and
was LMA Technical Manager at the time
of his passing.

We should like to extend our deepest
condolences to his family and friends at
this sad time.

TONIGHT’S OFFICIALS

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)
Assistant referees: Diego Barbero, Guadalupe Porras Ayuso (both Spain)
Fourth Official: Guillermo Cuadra Fernández (Spain)
Video Assistant Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (Spain)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)

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04.10.22 | CHAMPIONS LEAGUE | DEUTSCHE BANK PARK | REFEREE: DANIELE ORSATO

EINTRACHT FRANKFURT (3-4-2-1): SPURS (3-4-3):
Trapp, Tuta, Hasebe, N’Dicka, Jakic, Lloris (c), Romero, Dier, Lenglet
Rode (c) (Pellegrini 71), Sow, Knauff, (Davies 78), Royal, Bentancur,
Kamada, Lindstrom (Ebimbe 87), Hojbjerg, Perisic (Sessegnon 71),
Kolo Muani (Borre 57). Richarlison (Bryan 79), Kane, Son.
Substitutes (not used): Forster,
Substitutes (not used): Grahl, Ramaj, Austin, Doherty, Spence, Sanchez,
Smolcic, Alidou, Alario, Chandler, Bissouma, Sarr, Skipp, White.
Lenz.

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…EURO WINS AGAINST GERMAN TEAMS

1 2

13.02.19 – Spurs 3 Borussia Dortmund 0 21.11.17 – Borussia Dortmund 1 Spurs 2

This was our last home win against a German side in European When we returned to the Champions League in 2016/17 after
competition as we gave ourselves a wonderful chance of a six-year absence, we endured a disappointing campaign
progressing through the Round of 16 with this impressive first- that saw us fail to get out of the group. So when we qualified
leg victory. It was also our final European game at our temporary for the competition again the following season, there was a
home of Wembley Stadium. We had emerged through Group B by real determination to improve. That happened straight away
the skin of our teeth after losing our first two games, but a Lucas on Matchday One, as we beat Dortmund 3-1 at Wembley and
Moura equaliser against Barcelona in the Nou Camp in our final backed that up with a 3-0 defeat of APOEL in Cyprus, a 1-1 draw
group game booked our place in the knockout stages. We’d faced at the Bernabeu against Real Madrid followed by a superb 3-1
Dortmund the previous season, winning home and away in Group home victory against the Spanish giants. When we travelled to
H, and repeated the feat with two more fine performances. All Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park for the fifth match of the group,
the groundwork was done in this first leg, although it wasn’t Mauricio Pochettino’s side knew that victory would cement top
until late on that we put daylight between ourselves and Lucien spot and that wasn’t an opportunity we were about to let slip.
Favre’s side. After a goalless first half, Heung-Min Son scored We did have to come from behind though as Pierre-Emerick
his obligatory goal against Dortmund before Jan Vertonghen Aubameyang gave the home side a 31st-minute lead but Harry
got on the end of Serge Aurier’s cross to make it 2-0 in the 83rd Kane levelled things up with a crisp finish early in the second half.
minute. Just three minutes later, Fernando Llorente headed It was left to Heung-Min Son to secure the points, firing into the
home our third just seconds after coming off the bench. It gave top corner with 14 minutes remaining to give us a 2-1 win. In the
us a healthy cushion to take to Germany for the return leg and Round of 16, we held Juventus to a 2-2 draw in Turin, but lost the
we finished the job with a Harry Kane winner to progress 4-0 Wembley return 2-1 and exited the competition.
on aggregate. We went all the way to the final that season of
course, before losing to Liverpool in Madrid. 13

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24.11.10 – Spurs 3 Werder Bremen 0 kusen in our third game of Group B in the UEFA Cup. Bulgarian
striker Dimitar Berbatov had left the German side to join us
For a team making their debut in the Champions League, we during the close season so there was almost an element of
didn’t half enjoy ourselves in the group stage of the competi- inevitability when we were drawn with Leverkusen in the group.
tion in 2010/11! In fact, our first-ever group game was against Having got past Slavia Prague in the play-off, Martin Jol’s side
German opposition in the form of Werder Bremen as we picked beat Besiktas and Club Brugge with Berbatov on target in both
up a valuable point in a 2-2 draw. After that, the goals just kept games before he made an emotional return to his former club,
flowing for us as we beat FC Twente 4-1, lost 3-4 in the San Siro where he’d spent five years and was a firm fans’ favourite. It
when Gareth Bale scored that hat-trick against Internazionale was Berbatov who forced Leverkusen goalkeeper Jorg Butt into
before he then destroyed the Italians in our 3-1 home win. By the first save of the game just after the half-hour mark and he
the time Werder Bremen arrived in N17, we were on the brink was then in the right place to tuck home the rebound after Butt
of qualification to the knockout stages, just needing a win from had kept out Aaron Lennon’s initial shot. At the other end, Paul
our final two games to progress. Harry Redknapp’s side had Robinson made two fine saves from Andrej Voronin to preserve
just beaten Arsenal at the Emirates thanks to a Younes Kaboul our lead and we held out for the win, which was enough to secure
winner and the French defender took just six minutes to find the a place in the next round. Having received a bye against Feye-
target again, side-footing home to give us the lead. In first-half noord, we then beat SC Braga 6-4 on aggregate before Sevilla
stoppage time, Peter Crouch headed Alan Hutton’s cross into knocked us out in the quarter-finals.
the path of Luka Modric and he made no mistake for 2-0. Bale
did miss a penalty but we were completely in control and added 5
a third late on when Crouch scored from Aaron Lennon’s cross.
In our final group game, we drew 3-3 at FC Twente to become the 07.12.83 – Bayern Munich 0 Spurs 2
first team to score at least twice in every Champions League
group game and edged past AC Milan in the Round of 16 before A year earlier, we were dumped out of the Cup Winners’ Cup by
losing to Real Madrid in the quarter-finals. Bayern Munich after suffering a hefty 4-1 defeat in Germany, so
when the two teams were paired together again in the 1983/84
4 UEFA Cup, revenge was very much in the air. We lost the away
leg again but this time it was the first game and it was only a 1-0
23.11.06 – Bayer Leverkusen 0 Spurs 1 reverse, Michael Rummenigge with the only goal of the game.
So we headed back to London confident of turning things
European football returned to White Hart Lane in the 2006/07 around and, with Glenn Hoddle in imperious form, did just that.
season after an eight-year absence and there was a return of As expected, we had to work hard for the win against an expe-
another kind when we headed to Germany to face Bayer Lever- rienced Bayern side but Keith Burkinshaw’s team had plenty of
battle-hardened players as well, who knew how to get through
THFC difficult cup games. We levelled the aggregate scores on 50
minutes when Hoddle floated over a free-kick, Graham Roberts
knocked the ball down and Steve Archibald prodded home from
close range. There were just four minutes left when the winning
goal came and Hoddle was again the architect, clipping a ball in
behind the Bayern defence for Mark Falco, whose angled drive
beat Jean-Marie Pfaff, hit the post and trickled over the line. Job
done – and we went all the way to the final that season, famously
beating Anderlecht on penalties to lift the trophy.

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‘WE WILLTHE BIG INTERVIEW
WORK TO
HONOUR HIM’

AFTER AN EMOTIONAL AND DIFFICULT WEEK FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF
GIAN PIERO VENTRONE, PIERRE-EMILE HOJBJERG PAYS TRIBUTE TO OUR LATE

FITNESS COACH AHEAD OF TONIGHT’S HUGE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CLASH.

