The following year they beat Atletico Madrid to win the European Cup Winners’ Cup.
Some names from that feted era achieved legend status – Nicholson, Mackay, Blanchflower … but not midfielder John White.
The reason is both simple and tragic: in 1964 John was struck by lightning and died on Crews Hill golf course when he was only 27.
In 2011, his son Rob along with Fleet Street’s first female football reporter Julie Welch published The Ghost of White Hart Lane about the father who died when he was just five months old.
Martin Murphy has now turned the book into a terrific play (first performed at White Hart Lane) which runs at Jackson’s Lane in Highgate…