Martin CHIVERS | 1971-1972 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)

CHIVERS PES STATS | 1971-1972

electric_trigger Martin CHIVERS | 1971-1972 Club: Tottenham Hotspur Number: 9 Positions: *CF Nationality: English Era 1971-1972, aged 27 Foot: R Side: B Height: 185 Weight: 80 Attack: 88 Defence: 40 Balance: 87 Stamina: 82 Top Speed: 86 Acceleration: 87 Response: 90 Agility: 78 Dribble Accuracy: 83 Dribble Speed: 81 Short Pass Accuracy: 72 Short Pass Speed: 70 Long Pass Acc.: 65 Long Pass Speed: 66 Shot Accuracy: 90 Shot Power: 84 Shot Technique: 86 Free Kick Accuracy: 64 Curling: 78 Header: 84 Jump: 82 Technique: 83 Aggression: 78 Mentality: 75 Keeper Skills: 50 Team Work: 77 Injury Tolerance: B Condition/Fitness: 7 Weak Foot Accuracy: 6 Weak Foot frequency: 5 SPECIAL *Positioning *Post Player *Scoring Martin Harcourt Chivers (born 27 April 1945 in Southampton, England) was an English professional footballer in the 1960s and 1970s. In January 1968, Tottenham Hotspur manager Bill Nicholson signed Chivers for a club record fee of £125,000 from Southampton which also made him the country's most expensive player at that time. Whilst at Southampton he had won 12 England under-23 caps. He scored a total of 106 goals in 190 appearances for The Saints. His name is also in the record books as the first substitute to score for The Saints, in a 3-1 defeat by Newcastle United on 29 April 1967. Tottenham Hotspur He scored on his Spurs debut against Sheffield Wednesday in January 1968 but the initial stages of his White Hart Lane career were relatively unsuccessful with Spurs legends Jimmy Greaves and Alan Gilzean still considered to be the preferred attacking partnership. Chivers remained a fixture of the England Under-23 squad and eventually became the most important goalscorer at Tottenham, following the sale of Greaves to West Ham United in 1970. Chivers was often seen as a lethargic and lazy player but his pace and natural strength established 'Big Chiv' as a star of the Spurs side and England throughout the early 1970s. The 1970-71 season was the beginning of Martin Chivers golden years, for both club and country. He played in all 58 competitive games and scored 34 times, including both goals in the League Cup final against Aston Villa and twenty-one goals in the First Division as Spurs finished the season in third place. Chivers also scored on his full international debut in April 1971 in England's 3-0 victory against Greece. During the 1971-72 campaign, Chivers hit the best form of his career, netting 44 times in 64 first team appearances. His seven goals in as many League Cup ties enabled Spurs to reach the semi-finals of the competition where they eventually lost to London neighbours Chelsea. The resurgent striker saved his most impressive form for the UEFA Cup, scoring eight times in 11 matches, including a hat-trick in a 9-0 demolition of Icelandic side Keflavik Ã(cid:0)F and a superb double against Wolverhampton Wanderers in a memorable final. In the First Division, he surpassed his fantastic tally of the previous campaign, scoring 25 times in 39 appearances. Chivers continued his prolific form in the 1972-73 season, finding the net 33 times in 61 appearances. His acclaimed goalscoring ability again guided Tottenham to League Cup success with two quarter-final strikes against Liverpool and a crucial goal at Molineux where the Londoners drew 2-2 to reach the final. His European form was equally impressive, scoring eight goals in ten matches, as Spurs reached the UEFA Cup semi-finals before losing to Liverpool on the away goals rule. In October 1973, Chivers won the last of his full England caps against Poland in an infamous World Cup qualifier. Despite scoring six international goals in the calendar year, the Spurs striker was a casualty of his country's failure to qualify for the tournament and would later be ignored by caretaker manager Joe Mercer and future boss Don Revie. Spurs again reached the final of the UEFA Cup in 1974 with Chivers scoring six goals, including the opener in a 2-0 home victory against East German side Lokomotive Leipzig. The two-legged final was to end in disappointment with Dutch giants Feyenoord winning 4-2 on aggregate as Spurs lost a major final for the first time. By the beginning of the 1974-75 season Chivers was considered to be the senior forward at Tottenham, playing alongside Chris Jones, Chris McGrath and Scotsman John Duncan. In early September, he played his last game for the legendary Bill Nicholson, as Middlesbrough crushed Spurs 4-0 in the 2nd round of the League Cup. Injuries restricted Chivers to just 28 league appearances in which he scored 10 goals, including important strikes against West Ham United, Leeds United and local rivals Arsenal. The 1975-76 season was Chivers' last at White Hart Lane as he struggled to find the net in a relatively poor Spurs team. He made 37 appearances in all competitions, scoring nine times, before joining Swiss club Servette for an £80,000 fee. In his eight and a half year Spurs career, Chivers scored a total of 174 goals in 367 first-team appearances and remains the leading Tottenham goalscorer in European competition to this day. He was capped 24 times for England, scoring 13 goals. Later career At the age of 31 in July 1976, the prolific striker moved to Servette in Switzerland, before returning to English league football with spells at Norwich City and Brighton. Martin CHIVERS | 1971-1972 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)