March 28 – Spurs Struggle… For a Change

With Swiss Tube ticket enthusiast Christian Gross in charge, Spurs
were struggling at the wrong end of the table in 1998 but on this day
they went some way to securing their survival thanks to a 3-1 win at
Crystal Palace. Jürgen Klinsmann bagged the third goal.

Gross was sacked soon after and former Arsenal boss George
Graham brought in but the White Hart Lane faithful could never
forgive or forget his Gunners past and he was given the heave-ho in
2001. His replacement was Spurs hero Glenn Hoddle who left his
previous job at Southampton on this day to take over at Tottenham.
Never one to keep quiet, Saints chairman Rupert Lowe was not best
pleased about Hoddle’s defection. He said: ‘I was disappointed that
Glenn had chosen to turn his back on the club that gave him the
opportunity to resume his career in top-flight management and on
a squad which he had welded into an exciting team.’