A new biography by Steve Perryman and Norman Giller provides the definitive record of a Spurs legend who won the league as a player and the Double as …
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Anecdotes wanted for new book on Alan Gilzean
SJA member Mike Donovan, a Tottenham Hotspur fan for the best part of 50 years, is writing The King of White Hart Lane, the authorised life story of A…
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Back to the future for Giller, 60 years after his first Spurs report
Norman Giller, honorary Life Member of the SJA and once our regular ‘golden oldie’ blogger, makes a welcome return to our website to mark the open…
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FROM THE PRESS BOX: Spurs v Wolves, half a century on
PHILIP BARKER watched his first big football match on February 22 half a century ago. How time flies. Fifty years on, it has come as rather a s…
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Harry Harris on scoops, books, Pele and Hoddle
Sports journalism has had more than its share of driven individuals. But few compare with Harry Harris, the multiple award-winning football writer who…
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Glory, Glory Lane: a history of Tottenham’s home for 118 years
Spurs fan and keen sporting historian PHILIP BARKER revels in more than a century of history-making at White Hart Lane. Back in May, there was …
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Drink, drugs and a dark secret: Paul Stewart’s spiral of despair
How a dark secret turned England footballer Paul Stewart into a drink-fuelled junkie with suicidal thoughts. Stewart’s agonising autobiography, Dama…
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A glory glory goodbye to White Hart Lane
Farewell White Hart Lane. PHILIP BARKER was eight the first time he stood on the terraces at Tottenham’s iconic stadium and he says tha…
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A rose by any other name would have sharp thorns
NORMAN GILLER has sailed off into the sunset, but still found time to recall the occasion Louis van Gaal compared his work to that of Shakespeare. Sor…
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