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Tottenham Hotspur host Crystal Palace at White Hart Lane on Saturday 11th January 2014, 2013 KO 15:00, in the 21st round of matches in the 2013-14 season.

Spurs come into the game in 6th place on 37 points with Palace in 18th place on 17 points. This will be the 93rd time the two clubs have played each other and the first at the Lane since December 2004.

Crystal Palace were founded in 1905 by the builders of the Crystal Palace (hence The Glaziers nickname) and played their first matches at the old Cup Final ground. They joined the Southern League Second Division for season 1905-06 and won promotion at the first attempt.

The first meeting between the two clubs came in the Southern League First Division in October 1906 with Spurs winning 3-0 at White Hart Lane and going on to do the double with a 1-0 away win in February 1907.

The 1907-08 season was the last for Tottenham in the Southern League and the two games against Palace ended with a win each. The clubs also played in the Western League that season with a win for both teams.

Spurs & Palace were regular opponents during the First World War and Tottenham enjoyed a run of nine consecutive wins against Palace during this period.

The first competitive game after WW1 came in the 1st Round (modern 3rd Round) of the FA Cup in January 1924 at The Nest in Croydon with Palace winning 2-0. They had previously played their games Herne Hill, Norwood and moved into their purpose-built stadium at Selhurst Park later in 1924.

Tottenham and Palace played several matches during World War Two with honours generally being fairly even.

Crystal Palace played their first season in the Top Flight of English Football in the 1969-70 season with Spurs winning both First Division matches 2-0. Jimmy Pearce and Martin Chivers got the goals at Selhurst Park while Alan Mullery and Steve Perryman were the scorers at White Hart Lane.

The clubs were also drawn together in the 4th Round of the 1969-70 FA Cup with Palace progressing after a 1-0 win in the replayed match in South London after the first game was goalless at the Lane.

Palace remained in the First Division for a further three seasons with Spurs winning four of the six matches and drawing the other two.

The clubs met in Division Two in 1977-78 with Spurs winning 2-1 at Selhurst Park (Ian Moores & John Duncan) and Palace getting a 2-2 draw at the Lane with Glenn Hoddle scoring a brace for Spurs. Tottenham won promotion at the end of that season.

Crystal Palace were back in the First Division for season 1979-80 and both matches against Tottenham were drawn.

The first Football League Cup game came in September 1980 with a 0-0 3rd Round draw at White Hart Lane followed by a 3-0 win at Selhurst Park in the replay with Ricky Villa, Glenn Hoddle and Garth Crooks all scoring.

The Eagles were founder members of the Premier League in 1992-93 but only lasted a season before being relegated. They returned for the 1994-95 season but fared no better and were again relegated. Their third season came in 1997-98 but failed to establish themselves and were relegated.
Palace were back again for the 2004-05 season but once again dropped down to the Championship.

The game at Selhurst Park in August 2013 was settled by a 50th minute Roberto Soldado penalty after Dean Moxey handled Aaron Lennon's cross.

The nine Premier League matches played between the two clubs resulted in three wins to Spurs and two to Palace with four games drawn.

Overall, Tottenham have won 41 of the 92 matches played so far with Crystal Palace winning 25 games and the remaining 26 drawn.


Clive Allen
Dean Austin
Chris Armstrong

Jimmy Bauchop
Ken Bennett
Ted Birnie
John Bostock
Terry Boyle
John Brearley
Johnny Brooks
Arthur Crompton
Jason Cundy
Edgar Davids
Chris Day

Bill Dodge
Dickie Dowsett
Terry Fenwick
Mike Flanagan
Gerry Francis
(Palace player & manager of both clubs)
Anthony Gardner
Johnny Gavin
George Graham
(Palace player, Spurs manager)
Andy Gray
Bob Hewitson
Charlie Hewitt
Phil Holder
Roger Hoy
Archie Hughes
Steffen Iversen
Chris Jones
John Lacy

David Levene
Jimmy McCormick
Bobby Mimms
Alan Mullery (Spurs player, Palace manager)
Jonathan Obika
Gary O'Reilly
Alan Pardew

George Payne
Derek Possee
Ron Reynolds (Spurs player, Palace scout)
Wayne Routledge
Arthur Rowe (spurs player & manager, Palace manager & director)
Neil Ruddock
Charlie Rundle
Cyril Spiers (Spurs player, Palace manager)
Neil Sullivan
Paul Stewart
Perry Suckling
(Palace player, Spurs goalkeeping coach)
Peter Taylor
Jack Tresadren (manager of both clubs)
Andy Turner
David Tuttle
Dennis Uphill
Terry Venables
(also manager of both clubs)
Ernie Walley (Spurs player, Palace caretaker manager)
Claude Watson

 
We can play 4-4-2 here, despite it's obvious failure yesterday.

---------------------Lloris-------------------
Walker--Dawson--Chiriches--Rose
Lamela--Capoue--Dembele--Eriksen
------------Adebayor---------------------------------------------------------Soldado
 
Just want to pump a load of goals past them. Soldado to score from open play & keeping a clean sheet shouldn't be too difficult. It's only Chamakh too keep out!
 
Woolwich away was always gonna be extremely difficult, no matter the manager and players available. This however, is a perfect oppurtunity to build on the positives from the Stoke game, and show that breaking down "lesser" teams at home is not as difficult as it looked under AVB. Would love to see Sandro and Vertonghen back for this!
 
Lets get the Woolwich disappointment behind us and push on to beat Palace. This morning on reflection, I haven't a problem getting kicked out the cup, its getting beat by the scum that hurts. Hopefully we can get revenge in the league, March 15th and make amends. I would rather have the 3 points and assist in stopping them winning the league.
 
Woolwich away was always gonna be extremely difficult, no matter the manager and players available. This however, is a perfect oppurtunity to build on the positives from the Stoke game, and show that breaking down "lesser" teams at home is not as difficult as it looked under AVB. Would love to see Sandro and Vertonghen back for this!
Thats the sprit.
 
This is a game where we could really play a 4-4-2 for once and given that most of our injured players will not have recovered, i am not expecting to see anything else. It would be a good time to start building on our confidence as a team and hit some form because our fixtures in March look horrific and we need to be ready for them. Winning by a large goal difference would be nice.
 
Our players owe us the fans this season.. They have let us down in too many games that mean a lot to the fans.

Losing to Spam twice, losing to the Filth and getting hammered 6-0 and 0-5.. We have been subjected to many joke and ridiculed.. They owe us big time and by doing that they need to finish top 4 and smash Spam and Woolwich along the way.

We have had some embarrassing and horrible results this season, give us something to smile about.. The ManYoo result went along way, let's beat this shower at least 4-0..
 
Only our 2nd Sat 3pm kick off of the season. Shocking really.

Expect nothing less than a win and a good performance for this one. We are superior to them in every position on the pitch.
 
my only prediction for this game is that Sherwood will use approximately a million and one clichés in his pre and post match interviews and Pulis will wear a ridiculous baseball hat and matching tracksuit.
 
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