During the 1995–96 season,

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participated in the

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Season summary

The sale of key players

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and

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weakened Tottenham's resources for 1995–96, and manager

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was faced with taunts of "what a waste of money" from shocked supporters when he paid a club record £4.5million for

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striker Chris Armstrong. But Armstrong quickly formed an effective strikeforce with

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, and an eighth-place finish in the final table was only one place lower than last season's final position - though it was once again not quite enough for a

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place. Perhaps the best moment of the season came on New Year's Day when Spurs triumphed 4–1 at home to

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, dealing a serious blow to the visiting side's title hopes and boosting their own hopes of qualifying for the

as they muscled in on the top five. While Spurs failed to live up to the promise that the game delivered, the losing side lost only one more league game all season and won the league title which had looked an impossible job a few short months earlier. Early in the season, Tottenham (and London rivals

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) were informed that they would be banned from European competition by

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for the 1996–97 season, for fielding weakened teams in the pre-season

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. The ban was lifted on appeal.

Final league table

Results

''Tottenham Hotspur's score comes first''

Legend

FA Premier League

FA Cup

League Cup

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Note: Home games in the Intertoto Cup were played at the

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due to unavailability of White Hart Lane

Squad

:''Squad at end of season''

Left club during season

Intertoto Cup squad

:''Tottenham used a squad of loan players and reserve team players while competing in the

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.''

Reserve squad

Transfers

In

Out

:Transfers in: £10,200,000 :Transfers out: £11,647,000Based on 0.8553 EUR/GBP for July 1995 https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/historical-spot-exchange-rates/eur/EUR-to-GBP-1995 :Total spending: £1,447,420

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goal scorers

''The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.''

Clean sheets

References

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