Danny Blanchflower

Danny Blanchflower
Blanchflower in 1976
Personal information
Full name Robert Dennis Blanchflower
Date of birth (1926-02-10)10 February 1926
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date of death 9 December 1993(1993-12-09) (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)
1961Toronto 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]

  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ "Danny Blanchflower Quote". libquotes.com.
  3. ^ Susan Ratcliffe, ed. (11 March 2010). Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subjects (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0199567065.