22/10/1977 Tottenham Hotspur v Bristol Rovers

22nd October,White Hart Lane,Division 2
For full list of matches go to gr8footy.blogspot.com/2014/08/...

[@123Scears123]

I (a Rovers fan) worked at this time in the Brains/Kraft factory in Kingswood, Bristol. On the Monday all the City fans at work had written 9-0 on the white caps we had to wear. Tough day! :-D

[@lil_boy_blu1967]

My 1st Game at W H L 💞 . I Was 9 yo ✨ . I Remember the Whole Stand Rocking 2 the Foot Stomps & Chanting We Want 10 🌟 . Cherished Memories 💖 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 . Thank U Dad & THFC 💕 .

[@glenjarnold]

I remember watching this on MOTD like it was yesterday, blimey!

[@athelstan927]

It is the first game I can remember on MOTD! I'm 52!

[@MrBoybergs]

The best time I ever had with my Dad was at this match; or maybe the 2nd Ricky Villa goal against Man City in the FA cup final....

[@robertroberts2666]

I remember this. I was 14 at the time and had a mate who was a Spurs fan. Needless to say, he was delirious after this result and Spurs return to Division 1

[@cornishyiddo]

First game I watched on tv when I was 8. Became an instant Spurs fan!

[@jbs9231]

I was at this match, 🤔 lower shelf. Returned to 1st division for 78/79 season and a little matter of signing for two world cup player's. from Argentina.

[@TS50ER]

I remember listening to this game on the wireless as a boy while ball-boying for Gosport Borough FC. COYS!

[@jannerkev]

I was at that match. Colin Lee was a Torquay United player and with some of his family and friends we all went up to watch the match. Many years later I was working at Torquay United when Colin came back to act as our manager. Had some great times. Incidentally Frank Prince who was also playing for Rovers that day, was also working with us at Torquay United as their football in the community officer. Funny old game.

[@dennismartin2407]

I was 19 and in the Park Lane end. I was just to the right of the goal ( left as per camera). Brilliant atmosphere and had great day.

[@sandrascott5158]

My first spurs game

[@BrianSmith-lj6ug]

one of the first games i went to.Remember being disappointed we didn't make it 10,lol.

[@adriansymcox1641]

i will never ever forget this game 9.0 colin lee 4 on his debut was a good team hoddle mcnab taylor fantastic players and fantastic admiral shirts

[@tonybates7870]

We all know about Hoddle but Peter Taylor was class as well, I agree. When he was with Crystal Palace he was capped for his country, making him the only player playing in the 3rd Division to pull on the England shirt.

[@thailandnewlifewithed5479]

I was there in the enclosure. Happy days

[@davidbrooks187]

Hoddle was truly in a different class . #Genius #WastedbyEngland

[@vicwiseman2340]

I was playing for my works team when this match was being played. Our manager who was an Arsenal fan kept updating me from the touchline when each goal went in. I couldn't believe it. I think we won our match as well but not by nine! Coys.🐓

[@yggdrasil9039]

I remember this game from Match of the Day. I couldn't believe it when the goals kept coming.

[@grahamjordan1040]

One of the few games we didn’t go to that season typical, but what it didn’t show was the spurs team consoling the rovers keeper who was in tears , that was when it as sporting.

[@errolbaptiste]

Nobody expected Spurs scoring 9 goals with a huge victory margin which I was 13 at the time.

[@paulhughes5476]

Coventry City played Spurs on the Wednesday in the League Cup at White Hart Lane, Cov won 3:2 Hutchinson, Powell and Graydon, I was there with Mum Dad and Sister PUSB !!!!!!!

[@andrewc4612]

The significance of this win was perhaps illustrated come the end of the 1977-78 season. For while Spurs did make an instant return to Div. 1, it was only on goal difference over Brighton. For Spurs final GD was +34, Brighton's +25. In other words, NINE goals ...

[@raymondhenderson1436]

A dramatic difference .in relation to goals being scored

[@mattval6293]

That 7th goal was amazing

[@Simonwallis30]

Unbelievably the first time I went to WHL by myself,stood at the front of the Park Lane. Know exactly where I stood but can’t see myself

[@peterarnold42]

My first real taste of the mighty Spurs, taken to White Hart Lane for this match at age 9 by my Dad with my 8 year old Brother, for me the bug had always been there and always will be, my brother turned traitor and went on to support Liverpool lol

[@Britonbear]

I did see this on TV but I misremembered this as being on The Big Match.

[@RobCLynch]

Wow I can't believe that this was a second division match. I don't even remember Tottenham being in the second division!

[@stuartlongley2446]

Yes for one season. Got relegated in 76-77. Ironically that spell in Division 2 allowed us to rebuild after several years of drifting. Wouldn't be able to do that nowadays

[@gmgroucho77]

I bought an Evening News on the way back from working my Saturday job at Harrods. Saw the score in the Stop Press and thought it must be a mis-print. No Teletext in those days let alone social media. But I'd swap all today's "conveniences" to be transported back to a time when football had soul. Look at those kids standing and the fun they're having.

[@martinwhite829]

I remember putting a £500 bet on Spurs to win 9-0 at odds of 250-1. Won £125,000, which was a fortune back then. Enabled me to buy my first house and start myself up in business.

[@tonybates7870]

Is that true? If so, what a hunch!

