Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has discussed the impact of Bill Nicholson's iconic Tottenham side during his education growing up as a football fan.
The title-winning side of 1961 is widely recognised as the greatest Tottenham side in history and, as Carragher identified, their impact went beyond just making an impression in North London.
Growing up as an Everton fan, Carragher spoke about how the Toffees' great side under Howard Kendall took inspiration from the double-winning Spurs side.
“To be honest, when I first starting watching football it was the 1984/85 season with Everton, when I was a kid, I remember that team getting spoken about," he told Sky Sports.
"I’m sure Howard Kendall spoke about how if he ever wanted a team to play a certain way, it’d be how the double team of Tottenham, I always remember it vividly.
"It was the push and run team, the way that they played. I don’t think it’s just down to the trophies, I think it was the actual way they played football and probably that legacy went on for years when we looked at players and thought ‘he’s a Tottenham player’.
"They had some greats, Jimmy Greaves, there’s a big petition to get him knighted and rightly so, but I don’t know too much about that team, only what has been passed back from my dad and that."
