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GREAT GAMES: 1984 - Spurs 1 Anderlecht 1 (Spurs win 4-3 on pens)

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1984 UEFA Cup final

First leg: Anderlecht 1 Spurs 1
Second leg: Spurs 1 Anderlecht 1
(Spurs won 4-3 on penalties)

After beating Yugoslavian side Hajduk Split to reach the Final, Spurs travelled to Belgium to face the legendary Anderlecht, who were also the reigning holders.[al]
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The first leg was a strange affair, with the visitors standing firm against a side unbeaten at home in European competitions for ten years, much to the surprise of many who thought Tottenham's defensive frailties would surface from the beginning.

On the hour, we took the lead, Paul Miller rising above the defence to thunder a header home from Micky Hazard's corner.

A Morton Olsen goal five minutes from time gave Anderlecht parity, although Spurs had grabbed the crucial away goal.

A booking for Steve Perryman meant that the Spurs skipper missed the second leg, and manager Keith Burkinshaw was without the services of Glenn Hoddle and Ray Clemence while Argentine Ossie Ardilles was on the bench.

Clemence's replacement between the posts was an unknown by the name of Tony Parks. Neither he nor the Spurs faithful could imagine the fate that awaited him.

The Belgians took the lead after sixty minutes through Alex Czerniatinski. For the next fifteen minutes it looked as if Spurs were to lose, but things changed when Ardilles replaced Miller.

He instigated the move which led to Hazard crossing the ball to the centre and Graham Roberts emerging from nowhere to score the equaliser. [ar]
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A goaless extra-time followed, and so it went to penalties. Parks saved from Olsen to give Spurs a lead in the shootout and after six straight successes, it was left to Danny Thomas to win Spurs the Cup, but he saw his kick saved.
The last of the ten penalties was taken by the Icelandic international, Gudjohnsen and Parks flung himself to the right to push the ball away and etch his name permanently in Spurs' history.

Spurs v Anderlecht on YouTube

I stood in the Park Lane for this one, I remember feeling gutted that I never got a ticket for the Shelf, but being in the corner of the Park Lane, right next to the shelf was the next best thing, at least I was in the ground!

I can still remember little snapshots of the game as if it were yesterday. I remember Alex Czerniatinski scoring a really good goal (I can say that now but it never felt like it at the time) the crowd went quiet and suddenly, slowly the chorus went up, 'come on you Spurs, come on you Spurs' and the belief we'd win yet at the same time the feeling that it wasn't going to be our night. It was gripping stuff. I would say edge of the seat, but this was back in the days of terracing! It was absolutely packed on the terraces that night.

As the game wore on my nerves were getting increasingly frayed as chance after chance went begging and when we hit the bar, I started to think that maybe it wasn't going to be our night. Seconds later, Roberts steamrollered his way through and rammed the ball into the net and there was no way we were going to lose!

I can still remember Danny Thomas running up to take the penalty which would win us the cup and missing, standing holding his head in his hands. A chant suddenly went around the ground 'One Danny Thomas, there's only one Danny Thomas' and then up stepped Arnor Gudjohnsen (Father of the former Chelsea player Eider Gudjohnsen) and Tony Parks wrote his name into Spurs folklore.

The celebrations were wild, I can only remember Parks running arms aloft before being engulfed by the people around me. The presentation of the cup was accompanied by huge cheers and much singing, I don't think anyone left the ground until the last Spurs player had left the pitch.

After the game, I remember having to wait until the early hours for the paper train back to Kent because the extra time, penalties and celebrations had taken so long we'd missed the regular service, we found a club somewhere on Cavendish Street and were still celebrating when we got to Charing Cross around 3am.

This was Keith Burkinshaw's last game in charge, what a game, what a result and all at White Hart Lane too!

A pivotal game in our history. 'There used to be a football club over there' said Burkinshaw. We might only now be starting to get it back.

I am proud to have been a member of Burkinshaw's blue & white army.


You can read more about Spurs legends of the past and other great games by clicking here

Please feel free to add your memories to this or any other thread in that section.
 

archiewasking

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Still confused as to why we brought on Ally Dick when we needed a goal so badly and Garf was on the bench. :shrug:

But we won, so I don't care that much. :grin:
 

KentuckyYid

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I was at the Lane for this one, standing in the shelf with the boys.

Happy memories.
 

N10toN17

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My personal, favourite all time experience at the lane. I was in the shelf and the atmosphere was special. I'd love to see some form of terracing come back, although highly unlikely.
 

DC_Boy

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Sad I wasn't at the Lane for that one - but sure enjoyed watching it on TV :)

It was a game we easily could have lost - which makes victory all the sweeter (well sometimes anyway)
 

nuttynoah

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i was in the shelf for this one, and one of my mates got trampled on during a surge after a goal, served him right because previous to that, all the game he was trying to pick me and my other mates up under the arms and throw us up into the air, i don't have any idea why.
he didn't used to go that often so we could tell him the wrong words to songs and take great pleasue in hearing him get them wrong, we once told him that "we shall fight for evermore because of Boxing day" was in fact "Boxing Gate" which was the name of an underground station.
i remember having to rely on the reaction of the paxton end to the penaltys as it was too difficult to get a good view.
 

Chuba

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Oh yeah great memories of this one, standing in the paxton behind the goal for the penalties the game went on for ages...

One Danny Thomas, there's only one Danny Thomas!



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SpurSince57

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I think there must have been times in the Shelf that several hundred of us performed a collective gravity-defying feat locked together several inches off the ground. NuttyNoah is right. It was almost impossible to see what was going on when the penalties were being taken, but one of my mates then was a 6' 6" freak who shouted down to the rest of us.
 

sidtheyidbuck

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what seems to be lost on everyone is that eight of the normal first team were injured..in the cicumstances a brilliant performance
 
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I got on the Shelf about an hour before kick-off that night and got literally lifted off my feet by the pressure of the crowd - they spread out a bit by kick-off luckily.

My glasses flew off my nose when I celebrated Robbo's goal, but I managed to catch them in mid-air.

Funnily enough I had a clear view of the penalties, despite being up the wrong end of the shelf - not sure whether I should actually watch though. There were certainly a couple of guys behind me who kept their faces to the wall throughout.

What a night! A sentiment evidently shared by two blokes overheard by a friend of mine outside the ground - one suggested a beer to celebrate, the other replied 'Fuck that. We're in the Hotspur Grill for steak and champagne'!

Ah the nostalgia.
 
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