Spurs in History - 5th August

5th August, 1967

Celtic 3 Spurs 3 (Hampden Park)

The F.A.Cup winners against the Champions of Europe in a high profile pre-season challenge game attracted 91,708 spectators. A newspaper report of the game - ‘In this magnificent football ‘Battle of Britain’ brimming over with entertainment and loaded with individual genius, the score see-sawed fantastically.’

Jimmy Greaves scored within a minute but Celtic were ahead by the 20th minute, goals which could be attributed to poor clearances from Pat Jennings. Alan Gilzean equalised before half-time and Greaves restored Spurs' lead only for Celtic to again equalise following a mistake by Jennings who appeared to be under pressure from the change in the laws restricting the goalkeeper to four paces before clearing.

Spurs in History - 8th June

8th June, 1957

Spurs 3 Glasgow Celtic 1 (Friendly in Vancouver)

The nine match tour of North America included four games against Celtic and Spurs had been successful in the first two matches.

Throughout the games Bobby Smith had proved a great problem to the Celtic defence, scoring five times in the first two games. This match was no different as Smith scored his second hat-trick against the Scottish team.

A crowd of 24,198 watched the game, which was the second highest attendance in Canada for a football match. The largest attendance had been during the 1952 tour when Spurs played Manchester United.

Spurs in History - 4th June

4th June, 1966

Spurs 1 Glasgow Celtic 1 (Friendly in Vancouver)

During the close season Spurs went on an eleven game tour to Bermuda, U.S.A, Canada and Mexico. It included three games against Celtic.

Having lost the previous two games by a single goal, 0-1 in Toronto and 1-2 in San Francisco, Spurs came back from a goal down at half-time to secure a draw with a goal scored by Terry Venables who had signed from Chelsea just before the end of the previous season and made his debut in the final game of the season, a one goal victory at Blackburn Rovers.