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Tributes from the sporting world have been paid to former Tottenham and Scotland midfielder Dave Mackay after he died at a hospital in Nottingham at the age of 80. Mackay was most famous for being part of the 1961 Spurs side that won the double, winning the English top flight and the FA Cup in the 1960-61 season - becoming the first side to do so.

He earned 22 caps for his country, having started his career with Hearts in 1953, where he captained the Edinburgh club to the Scottish League title in the 1957-58 season before heading to England.

RIP Dave - I remember him from the Lane

Which sport?

A real one

Soccer

FA= (the) Football Association

Thanks CP...

Normally I can tell which off brand sport they're talking about by looking at the score...

If it's something stratospheric like 417-168, that's got to be a cricket game...

If it looks like a baseball score (2-0, 5-3, 6-2, etc) then it's probably a soccer game...

If it looks like a real football game score, (24-16, 30-24, 26-10) it's more than likely rugby...

But there weren't any scores to go by in that obit; just some stuff about "sides" ("becoming the first side to do so"...does that mean that before then, every single game was a tie, so no side ever won?) and "caps" (whatever that is...his team mates couldn't afford their own caps?)

You're a real barbarian Jim...

And he can't read...

the 1961 Spurs side that won the double, winning the English top flight and the FA Cup in the 1960-61 season - becoming the first side to do so.

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Jim -

In European sport, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance in a game at international level. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap (an item of headgear) to every player in an international match of association football. In the early days of football, the concept of each team wearing a set of matching shirts had not been universally adopted, so each side would distinguish itself from the other by wearing a specific sort of cap

Hey Gob, that's an odd photo choice by the Independent too - not the 1961 FA Cup at all. Jimmy Greaves didn't join the club until after that FA Cup final and Alan Gilzean didn't join until 1964 so that picture is from the 1967 Cup Final.

***note: That's wrong! Preston North End(1889) and Villa (1897) were before Spurs. Tottenham were the first in the 20th century - or "this century" as we used to say.

Oh and news flash: Spurs 3 Swansea 2, Gob - just finished.

Arse!!!