"Not a penalty. Your arms naturally go up when you jump, it wasn't intentional handball". Stoke fans, yesterday.
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I never usually do these but I'd go for 4132:
Lloris
Walker Chiriches Dawson Rose
Sandro/Capoue
Lamela Eriksen Chadli
Soldado Ade
Walker Chiriches Dawson Rose
Sandro/Capoue
Lamela Eriksen Chadli
Soldado Ade
If you made it through the Great Wet Spam Disaster of White Hart Lane in October 2013, I believe you'll survive anything.
I'm just going to watch it from their head office. Save the hassle.
Tottenham Hotspur host Stoke City at White Hart Lane on Sunday 29th December 2013 (KO 16:00) in the 19th round of 2013-14 Premier League matches.
Spurs come into the match in 8th place in the Premier League on 31 points with Stoke in 10th place on 21 points. This will be the 86th time the two teams have met.
The first ever meeting came at the Victoria Ground when Stoke City were playing as Stoke FC in the old first round of the FA Cup in February 1896 in a match Stoke won 5-0.
Stoke had become one of the 12 founding members of the Football League in 1888 and the clubs were drawn together in the third round of the FA Cup in February 1899 at the Victoria Ground with Stoke winning 4-1.
The first match at White Hart Lane between the clubs was a friendly played in March 1900 with Spurs, then Champions of the Southern League, beating Stoke 6-0.
Spurs joined the Football League for the 1908-09 season, replacing Stoke who had resigned at the end of the previous season for financial reasons. The clubs didn't meet in a League match until April 1920 in the Second Division with Tottenham winning 2-0 at the Lane and 3-1 at the Victoria Ground.
The first meeting in Division One came in March 1923 at Stoke which resulted in a 0-0 draw. Spurs won the reverse fixture at the Lane a week later 3-1.
The clubs met for five seasons in the Second Division between 1928 to 1933 and for two seasons in Division One from 1934 to 1935.
After the Second World War, the clubs met in the modern FA Cup third round in January 1947 at White Hart Lane which resulted in a 2-2 draw with Stoke winning the replay 1-0 thanks to a Stanley Matthews goal.
Three years later, Spurs beat Stoke 1-0 away in the third round.
Spurs were Football League Champions in 1950-51 and beat Stoke 6-1 at home but could only draw 0-0 away during that season.
Every League game played between Spurs and Stoke since WW2 has taken place in the Top Flight, except for season 1977-78 when Spurs spent a single season in Division Two, beating Stoke 3-1 in both matches.
The clubs met in the FA Cup in January 1976 with a 1-1 draw at the Lane followed by a 2-1 win for Stoke in the replay.
Tottenham Hotspur were founder members of the Premier League in 1992-93 but Stoke City's first season in the competition only came in 2008-09 with Stoke winning 2-1 at the Britannia Stadium and Spurs winning 3-1 at the Lane.
During 2009-10, Stoke won 1-0 at White Hart Lane with Spurs winning 2-1 at the Britannia.
In 2010-11, Spurs did the "double" over Stoke, winning the away fixture 2-1 with a brace of goals from Gareth Bale and the home fixture 3-2 in April with a double from Peter Crouch and a Luka Modric goal.
The teams met for the first time in the Football League (Carling) Cup 3rd round in September 2011 at Stoke and the match finished in a goalless draw after extra time. Stoke went on to win the penalty shoot-out 7-6. Spurs youngster Massimo Luongo penalty was saved by Thomas Sorensen.
The 2011-12 Premier League game at the Britannia Stadium in December was won 2-1 by Stoke with a Matthew Etherington brace putting the Potters 2-0 up at half-time. Tottenham's Emmanuel Adebayor pulled a goal back from the penalty spot after 62 minutes but defender Younes Kaboul was sent-off after collecting two yellow cards. The match at White Hart Lane in March 2012 resulted in a 1-1 draw. After a goalless first half, Cameron Jerome put the visitors ahead after 75 minutes but a Rafael van der Vaart header in the dying moments of the game ensured that honours were even.
The match at White Hart Lane in December 2012 finished in a goalless draw. The match had few clear-cut chances for either team.
A Steven Nzonzi header after just 3 minutes put Stoke ahead in the match at Britannia Stadium in May 2013 but Clint Dempsey equalised after 20 minutes. The winning goal came from Emmanuel Adebayor seven minutes from time.
Overall, Spurs have won 42 games, Stoke have won 23 games and the remaining 20 matches of the 85 played have been drawn.
