{"id":233067,"date":"2026-01-07T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233067\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:02:06","slug":"ex-tottenham-striker-chivers-dies-aged-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233067\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Tottenham striker Chivers dies aged 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tottenham and England forward Martin Chivers has died aged 80.<\/p>\n<p>Chivers led the attack for Bill Nicholson&#8217;s Spurs side from the early 1970s, winning the League Cup twice as well as enjoying UEFA Cup success.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Tottenham read: &#8220;It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of our legendary former striker Martin Chivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We extend our deepest sympathies to Martin&#8217;s family, friends and former team-mates at this incredibly sad time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our players will wear black armbands during this evening&#8217;s fixture against AFC Bournemouth. Rest in peace, Martin. One of the all-time greats.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tottenham and England forward Martin Chivers has died aged 80. Chivers led the attack for Bill Nicholson&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-233067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}