The Penalty of Tony Parks Save Against Anerrecht is an iconic Tottenham image.
Dive to the right and around White Hart Lane with both arms that have been lifted to be flooded by by Trail teammates.
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But while he will always be associated with the 1984 UEFA Cup final Shootout, he admits that it was too fast.
Parks was only 21 when he denied Arnor Gudjohnsen – Father of future Chelsea, Bolton and Spurs striker Eidur – To win the third European trophy of Tottenham in front of Keith Burkinshaw.
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But even when the weather goes to penalties and Gugliemo Vicario repeats the heroic deeds of Parks, it is difficult to see that it has the same impact.
Parks – Only in the team with Ray Clemence Wased unsuitable – remembered: “I had saved the first penalty, from Morten Olsen, and all went on the left.
“Danny Thomas got the chance to win it for us, but he missed. He was stripped, but the whole crowd started to sing his name. I had never seen that before.
“When Gudjohnsen performed, I thought I had to do something else and dive the other way.
“He didn’t make it so good, I made the salvation, I got up and just started running.
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“I knew that my mother and father were in the crowd and I ran to where they were. If the gates had been open, I would have been in seven sisters 20 minutes later.”
It should have been a lift for the career of Parks. Instead, it was a turning point for all the wrong reasons.
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Parks told The Spurs Show Podcast: “The drama was great. I remember looking back.
“But for me it was too much, too early. I thought it was that it would happen every year.
“That’s a bit how you think when you are a child, isn’t it? But I played the rebel a bit.
“I did everything wrong that I could do wrong.”
Not that he could initially be blamed. Parks added: “Every pub where I arrived for about six weeks was free beer.
“To be honest, I would walk in every place and what I wanted was free.
“I remember going a meal. Rod Stewart was in the restaurant and Apparently I thought I had saved only one penalty; His friends said they were two.
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“So the waiter came by and said,” I would like to know how many punishments you have saved. ”
“I said,” Two, “and he said,” Do you want a bottle of wine from Rod Stewart? “
“It was all great. But if you are weak in the head, as I was, they tip you over the edge.
“You have to be stronger than that to be a professional athlete.
“Instead, I was arrested to drink and drive, came back for the preseason with an injury.
“Ray made sure that when he returned, he was 100 percent fit and focused, ready to go – while I had lived the life of a child.”
We would be in the pub or in the Snookerhal by 12. It was’ profit or loss, on the drink; If we draw, we have more ‘. It was crazy.
Tony Parks
Parks remained four seasons on Spurs’ Books, but only made 19 more performances before they go to Brentford.
His career brought him to a total of 14 clubs, including West ham And Falkirk in Scotland.
But he admits that it was never completely the same.
Parks remembered: “As a youth team player who was in the first team, my contract had risen at the end of that season.
“I actually only got a new contract after the game, so the money I had wasn’t great.
“But if you are in the first team, you get money appearance, you get bonuses and at the age of 21 it was money to really blow out your brain.
“Nowadays players go to the training field at 7 am and are still there at 4 pm or 5 pm.
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“But we would be in the pub or in the Snookerhal by 12. It was ‘winning or losing, on the drink; if we draw, we will have more’. It was absolutely strange.
“It didn’t matter what age you were, it was:” you’re coming “. If Steve Perryman tells you that you are coming, you will come.
“Keith was a brilliant manager who gave young players a chance and if he had stayed, it might be different for me.
“But he had a big fall-out with the chairman, Irving Scholar, and went at the end of the season.
“I didn’t really enjoy working for David Pleat of Terry Venables afterwards. It wasn’t their fault – it was all my fault.
‘Venables finally got rid of me. It is only when you leave a club like Tottenham, you realize, ‘s *** – what have I done? ‘
“I am called a legend, but I don’t see that, I really don’t.
“For me are goalkeeper legends of the football club Pat Jennings and Ray Clemence. They are my idols, my Tottenham legends.
“Looking back on the final, it was a magical night, brilliant.
“When we got the trophy, a UEFA man gave me a replica of the trophy. I thought it was the man-of-the-competition price and put it in my bag in the dressing room.
“But Irving Scholar came in, sat in a wheelchair while he broke his leg. Nobody wanted him there, he fired our boss.
“But he wanted to know where the trophy was and took it out of my bag – that was the replica that the club could keep!
“We kept celebrating for hours and stood on the roof next to the parking lot. Thousands of fans were still waiting for it. I will never forget that.”
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