BY LIAM CARSON

I t goes without saying that the past week has not been an It was during Gian Piero’s time in Turin that he first worked
easy one for anyone associated with our Men’s First Team. alongside the then-player Antonio Conte. Fast forward to 2007
On Thursday morning, we learned of the incredibly sad and Antonio, in his second managerial role, asked his former
news of Gian Piero Ventrone’s passing, a devastating shock trainer to join his coaching staff at Bari. After a successful 18
for players and staff alike. months at Bari, the pair then worked together at Atalanta and
Our Fitness Coach from November, 2021, having joined Siena. The duo then went their separate ways after that season
us as part of Antonio Conte’s coaching staff, Gian Piero made before they reunited 10 months ago as Antonio became our Head
an immeasurable impact both on and off the pitch during his 10 Coach last November.
months with us.
After our victory over Brighton on Saturday, our first fixture
A man of a military background, he was nicknamed ‘The following Gian Piero’s passing, Antonio paid his tribute to his
Marine’ for his intensive training methods as he pushed players friend.
beyond their limits to enhance their fitness levels – and it
delivered results. “For Gian Piero, the work was the most important thing in his
life. I think that in only 10 months here, he left a lot of positive
From first entering football in 1994 as he joined Marcelo situations,” he said. “I felt the feeling of the players in these last
Lippi at Juventus, his fitness regime helped the Old Lady to three days and in the Tottenham environment. The situation hit
win the Serie A title in his first season – Juve’s first in almost a everybody.
decade. Two more followed in the next three years, as well as the
Champions League crown in 1996. Then, after departing “It means that Gian Piero left something in our hearts. I have
alongside Lippi in 1999 before returning two years later, another known him for 30 years. I was before his player, then we worked
two Scudetti followed. The pair later worked together with Italy together and, in my experience with Tottenham, I wanted him
and coached their national team to World Cup glory in 2006. again to stay with me. For sure, it was an important choice for
me because I have seen the relationship that he created with the
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players, and with every single person in Tottenham. We will never THE BIG INTERVIEW
forget Gian Piero, he will live in my heart, in my head.”
incredible discipline and resilience plus an unswerving desire to
And it is true, as significant as his work was on the pitch for maintain our clean sheet, we prevailed on the south coast.
us, he also left his mark off the pitch. Around Hotspur Way, he
was an incredibly positive presence, never without a smile and That was our sixth win in our opening nine Premier League
always with time to chat. games as our promising start to the campaign continues.
Meanwhile, in the Champions League, it remains all to play for
The emotions of players and staff at the Amex Stadium on in the group stages as, with three games left, just three points
Saturday was telling of his impact on this group. separate us, Sporting, Marseille and tonight’s visitors Eintracht
Frankfurt.
“The week and the moment has been very emotional. It’s
devastating, it’s sad, it’s unfair – all the words you could use,” BHEGPAHBYVTIIINSOYVEHEC“DRNWREEWTOOOARYOFNOE’ULUYUDSTRWSITRRAINWKONUYIGBGLNUROFAILETAOOIERNSNO”NRWKDTG
Pierre said. “Gian Piero was a great man for everyone, and we
are immensely sad.

“When we did running drills, he would often say when
everyone would be very tired, maybe on the limit, he would say
‘now the work starts’ or actually, in his words, ‘work starts now’.
He would be right next to us while pushing us to the limit and
motivating us. That showed a lot, that your limit is further than
you first believe, than you first think and that is something the
team has taken on board.

“I would like to add that I am very proud to share a dressing
room with these players and men. I am just so proud, which
makes me even more eager to be successful.

“We will honour Gian Piero’s work by trying to give our best
every day and by continuing his work now and also for the future.
I think that is the best way to honour him. And also, to his family, I
send a lot of emotions and thoughts in this moment.”

In their post-match interviews following the victory over
Brighton on Saturday, many of the players dedicated the win
and performance to Gian Piero – and it certainly was a display
of which the Italian would have been proud.

After taking a deserved lead on 22 minutes through a Harry
Kane header, Brighton, who had been unbeaten at home since
our last visit there in March, came out all guns blazing as they
looked to build on their bright start to the season. However, with

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“WE ARE WHERE
WE WANT TO
BE, COMPETING
IN ALL THE
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WE ARE
INVOLVED”

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Everything feels to be moving in the right direction in N17, TO“MOPTWNOAHTTIEAIANNHTKWTETEISISHPLTIAITLHNTNHGRCGDEOEH”E
but Pierre knows just how quickly the landscape can change
in football. Therefore, for the Denmark international, we must was cheering with them. I think it was a joy to watch the way
stomach the ebbs and flows of this industry and focus solely on they approached the games in the Europa League – dynamic, on
our philosophy and our work. the front foot, attacking wise, fresh. I have a Danish team-mate
there as well and we spoke a bit about their run. Fair play to
“I think football is a world where directions are taken and them. They never hold back and that was something they were
changed a lot, but the ones, in my opinion, that have had the rewarded for last year.
biggest benefits or success with their way of doing things are
the ones who have stuck to their ideas and values and never “It will be a very difficult game tonight. We have our targets,
stopped developing them into brighter, sharper and more effec- and we have our approach. We will go on the pitch to take three
tive versions,” he explained. “For that you need a lot of hard work, points and that is the main thing.”
dedication and willingness to overcome every obstacle facing
you and always to look for the next win and opportunity to take. 21

“We are where we want to be, competing in all the competi-
tions we are involved. That is something we have to do, and that
is something we want to do. So far, so good. But we also know it
can go fast and things can slip out of your hands. So, the focus
is as high as always to be successful together.”

Pierre is hoping our good form can continue this evening
as we face a huge clash in our Champions League group stage
campaign with the visit of Eintracht Frankfurt.

Having spent five years in Germany with spells at three
different clubs, Eintracht are, naturally, a side he knows well,
and that is without mentioning that he played alongside their
captain Sebastian Rode at Bayern Munich while midfielder
Jesper Lindstrom is currently a team-mate of his on the inter-
national stage.

However, since Pierre’s spell in Germany, the fortunes
of Eintracht have changed quite significantly. From being a
newly-promoted Bundesliga side a decade ago to Europa
League winners and Champions League competitors now, Die
Adler are riding quite the wave in European football.

“It’s fantastic what they did last year,” Pierre said. “In terms
of creating the result in the Europa League, I feel that everyone

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MAKING THEIR DEBUT

MDAEKIBNGUTHTEISR Continuing our series for this
season as we examine the debuts
of Spurs players and, for our Euro
programmes, we’ll be profiling
those whose first appearance
in our colours came on the
European stage.

