{"id":668368,"date":"2026-07-01T17:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668368\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:57:18","slug":"scarborough-plaque-honour-for-spurs-and-england-footballer-bill-nicholson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668368\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough plaque honour for Spurs and England footballer Bill Nicholson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A blue plaque has been unveiled in Scarborough to commemorate the life of a Tottenham Hotspur and England footballer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bill Nicholson was born at 15 Vine Street &#8211; where the plaque is installed &#8211; in January 1919.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicholson joined Spurs in 1936, and later as manager led them to a historic double in the 1960-61 season. He played for England on 19 May 1951 when they took on Portugal &#8211; scoring with his first touch of the ball after only 19 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plaque, unveiled by the Scarborough Civic Society, was sponsored by the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters&#8217; Trust, and follows a campaign from Scarborough-born Spurs fan Jack Kirby-Lowe to have Nicholson recognised as part of the town&#8217;s heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Society president Adrian Perry said: &#8220;Spurs absolutely blossomed under his management and direction. It was just a career of success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got many other Scarborough people that have had just as glittering careers, and they all started out in Scarborough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blue plaque has been unveiled in Scarborough to commemorate the life of a Tottenham Hotspur and England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}