Spurs 1973
13TH JANUARY 1973

FA CUP 3RD ROUND - HARTSDOWN PARK, MARGATE

MARGATE 0

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 6 (Chivers (2), Knowles, Pearce, Peters & Pratt)

Attendance: 14,169

Having beaten Swansea 1-0 at home in the 1st Round Proper Margate won by the same scoreline at Walton & Hersham in the 2nd Round to set up a dream tie with 1st Division Spurs, the current UEFA Cup holders. After discussions about switching the tie to White Hart Lane the club decided to keep the match at Hartsdown Park and a record crowd of 14,169 packed into the ground for the biggest game in the club's history. Margate were only 1-0 down at half-time before Spurs ran riot in the second half.

MARGATE: Chic Brodie, Ray Summers, Alan Butterfield, Norman Fusco, David Paton, Davie Houston, John Baber (Pat Ferry), Eddie Clayton, Kevin Barry, Barry Brown, Bruce Walker

SPURS: Pat Jennings, Ray Evans, Cyril Knowles, John Pratt, Mike England, Terry Naylor, Alan Gilzean, Steve Perryman (Jimmy Pearce), Martin Chivers, Martin Peters, Ralph Coates



Striker Barry Brown looks forward to the game after the draw is made...


Previews and pre-match articles from the national press...





















Young Simon Frampton was a regular at Hartsdown Park but was diagnosed with appendicitis two days before the match and ended up in Margate Hospital. He was sent photos of both teams and curiously in February 1994 Simon ended up playing against a Spurs veterans team in a charity match at Hartsdown Park. The Spurs team included Martin Chivers, Martin Peters, John Pratt and Ralph Coates who'd all played in the 1973 FA Cup tie. In 2012 Simon was living in Ramsgate...







A map showing the temporary traffic arrangements...


Margate fans make their predictions...


The sign outside Hartsdown Park...


Pages from the match programme...






A standing ticket for the match...


A ticket for the main stand...


The referee's pass for the match...


Supporters arriving for the game...






Some of the huge crowd, in the first picture below future Margate first team player Marcus Newton is the blonde man sitting two seats to the left of the fence pole in the centre of the front row whilst the steward facing the camera is Gerry Collis who later served Thanet United as a committee member and managed United's reserve side...



Martin Peters leads the Spurs team out...


Chic Brodie makes a save...


More action...
















Diagrams of three of the Spurs goals...


Martin Chivers shoots for goal...


Chic Brodie tries to block the shot...


...but the ball gets past him and it's 1-0 to Spurs...


Martin Chivers makes it 2-0 as David Paton challenges...


Jimmy Pearce slams the third goal past Chic Brodie and Ray Summers as Martin Peters looks on...


Cyril Knowles' shot flies in for the fifth goal...


The Spurs players leave the field, Mike England is on the right and the supporter on the left with the scarf is Julie Bell...


Match reports...








A letter of thanks sent from Tottenham to Margate's club secretary Alan Kay...

An article from a Margate programme in January 2002 explaining the attendance figure...