JON OBIKA

27.11.2008 Jon Obika’s Spurs debut might only have our substitutes’ bench for the first time
in his Spurs career. He wasn’t alone, with
UEFA CUP been a seven-minute appearance in a fellow Under-18s Mason, Smith and John
Bostock also on the bench.
NEC NIJMEGEN UEFA Cup tie but, having been with the
The game itself was a fairly even
SPURS club since he was 10, it still represented affair, decided by Jamie O’Hara’s goal in
the 14th minute. David Bentley brilliantly
DID YOU KNOW? a significant moment in the forward’s freed Gareth Bale down the right, his low
cross was poked onto the bar by Frazier
Nine players have made their Spurs career. Campbell but headed home on the rebound
debuts in the UEFA Cup, starting Born and bred locally in Enfield, Obika by O’Hara. We held out for the rest of the
with Graeme Souness in 1971 and game to secure an important win, with
including Jon Obika, featured here, worked his way right through our Academy Obika’s proud moment coming in the 83rd
right through to Dean Parrett, who system, impressing at every level along the minute, making his Spurs debut when he
was the last when starting against way and was in great form for our youth replaced Campbell up front.
Shakhtar Donetsk in February team, so his elevation to the first team at
2009. the age of 18 was reward for his hard work With his confidence boosted by his
and dedication. first team bow, Obika enjoyed a good
THFC couple of weeks. He netted a hat-trick
The striker top-scored with 14 goals at White Hart Lane when our Under-18s
for our Under-18s in 2007/08, hit double beat Sheffield United in the FA Youth
figures again in 2008/09 and was part of Cup, scored on his first appearance
an impressive Academy squad, including that term for our reserves in a 1-1 draw
the likes of Ryan Mason, Steven Caulker, at Fulham and then made his full Spurs
Jake Livermore, Danny Rose, Andros debut, starting our final UEFA Cup Group
Townsend, Adam Smith and Tom Carroll D match against Spartak Moscow, when a
– the first five all England internationals. 2-2 draw booked our place in the knockout
stages.
He certainly caught the eye of first
team manager Harry Redknapp, who He was still just a teenager though and
had taken over from Juande Ramos in competition for places among our forward
October 2008 and had to negotiate his positions was strong, so Obika headed off
first few months in charge with games in to Yeovil Town on loan, scoring four goals
the Premier League, UEFA Cup and Carling in 10 appearances. That was the first of
Cup. But the league was his priority after no fewer than seven loan spells while with
our poor start to the 2008/09 campaign. us as he struggled to break into our first
We were still only fifth from bottom in the team.
table, with Redknapp drafting in young-
sters for cup matches in an attempt to rest Obika did play twice more for us but
some of the more senior players. left permanently in the summer of 2014
for Swindon Town and has gone on to
With five-team groups in the UEFA make almost 400 senior appearances, also
Cup at the time and teams playing two featuring for Oxford United, St Mirren and
games at home and two away, we had Morecambe, who he played for against us
already lost away to Udinese and beaten in the FA Cup last season.
Dinamo Zagreb at White Hart Lane when
we faced a trip to the Netherlands to take
on NEC Nijmegen. Obika was part of our
travelling party and was then selected in
the matchday squad, taking his place on

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MAKING THEIR DEBUT

KEVIN-PRINCE BOATENG

04.10.2007 Arriving as a highly-rated 20-year-old the luxury of making changes for the return
game in Cyprus. It meant youngsters includ-
UEFA CUP when he joined us in the summer of 2007, ing Adel Taarabt, Leigh Mills and Simon
Dawkins were on the bench and it also saw
AFNAOMRATGHUOSSTIAS Kevin-Prince Boateng was another player a Spurs debut for Boateng, starting on the
right wing in place of Aaron Lennon.
to make his Spurs debut in European
The German youngster showed some
competition. good touches in the early moments, whip-
Having come through the youth ranks of ping over a cross that had the Anorthosis
defence scrambling to clear the danger for
hometown club Hertha Berlin, he had played a corner and seeing plenty of the ball as we
42 times in the Bundesliga, featured in the dominated early on.
UEFA Cup and been capped by Germany
at youth and Under-21 level by the time he By the time Boateng exited the game
came to north London. in the 69th minute, replaced by Gareth
Bale, we were trailing to a Fabinho goal but
Signed by Martin Jol, who described levelled it up when Robbie Keane scored
Boateng as ‘a very strong attacking with 12 minutes remaining and that’s how it
midfielder, regarded in Germany as one of finished as we progressed 7-2 on aggregate.
the biggest talents’, the player himself was
excited about the prospect of playing at In total, Boateng featured 21 times for us
Spurs. that season but never quite fully settled at
Spurs and, after three more appearances in
“Maybe I’m well-known in Germany but 2008/09, he joined Borussia Dortmund on
not many people will know me in England loan in the January and never featured for us
and that’s something I now want to change again. His career saw him on the move quite
with Spurs. It’s a great team, a young team frequently as he played for clubs including
and I’m sure I will fit in well here.” Portsmouth, Genoa, AC Milan, Schalke, Las
Palmas, Barcelona and Fiorentina, before
Boateng’s first opportunity to make a returning to first club Hertha in the summer
name for himself in England actually came of 2021.
in Cyprus! Having qualified for the 2007/08
UEFA Cup courtesy of our league position Boateng also spent time with tonight’s
the previous season, we faced Anorthosis visitors Eintracht Frankfurt, signing a
Famagusta in the first round, with the first three-year deal on 18 August 2017 but left
leg at White Hart Lane. for Sassuolo a year later.

It was a comfortable win as goals from
Jermain Defoe (2), Younes Kaboul, Michael
Dawson, Robbie Keane and Darren Bent
saw us to a 6-1 victory, which afforded Jol

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DID YOU KNOW? THFC

Kevin-Prince Boateng won the
German Cup with Eintracht Frank-
furt. He played the full 90 minutes
against Bayern Munich at the
Olympic Stadium in Berlin in May
2018, as goals from Ante Rebic
and Mijat Gacinovic gave Frankfurt
a 3-1 win.

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MAKING THEIR DEBUT

KEVIN WIMMER

17.09.2015 Austrian defender Kevin Wimmer was one for me and I’m very proud that we won the
game.
UEFA EUROPA of three debutants who wore our colours
LEAGUE “It was a very difficult game for us, our
for the first time in a competitive game opponents were a good team. We tried to
SPURS put pressure on Qarabag for 90 minutes
FKQARABAG when we kick-started our UEFA Europa but they weren’t afraid to play football, they
were confident and tried to do their best.
League campaign in 2015/16. But it was important for us to win.”
The former FC Cologne man joined
Having started his career in Austria
Kieran Trippier in a new-look defence with LASK, Wimmer moved to Cologne in
against Azerbaijani outfit FK Qarabag, June 2012 and helped them to promotion to
replacing Jan Vertonghen and Kyle Walker the Bundesliga in 2013/14 as they conceded
respectively as manager Mauricio Pochet- just 20 league goals. The following season,
tino shuffled his pack during a typically he was named one of the best defenders
busy spell of games early in the campaign. in German football as Cologne’s stingy
Clinton N’Jie came off the bench for his bow defence only shipped 40 goals despite
in the second half. finishing 12th in the table.

The match at White Hart Lane was At Spurs, Wimmer proved himself to be
our first in Group J of the UEFA Europa a composed centre-half, comfortable on
League and, with Monaco and Anderlecht the ball and strong in the tackle. During that
also in our group, we needed a strong start 2015/16 campaign, we were battling with
if we were to progress to the knockout Leicester City at the top of the Premier
stages. But we didn’t begin well and found League with Alderweireld and Vertonghen
ourselves trailing in the seventh minute our regular defensive partnership, but
when Trippier conceded a penalty and when the latter got injured in January,
Richard Almeida beat Hugo Lloris from 12 Wimmer stepped into the fray. The fact
yards. that our results never faltered and we only
conceded six times during his nine-game
We responded in style however and run just proved his credentials further.
it was Wimmer’s close friend Heung-Min
Son who got us back in the game, scoring Unfortunately though, Wimmer was
two goals in three minutes around the half competing with the Belgian pair and
hour mark to put us in front. The visitors Eric Dier for a place in our defence and,
had a few half chances to level but we when everyone was fit, he wasn’t getting
wrapped up the points four minutes from much game time. In August 2017, he left
time when Erik Lamela added our third, to us for Stoke City but had loan spells with
give Wimmer a winning start to his Spurs Hannover 96, Mouscron and Karlsruher
career. during his four years in the Potteries. He
joined Rapid Vienna in May 2021.
“It was my first game for Spurs, I enjoyed
it a lot and I’m pleased I got the chance to
play at home, at White Hart Lane,” he said
after the match. “It was a special feeling

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Three players made their Spurs
debuts against Qarabag – Wimmer,
Trippier and Clinton N’Jie – but
on two occasions we have given
debuts to four players in one Euro-
pean game. The first came against
Hearts in 2011, when Harry Kane
was one of the quartet, and 10 years
later, against Pacos de Ferreira,
with Bryan Gil and Pierluigi Gollini
among the debutants.

