{"id":393964,"date":"2026-01-07T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/393964\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:39:08","slug":"martin-chivers-former-spurs-and-england-forward-dies-aged-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/393964\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Chivers: Former Spurs and England forward dies aged 80"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Tottenham and England forward Martin Chivers has died at the age of 80.<\/p>\n

During his eight years in north London, the striker scored 174 goals in 367 outings to help the club win the League Cup twice, as well as the Uefa Cup. <\/p>\n

He also scored 13 goals in his 24 appearances for England.<\/p>\n

Tottenham said, external<\/a>: “It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of our legendary former striker, Martin Chivers.<\/p>\n

“We extend our deepest sympathies to Martin’s family, friends and former team-mates at this incredibly sad time.<\/p>\n

“Rest in peace, Martin. One of the all-time greats.”<\/p>\n

England said, external<\/a>: “Our condolences go out to his friends and family at this sad time.”<\/p>\n

Born in Southampton in April 1945, Chivers made his debut for his hometown club aged 17.<\/p>\n

After scoring 106 goals in 190 appearances for the Saints, the forward was signed by Spurs manager Bill Nicholson in January 1968 for a fee of \u00a3125,000.<\/p>\n

Later in his career, Chivers played in Switzerland and Norway either side of spells at Norwich City, Brighton and Dorchester Town, before retiring in 1983 after a brief spell at Barnet. <\/p>\n

Tottenham will wear black armbands for Wednesday’s match at Bournemouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tottenham and England forward Martin Chivers has died at the age of 80. During his eight years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-393964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}