Garry Mabbutt??
16 years at the club (many as captain). Won a couple of trophies. Still goes to games and works with the club. Yes he's a legend.
Garry Mabbutt??
You think in 50 years time, the next generation of spurs fans will be talking about tremazzani?
Lineker was very much my boyhood hero at Spurs aswell. Until Leicester came back to being a regular Premier League side he uses to speak as if he was a Spurs fan on MOTD.Good topic.
Lineker is a really interesting one. He was one of my heroes growing up and got me into Spurs, yet he’s barely mentioned on here as far as I can see. Here roughly the same length of time as Gazza, arguably achieved more, yet less revered. Is it because of his obviously pro Leicester stance?
Klinsmann was an icon for us but not a legendFunny that people mention Klinsmann yet debate Lineker. Don't get me wrong I was a huge Klinsmann fan myself but he only gave us one full season and won nothing. Lineker was with us for 3 seasons and won the FA Cup scoring twice in that Semi Final.
Quite an incredible signing really. We had only narrowly avoided relegation the season before and we somehow managed to sign one of the worlds best forwards.Klinsmann was an icon for us but not a legend
Tottenham through and through.16 years at the club (many as captain). Won a couple of trophies. Still goes to games and works with the club. Yes he's a legend.
Yeah it's hard there's no real logic to it. Bale to me always feels like we groomed him for Real Madrid.Interesting you have klinnsmann as a legend but not bale.
That's what's so legendary. Came for the challengeQuite an incredible signing really. We had only narrowly avoided relegation the season before and we somehow managed to sign one of the worlds best forwards.
Nice topic, but there's no conversation needed.
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Icon or Legend?
Icon for me. Not on the same level as hoddle, greaves, blanchflower, jennings, ditchburn, mabbutt, perryman.
Player of the season and league cup though. Exciting player in a very unexciting period. Will always love him.
Legend requires an element of the unexpected, I'd drop Mabbutt and Perryman to icon, as though they were great servants to the club, and wonderful people, they were quite boring.
Fa cup, league cup, 2 uefa cups, player of the year, most capped player for spurs? Perryman deserves legend status for me. It's not all about wonder goals.
Mabbutt will always be our captain.
I think stats and trophies are largely irrelevant for Legend status too, it’s narrative rather than numbers you need, enigmatic, what does a bard have to work with.
Look at United under Fergie, all of those great players, massive trophy cabinets at home, most of them won everything at least twice, but who is the hero of that time, Cantona.