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Y WORD

TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT

“Whenever a chant started around the stadium,
I did become quite upset. Not out of offence for

“ the word being used, but the fact that it was
communicated to Spurs fans that this term is
offensive to Jewish people and yet they still
choose to sing it. I don't believe the whole
stadium is filled with antisemites, but by
actively choosing to sing this word even a er
being told it is offensive, could be seen as
antisemitic and disregarding the feelings
and opinions of Jewish people.

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EXPERT EYE

EXPERT
EYE

As we continue our UEFA Champions
League campaign with the return fixture
against Eintracht Frankfurt this evening,
European football expert ANDY BRASSELL,
a regular on the pages and podcasts of the
likes of The Guardian, Football Ramble and
talkSPORT, gives us his insight into last
season’s UEFA Europa League winners.

“You can look at Eintracht Frankfurt where they lost their top goalscorer, Andre Kostic, arguably their best player, a left
Silva (to RB Leipzig). wing-back converted from a winger, to
finishing 11th  in the Bundesliga last Juventus. It’s interesting as head coach
A club at that level can’t replace Oliver Glasner, who was previously at
season, but that’s not quite the right way someone like that, it’s not possible. Rafael Wolfsburg, is a very good organiser of
Santos Borre came in and scored in their run a defence, but sometimes the feeling is
to look at it. For instance, if you look at against Barcelona, West Ham and Rangers they’re not as attacking as they could be,
in the final, but he wasn’t prolific across the because he’s someone who does tend to
Sevilla under Unai Emery, they finished whole season. concentrate on team structure.

seventh, but won the Europa League and You would say that at the start of this He had an amazing first season in
season, Eintracht Frankfurt look stronger, 2021/22, it was an incredible achievement
qualified for the Champions League. on paper, than last season. They’ve brought to win the Europa League, and a big thing
He did the same at Villarreal as well, and in Mario Gotze (from PSV) and Lucas Alario for them is that there was interest in
(Bayer Leverkusen), a centre forward who goalkeeper Kevin Trapp this summer, but he
it’s about concentrating on one competition, knows how to score goals in Germany and decided to stay. He has a real attachment to
realising it’s going to be tough to make the in European competition. Frankfurt.”
top four. Bear in mind, last season, Eintracht
Frankfurt were unbeaten throughout their The problem for them is they lost Filip
whole Europa League campaign, playing
against some very good sides (including
Barcelona, West Ham in the semi-final and
Rangers in the final) and that’s in a season

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last week’s home game with Spurs, which 2018-19 54 7 15 9 10 60 48 Rangers on his way to winning the Europa
ended in a 0-0 draw, leaving both teams 2019-20* 45 9 13 6 15 59 60 League last season. Also coached at SV
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N’DICKA KNAUFF CHANDLER

D.O.B: 20.08.99 D.O.B: 28.04.96 D.O.B: 29.03.90
NATIONALITY: FRENCH NATIONALITY: MALIAN NATIONALITY: GERMAN

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LUCA TUTA MAKOTO
PELLEGRINI HASEBE
D.O.B: 04.07.99
D.O.B: 07.03.99 NATIONALITY: BRAZILIAN D.O.B: 18.01.84
NATIONALITY: ITALIAN NATIONALITY: JAPANESE

MF 8 MF 6 MF 11

DJIBRIL KRISTIJAN FARIDE
SOW JAKIC ALIDOU

D.O.B: 06.02.97 D.O.B: 14.05.97 D.O.B: 18.07.01
NATIONALITY: SWISS NATIONALITY: CROATIAN NATIONALITY: GERMAN

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S
3 SAVES SHO SHO CL 3 GOALS PASS %
AP AP AP 3
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NATIONALITY: GERMAN NATIONALITY: DANISH NATIONALITY: JAPANESE

The penalty shootout hero of Frankfurt’s Scorer of Frankfurt’s winner in their second The 26-year-old Japanese international
Europa League final triumph last season, Champions League outing, the Dane joined has been in fine form this term, hitting
Trapp is in his second spell with the club, the club from Brondby in 2021. He made his four goals in his first six appearances in
sandwiching a stint at PSG. Has six senior full international debut the previous year all competitions, as well as providing two
caps for his country. and now has six caps and one goal to his assists. Has played more than a century of
name. games for the club.

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League final shootout against Rangers. club went unbeaten in last season League this season

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AROUND THE CLUB

HOTSPUR HISTORY

Each issue, we’ll be delving into our club archives to look at just some of the
objects and items which helped shape our history off the pitch and pick out
a couple of past programmes…

FROM older style of pottery, a dominant type of Finally, although not pictured, there is the
THE German stoneware, traded since the 1650s. more recent gift from FC Basel. Received in
VAULT Although not easy to see from photos, the 2013, this gift of a carnival clown-like charac-
‘Eintracht Frankfurt’ lettering is both carved ter is a clear reference to the annual Basel
As readers of this feature will know by now, in and painted on to the body of the jug, Carnival, Basler Fasnacht. This carnival is so
while the eagle is just painted. This eagle important to the cultural heritage of Basel
a large percentage of objects in our collec- logo comes from the coat of arms for the that, as of 2017, it has been included in the
city of Frankfurt itself and is known as the UNESCO list. Thought to have first taken
tion are gifts. Often these gifts will reflect one-headed imperial eagle which dates place in 1520, it runs for exactly 72 hours and
to the 13th century, back when Frankfurt 500 years later, thousands and thousands
an aspect of tradition, or culture for the gift was a part of the Holy Roman Empire. This of people continue to take part in it year
historical symbolism is even earlier than after year and even more visit to see the
givers. For instance, many Scandinavian our own Sir Henry Percy, original owner of spectacle. FC Basel are clearly proud of their
the Hotspur (nick)name and the person the city’s history hence the carnival reference in
teams will present a Viking ship, however in schoolboys chose to name our club after. the gift.

this article we look at the history of places Also in our collection, from an earlier From these examples we can see the
European competition match is a beautiful, ways in which football clubs draw on not
clubs have drawn on when giving gifts in mounted carrack from Benfica in 1962. Orig- just their own histories, but the histories of
inally our archive entry for this object called places, in order to form identity.
the past. it a galleon, but given its Portuguese origin, it
Today we are looking at a gift from Eintra- is more likely to be a carrack or carraca. This
gift was received by the club 20 years before
cht Frankfurt, from the last and only time we the stoneware jug from Frankfurt.
faced them in European competition back in
1982. Luckily the jug has a year written on the The ship depicted here is a reference
back making it simple to date. This blue and to the Portuguese maritime exploration
white item is a piece of traditional pottery of the 15th and 16th centuries. We can tell
from Frankfurt; they sell small cup versions this by the crosses on the sails, the red and
of it in their Club shop. white Order of Christ cross. The order was
originally founded in 1319 and the cross
The pottery style is called Westerwälder later used by Prince Henry the Navigator.
Steinzeug, or West Forest stoneware in This cross came to be associated with the
English, and is a modern example of a much Portuguese discoveries and the Portuguese
Empire. As this gift was given in the 1960s,
the Portuguese club were aiming to show
their country’s historic strength through
reference to their empire.

