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BIG BILL’S STYLE

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Tottenham become the first club in the 20th century to do the Double, beating Leicester 2-0 in May’s FA Cup final. The game opens up when Foxes full-back Len Chalmers gets injured only 20 minutes in. With no substitute­s allowed, Spurs turn the screw in the second half thanks to goals by Bobby Smith and Terry Dyson. “It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low,” Lilywhites boss Bill Nicholson once said, though some say it was his skipper, Danny Blanchflow­er (with trophy).

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