{"id":169537,"date":"2024-04-08T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/former-tottenham-defender-joe-kinnear-passes-away-aged-77\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:10:33","slug":"former-tottenham-defender-joe-kinnear-passes-away-aged-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/former-tottenham-defender-joe-kinnear-passes-away-aged-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tottenham defender Joe Kinnear passes away aged 77 \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Joe Kinnear has passed away at the age of 77.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kinnear spent ten successful years at\u00a0Tottenham Hotspur\u00a0as a player between 1965 and 1975, making over 250 appearances for the north London club. During his time at White Hart Lane, Kinnear was a part of the Spurs sides which won the 1966\/67 FA Cup, the League Cup in 1970\/71 and 1972\/73, and the UEFA Cup in the 1971\/72 season.<\/p>\n<p>Following his retirement, the Dublin-born defender would go on to manager Wimbledon, Luton Town, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United, and also worked as the latter\u2019s director of football in his final two years in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Kinnear is perhaps best remembered a manager by Wimbledon fans. The manager won the LMA Manager of the Year award and three\u00a0Premier League\u00a0Manager of the Month awards during the 1993\/94 season as he guided Wimbledon to a remarkable sixth-place finish in the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>His family have released a statement regarding his passing, writing: : \u201cWe are sad to announce that Joe passed away peacefully this afternoon surrounded by his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As well as having a successful career in England, Kinnear was also the international manager for India back in 1984 and Nepal in 1987.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-322-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-847392\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kinnear has passed away at the age of 77. Kinnear spent ten successful years at\u00a0Tottenham Hotspur\u00a0as a player between 1965 and 1975, making over 250 appearances for the north London club. During his time at White Hart Lane, Kinnear was a part of the Spurs sides which won the 1966\/67 FA Cup, the League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Tottenham defender Joe Kinnear passes away aged 77 \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/former-tottenham-defender-joe-kinnear-passes-away-aged-77\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Tottenham defender Joe Kinnear passes away aged 77 \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joe Kinnear has passed away at the age of 77. 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