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AROUND THE CLUB

TAKING
ISSUE

A quick glance through
a couple of previous

matchday programmes
against teams from
Germany…

1974 for Kicker magazine wrote an article on page November. We opened up Group A with a 2-2
10 discussing the upcoming 1974 World Cup draw in Bremen.
FC Cologne in West Germany. In it, he talked about how
the host nation were the favourites for the A stylish A4-size, 100-page programme
It wasn’t until 1974 that we first met a competition, largely due to the fact that was produced for each of our Champions
German football legislators had scrapped League home games, costing £5 and this
German side in a senior competitive fixture, regional football 11 years ago in favour of a issue against Werder Bremen opened up
national league – the Bundesliga – which had with manager Harry Redknapp speaking in
with FC Cologne our opponents in the UEFA seen standards improve enormously and glowing terms about our recent 3-2 come-
attendance at matches rise dramatically. from-behind win over Arsenal at the Emirates
Cup quarter-finals. in the Premier League. “We came back strong,
We produced a 16-page programme for A match report and more photos from made a game of it and showed real character
our first leg in Cologne followed on pages to go on and take all the points away,” said the
the second leg home fixture on 20 March that 11-13, along with news of our forthcoming FA boss in his column.
year, priced five pence and mostly a black and Youth Cup semi-final with Arsenal, while two
white publication, with blue spot colour on the leagues tables on p15 showed that we were Elsewhere, our former German midfielder
front cover. seven places off the bottom of Division One Steffen Freund spoke about Werder Bremen’s
with FC Cologne sat in fifth in their top flight. struggles in the Bundesliga at that time,
Page two featured a couple of images having just lost to Stuttgart (6-0) and Schalke
from the first leg in Cologne, but not from the Despite the difference in league position, (4-0), but warned against complacency. The
match itself. Instead, one showed a group of we completed the job on the night at White visitors’ pen pics included the likes of Mikael
players and trainer Johnny Wallis posing for Hart Lane, winning 3-0 with goals from Peters, Silvestre, Marko Marin, Per Mertesacker and
the camera on the banks of the River Rhine Ralph Coates and Martin Chivers. We reached Marko Arnautovic.
and the second was of Martin Peters and the UEFA Cup final that season, but lost 4-2 to
Terry Naylor playing cards on the flight home! Feyenoord over two legs. ‘National Service’ featured five Spurs
The pair had combined for our winning goal in players who starred for the countries against
the 2-1 success in Germany. 2010 Germany on international duty, with Martin
Peters, Gary Mabbutt and Jermain Defoe
Match action did appear on page four as Werder Bremen among them, while the main interview was
the photographers at Carleton Photographic, with Peter Crouch who has scored 16 Cham-
based in Cheshunt, captured images of both Our final home game in Group A of the pions League goals by the time this fixture
of our goals against Cologne, scored by Chris came around, five for us and 11 for Liverpool.
McGrath and Peters. A welcome in German 2010/11 UEFA Champions League saw us
and English featured on page three and ran “You’re playing against the best teams in
onto page five. entertain Werder Bremen, with a place in the world and against top quality defenders,
so I’m very proud of my record in the Champi-
‘The Men of Cologne’ were profiled on the knockout stages up for grabs if we won. ons League,” he revealed.
pages six and seven and among their players This was, of course, our first foray into the
were Wolfgang Weber and Wolfgang Overath, In a piece entitled ‘German Connections’,
who both featured for West Germany in the Champions League and we’d already beaten our late Club Historian Andy Porter told us
1966 World Cup final against England. FC Twente and holders Internazionale here in that Canadian international Paul Stalteri was
N17 by the time the German side visited on 24 the only player to have featured for us and
Arthur Rotmil, the London correspondent Werder Bremen while John Fennelly broke
down our run to the 1974 UEFA Cup Final in
detail across a six-page feature.

The programme concluded with Phil Beal
reminiscing about our visit to East Germany
back in 1974, when we faced Lokomotiv
Leipzig in the UEFA Cup semi-final, first leg
and emerged with a 2-1 victory.

We beat Werder Bremen in some style on
the night, Crouch among our goalscorers in
the 3-0 win.

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SPURS WOMEN WOMEN

SPURS

READING ROCKED
IN CONTI CUP
OPENER

We opened our Continental League DELIGHT FOR NIKOLA KARCZEWSKA AFTER
SCORING OUR SECOND AT READING RECENTLY
Cup campaign with a 2-1 win away to
Reading (3-4-3): Burns, Bryson (Wellings last week and that’s the most important
Reading at the Select Car Leasing 74), Caldwell, Evans, Eikeland, Dowie, thing.”
Wade (Harries 55), Cooper, Rowe (c),
Stadium last Sunday afternoon. Woodham, Primmer. Substitutes (not Rehanne also revealed the players who
Looking for a positive response used): Moloney, Poulter, Meadows, Tuson, didn’t go away for international duty were
Troelsgaard. training and preparing for this weekend’s
following defeat in the north London WSL clash with Liverpool as usual.
derby at the Emirates the previous Spurs (4-2-3-1): Spencer, Turner (Simon
weekend, goals from Ashleigh Neville 59 (Brazil 90)), Bartrip, Zadorksy (c), “We’re going to keep working as we
and Nikola Karczewska – her first for the Ale, James (Spence 59), Summanen, Cho, normally do. We obviously want to reflect
club on her full debut – saw us into a 2-0 Neville, Bizet, Karczewska. Substitutes on the Reading game and make sure we
lead before Natasha Dowie scored a late (not used): Korpela, Pearse. take the positives and things we want
penalty in stoppage time. to work on, and then we’ll put them into
PRESSING GAME practice. 
We opened the scoring in the seventh
minute when Eveliina Summanen showed PLEASES REHANNE “We’re looking forward to playing our
intelligent, quick thinking, wasting no first game at Leyton Orient and that’s
time with a free-kick into the path of Head coach Rehanne Skinner was somewhere we want to make our fortress
Neville, who cut in from the right wing moving forward. We’ll be planning for the
onto her left foot and picked out the far delighted with her side’s desire to next game as much as we do for every
corner. game.”
win the ball back during the 2-1 win at
Lauren Wade’s foray forward and DERBY DEFEAT IN
shot on goal was parried away well by Reading.
Becky Spencer in the 18th minute, but “I’m delighted that we won the game FRONT OF RECORD
we didn’t look like we were coming under
too much danger and, with half an hour and that’s the most important thing,” CROWD
played, Spencer began the move for a she said. “The pressing intent was much
lovely second goal. Accurately picking out better than last week. All week the Our first defeat of the season came
Neville with a long, aerial pass forward training sessions in preparation for this
down the right wing, the full-back found game have been so much better, so I’m at the hands of neighbours Arsenal
So-hyun Cho inside the 18-yard box. really pleased we transferred that into
She showed good trickery to sit down the game. when we went down 4-0 to the Gunners
a couple of Reading defenders with her
footwork and could have scored herself, “Collectively, as a team, we found in front of a record WSL crowd at the
but her shot fell nicely into the path of ways to penetrate their backline quite
Karczewska, who tapped the ball across frequently. Cho made some fantastic Emirates on 24 September.
the line. runs in the first half that actually opened After we’d set the record attendance
up the game a lot for us and we can be a
The home side looked for a way back little bit sharper on the drop downs for figure of 38,262 for our home north
into it and Amalie Eikeland volleyed things to be able to capitalise on more of London derby in league action in
onto the bar and over with half-time those, but it’s a huge step forward from November 2019, Arsenal bettered that
approaching, before we went close again as 47,367 turned up in N5 to show the
when Celine Bizet curled wide early in the burgeoning interest in women’s football
second half. in the UK.

With full-time approaching, substitute
Kyah Simon went down injured and had to
be stretchered off the pitch, Ellie Brazil
coming on to replace her as 11 minutes of
added time were signalled.

Bizet then put Cho through on goal
in the game’s dying embers, but her low
left-footed strike was cleared off the
line. Instead, it was Reading with the final
word as they were awarded a late penalty
in stoppage time, which Dowie converted
into the bottom right corner.

