"David John Pleat" is an English football (soccer)/football player turned coach (sports)/manager and sports commentator.

He is remembered by his contemporaries primarily for his career as manager of Tottenham Hotspur F.C./Tottenham Hotspur and Luton Town F.C./Luton Town football clubs, and for an oft-televised clip of him running onto the pitch in 1983 to celebrate after a last-minute goal by Radomir Anti?/Raddy Anti? against Manchester City F.C./Manchester City prevented Pleat's team Luton Town F.C./Luton Town from being relegated from Football League First Division/Division One.

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A game is not won until it is lost.

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For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all yellow strip.

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Crouch has good touch.

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I am right in the background. I won't be here that much at all, if at all. But I'm on the end of a phone and I'll give Alain any advice he requires at any time about anything.

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We just ran out of legs.

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