THE MEN WHO MADE SPURS The latest in Martin Cloake’s series about some of the key figures who made the club what it is. Alexander ‘Sandy’ Brown is the original swashbuckling centre forward in the Tottenham Hotspur story, and another famous Scot. Signed from Portsmouth in 1900, where he had been top scorer as the south coast side finished runners- up to Spurs in the Southern League in 1899, he went on to score 96 goals in 113 appearances over two years. In the 1901 FA Cup run, he scored 15 goals, netting in every round. Reports from the time describe Brown as a forward who often looked lazy and uninterested – shades of Dimitar Berbatov perhaps? READ MORE HERE is.gd/eYjLK7 #COYS
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:48:07 +0000