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FIXTURES & RESULTS

DATE H/A OPPOSITION RES CELEBRATIONS AFTER ASHLEIGH NEVILLE’S STUNNING
SEPTEMBER STRIKE OPENED THE SCORING AT LEICESTER CITY
SUN 18 A LEICESTER CITY 2-1
SAT 24 A ARSENAL 0-4 Unfortunately, it was a disappointing reduced the arrears courtesy of a Spence
OCTOBER afternoon for us on the pitch as we were own goal early in the second half, but we
SUN 2 A READING (CLC) 2-1 unable to build on our opening day WSL did enough to hold on for the win.
SUN 16 H LIVERPOOL 2PM victory over Leicester City and slipped to
SAT 22 H MANCHESTER CITY 11.30AM a heavy defeat. Besides Spence, head coach Rehanne
SUN 30 A BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION 2PM Skinner handed Spurs debuts to summer
NOVEMBER Beth Mead fired Arsenal in front after signings Amy Turner and Angharad James,
SUN 6 H EVERTON 2PM just five minutes and, although the home while Ellie Brazil came on early in the first
SUN 20 A CHELSEA 2PM side dominated possession, Celine Bizet half to replace the injured Rosella Ayane.
SUN 27 H COVENTRY UTD (CLC) had our first real sight of goal in the 38th
DECEMBER 2PM minute with a left-footed effort from After a fairly quiet first half, we went
SUN 4 A READING 2PM long range that was too soft to trouble ahead 10 minutes before the break.
SUN 11 H WEST HAM UNITED Manuela Zinsberger. Neville was given the ball by Asmita Ale
SUN 18 A SOUTHAMPTON (CLC) 2PM and went for goal from more than 35
JANUARY 2PM Arsenal increased their lead on yards out, impressively finding the back
SAT 14 A ASTON VILLA the brink of half-time when Vivianne of the net and catching Kirstie Levell off
SUN 22 H LEICESTER CITY 2PM Miedema burst through on goal, one-on- guard. We had a good chance to double
FEBRUARY one with Becky Spencer before tucking our lead when Eveliina Summanen put
SUN 5 H CHELSEA 2PM the ball into the bottom left corner. Jessica Naz through on goal, but her shot
MARCH 2PM Rafaelle Souza made it 3-0 early in the was dealt with well by Levell.
SUN 5 A MANCHESTER CITY 2PM second half, heading into the top right
SUN 12 A LIVERPOOL from a Mead corner before a left-wing Spence crossed and caused chaos in
SUN 26 H ARSENAL 1PM cross was headed in by Miedema for 4-0 the six-yard box on the brink of half-time,
APRIL 2PM in the 67th minute. but there was nothing the hosts could do
SUN 2 A EVERTON 2PM about her effort from long range in the
SUN 23 H ASTON VILLA Arsenal (4-3-3): Zinsberger, Wienroither, first minute of stoppage time, which was
SUN 30 H BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION 12PM Williamson, Souza (Wubben-Moy 85), struck beautifully into the bottom left
MAY 2PM Catley, Walti, Miedema (Nobbs 69), Little corner to send us into the break 2-0 up.
SUN 7 A MANCHESTER UNITED 2PM (C) (Maanum 85), Mead (Hurtig 73), Foord
SUN 21 H READING (Blackstenius 69), McCabe. Early in the second half, the hosts
SUN 28 A WEST HAM UNITED – Substitutes (not used): Marckese, pulled one back when a corner kick
TO BE CONFIRMED Beattie, Maritz, Iwabuchi. caused trouble and led to a Spence block
wrong footing Becky Spencer. Leicester
– H MANCHESTER UNITED Spurs (4-2-3-1): Spencer, Turner, Bartrip, came close to an equaliser with just under
Zadorsky (C), Neville, Summanen, Cho 10 minutes to go, but Jemma Purfield’s
HOME FIXTURES PLAYED AT BRISBANE ROAD (James 63), Bizet, Spence (Petzelberger free-kick was headed straight at Spencer
UNLESS STATED 63), Naz (Ale 73), Simon (Karczewska 63). by Missy Goodwin.
* PLAYED AT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM Substitutes (not used): Korpela, Pearse.
(CLC) – CONTINENTAL LEAGUE CUP Leicester City (5-3-2): Levell, Tierney,
Long-range strikes from Ashleigh Flint (Bott 67), Pike (O’Brien 60),
WSL Whelan (c), Simon, Green, Howard,
Neville and Drew Spence secured a 2-1 Jones (Goodwin 80), Plumptre, Purfield.
P W D L F A D PTS Substitutes (not used): Poor, Vance,
win at the King Power Stadium, as we Jones, Baker, Scofield.
ARSENAL 2 2 0 0 8 0 +8 6
began the 2022/23 WSL campaign with Spurs (3-4-3): Spencer, Zadorsky (c),
MANCHESTER UNITED 2 2 0 0 6 0 +6 6 Turner, Bartrip, Naz (Simon 61), Ale,
all three points against Leicester City. James, Ayane (Brazil 16), Spence,
ASTON VILLA 2 2 0 0 6 3 +3 6 Neville opened the scoring from Summanen (Bizet 83), Neville.
Substitutes (not used): Korpela, Cho,
CHELSEA 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6 distance in the 36th minute with a Karczewska, Petzelberger, Pearse.
screamer into the top left corner, before
EVERTON 3 2 0 1 4 1 +3 6 debutant Spence treated us to a similar
goal into the bottom left. Leicester
LIVERPOOL 2 1 0 1 2 4 -2 3

BRIGHTON & HOVE A 2 1 0 1 2 5 -3 3

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 1 0 1 2 5 -3 3

WEST HAM UNITED 3 1 0 2 2 5 -3 3

MANCHESTER CITY 2 0 0 2 3 6 -3 0

LEICESTER CITY 3 0 0 3 1 5 -4 0

READING 2 0 0 2 1 6 -5 0

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FRANKFURT FIXTURES

Looking back at our previous matches against tonight’s opponents.
By Jon Rayner

OUR 1910-11 SQUAD, MANY OF WHOM TRAVELLED
TO GERMANY AT THE END OF THE SEASON

BREAKING NEW GROUND all our matches on this tour, this game was delivered a consistent performance that
one of the biggest of the 1910/11 season for we didn’t expect. Everything just seemed
Our first-ever game in the city of Frank- our hosts. to work out with these Englishmen. It was
a splendour, they change their positions in
furt came way back in 1911, when we While we know our team line-up from a flash and their half-high and flat passes
the contest, unfortunately we’re not aware were precisely calculated and unfailingly
played a team that were the forerunners of the goalscorers in our 6-0 win, apart safe. In addition, a brilliant head game and
from the fact that a Dr Friedrich Claus those tricks that the professionals have
to the current Eintracht Frankfurt side. scored two own goals for the home side! repeatedly shown us, irritating the oppo-
In fact, the friendly came just 12 days But a report from the Frankfurt FC Kick- nent and covering the ball with the body.
ers-Victoria newspaper dated 1 June 1911,
after two teams based in the city – FFC gave an indication of our performance and Contrary to the custom of German
Victoria and FVF Kickers – had merged how dominant we were against our amateur teams, England’s forward line is constantly
to become Frankfurt Football Club Kick- opponents: on the move, no matter where the ball is.
ers-Victoria and so we became Kickers-Vic- Not only does the player who has the ball
toria’s first overseas opponents when we “Now the event of the season is over play, but everyone else. You hardly ever
met on 25 May, 1911. and we can say that we are satisfied with saw stepping on the ball aimlessly. The ball
the result. The English, who were in all the was always stopped before it landed safely
The game was the sixth and final fixture papers before the game, brought their full at the feet of another player, who in turn
of our 1911 tour to Germany, the first time league team with them. When the season played with the same caution.
we had ever visited the country. We had won starts again in England in the autumn you
the previous five matches, beating a North can read the names again and see that the The three Hotspur centre-forwards were
German Combined XI 4-1 in Hamburg before English didn’t send us their reserve team. excellent, the wingers were also good, but
moving on to Berlin, where we defeated did not show individual performances as
Preussen (7-0) and Hertha FC (4-1). Next No one who knows anything about the spectators had probably expected of
stop was Leipzig for an 8-1 win over Wacker football doubted that the English would be them. One mustn’t overlook the fact that
FC and then Brunswick, where we beat local vastly superior to our team, although some the wingers had to play directly in front
side Eintracht 4-1. spectators who are not regulars took the of the crowd and the ball wasn’t as easy to
defeat very tragically. Still, the Hotspurs
Our final stop saw us visit Frankfurt to
take on the newly-formed Kickers-Victoria
in what was only the fourth match in the
club’s fledgling history. As was the case for

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control there as it was in the middle.
The game gave great satisfaction to the

members and spectators, and the Hotspurs
fully lived up to their expectations.”