[@martinwhite829]

@@tonybates7870 Absolutely true. I also put £500 on Leicester to win the league at the start of that season, and another £500 on Spurs to win 7-2 last night. Both things happened and I'm now a multi-millionaire and about to make a bid for Amazon.

[@tonybates7870]

@@martinwhite829 I think you're pulling my leg, you scallywag!

[@tonybates7870]

@@martinwhite829 Oh, fuck it - lend us a tenner . . .

[@martinwhite829]

@@tonybates7870 😜

[@honeybeebadger]

i was there 17 at the time

[@timrobinson100]

rovers unlucky we were just comming back into the game [ forced a throw in after 5th goal

[@oval291]

Lee and Moore inspired Villa and Ardilles to join spurs….Spurs were never able to get the out of Lee and Moore after this game. What a shame such great talent was mishandled.

[@amanyikalo4409]

Truly flabbergasted by this result!!

[@goffyglos5675]

A bristol city mate tells me they still taunt rovers with the chant, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-tottenham!

[@BR1883FC]

Not likely, have never met anybody from that side of Bristol able to count that high. Come to think of it, a S'hed with a mate, nope, you've made all of this up.

[@goffyglos5675]

@@BR1883FC I'm spurs!

[@andysmith8890]

Hoddle’s goal the 9th is so offside it’s untrue

[@chris-rfs]

I was at this game and it was fantastic. Rovers must have had a terrible defence since we had the two worst centre-forwards that Spurs ever had and yet they got 7 goals between them! Ian Moores would have struggled playing a game in the park and Colin Lee did nothing after this game. But i did have a good day out at the time.!Great memories as a teenager back then.

[@tonybates7870]

Yeah, it's funny how both got hat-tricks or more yet neither were heard of again. I went to a few games in that 77-78 Second Division season. We didn't even come top, as I remember, despite a lot of high scoring wins - I seem to recall we were promoted in second place. Oldham and Notts County got trounced by a Spurs team that put five past them both, I do know that. Whatever happened to that Hoddle fella that scores at the end?

[@yggdrasil9039]

Spurs in totally the wrong Division. Wonderful. Thanks for the upload.

[@wimbledan]

Not really. You relegated the previous season

[@mjc8281]

Not a Spurs supporter but my first ever game was at White Hart Lane that season(my friend's dad took us both)they ended up drawing with Mansfield, I think it was 1-1 and I'm willing to bet its the only time they have met at WHL in the league!!!

[@williamgittons-yu3xn]

It could have been worse, Mansfield also missed a penalty!

[@dlamiss]

Always rated Lee but he only scored something like 10 more goals in his remaining 60 games but it was sad Ian Moores died so young

[@nottsj]

the kids are allowed on the pitch at the end to hug the players

[@user-sw2lv3zp6o]

As a neutral, I remember this well.

[@chrisninety1]

How come this was on Match of the Day? There was a full program of First Division matches that day (including the Merseyside derby). Given they wouldn't have had the hindsight of the result, it seems strange to have sent John Motson to commentate on a Second Division match.

[@wimbledan]

They used to every now and then. Showed a Wimbledon game when we was in the old third division

[@tonybates7870]

I reckon they got incredibly lucky - Spurs were a top club despite the relegation so they decided to send Motson down there just in case. There were quite a few Tottenham games televised that season.

[@uphollandlatic]

As all four tiers of the football league were under one jurisdiction they would negotiate a contract with TV that insisted they covered a certain number of lower division games.

[@tonybates7870]

It's included in the Match Of The '70s edition for the 77-78 season, presented by Dennis Waterman, too. Loads of people, not just Spurs and Rovers supporters, remember the game.

[@mattval6293]

As we're about to lose kane this sort thing we need or it be a repeat

[@stevenmason1674]

I was at this game

[@jbs9231]

At 4.23, spurs fan throw s a paper roll on to pitch, and Bristol rovers player gets in tangled. No disrespect to Bristol rovers, Tottenham were in a different league.

[@markbarker6739]

If that keeper hadn't been so good spurs would have had about 13 or so

[@ericwhitlock4016]

Hoddle was off side for the ninth!!!!! could have been 12 but for Glyn Jones. Gashead Eric

[@lynettefrench6567]

Shhhh...

[@daveph357]

Oh, jeeesus, i was there, 1977? fuck, i am old.

[@daveph357]

And if i remember correctly, we went up that season, after just the one year in the (then) 2nd division, by finishing above Brighton, after a last match away 0 - 0 draw at Southampton, but the difference between us and Brighton went down to goal difference.... We were 9 goals better....wow.

[@rogersalter315]

yidman yes we did get promoted that season last game was at the dell .Southampton and us only needed a point each to secure promotion .score 0.0 and we both wenr up.fuckung great days out in the old second division and yes we are old

[@Simonwallis30]

Roger salter it was there first season I started going without my dad,14 I must’ve been. Daft thing it’s always been the season I’ve enjoyed the most!

[@zabaleta66]

Young goalie did well......got slaughtered by his own defenders though!!

[@grahamd4764]

Maybe Tottenham should get relegated down to level 2 again. As winning the Fl Championship is their best chance of a trophy!

[@tonybates7870]

Maybe you should eat some shit, son! Get some cannibalism in ya life!

[@michaelturner5443]

What a pity the spurs team of today can’t score that amount in a season let a loan one game