Left It’s Cliff Jones’s seventy-ninth birthday: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cliff_Jones.jpg He wasnt just fast: ‘…Cliff Jones was the fastest winger of his day, very courageous and often broke bones simply because he flung himself into areas that others would not dare to venture. Cliff came from a well-known footballing family. His father, Ivor, had been a Welsh international between the wars. His brother, Bryn, plied his trade in the lower echelons of the Football League, and an uncle, also Bryn, had played for Arsenal before WW2. Spurs had Cliff under survey for quite a long time before they signed him in February 1958. He broke a leg during pre-season training during the summer and did not return until the turn of the year. Cliff played for Tottenham for 10 years, breaking practically every bone in his body throughout that time. The dentist was kept busy repairing his teeth after most games because he insisted on risking being kicked in the mouth to head home a goal…’ And in 1961 at our friends’ house, watching their TV [and with orange ice lollies at half-time] we waited for this: https://youtube/watch?v=flLqoU9ua1s The long-ago death of John White and the sad decline of a still-young Danny Blanchflower make this poignant if you remember it. But there’s Cliff Jones collecting his medal. Some things are ineffaceable.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 07:14:04 +0000
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