article_snippet: On a damp day at White Hart Lane just over 50 years ago we gathered to report on Mackay making Mackay comeback from a broken leg.
article_snippet: Mackay runs up the stairs at White Hart Lane as Mackay fights Mackay way back from a double leg fracture .
article_snippet: It was a serious, complex injury and It was nine months before Mackay return, in a reserve match against Shrewsbury.
article_snippet: To our horror there was a snapping sound.
article_snippet: Still Mackay got up but the trainer rushed on, took a quick look and
article_snippet: heart-brokenly told Mackay the leg had shattered again.
article_snippet: The pain must have been excruciating but Mackay insisted on checking the diagnosis personally.
article_snippet: Mackay stamped Mackay foot on the ground and only as the cracked bone stuck out through Mackay bloodied sock did Mackay accept that Mackay could not play on.
article_snippet: Even then Mackay spurned the stretcher and walked off, trying not to limp.
article_snippet: Never show you’re hurt,’ Mackay growled as they hurried Mackay to hospital.
article_snippet: That repeat breakage of the same bone would have finished many a lesser man but Mackay came back again, to resume Mackay midfield partnership with Danny Blanchflower which was the axis of manager Bill Nicholson’s great Tottenham team.