We lost the League Cup final to Stoke and stars departed soon after as financial gloom descended on Stamford Bridge. The Chelsea-Spurs rivalry had just shifted up another gear or two, although it was the last hurrah for Chelsea’s Kings of the King’s Road side. The first game was at Stamford Bridge, and what entertainment it provided!īoth sides were renowned for their flair at the time, in contrast to the Arsenal side that had just won the Double (this was a strong period for London football), and they served up a 3-2 scoreline in the first leg.Peter Osgood, the King of Stamford Bridge, scored the opener after a collision in the Spurs rearguard but a rapid-fire response by Tottenham after half-time took them into the lead, with their star striker at the time Martin Chivers scoring one the two goals. Hudson’s unbelievable late winnerĬhelsea’s significant League Cup history against Tottenham began 50 years ago when the Blues from west London, who the previous season had won the European Cup Winners’ Cup, and the Lilywhites from the north of the capital, who were the League Cup holders, were drawn against each other at the semi-final stage. ‘It will take quite a team to stop us now.’That team actually proved to be Huddersfield Town, in the very next round! The Doc’s side would however go on to make two semi-finals and then the final in the three following seasons. ‘On this form we can go onto Wembley,’ declared Docherty in typically exuberant style. The second goal did come in the second half, Tambling returning the compliment when he crossed for Murray to head home. Bert Murray from a cross for the outstanding Frank Blunstone equalised an early goal.Bobby Tambling had missed the first game but was fit for the replay after nearly a month out and such was the appetite for a match held just four days after the first one that 70,000 crammed into Stamford Bridge, setting a new record for a floodlit game at the stadium.The bumper attendance witnessed crunching tackle after crunching tackle with Greaves and Blues skipper Terry Venables brought together by the referee in an attempt to calm matters down.Tambling, from a Murray cross, gave Chelsea a lead which could have been doubled soon after when he was fouled but Venables’ penalty was saved. ‘In the replay at Stamford Bridge the pressure will be on Chelsea because this time we will not have our crowd to beat.’The Blues were a little unlucky not to have won at the Lane.
‘We won a psychological battle with the crowd and with ourselves,’ Greaves said afterwards. This initial match was no classic – a 1-1 draw – although the Chelsea fans present were clear winners in terms of supporting their team with Spurs having to overcome recently critical home support, as noted by our former star striker Jimmy Greaves who captained the north Londoners on the day. Our sequence of two-game tales begins back in January 1964 when a Tottenham side that had won the Double and an additional FA Cup earlier in the decade were pitched against Tommy Docherty’s emerging and exciting young side, freshly promoted to the top flight.Although we had lost to Spurs 3-0 at Stamford Bridge in a league game earlier in the season, we were in good form, on a run of nine games unbeaten heading to White Hart Lane for an FA Cup tie.
Others, in the League Cup and FA Cup, are ties that ended up requiring a replay after the sides could not be separated in the initial game, although in one case especially it was remarkable they were not.Here, to help build the excitement ahead of today’s concluding second leg of our latest cup encounter with Tottenham, we bring back to life those previous two-match meetings with some words, images and video… Tambling takes down Tottenham Some of the meetings, like the current tie in which the Blues hold a 2-0 lead at the midway stage, have been genuine two-legged affairs, all in the League Cup competition and all at the semi-final stage.
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