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Danny Blanchflower

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Danny Blanchflower

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Northern Irish footballer (1926-1993)

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Robert "Danny" Blanchflower was a male association football player, journalist, coach, and sports commentator born in Belfast on February 10, 1926. He held citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Blanchflower played as a wing half for Aston Villa F.C., Toronto City, Tottenham Hotspur F.C., and Barnsley F.C. He participated in the 1958 FIFA World Cup and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame. His coaching career included a tenure with Chelsea F.C., and his playing period ended in 1964.

After retiring from football, Blanchflower became an author and media personality. He wrote three works, including *Danny Blanchflower's Soccer book*, *The double and before*, and *Soccer my way*. He was educated at the University of St Andrews. Blanchflower died in London on December 9, 1993, due to Alzheimer's disease, which was also his medical condition at the time of his death. His manner of death was natural causes.

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Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • Danny Blanchflower's Soccer book
  • The double and before
  • Soccer my way

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,794x

  2. Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

    · 2020 · cited 7,007x

  3. Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

    · 2015 · cited 6,298x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    · 2017 · cited 6,176x

  5. Pulmonary Vascular Endothelialitis, Thrombosis, and Angiogenesis in Covid-19

    · 2020 · cited 4,867x

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Key facts

1961
→ Toronto City (loan)
1962
→ Boksburg (loan)
1965
Durban City
Full name
Robert Dennis Blanchflower
Date of birth
( 1926-02-10 ) 10 February 1926
Place of birth
Belfast , Northern Ireland
Date of death
9 December 1993 (1993-12-09) (aged 67)
Place of death
Staines , Surrey , England
Height
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position
Right-half
Years
Team
1946 1949
Glentoran
1949 1951
Barnsley
1951 1954
Aston Villa
1954 1964
Tottenham Hotspur
1949 1963
Northern Ireland
1948 1949
Irish League XI
1976 1979
Northern Ireland

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Encyclopedic overview

Robert Dennis Blanchflower (10 February 1926 – 9 December 1993) was a Northern Ireland footballer, football manager and journalist who played for and captained Tottenham Hotspur, including during their double-winning season of 1960–61. He was twice Footballer of the Year and ranked as the greatest player in Spurs history by The Times in 2009. After a lengthy playing career, he retired at the age of 38. He became a respected football journalist and, later, a football manager.

Blanchflower said of football: "The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom".

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