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title: "Tottenham Hotspur: Fans flock to club’s birthday tweet for Brad Friedel"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/tottenham-fans-birthday-tweet-brad-friedel/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Thomas Ward"
section: "Premier League"
published: "2020-05-19T10:00:30Z"
modified: "2020-05-19T10:00:30Z"
---

# Tottenham Hotspur: Fans flock to club’s birthday tweet for Brad Friedel

**Many Tottenham fans flocked to a tweet from [the club’s Twitter account](https://twitter.com/SpursOfficial/status/1262321239508619264) wishing former Spurs player Brad Friedel a happy birthday as he [turned 49 yesterday](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/brad-friedel/profil/spieler/3476).**

After arriving at White Hart Lane from Aston Villa on [a free transfer](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/brad-friedel/profil/spieler/3476) back in 2011, Friedel went on to make 67 appearances for the Lilywhites in all competitions. He also played for a number of English clubs including the likes of Liverpool, Aston Villa and Blackburn. The veteran goalkeeper notably won the League Cup with the latter in 2002.

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The American played 450 games in the [Premier League](https://www.premierleague.com/players/1420/Brad-Friedel/stats) throughout his entire career, keeping 132 clean sheets, making 771 saves, saving six penalties and taking 241 high claims. He completed a staggering 1,231 throw outs before finally hanging up his gloves in 2015.

His performances between the sticks drew plenty of high praise from ex-Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp, who famously remarked “Brad, again, he’s a fantastic professional, his record of consecutive games in the Barclays Premier League has been amazing” in 2011 (via [Goal](https://www.goal.com/en/news/9/english-football/2011/10/13/2709773/tottenhams-harry-redknapp-praises-peformances-of-scott)).

As expected, a whole plethora of Spurs fans fawned over the “absolute legend”, with one supporter tweeting he was a “fantastic keeper” and another adding: “love this guy.”

Scroll down through the rest of the best reactions below…

> Legend
>
> — Balmon (@Balmon\_10) [May 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/Balmon_10/status/1262322486634397700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> He was the best goalie we had ever got
>
> — Mark Calvett (@markcalvett) [May 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/markcalvett/status/1262330472459382786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Fantastic keeper
>
> — P@ Kent (@MagusPerde) [May 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/MagusPerde/status/1262322974641790976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Lloris could never
>
> — george (@George\_D13) [May 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/George_D13/status/1262321553703931905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Absolute legend
>
> — – Bagged again (@TanguyNfatbelly) [May 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/TanguyNfatbelly/status/1262332178752569344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Brad brought some much needed stability to that position. Happy birthday, big man.
>
> — Cad Bane (@LanreAwode) [May 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/LanreAwode/status/1262362065743863808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Love this guy
>
> — scotty (@sjcotty97) [May 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/sjcotty97/status/1262380743642288135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***Tottenham fans, do you miss Brad Friedel between the goalposts? Let us know in the comments section below!***