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Spurs' Double Legend, Bill Brown has died
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Spurs Odyssey was very saddened to hear this week of the death of another Spurs Legend - Double goalkeeper, Bill Brown. (1st December, 2004) Bill had spent many years living in Canada, after he ended his playing days in Toronto. The Spurs and Scotland legend had been unable to travel to England for the Double Reunion dinner in 2001, and also was not well enough to make it to White Hart Lane for the induction of Bill Nicholson and all the Double side into the Spurs Hall of Fame in March this year.
Players from both Spurs and Liverpool wore black armbands in last night's Carling Cup quarter-final, but it is unfortunate that the club seems to have set a precedent by not holding a one-minute silence for one of the true Spurs' greats. Bill left the club in 1966, having been superceded by a young Pat Jennings, who was a fitting successor to a great goalie.
Here is an extract from Brian Judson's excellent introduction to the Double series on Spurs Odyssey:-
Bill Brown was a very unflashy goalkeeper who just got on with the business of playing football instead of playing to the gallery like some goalkeepers do. Born in 1931, Brown played his first football for junior teams in Scotland before joining Dundee. In 1959, Nicholson signed Brown from Dundee for what seems a paltry sum of money these days but was then an enormous amount. Brown brought confidence to the defence for the first time since the heyday of Ted Ditchburn. Brown was rarely absent from the team until he left for Northampton Town in 1966 but in his last two seasons with Tottenham, he was encouraging the very young Pat Jennings, who had been signed from Watford. Brown only missed two games during 1960-61. After ending his career at Northampton, Brown emigrated to Canada, where he worked in property development for many years.
Thus, a third former player enters the "Great Double Team in the Sky" along with John White and Danny Blanchflower, where they have been joined recently by the much-loved and much-missed Bill Nicholson, who no doubt will be keeping a fond eye on them all.
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