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John White (footballer, born 1937) played for which team from 1959 to 1964?
John White ( footballer , born 1937 ) John Anderson White ( 28 April 1937 – 21 July 1964 ) was a Scottish international football midfielder and sometime inside right who played a significant role for Tottenham Hotspur ( Spurs ) during their Double winning season in 1960–61 . He had two brothers , Eddie and Tom , who were also professional footballers . White was killed by a lightning strike at the age of 27 . Alloa Athletic . White first played at senior level for Alloa Athletic under the management of Jasper Jerry Kerr . He debuted in the 1956/57 season . Kerr paired White in an effective inside forward combination with Dennis Gillespie . In the 68 league appearances White made for The Wasps , he scored 26 goals . The John White Lounge is still a feature at the Clackmannanshire clubs ground . Falkirk . He was bought by Falkirk in August 1958 for £3,300 . Alex Parker and Eddie OHara had been jointly sold to Everton the June before giving Falkirk a cash injection of £18,000 . Among others at Falkirk , White played alongside Doug Moran . In Whites 30 Falkirk league appearances he scored 11 goals . His stay there was relatively short , moving to England early in his second season . White made his Scotland debut when he was at Falkirk . He scored in the first minute of his international debut , a 3–2 win against West Germany on 6 May 1959 at Hampden Park . He gained four full caps when at Falkirk playing in the first and last of those four games alongside Dave Mackay . The fourth game was against a Northern Ireland team in Belfast featuring Danny Blanchflower on 3 October 1959 . White scored his second international goal in a 4–0 win for the Scots . Tottenham Hotspur . Whites frail appearance had been the cause of considerable concern resulting in a number of English First Division clubs choosing not to risk his signing . However , following reviews received from Mackay and now also Blanchflower , Bill Nicholson signed White for Tottenham Hotspur in the same October as Whites international goal against Northern Ireland . Nicholson had also sought reference from the Army and been advised White was a celebrated cross-country runner . White cost £22,000 . At Spurs , White initially occupied the inside-left position , having been bought by Nicholson to replace Dave Dunmore , but his talent flourished as an inside right as a replacement to Tommy Harmer . He scored on his debut in October 1959 , in a 2-1 defeat to Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough . Whites worth to the team could be calculated in terms of goals scored ( between 1959 and the conclusion of the Double winning season ( a season in which he was ever-present ) he contributed 18 goals ) but his success mainly lay in a combination of skills : his passing , his ball control which helped sustain the attacking momentum but so too his runs to find space off the ball , arriving unexpectedly in the oppositions penalty area which resulted in the White Hart Lane faithful giving him the nickname The Ghost . With him Tottenham never finished worse than 4th in the First Division and in the 15 matches missed by White while on their books , Tottenham won only once . Spurs lost against Benfica in the 1961–62 European Cup semi-final , however in the following season White was part of the successful campaign that saw Tottenham become the first English winners of a European trophy when they won the 1963 European Cup Winners Cup Final . They beat Atlético Madrid by five goals to one in Rotterdam with White scoring Spurs second . They had beaten Whites Scottish former opponents , Rangers , home and away in the first round . Cliff Jones , his Tottenham teammate , said of him : He was a great talent . People ask me what he was like . I say that he was like Glenn Hoddle . But he was different to Glenn in some ways . Glenn was someone who you had to bring into a game , whereas John White would bring himself into a game . If youre not in possession , get in position , that was John White . He was always available if you needed to pass to someone . Death and testimonial . White was killed by a lightning strike at the age of 27 while sheltering under a tree during a thunderstorm at Crews Hill golf course , Enfield on 21 July 1964 . He left a 22-year-old widow , Sandra , daughter of Spurs assistant manager Harry Evans , whom he married in 1961 , and two children . Whites testimonial was staged later in the year he died , on 10 November 1964 , at White Hart Lane , when a Tottenham XI faced a Scotland XI . Whites younger brother Tom , played for Tottenham in this match , scoring the first goal of the game from a pass from Jimmy Greaves . Whites portrait has been erected in the entrance to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame . His son Rob has no memory of his father , as he was only six months old when he died , and his older sister Mandy was only two at the time . White also had a son , Stephen , from his first marriage to Helen McLean ; however , he and his first wife separated within weeks of their marriage and he never saw his first-born son , who did not discover the identity of his real father until he was a teenager . Career statistics . International goals . Scores and results list Scotlands goal tally first . External links . - The Ghost at mehstg.com - the Spurs 1960–61 squad at spursodyssey.com - The life of Mr Tottenham Hotspur ( minor mention ) at BBC