The two teams lined up as follows:
Kickers-Victoria FC: Charbout-Mollard,
Claus, Baumgartner, Schweickert, Jockel,
van t’Oever, ter Horst, Dornbusch, Becker,
Pickel, Kirchgarth.

Spurs: Joyce, Collins, Wilkes, Steel
D, Kennedy, Darnell, Curtis, Minter,
Humphreys, Steel R, Middlemiss.

WILLIE YOUNG...ON TARGET
AGAINST FRANKFURT IN 1976

THE GERMAN CLUB’S NEWSPAPER days later, we were in Canada, Ralph Jurgen Grabowski sent Pat Jennings the
PREVIEWS OUR 1976 FRIENDLY Coates scoring the only goal of the game wrong way from the penalty spot.
as we defeated Toronto Metros-Croatia.
NOT-SO FRIENDLY FIRE! We more than matched our hosts for
That was the start of a mammoth 27-day an hour before three goals in an 11-minute
Our second visit to Frankfurt in July tour of Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and spell saw the game slip away. Bernd Nickel
1976 saw us take on tonight’s opponents Australia in which we played nine matches, took advantage of a defensive error to
in their current guise for the first time, winning all of them, and we didn’t return fire home from 12 yards on 63 minutes,
having taken the name of ‘TuS Eintracht back in England until 25 May, a month after while Grabowski scored his second four
Frankfurt 1861’ in 1920. the season had officially ended. minutes later after Willie Young’s clearance
fell to him on the edge of the area. Willi
From our perspective, the close season There wasn’t much of a break for the Neuberger drilled home to make it 4-0
between the end of the 1975/76 campaign players though, as no sooner were we back before we finally got on the scoresheet
and the start of the next season was in pre-season training ahead of the 1976/77 with eight minutes remaining, Young head-
incredibly busy. We were beaten 3-0 at campaign, than we were off on tour again, ing past Peter Kunter.
home by Newcastle United in our last this time to Germany!
match of 1975/76 on 24 April and three Eintracht Frankfurt: Koitka (Kunter 57),
First up was a 3-1 win against VfL Reichel (Trinklein 57), Neuberger, Korbel,
A TICKET FROM OUR Osnabruck on 24 July before we faced Beverungen, Muller, Kraus (Weidle 73),
PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY Eintracht Frankfurt four days later, who Nickel, Wenzel (Borchers 73), Grabowski,
WITH EINTRACHT IN 1976 themselves were in pre-season and had Bihn (Stradt 46).
drawn 0-0 against St Etienne in their
previous friendly. Spurs: Jennings, Naylor, McAllister,
Pratt, Young, Osgood, Coates, Perryman,
Not that it sounded like we approached Armstrong (Conn 63), Jones, Neighbour.
our game with Eintracht as a friendly, with
one local newspaper report describing us We played three more games in
as ‘the hotheads from London’ and ‘the Germany – against FC Cologne (1-3), KSV
boisterous Brits’. We did pick up three Baunatal (2-1) and FV Bad Honnef (2-0) –
yellow cards, so perhaps they had a point! making it a total of 14 friendly matches that
close season!
The game was played in front of around
7,000 spectators and the home side went
ahead in the 18th minute when Don McAllis-
ter fouled Wolfgang Kraus in the area and

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THE EINTRACHT PLAYER PROFILES
FROM OUR 1982 MATCH PROGRAMME

1982 MATCH PROGRAMME

A COMPETITIVE CLASH Neuberger, Lorant, Kunast (Gulich 77), make it 2-2 on aggregate and we were
Falkenmayer, Nachtweih (Lottermann 85), definitely wobbling in the face of some
Prior to this season, our only competitive Nickel, Cha. stern pressure from the home side. But
there was bags of experience in our team
encounter with Eintracht Frankfurt The second leg in Frankfurt took place and we regrouped, rode out the storm and
two weeks later, by which time we’d missed hit our hosts with the perfect sucker-punch
came during our 1981/82 European Cup out on our first chance of silverware when with only 10 minutes remaining. Substitute
we lost against Liverpool at Wembley. Ricky Villa attacked down the left flank and
Winners’ Cup run, when we met in the played a ball inside which Chris Hughton
And our European adventure looked like picked up, laid into the path of Glenn
third round. it was about to unravel as well when Eintra- Hoddle and he drilled low into the bottom
The Germans were a formidable cht wiped out our two-goal lead inside 15 corner to win us the tie. Unfortunately we
minutes at the Waldstadion. There were went out in the semi-finals to Barcelona.
side at the time, having won the UEFA only two minutes on the clock when Ardiles
Cup in 1980 with an away goals victory was dispossessed by Nachtweih, who Frankfurt: Pahl, Sziedat, Neuberger,
against fellow Bundesliga outfit Borussia released Ronald Borchers to slide home Pezzey, Lottermann (Kunast 81), Falk-
Monchengladbach. They took their place the opening goal. enmayer, Lorant, Borchers, Nachtweih,
in the Cup Winners’ Cup after defeating Nickel, Cha.
Kaiserslautern in the 1981 German Cup Then South Korean striker Bum-Kun
while we, of course, beat Manchester City Cha beat Clemence from 15 yards out to
in a Wembley replay.

The first leg took place at White Hart
Lane at a stage in the season where we
were flying. Seventh in Division One, Keith
Burkinshaw’s side had also reached the
sixth round of the FA Cup and were gearing
up for a League Cup Final against Liverpool
when Frankfurt arrived in N17 on 3 March.

But we made heavy going of the
game on the night and needed a goal
from centre-half Paul Miller to break the
deadlock on the hour mark. Micky Hazard
fed Ossie Ardiles, his shot was blocked but
Miller was there to rifle home the rebound
from 20 yards.

We then added a crucial second with
seven minutes left, Hazard jinking past two
defenders before firing home, although it
needed a vital save from Ray Clemence to
deny Norbert Nachtweih what would have
been a key away goal for the visitors.

Spurs: Clemence, Hughton, Miller, Price, RICKY VILLA AVOIDS A TACKLE DURING OUR
Hazard, Perryman, Ardiles, Galvin, Archi- CLASH WITH EINTRACHT FRANKFURT IN 1982
bald, Hoddle, Crooks (Falco 60).

Frankfurt: Juriens, Sziedat, Pezzey, Korbel,

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GLENN HODDLE’S GOAL AGAINST EINTRACHT Spurs: Clemence, Hughton, Miller, Price,
FRANKFURT PROVED CRUCIAL IN 1982 Hazard, Perryman, Ardiles (Roberts 28),
Galvin, Archibald, Hoddle, Falco (Villa 69).

CONTINUING THE SEQUENCE

Our pairing with Eintracht Frankfurt in

this season’s competition continues our

run of having faced German sides in every

one of our six UEFA Champions League

campaigns so far.
Back in 2010/11, we were drawn alongside

Werder Bremen in Group A and, on our return
to the competition in 2016/17, Bayer Lever-
kusen were among our Group E opponents.

