article_snippet: The short, stocky, powerful wing-half who is enshrined in Spurs folklore as ’the heartbeat’ of the first team to achieve the League championship and FA Cup double after the second world war had sustained a left leg fracture in a collision with Manchester United’s Noel Cantwell at Old Trafford.
article_snippet: A legend which might have ended that day was to grow even greater.
article_snippet: I can pass the bloody ball, you know
article_snippet: Blanchflower, the thinking man’s footballer, was esteemed as the brains of manager Bill Nicholson’s great Tottenham team but Mackay was very much more than the brawn.
article_snippet: Blanchflower was the captain
article_snippet: Blanchflower are introduced to the Wembley crowd before the 1981 FA Cup final .
article_snippet: ’s mantle and drove them to the League title.
highlights_snippet: The powerful wing-half was known as Tottenham's 'heartbeat'
  
highlights_snippet: The powerful wing-half never shirked a tackle and had a hard man reputation .
  