Old rivals Tottenham and Manchester United meet in the Premier League this Sunday, a crunch clash between two sides really struggling this season but historically .
Famous Football Matches: 5 Huge Spurs v Man Utd Results
But will this weekend’s showdown match the dramas of these famous old meetings between two of the biggest names in the English game?
Famous Football Matches: Tottenham 6 Man Utd 2 (24/10/62)
Tottenham versus Manchester United is a celebration of two of English football’s giants and also many of the country’s greatest players and few strikers were greater than Spurs icon Jimmy Greaves. Greaves scored an incredible 211 league games in nine seasons at White Hart Lane, 37 of those in 1962-63, including four hat-tricks. The first of those was against an all-star United side featuring the likes of Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and Nobby Stiles, a Red Devils’ side which was thrashed 6-2.
Famous Football Matches: Man Utd 3 Tottenham 3 (12/8/67)
United and Spurs rarely met with silverware on the line, although that was the case at Old Trafford in August 1967 when the two teams played for the Charity Shield. United, the previous season’s league champions, and Tottenham, the previous campaign’s FA Cup winners, laid on a thriller.
Charlton scored twice for Sir Matt Busby’s men though the game will be remembered most for the rarity of Tottenham’s second goal, a wind-assisted punt from keeper Pat Jennings which bounced over his red-faced opposite number Alex Stepney.
Famous Football Matches: Tottenham 3 Man Utd 5 (9/29/01)
If you ever needed to know what champions are made of, then United’s trip to White Hart Lane in the 2001/02 season was the perfect illustration. Sir Alex Ferguson’s men, winners of the previous three Premier League titles, were blown apart in the first half as goals from Dean Richards, Les Ferdinand and Christian Ziege put Glenn Hoddle’s hosts 3-0 up.
Out came the famous Fergie hair-dryer and the champions were a different proposition in the second half, silencing a previously rocking Lane courtesy of goals from Andy Cole, Laurent Blanc, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and, finally, David Beckham.
Famous Football Matches: Man Utd 5 Tottenham (25/4/09)
Eight years after going 3-0 up against United, Tottenham knew a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford at the back end of the 2008/09 season might not be enough – and so it proved. Darren Bent and Luka Modric had put Spurs in charge, but once again and with a Fergie half-time rollocking ringing in their ears, United hit back. Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney scored two apiece and Dimitar Berbatov added the fifth as the Theatre of Dreams went wild.
Famous Football Matches: Man Utd 1 Tottenham 6 (4/10/20)
Ex-United boss Jose Mourinho returned to Manchester to humiliate his former side early in the 2020/21 season as Spurs ran riot against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men. United’s heaviest ever Premier League loss didn’t look on the cards when Bruno Fernandes fired them in front with a second-minute penalty.
But after that it was one-way traffic with deadly duo Harry Kane and Son Heung-min grabbing pairs against a United side reduced to 10 men after just 28 minutes when Anthony Martial was sent off. The only saving grace for United was that they weren’t booed off, the game being played at an empty Old Trafford at the height of COVID.
By Adrian Mills
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