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Article: Football: The master who made the cockerel crow Homage to a legend Passing of Bill Nicholson recalls era when White Hart Lane was home of the entertainers
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2004
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Bill Nicholson, who died yesterday at the age of 85 after a long
illness, was a legend for what he achieved as manager of Tottenham
Hotspur, taking on a struggling team and within 18 months turning
them into Double winners.
The straight-talking quietly spoken Yorkshireman was no one-hit
wonder (even if he was in England terms - one game, one goal). After
that 1961 Double he took them to the FA Cup again the following
season and a remarkable triumph in the now defunct European Cup-
Winners' Cup in 1963, thrashing Atletico Madrid 5-1 in the final in
Rotterdam. That accounted for three of the eight trophies he won in
his 16 years in charge at Spurs. Another FA Cup followed in 1967,
then the ...