Post by QPR Report on Mar 18, 2009 7:19:23 GMT
From The Times/Phil Myers: The 50 Greatest Tottenham Hotspur Players
#49: Clive Allen
1984-88, 135 appearances, 84 goals
Try word association with Spurs fans and chances are that when you say “Clive Allen” the response will be “49”. The number of goals the striker scored in 1986-87 marks him out with Tottenham even though he dropped into more London clubs than Ashley Cole on a night out. However, it was only right that Spurs were one of his seven teams in the capital given that his father, Les, played at White Hart Lane. We’d love to say Clive was more than a penalty-box player, but he wasn’t, and the 1987 PFA and FWA awards showed there isn’t anything wrong in that.
#38 Les Allen
1959-65, 137 appearances, 61 goals
An uncapped Englishman whose contribution as an ever-present in the Double-winning side is often neglected, even though he scored the title-winning goal against Sheffield Wednesday. Allen linked play superbly until the signings of Jimmy Greaves and Alan Gilzean sent him to Queens Park Rangers but a son, Clive, and nephew, Paul, revived the family name at White Hart Lane in the Eighties. The forward struck five goals in a 13-2 FA Cup victory against Crewe Alexandra in 1960, a game that my father left at half-time because of overcrowding. Given that Spurs were 10-1 up at the interval, I’ll let him off.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/tottenham/article5920090.ece?print=yes&randnum=1237360490896
(Although their recent "Greatest 50 Everton Players" had Andy King but NOT Dave Thomas
)
#49: Clive Allen
1984-88, 135 appearances, 84 goals
Try word association with Spurs fans and chances are that when you say “Clive Allen” the response will be “49”. The number of goals the striker scored in 1986-87 marks him out with Tottenham even though he dropped into more London clubs than Ashley Cole on a night out. However, it was only right that Spurs were one of his seven teams in the capital given that his father, Les, played at White Hart Lane. We’d love to say Clive was more than a penalty-box player, but he wasn’t, and the 1987 PFA and FWA awards showed there isn’t anything wrong in that.
#38 Les Allen
1959-65, 137 appearances, 61 goals
An uncapped Englishman whose contribution as an ever-present in the Double-winning side is often neglected, even though he scored the title-winning goal against Sheffield Wednesday. Allen linked play superbly until the signings of Jimmy Greaves and Alan Gilzean sent him to Queens Park Rangers but a son, Clive, and nephew, Paul, revived the family name at White Hart Lane in the Eighties. The forward struck five goals in a 13-2 FA Cup victory against Crewe Alexandra in 1960, a game that my father left at half-time because of overcrowding. Given that Spurs were 10-1 up at the interval, I’ll let him off.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/tottenham/article5920090.ece?print=yes&randnum=1237360490896
(Although their recent "Greatest 50 Everton Players" had Andy King but NOT Dave Thomas
)
