Article: Tottenham Hotspur v Queens Park RangersMatch History 1890-2011 | Football, Tottenham Hotspur

Think the game is on TV Chirpy.So i'll be getting a few cans in.

 

exellect,croydon!.

 

Me too PBH. I fancy this one. Looking forward to an upset at West Brom and us sliding into 4th.

 

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...with Routledge as the runt of the litter!

 

This match is a home banker for Spurs. I said last week on our thread titled Our next 3 games that we will beat Chelsea and Man City narrowly at Loftus Road but will get thumped at the Lane. Ive been right with my first prediction. Still the 3,000 Rs fans will enjoy the trip to Tottenham and even if when we get beat the team will get a standing ovation at the end. Still 6pts out of 9pts aint bad. Wish we still had Kyle Walker a quality player.

 

As a Spurs fan, I can safely say that there's no such thing as a home banker for Spurs!
We go from beating Wigan 9-1 one season, to losing to the same side 1-0 the next.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...3/Shaun-Derry-Chelsea-dont-like-it-up-em.html

Having read this today, I think we can safely say the R's will try to do a number on us aswell, for the first half hour in particular. Not too bothered really, we've had better sides kick us up in the air...and fail!, Milan spring to mind. The tactic is risky with cards just as easily given to them, so we'll see. If I were an R's fan, it was a fine result, but it would bother me who the busier keeper was when Chelsea had 9 men. I think we'll win, Taarabt will try too hard and end up 'megging' himself (as already been seen many times at the Lane!), Ade is due a couple, and Donkey Derry doesn't faze Parker.

 

Perhaps their main tactic will be to make our players collapse laughing as the fans chant "Come on you Rs"

Oh come on, I can't be the only one who did a double-take watching MOTD2, can I?

 

Surely 'Up the Rs' is worse

Then again bearing in mind their slang connotations - 'C'mon you Irons' and 'Up the Cottagers' can also seem fairly risible, if you are of a juvenile nature, which I am, of course not

 

Especially when it comes to newly promoted teams!

Spurs have never taken the maximum points available from newly promoted clubs during any season of the Premier League so far.

We have lost at least one match to a newly promoted club in every season except for 1995-96, when there were only two clubs who came up from the second flight.

Our best points haul was 12 in the three seasons 2001-02, 2002-03 & 2003-04 and our worst performance was just 5 points in the first Premier League season in 1992-93.

So far, we have won 96 points at home and 74 points away for a total of 170 points won against the newly promoted clubs.

We have played 118 matches going into Sunday's game against Queens Park Rangers, which gives an average of 1.44 points won per game against newly promoted clubs. This is only slightly better than our overall Premier League points per game average.

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Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Record v Newly Promoted Clubs 1992-93 to 2011-12

 

I wish I could say that this is surprising to me, but I think that we're all used to it now.
Hopefully Redknapp will be aware of it too, so he can use it as a motivation tool.

 

Here's an interesting article and table on this issue.

http://www.sportingintelligence.com...nance-over-to-city-united-and-rovers-261002/?

Unsurprisingly Chelsea top the table for 'beating up the new boys', and the top 3 are the top 3 of the Prem era, but we lag behind teams like Blackburn and Wigan in PPG. A sad indictment on the way we have approached some games, I feel.

Incidentally, a win against QPR will lift us into 12th spot in this particular table (I think), above ..... Man City.

However, they've been rapidly climbing this particular table in recent years.

EDIT - A point of note, SI's figures differ to 6061 it seems, surely SI is in the wrong

 

I asked for the cross thread with QPR to be removed which they have done. If you wish to continue your discussion go to the link: http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/96793-Spurs-V-QPR

Perhaps a visit to the thread to address their lack of manners might be in order. Now that we have control back to both sides.

 

You lot are very confident and quite rightly so. However, we are not a team of kickers. We didn't kick Chelsea, we just hustled them and got in their faces with the crowd being the very hostile 12th man.
I only hope your team are as over-confident as you lot. It's the only way I can see us getting anything from the game. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Spurs and like their tradition for playing good football. I don't quite get all the dislike coming our way from you lot though?

 

Sorry for being a tad slow...I don't get what you're saying there!!?

 

I have always likened it to going swimming with sharks! I now avoid contact with that board unless it's a cross board effort and it remains reasonable. I dread our match day with them!

 

HI RC - I haven't noticed any particular dislike coming your team's way. Some posters have had a bit of a 'to-do', but I don't know of any particular Rangers hostility amongst Spurs fans. I can think of five London clubs 'just like that' that I do have degrees of hostility to, but QPR isn't one of them.

I wish you well this season, but naturally we are confident about this game, currently only City are playing better than us in the whole country, so as we're at home, a degree of confidence is not surprising. Naturally, our players mustn't be over-confident, but they know they're in great form and so should go out in a bullish mood. That might help Rangers, then again it might not.

 

It could be misheard as "come on you arse".

 

Oh....right....Ooh, very good!

 

Thanks for the sensible reply Ghoddle10. You're quite right when you say you should have no problems with us on Sunday. We have maybe got our hopes up after Sunday's win, but I expect you to turn us over by 2 or 3 goals. Should be a good atmosphere though. Out travelling support is usually pretty loud.
Good luck for the rest of the season. Hope you get 4th spot and really hope you finish above Arsenal who I've always detested!!