Spurs 5 Blackburn 2 Match Report - May, 1965

A memorable match at White Hart Lane saw Spurs defeat Blackburn 5 - 2 in season 1964 - 65 when they were undefeated at home but won only one away game all season.  Norman Giller's match report from the Daily Express highlights the need for consistent goalscorers in a successful team.

  

Friday, 16th April, 1965

(from the Daily Express)

THIS No. 7

GREAVES
IS GREAT

By NORMAN GILLER

Spurs 5  Blackburn 2   ****

Three goals from Alan Gilzean 

and two from Jimmy Greaves

tell their own story of another 

slaughter by the mighty G-men 

of Tottenham.

This was Gilzean's first three-

goal show for Spurs - but it

could not rob Greaves of the 

match-star rating.

The news from White Hart Lane 

for Alf Ramsey, England manager: 

There is a better right winger in the 

League than Liverpool's Peter 

Thompson.

He is Greaves by name and 

destructive by nature.

Greaves played on the right wing

because of an injury to Cliff Jones.

And Greaves was magnificent.

He scored twice, helped create

two for Gilzean - and was robbed

of a third in the 88th minute

when signalled off-side after netting

what looked to me to be a perfect goal.

Blackburn?  They were never

in the game in the first half and

made an impact on only rare

occasions in the second.

Gilzean's 77th-minute goal was

the best.  He cleverly put the

finishing touches to a four-man

move involving Eddie Clayton,

Roy Low and, inevitably, Greaves.

The G-men's other goals: 

Gilzean (14 and 44 minutes), 

Greaves (22, 83).  

Blackburn came briefly but brilliantly

into the game with goals by 

Bryan Douglas (46) and Andy 

McEvoy (49)

Team: Jennings; Knowles, Henry; Mullery, Brown, L., Clayton; Greaves, Low, Saul, Gilzean, Weller

The win over Blackburn Rovers took Spurs to 5th place in the 1st Division, a point behind Everton, after thirty nine games.  The top three teams, Leeds United, Chelsea and Manchester United, however, were ten plus points ahead.  

Spurs ended the 1964 - 65 season with five consecutive wins scoring 25 goals.  
Their home record for the season was:

P  21  W  18  D  3  L  0  For  65  Ag  20

They finished the season in 6th place and it is the only occasion that Spurs have gone through a complete season undefeated at home.