Comments on: Spurs’ Cult Heroes - Your Memories of Dave Mackay…

By: sandy hogg

sandy hogg — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:25:52 +0000

Hearts greatest
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By: derek(enfield)

derek(enfield) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:58:15 +0000

I can remember back in 1967 as a 15 year old at Cheshunt watching Spurs and after training along with many other eager fans surrounding Dave Mackay to get my hero’s autograph. He would tell us all to line up in a orderly queue which we did and then he would sign his autograph for everyone,no problem.What a difference from today’s players ! Dave you are true legend and still my hero. Oh for another Dave Mackay and those glory glory days !

By: lilywhite

lilywhite — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:11:08 +0000

As the great late Bill Nicholson said Dave Mackay was his best signing, so Mr.Levy and fellow directors do something positive and honour this truly great footballer and man.

By: hibeeyak

hibeeyak — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:43:12 +0000

Dave Mackay was a true legend at Hearts, Spurs, and Derby County and still is ! He was the first player to be inaugurated into the Hearts hall of fame and is also in Spurs and Derby County’s hall’s of fame and not forgetting the Scottish and English F.A. hall’s of fame also! As a player he was colossal.He could play anywhere on the park and he inspired confidence to the rest of the team.What a sight when he led the team on to the pitch! A true braveheart ! As a manager he was also successful winning the 1st. division championship with Derby County where he wasn’t given enough credit after what he had to face and go through,and he was successful and revered in the Middle East before retiring. Dave Mackay I take my hat off to you! You are true football legend and a gentleman.Thanks for the memories Dave!

By: Val

Val — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:16:34 +0000

Found this page; great to read these memories of true football fans (Dave’s biased daughter!)

By: Gordon Bennett

Gordon Bennett — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:24:33 +0000

I’m a Spurs supporter, but, as a boy, living on the island of Guernsey, I remember vividly Dave Mackay, then player/manager with Derby County, in a friendly game against our island side, and he was really the reason I wanted to be there, being a hero from his Spurs days.

I’ll never forget him at this game, backing up a young player down the right of the pitch, reassuring him that he was there and it was safe to go into a challenge with one of our local players.

The old ‘Track’ football stadium had a stand which echoed, and Dave was running down the wing side behind this player shouting, “Don’t panic!”, which resonated across the ground, and really summed up his presence and reassuring defensive abilities.

I still remember this shout often when facing difficult situations. “Don’t panic!” Great player, great manager, great man!

By: becks

becks — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:28:27 +0000

Followed spurs since 1954- seen all the greats, but without doubt Mackay was the best !

By: AntiOnan

AntiOnan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:50:38 +0000

Away to Leicester who were in the top four then and a rainy day and a very muddy pitch: a leicester player breaks through and has a shot.
GK is stranded as he has ?slipped in the mud. The ball trickles towards the open goal and is about to enter the net. Out of nowhere comes a sliding body, sliding 20 yds across the mud in front of goal. the ball strikes rthe body and bounces out of play. Mackay saves the day again and we draw 2-2. That is how I remember mackay. Not picking up that little sh*t Bremner as he did his best to try and deliberately rebreak mackay’s leg(mackay had only just returned from the fracture). Am I exaggerrating here? Watch that Leeds side in action or ask Mackay himself. It was the fourth time in that match that Bremner had hit him there in the tackle. They couldn’t handle him and so crippling him was the desired option.
The joke was that he didn’t hit Bremner. he didn’t have to. Little Billy was so scared he never went near Mackay ever again in a match and this certainly helped Derby win their two championships vs Leeds.

By: AntiOnan

AntiOnan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:36:45 +0000

Simply the best player that we have ever had without doubt and Nicholson’s admitted biggest mistake was letting him go when he did.
I watched the team from 1956 onwards and i saw what his arrival did for us and what his loss also did. We had for a time, graham roberts who for all of his trying was a poor copy of Mackay and we had Mullery who also was a poor copy. Aprt from these two and the lesser Pratt we have been waiting for the “second coming” of Mackay for decades. Wilson Palacios is at the level where he is slightly better than Roberts but still far off mackay although he may yet improve and so we are still waiting, hopefully not for too long as I have heard great things about Sandro.

By: spursman1961

spursman1961 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:03:09 +0000

I have loved our great club for over fifty years, I have seen many great players pull on the white shirt of Tottenham but without doubt the most important of them all was, in my opinion, the one and only David Craig Mackay. When he joined Spurs they were already a very good team, when he had settled in they became a truly great one. He was the catalyst that laid the foundation for all the glory that was to follow, he was the very soul of Tottenham, he was the heartbeat. The memory that summed it up for me was after the 1963 European Cup Winners Cup Final against Athletico Madrid, a match Mackay missed due to injury, the headline in the Express I think it was read, SPURS NIGHT OF GLORY, Danny’s boys fought like ten mad Mackay’s, even in absence his soul touched the eleven that played that night. Thank’s Dave for everything you did for our club and for all the memories you gave us, a TRUE Spurs legend.