Subscribe to our channel: [ Ссылка ] of Spurs heroes Bobby Smith and Danny Blanchflower relive glory. It is an image which captures the thrill and wonder of the FA Cup and a time when Tottenham were the finest in the land.

Bound by the spell are Steve Smith and Richard Blanchflower, sons of two Spurs scorers in the final against Burnley in 1962, bursting with excitement as they join the team to parade the trophy in London on an open-top bus.

'For us, it encapsulates the magic of the day,' says Steve, as the old friends joined Sportsmail to recreate the iconic photograph.

'Winning the Cup, being on the bus, seeing the crowds of people. I was a little kid of seven and my dad was treated like a god because he played for the Spurs and it's only when you're older that you appreciate you were lucky.

'When you went to White Hart Lane they'd open the door and usher you inside. It's carried me through life, really, and made me feel special and what they did was special. Nobody will ever forget that team. They'll be talking about them in another hundred years.'

Tottenham became the first team in the 20th century to win the League and Cup Double in 1961. They won the FA Cup again 12 months later and the European Cup-Winners' Cup in 1963.

Bobby Smith was their fearless centre forward, a barreling force who scored 208 goals for the club — second only in the record books to his strike-partner Jimmy Greaves — and 13 in 15 games for England.

May 5, Wembley. Att: 100,000

Burnley 1-3 Tottenham 

BURNLEY: Blacklaw, Angus, Elder, Adamson, Cummings, Miller, Connelly, McIlroy, Pointer, Robson, Harris

GOAL: Robson 50 

TOTTENHAM: Brown, Baker, Henry, Blanchflower, Norman, Mackay, Medwin, White, Smith, Greaves, Jones

GOALS: Greaves 3, Smith 51, Blanchflower 80 (pen) 

Danny Blanchflower was the captain and leader on the pitch, intelligent and tactically astute, eloquent and outspoken.

He is responsible for the stirring passage about 'Glory' which still crackles through the speakers before home games and has come to define the spirit of Spurs.

'The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning,' said Belfast-born Danny, who died in 1993 aged 67.

'It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.'

He would approve of Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham, who go to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup fourth round on Sunday.

'It is a brilliant quote,' agrees Richard, who was aged nine when the photograph was taken. 'I get annoyed when people go on about Spurs needing to win something. I'd rather see us playing attractive football.

'My dad always said: "Only one team can win the League, only one can win the FA Cup and only one can win the League Cup. Does that make everybody else a failure?" He had some great one-liners. He'd say: "Winning isn't everything, wanting to win is".'

There was a typical flash of Blanchflower wit before the FA Cup final in 1961 as he presented his team to the Duchess of Kent. When she asked why they didn't have names on their backs like Leicester, he replied: 'Well, Ma'am, you see we all know each other.'

He was a thinker and an innovator. 'He reckoned he invented the defensive wall because the Northern Ireland goalkeeper was so bad,' smiles Richard.

'Lots of what he said seemed obvious but I'm not sure it was. Taking a throw-in, if he held the ball in his right hand before he threw it he was going to throw it that side of the player he was throwing to. If he held it in his left hand he was going to throw it that side and if he held it in both hands it would mean it's tight, give it back to me.'

Blanchflower also devised the passed penalty, long before Johan Cruyff. In a World Cup qualifier against Portugal in May 1957, he tapped it short to Jimmy McIlroy, who scored, although a bewildered referee ordered the kick to be retaken.

'I remember

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