Sheffield United vs Tottenham Hotspur
UTB | Official Matchday Programme of Sheffield United Sheffield United vs Tottenham Hotspur | Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round Wednesday 1st March, 2023 | KO 7.55pm | Bramall Lane
UTB | Official Matchday Programme of Sheffield United
Sheffield United vs Tottenham Hotspur | Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round
Wednesday 1st March, 2023 | KO 7.55pm | Bramall Lane
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TOTTENHAM HOTSP<br />
M HOTSPUR TOTTE<br />
R TOTTENHAM HOTS<br />
AM HOTSPUR TOTT<br />
UR TOTTENHAM HOT<br />
HAM HOTSPUR TOT<br />
PUR TOTTENHAM HO<br />
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— OPPOSITION FOCUS<br />
Tot tenham <strong>Hotspur</strong><br />
NON-LEAGUE NUGGETS<br />
Football historian LEIGH EDWARDS profiles six notable Spurs players signed from non-League clubs...<br />
HARRY CLARKE<br />
England international<br />
centre-half Harry Clarke<br />
was ever-present as<br />
<strong>Tottenham</strong> <strong>Hotspur</strong><br />
won the League<br />
Championship in 1950-51.<br />
Following RAF service,<br />
he helped Lovells Athletic<br />
win the Welsh Cup in<br />
1948 and moved to White<br />
Hart Lane in March 1949.<br />
He went straight into the<br />
first-team and was also<br />
ever-present as Spurs<br />
won the Second Division<br />
title in 1949-50. Capped<br />
against Scotland in April<br />
1954, he missed just<br />
one match that season<br />
and netted four goals<br />
in 295 League outings,<br />
becoming Llanelli’s<br />
player-boss in February<br />
1959. He later managed<br />
Romford for 13 years and<br />
worked for a security<br />
transit company. He died<br />
in April 2000.<br />
SHEFFIELD UNITED <strong>vs</strong> TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR<br />
GEORGE ROBB<br />
England international<br />
winger George Robb was<br />
<strong>Tottenham</strong> <strong>Hotspur</strong>’s top<br />
scorer in 1953-54. The<br />
schoolmaster gained<br />
18 England amateur<br />
caps while at Finchley<br />
before joining Spurs<br />
in December 1951 and<br />
scored on his League<br />
debut in that month’s 3-0<br />
win at Charlton Athletic.<br />
He missed just one match<br />
as they reached the FA<br />
Cup semi-finals in 1955-<br />
56, then helped finish<br />
League Championship<br />
runners-up in 1956-57.<br />
Scoring 53 goals in 182<br />
League games, an injury<br />
curtailed his career in<br />
May 1960. He returned to<br />
teaching as sports master<br />
at Christ’s College in<br />
Finchley, then at Ardingly<br />
College near Haywards<br />
Heath and died on<br />
Christmas Day 2011.<br />
RON HENRY<br />
England international<br />
left-back Ron Henry<br />
was ever-present in<br />
<strong>Tottenham</strong> <strong>Hotspur</strong>’s<br />
1960-61 League and FA<br />
Cup ‘Double’ success.<br />
A former Luton Town<br />
amateur, he played<br />
for Harpenden and<br />
Redbourn before turning<br />
professional with Spurs in<br />
January 1955. He made<br />
his League debut in their<br />
1-0 defeat at Huddersfield<br />
three months later<br />
and understudied Mel<br />
Hopkins before forming a<br />
notable partnership with<br />
Peter Baker. Also helping<br />
Spurs to win the FA Cup<br />
in 1962 and ECWC in<br />
1964, he scored once in<br />
247 League games before<br />
hanging up his boots in<br />
May 1966. He later had<br />
a 14 acre bedding plant<br />
nursery in Redbourn and<br />
died in December 2014.
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