I scored the winner of Spurs in the European final … My reward had to be sold

Alan Mullery wrote herself in history when he scored the winning goal in the first All-English European final.

Tottenham’s Captain has lifted the UEFA Cup from 1972, with his early header in the second stage of the home decision. Wolves.

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His reward would be sold weeks later by Baas Bill Nicholson.

No wonder Mullery, now 83, remembers it with mixed emotions.

Traces and Manchester United Will meet each other in Bilbao for the Europa League-De Sixth All-English UEFA final.

Incredible, It will be the third with TottenhamVan Liverpool lost in the Champions League final in Madrid in 2019.

But the first, 53 years ago, was a bittersweet affair for Mullery.

He remembered: “I will never forget that night – because it was the last game I once played for Tottenham.

“I thought I would stay, but Bill had a different idea!

“I think it’s not a bad way to go out, to score the winning goal in a European final in your last game.”

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Tottenham defeated the first stage in Molineux 2-1, thanks to a double through Center-Forward Martin Chivers.

And Mullery said: “People don’t remember what I did for that second goal, Spirit.

“I overlap outside him and shouted to give him the ball. I would run 40 meters, but then he hit it and everything I could say was” great goal. “

“Afterwards, Martin told me that it was the best dummy run he had ever seen. It meant that we were in a really great position in the second stage, with that way.

“We certainly did a better performance at Molineux than in the home game.”

Mullery placed traces at 29 minutes on White Hart Lane-but ended wrist axis.

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He said: “My goal was a header – and they were very little and far in between – and from six meters out, when I didn’t really get that close to the goal.

“I was eliminated, but I recovered enough.”

Dave Wagstaffe received a level, but it was not enough and the legendary Molineux striker John Richards, 74, remembered: “When it was ready, we just went home as if it were just a usual top match.

“I still have the medal, which is incredibly faint. As one of those Esso -silver takes of gasoline football that you received in the 1970s!”

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And Mullery says that boss Nicholson pretends to have lost his party.

Mullery added: “Bill was not happy. He came in while we celebrated and told us:” The best team lost. “

“It was a bit of a murderer to get into a dressing room and get a role after winning a cup.”

Only weeks later Mullery stood for an even bigger shock.

He added: “I was out the door. I was 32, Bill looked at the future and he didn’t see me in it.”

Adapted from White Hart Lane, The Spurs Glory Years 1899-2017 by Martin Lipton.