The following two seasons saw us face
Borussia Dortmund – in Group H in 2017/18
and then the Round of 16 in 2018/19 – before
we came up against two German sides in
2019/20. First up was Bayern Munich in
Group B and then RB Leipzig in the Round
of 16.

Our Champions League record against
German teams has seen us win five, lose five
and draw three times.

Meanwhile, the only player to have
turned out for both of tonight’s teams is
Kevin-Prince Boateng, who is featured in our
Making Their Debuts article on p24 of this
evening’s programme.

EURO ENCOUNTERS v GERMAN CLUBS

06.03.74 1FC COLOGNE COLOGNE WON 2-1 UEFA CUP
20.03.74 1FC COLOGNE TOTTENHAM WON 3-0 UEFA CUP
10.04.74 LOKOMOTIVE LEIPZIG LEIPZIG WON 2-1 UEFA CUP
24.04.74 LOKOMOTIVE LEIPZIG TOTTENHAM WON 2-0 UEFA CUP
03.03.82 EINTRACHT FRANKFURT TOTTENHAM WON 2-0 CUP WINNERS CUP
17.03.82 EINTRACHT FRANKFURT FRANKFURT LOST 1-2 CUP WINNERS CUP
20.10.82 BAYERN MUNICH TOTTENHAM DREW 1-1 CUP WINNERS CUP
03.11.82 BAYERN MUNICH MUNICH LOST 1-4 CUP WINNERS CUP
23.11.83 BAYERN MUNICH MUNICH LOST 0-1 UEFA CUP
07.12.83 BAYERN MUNICH TOTTENHAM WON 2-0 UEFA CUP
28.10.99 1FC KAISERSLAUTERN TOTTENHAM WON 1-0 UEFA CUP
04.11.99 1FC KAISERSLAUTERN KAISERSLAUTERN LOST 0-2 UEFA CUP
23.11.06 BAYER 04 LEVERKUSEN LEVERKUSEN WON 1-0 UEFA CUP
14.09.10 SV WERDER BREMEN BREMEN DREW 2-2 CHAMPIONS LGE
24.11.10 SV WERDER BREMEN TOTTENHAM WON 3-0 CHAMPIONS LGE
10.03.16 BORUSSIA DORTMUND DORTMUND LOST 0-3 EUROPA LEAGUE
17.03.16 BORUSSIA DORTMUND TOTTENHAM LOST 1-2 EUROPA LEAGUE
18.10.16 BAYER 04 LEVERKUSEN LEVERKUSEN DREW 0-0 CHAMPIONS LGE
02.11.16 BAYER 04 LEVERKUSEN WEMBLEY LOST 0-1 CHAMPIONS LGE
13.09.17 BORUSSIA DORTMUND WEMBLEY WON 3-1 CHAMPIONS LGE
21.11.17 BORUSSIA DORTMUND DORTMUND WON 2-1 CHAMPIONS LGE
13.02.19 BORUSSIA DORTMUND WEMBLEY WON 3-0 CHAMPIONS LGE
06.03.19 BORUSSIA DORTMUND DORTMUND WON 1-0 CHAMPIONS LGE
01.10.19 BAYERN MUNICH TOTTENHAM LOST 2-7 CHAMPIONS LGE
11.12.19 BAYERN MUNICH MUNICH LOST 1-3 CHAMPIONS LGE
19.02.20 RB LEIPZIG TOTTENHAM LOST 0-1 CHAMPIONS LGE
10.03.20 RB LEIPZIG LEIPZIG LOST 0-3 CHAMPIONS LGE
04.10.22 EINTRACHT FRANKFURT FRANKFURT DREW 0-0 CHAMPIONS LGE

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We are excited to announce a new workshops in Spain, while hosting quarterly Malaga City, commented: “To be able to
visits to our state-of-the-art training facility partner with such an illustrious Premier
innovative Global Football Development for selected FC Malaga City coaching League club such as Tottenham Hotspur is
staff so they can experience first-hand our a dream come true for the Academy. Having
partnership with FC Malaga City. coaching philosophy in operation. access to Tottenham Hotspur coaches to
Established in 2013, FC Malaga City support our own coach development will
In addition, the Club will host two football provide a huge opportunity to not only
has quickly become widely regarded as development residential visits for FC improve our player performance, but also
one of the world’s best residential football Malaga City players, providing high intensity continue the growth of FC Malaga City. We
academies. Represented by players training sessions, matches against selected are looking forward to bringing our youth
from over 35 different countries and six Academy opposition and the opportunity to players and coaches across to London to
continents, the academy houses some of hear from guest speakers across the Club. visit the world-class facilities and create
the top unsigned talents outside of the some memorable experiences.”
professional game. Andy Rogers, our Head of Global
Coaching, said: “We are incredibly excited to To find out more about our Global Football
The initial 12-month partnership will see announce the partnership with FC Malaga
the Club’s Global Football Development City. Having seen first-hand the great work Development programmes, please scan
team work alongside FC Malaga City that the Academy is doing in Spain, we are
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methods taken directly from our Academy and play a part in the development of their
to maximise the potential of aspiring young players and coaches over the next 12 months.”
players.
George Jermy, Academy Director at FC
Our expert coaches will deliver
interactive and informative coach education

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B I RT H D AY S

BEST WISHES TO THE FOLLOWING SPURS FANS:

Lifelong fan PETER SMITH, from Dorset, Season ticket holder GAVIN BROWN, who HARRY SMITH, who celebrates his 14th
who is celebrating his 62nd birthday with celebrated his 81st birthday on 3 October birthday on 31 October.
his sons in the South Stand.  and is pictured on the Dare Skywalk last
month.

ANNABEL VINTON-HORSLEY, who is WILL MEEHAN, who celebrates his 14th
celebrating her birthday today and is at birthday tomorrow.
tonight’s game.
MAX HOURIHAN, who celebrated his
sixth birthday on 7 September.

Lifelong supporter TOMMY D’ARCY who TILLEY ELLIS-LOVELL was eight at the LIAM EVERITT, a One Hotspur member
turned 55 on 27 September and is pictured weekend, all she wanted for her birthday who celebrated his 15th birthday on 7
with his son Ian on the Dare Skywalk. was a Spurs shirt and her wish was October.
granted! She is pictured with brother Alex.

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KAIDEN NICOLL, who yesterday FREDDIE SMITH, a One Hotspur member, JONAH MARKS, who is 17 today and is
celebrated his 12th birthday. who is celebrating his 11th birthday today celebrating his birthday by attending
and is attending tonight’s game with his tonight’s game.
older brothers as a birthday treat.

PAUL SABINI, an East Stand season ticket PHILIPPA PLUCKNETT, who celebrates OLAF SPITZA, who is a member of Poland
holder who was 60 on 29 September and her 60th birthday tomorrow and is in the Spurs and celebrated his 11th birthday on
is pictured at the Champions League final South Stand this evening with husband 4 October.
in 2019 with brother Dominic and friends Dennis.
Grant and Gary.

Belated birthday wishes to ZOIE AGNI Lifelong fan HUGO KATZ, who is RICARDO ROACHE, who is a season ticket
WINSOME ADAMSON, who celebrated celebrating his birthday at tonight’s game holder in the East Stand and is celebrating
her second birthday on 18 June. with girlfriend Leah, sister Bella and dad his 14th birthday.
Phil.

GALLERY

Here is JOSEPH, JACOB and BENJI, attending their first MICHAEL SKORZEWSKI is pictured with sons NOAH (four) and
Champions League game. They all play for their local grassroots LOUIE (11 months) on a recent holiday to Corfu.
team and are off to a flying start this season.  Their favourite
players are Cristian Romero, Richarlison and Rodrigo Bentancur. 

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