.jpg) Blanchflower in 1976 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Dennis Blanchflower | ||
| Date of birth | 10 February 1926 | ||
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
| Date of death | 9 December 1993 (aged 67) | ||
| Place of death | Staines, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Right-half | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Glentoran | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1946–1949 | Glentoran | 124 | (7) |
| 1949–1951 | Barnsley | 68 | (2) |
| 1951–1954 | Aston Villa | 148 | (10) |
| 1954–1964 | Tottenham Hotspur | 337 | (15) |
| 1961 | → Toronto City (loan) | 12 | (3) |
| 1962 | → Boksburg (loan) | 4 | (1) |
| 1965 | Durban City | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 693 | (38) | |
| International career | |||
| 1949–1963 | Northern Ireland | 56 | (2) |
| 1948–1949 | Irish League XI | 4 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1976–1979 | Northern Ireland | ||
| 1978–1979 | Chelsea | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Robert Dennis Blanchflower (10 February 1926 – 9 December 1993) was a former Northern Ireland footballer, football manager and journalist who played for and captained Tottenham Hotspur, including during their double-winning season of 1960–61. He was ranked as the greatest player in Spurs history by The Times in 2009.[1] After a lengthy playing career, he retired at the age of 38. He became a respected football journalist and, later, a football manager.
Blanchflower said of football: "The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom."[2][3]
- ^ Myers, Phil (17 March 2009). "The 50 greatest Tottenham Hotspur players (Page 12 of 12)". The Times. London. Retrieved 31 July 2010.[dead link] (subscription required)
- ^ "Danny Blanchflower Quote". libquotes.com.
- ^ Susan Ratcliffe, ed. (11 March 2010). Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subjects (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0199567065.