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'I thought I’d better apologise to the Leeds players. I popped my head around the dressing room door, said, ‘Sorry, lads’ and got out as quickly as I could!' Alfie Conn recalls the iconic moment he sat on the ball

October 1974 ,White Hart Lane, Alfie Conn of Tottenham Hotspur. (Photo by Ray Wright/Offside via Getty Images).

It took a brave man to antagonise the likes of Billy Bremner and company at Leeds United in the 1970s.

But former Rangers midfielder Alfie Conn was not your run-of-the-mill player and when he arrived at Tottenham in 1974, it soon became clear that Spurs had someone special in their ranks.

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