Paul Allen
Garry Brooke
Joe Brough
George Clawley
Garth Crooks
Peter Crouch
Matthew Etherington
Ray Evans
Márton Fülöp
Eiður Guðjohnsen
Ken Han****
Archie Heggarty
Stephen Kelly
Fred Latham
Billy Leech
Gerry Mahon
Ian Moores
James Morton
Wilson Palacios
Tony Parks
Jimmy Robertson
Hans Segers
Paul Stewart
Charlie Wilson
Jonathan Woodgate
---------------------------Archer
----------------Fredericks - Freund
Chadli - Bentaleb - Sherwood - Sigurdsson
----Defoe - Obika - Ferdinand - Adebayor
----------------Fredericks - Freund
Chadli - Bentaleb - Sherwood - Sigurdsson
----Defoe - Obika - Ferdinand - Adebayor
Think Sherwood wants to put his stamp on the team so I wouldn't be surprised to see Fredericks start. Bentaleb will probably also be ahead of Capoue. He didn't use Capoue in the last 2 games where it was clear we needed him, that's really starting to fuck me off now.
I saw @
BushHillSpurs
post RE Capoue not showing enough to be included in the team. The performances your speaking of came when he was not playing in his favoured position and in 1 game, against the most in form Striker in the world. Capoue needs to be in this 11, especially when Sandro isn't playing. The biggest bargain we got out of all the summer deals, and for whatever reason, Tim doesn't fancy him and his excuse to why he didn't play against Southampton really irritated me.
Capoue will give Eriksen the license to go forward and protect the back 4, exactly what we have needed.
I'm going tomorrow and have to sit in the lower east, right at the end, near the Paxton. horrible moany atmosphere round there and if we struggle to score early against these I think it could be as bad as I would have expierienced. And having the 1882 nights to compare to it, make it a lot worse.
For tomorrow:
Give Lamela and Capoue 90 minutes
Stick with Ade and Soldado
Let Eriksen play in the 'number 10' role
3-1 spurs
I saw @
BushHillSpurs
post RE Capoue not showing enough to be included in the team. The performances your speaking of came when he was not playing in his favoured position and in 1 game, against the most in form Striker in the world. Capoue needs to be in this 11, especially when Sandro isn't playing. The biggest bargain we got out of all the summer deals, and for whatever reason, Tim doesn't fancy him and his excuse to why he didn't play against Southampton really irritated me. Capoue will give Eriksen the license to go forward and protect the back 4, exactly what we have needed.
I'm going tomorrow and have to sit in the lower east, right at the end, near the Paxton. horrible moany atmosphere round there and if we struggle to score early against these I think it could be as bad as I would have expierienced. And having the 1882 nights to compare to it, make it a lot worse.
For tomorrow:
Give Lamela and Capoue 90 minutes
Stick with Ade and Soldado
Let Eriksen play in the 'number 10' role
3-1 spurs
Just play Lamela.
We are pretty much the only club in the world who would buy one of Europe's most promising youngsters, bench them and play Azza and Townsend instead :bae:
We are playing Stoke not Real Madrid.
sorts out Hughes' post match interview for him..
"well, mark, that 180-nil, and you only ever had the ball to kick off. any comment?"
"Yes, at 105-0, a throw was given to the opposition that should have been ours. It's these kinds of mistakes on pivotal decisions that get managers sacked, etc etc etc"
Suspend that Adam cunt for lifetime. He's just out there to injure.
WE GOT 3 POINTS.
WE SCORED 3 GOALS.
DEMBELE AND LENNON SCORED.
FRYERS AND NAUGHTON WERE VERY GOOD.
PAULINHO SHOWED SOME MAGIC.
IMPORTANT VICTORY.
:eriksenlol:
BRING ON UNITED!!
Have to get something out of the united game. With Everton and Liverpool both being strong this year, as well as Citeh, Woolwich and Chelsea all looking nailed on for top 4, we really need to step it up a gear in this second half of the season. We're still in it, but this United game will be a big test for us under Sherwood.
said that to my plastic scouser brother the other day. that liverpool, despite all the press fawning, have basically played as well as they can over the 19 games so far. and yet they are only two points clear of both us and man Ure, out of the top 4, and city ( away from home) and chelsea havn't really hit their straps. If I were a liverpool fan, I would be very worried. If we hit some form and ManUre hit some form, they might find 6th hard to get.