Bill Nicholson

We, uh, had, uh, he had a, a very good, and this, this gentleman became a very, very good friend of mine, um, a gentleman called Krish Naidoo, um, was, um, born in, in South Africa, Indian, uh, heritage, um, but had moved to Dublin, and, uh, was working in Dublin.

A massive, uh, Tottenham supporter, and his, his Tottenham, um, roots came back from when the Tottenham s- team with Bill Nicholson, uh, went to South Africa and I think played a couple of games.

And from that moment, he was a, a huge, um, Tottenham supporter.

Um, so he'd, he'd found out that my, my mother was, was Irish, um, had mentioned that to, uh, Keith Burkinshaw at the time, but had, had also mentioned it to Johnny Giles, who's, who was a Republic of Ireland manager at the time.

It's Arthur Rowe that developed the, the famous Tottenham's push and run style.

It's him that brought Tottenham into what's now the top flight and won the league straight after bringing Tottenham up as a second division champion.

And I, I think Bill Nicholson gets so much credit for this football club, and, and rightly so.

I don't begrudge any of that.

On the right wing, we've got Cliff Jones, the Welshman.

centre forward we've got Bobby Smith wearing number 9 Jimmy Greaves wearing the number 10 really in what I suppose you'd call a sort of inside left position and Terry Dyson out on the left wing so that's the Spurs lineup and looking at this team sheet there aren't any subs named so I'm guessing in these days it was just you're 11 and you sort of muddle through with that And, of course, the famous manager for Tottenham, Bill Nicholson.

The Atletico Madrid team I'm even less familiar with.

They've got in goal a man, I'm going to pronounce his name, as Madden Beata.

But the team that is playing, a lot of these guys were part of that double winning team and they are kind of starting to age out at this point.

And I would say this is their last great triumph or moment is this Cup Winners Cup win.

They're obviously managed by Bill Nicholson.

He obviously, again, is a kind of Tottenham legend as a manager.

We, we do.

I was talking to Pat Jennings the other day, and he was kind of raving about Bill Nicholson.

And, and then he said, right at the end of it, he said, "But obviously he had years to do that."

Mm-hmm.

He used it as a sort of symbol of revival, didn't he? And built, actually, a pretty good side at Stoke.

Bill Nicholson built the double side at Tottenham.

Stan Cullis built a side at Wolves.

But either of those sides weren't really...

They had key players.

Bill Nicholson had Danny Blatchflower.

Stan Collis at Wolves had several good players.

Billy Wright, Johnny Hancocks, Jimmy Murray, Eddie Clamp, Ron Flowers.

And to be fair, actually, the new regime, the Lewis family, obviously, over the last 12 months, and others coming into our bin iron, Kate Miller as well, who's quite big on the comms side of things, they're very keen to tap into Tottenham's history and remember it, essentially.

We saw the Bill Nicholson gates go back up in the summer and bringing the Hall of Fame back to life is another step that they wanted to do.

And, yeah, it was a really fun night, actually.

Four people were inducted into it.

there.

Bill Nicholson,

Brennan Johnson?

No.

Bloody Paul O'Coy, that pesky little man.

Bill Nicholson.

Mate,

imagine on Saturday now, he's doing that with Paul O'Keefe.