Maurice Norman
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Maurice Norman[1] | ||
Date of birth | 8 May 1934 | ||
Place of birth | Mulbarton, England | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1952–1955 | Norwich City | 35 | (0) |
1955–1966 | Tottenham Hotspur | 357 | (16) |
International career | |||
1962–1964 | England | 23 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Maurice Norman (born 8 May 1934) is an English former footballer who played nearly 400 times in the Football League as a centre half for Norwich City and Tottenham Hotspur. At international level, Norman won 23 caps for the England national team.[2]
Norman was born in Mulbarton, Norfolk. He began his career at Norwich City, and played 35 league matches for the Canaries between 1952 and 1955.[2] Despite such a short career with the club, he was elected into the Norwich City Hall of Fame in 2002.[3] He signed for Tottenham Hotspur in November 1955 for a ₤28,000 transfer fee, that also included the return transfer of Ireland international striker Johnny Gavin to Norwich.[4] Norman played his first game for his new club against Cardiff City, and stayed at White Hart Lane until 1965, making 411 first-team appearances and scoring 19 goals for Spurs. He was an integral part of Bill Nicholson's Double-winning Tottenham team of 1960–61 that went on to retain the FA Cup in 1962, and win the 1963 Cup Winners' Cup.[5]
At international level, Norman made 23 appearances for England, including in the 1962 World Cup. He was also a member of the England squad at the 1958 World Cup, but did not play.[5] He suffered a double fracture of tibia and fibula playing for Spurs against a Hungarian Select XI in November 1965,[6][7] which brought a premature end to his career.[5]
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External links
- A human colossus: article at MEHSTG, a Tottenham Hotspur fansite
- Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame
- League stats at Neil Brown's site
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- Articles with dead external links from October 2010
- Pages with broken file links
- 1934 births
- Living people
- People from South Norfolk (district)
- English footballers
- England international footballers
- England under-23 international footballers
- Association football defenders
- Norwich City F.C. players
- Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
- The Football League players
- 1958 FIFA World Cup players
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- London XI players
- The Football League representative players