Dave Mackay

Gary Mackay.

Dave Mackay.

Well, he went, he went to Spurs, didn't he? I've thrown Gary Mackay.

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Right.

Uh, we throw Ross-

Dave Mackay.

And wee Scott Crab, they were great boys.

Me, sir.

Dave Mackay.

Of course.

Yeah.

Even at the age of 15, Scotland won 5-0, I think.

He just dominated.

And we were all absolutely delighted to hear he signed for Tottenham and he was going to be Dave Mackay's natural replacement.

Natural replacement.

Um, but in the early days, it was, uh, it was like a, it was like a muddy, wasn't it? It was terrible.

And yet they played some brilliant football and, um, ended up winning the league under Dave Mackay, and, uh, yeah.

Well, you know, it...

These days you look at the pitches and you think, you know, uh, they would never have played on something like that, you know, and probably not have played as well either, you know?

Well because of course Real Madrid dominated the European Cup in those early years I'm guessing Madrid is quite a power base in football terms at this time are both teams at full strength? So

the big miss for Spurs is Dave Mackay who Scottish midfielder he was in some ways many people class him as being the best signing that Nickerson ever made he sort of transformed the team when he came in and he's seen as such an important player especially beside Blanche Flower because Blanche Flower as we'll talk about I would say his mobility isn't massive at this point and Mackay was a real kind of could get it could just cover every blade of grass sort of player as well as being an incredibly good footballer but he so he's a big miss at this point

So I'm slightly teeing you up with this one because it was something that I stumbled across maybe Spurs fans will know it was completely new to me when I started watching this game Spurs playing in like an all-white kit they almost look like Leeds United I believe that this is actually a thing like it's the Tottenham wear all white in Europe is this correct?

Yeah, it's correct.

And Greaves has sort of said subsequently that he sort of wished that he hadn't agreed to that move.

And there was another offer on the table, which was from Derby under Brian Clough.

and he wished he'd taken that a little bit like you were saying maybe he would have found a different way to use him that wasn't just in that the way he'd been playing all the time because Clough obviously famously did that with Dave Mackay as I say Dave Mackay

was this guy's

And a

free kick's different from a penalty because Dave Mackay would take power-based penalties.

But was he a great free kick expert? Not really, was he? I'm not even sure.

I

Pascal Gross, rolling back the years.

Great the way they've, you know, goes back to, I was watching the Damned United recently and I was looking at the Dave Mackay signing for Derby after his glory days at Tottenham.

He goes to Derby as an older player.

And I mean, I wasn't around in this time, so I take it fully from the fictionalized account of it all.