Era after era of Spurs teams were reminded that we hadn’t won at Liverpool’s famous home since March, 1912.
That extended to our ‘push and run’ team that lifted the title in 1951, Bill Nicholson’s double-winning greats of the early 1960s and Bill’s trophy-laden team of the early 1970s.
The saying was soon that we hadn’t won at Anfield since the Titanic had sunk but that all ended in 1985, incredibly on the same date that we’d last won, 16 March.
It was the day we finally toppled the all-conquering Reds - champions of Division One (as it was then, before the Premier League era) six times in the 1980s (1980, '82, '83, '84, '86 and '88), European Cup winners twice (1981, ’84) - at Anfield.