ON THIS DAY

Tottenham drew 1-1 with Second Division QPR at Wembley in the FA Cup Final but Spurs were without their Argentine player Ricky Villa who had withdrawn from the squad because of the Falklands War. Spurs won the replay at Wembley five days later.

Ron Springett won 33 England caps - he played in the 1962 World Cup finals and was a non-playing member of England's 1966 World Cup winning squad. His brother Peter played for England at both youth and Under 23 level although never won a full cap. What was unusual was that both brothers were goalkeepers and what was unique was that on 22nd May 1967 they were involved in a transfer swap. Ron moved from Sheffield Wednesday back to his former club Queens Park Rangers while younger brother Peter moved in the opposite direction. Sheffield Wednesday also paid QPR £24,000 to complete the deal.

Wembley Stadium hosted its first final of the European Cup/Champions League with 45,700 being present for the Benfica v AC Milan encounter. After Real Madrid had won the first five European Cup competitions Portugese side Benfica looked to be taking over their mantle wining the next two tournaments. But even with with one of the top players in the world – Eusebio - in their team they failed to make it three winning European Cups in a row with AC Milan beating them 2-1 at Wembley. On their way to becoming the first Italian winners of the European Cup AC Milan had beaten both the English and Scottish champions in earlier rounds. Both those British sides were surprise League champions of their respective countries – AC Milan beat Ipswich Town in the First Round and Dundee in the semi-finals.