please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur host Everton at White Hart Lane on Wednesday 11th January 2012 in a Premier League match which was postponed from the opening day of the season and will now be the 20th game played by both teams. Spurs come into the match in third place in the League on 42 points, which is a club record for the first half of a Premier League season, while Everton find themselves in 11th place on 24 points. This will be the 168th time the two clubs have met. The first meeting came in April 1897 in an end of season friendly match at Tottenham Marshes which Spurs won 2-1. Everton were founder-members of the Football League and had just finished 7th in the First Division while Spurs were in the Southern League and had finished 4th. A further friendly was played at Goodison Park on New Year's Day 1902 which Everton won 3-1. The clubs' first competitive match came in the old First Round (today's Third Round) of the FA Cup in February 1904 at Goodison Park which Spurs won 2-1 with a Vivian Woodward goal and an own goal from Everton's Balmer. Both clubs embarked on a central European tour in the summer of 1905 an met twice with Everton winning both matches 2-0 in Vienna and 1-0 in Prague. A second FA Cup meeting came in January 1908 with Spurs losing 1-0 at Everton. At the end of that season, both Spurs and Everton set sail for a tour of South America and played two exhibition matches in Palermo, Argentina with the first game drawn 0-0 and Everton winning the second 4-0. On the voyage home, Spurs 'borrowed' the ship captain's parrot who lived happilly for a decade at the Tottenham offices in the High Road until it dropped dead the day news came through that Arsenal had stolen Spurs' First Division place in 1919. The first Football League meetings came in the First Division in the 1909-10 season with Everton winning 4-2 at Goodison and Spurs winning 3-0 at the Lane. The clubs then met regularly in the First Division up to season 1927-28 with eight wins for Spurs, ten wins for Everton and eight matches drawn. The only League meetings between the two clubs outside the Top Flight of English Football came in season 1930-31 in the Second Division with Everton winning 4-2 at Goodison Park and Spurs winning 1-0 at White Hart Lane. The clubs met for two more seasons in Division One before the outbreak of World War Two with a win apiece and two games drawn. Spurs won a 3rd Round FA Cup tie 3-0 at home in 1934 and a 5th round tie at home in 1937 4-3 after a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park. The first meeting after WW2 came in the 5th Round at Goodison Park in February 1950 with Everton winning 1-0. Spurs regained their First Division status in 1950-51 and did the 'double' over Everton on their way to the first Football League Championship won by Tottenham Hotspur with a 2-1 away win and a 3-0 home win. Everton lost their First Division place that same season along with Sheffield Wednesday, while Chelsea escaped the drop on goal average. Everton were back in the First Division for the 1954-55 season and the clubs have met in the Top Flight for every subsequent season to date, except for 1977-78 when Spurs dropped down to the Second Division for one season. Bill Nicholson's first game as Tottenham's manager came at White Hart Lane in October 1958 and Spurs were 6-1 up at half-time and went on to beat Everton 10-4. A League game at White Hart Lane in December 1969 was abandoned due to floodlight failure after 29 minutes. The two clubs met in February and March of 1986 in a competition called the Screen Sport Super Cup, which was introduced to give teams who would have qualified for the European competitions some compensation, as English clubs were banned from Europe. The first match at White Hart Lane ended goalless while Everton won the return leg 3-1. The only Football League Cup meeting between the clubs came in the Fourth Round in October 2009 with Spurs winning 2-0 at the Lane with goals from Tom Huddlestone and Robbie Keane. Both Tottenham Hotspur and Everton were founder-members of the Premier League and are two of the seven clubs who have been ever-present for the entire 20 seasons of the competition, along with Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United. Spurs have taken more points off Everton in the Premier League than from any other opponent. The 68 points won by Spurs against Everton in the 38 matches played to date gives an average of 1.79 points won per game. The meetings last season in the Premier League only yielded one point for Spurs, which came in a 1-1 draw at the Lane in October 2010. The reverse fixture in January 2011 was won 1-2 by Everton. Rafael van der Vaart scored both Spurs' goals last season. Overall, Spurs have won 60 of the 167 matches played so far with Everton winning 57 and 50 matches drawn. please log in to view this image Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Everton Matches 1897-2012 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & Everton.... Jamie Attwell John Barlow Nick Barmby John Brearley Frank Brettell (Everton player, Spurs manager) Charlie Brown Bob Cain John Cameron (also Spurs manager) Simon Davies Anthony Gardner Paul Gascoigne David Ginola Richard Gough Charlie O'Hagan Ted Hughes Pat Jennings Steve Kelly John Kirwan Gary Lineker Bobby Mimms Charlie Morgan Steven Pienaar Robert Pilch Vinny Samways Pat Van den Hauwe John Watson Alex Young please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2011-12 Everton Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2011-12 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
I can't stand playing Everton, they just love fouling us, and for some reason the refs think it's fair game. To give them their due, some of their are very good at serial fouling in a sly way. Also expect the old tactic of 'I'll foul 'x' till I get a yellow, then you take over'. At one time Everton were known as the 'School of Science', unfortunately now they are more like the 'Sink Estate of Dirty Deeds'. After Stoke, they are the team whose approach I dislike the most. I'm not saying Everton always play in a horrible manner, but they do against us, which is what matters to me. I expect niggly negativity from them in this game, just hope the ref is on top of it. Also I hope our fans are fired up enough to make their resentment clear. Up at Goodison they claim for everything, even a leaf tripping up one of their players, we need to show similar bias and ferocity at our home ground.
Jesus Christ! Where did you get that Pat Jennings stat from? I didn't believe it until I checked, then I found out 'he was briefly on Evertons books as goalkeeping cover for the 1986 FA Cup Final after Southall got injured playing for Wales'.
Likely to be a tight game. Everton have had some decent results at the Lane over the past few years. Going for 2-1 Spurs. Rafa and Modric. Cheers again THFC6061, always a good read
Don't know the ref Deedub. The one last year was an absolute disgrace, the only reason Neville had Bale 'in his pocket' is because the ref allowed serial fouls on Bale without a red card. Also they kept fouling Crouch in the area and we should have had at least one penalty.
At last we know it can't be Webb surely. What I want to now is who is going to mark their main scorer (Howard)! Seriously,we need to draw them out , instead of doing what we did against West Brom which was letting them settle into a defensive pattern. Oops nearly forgot good job 6061.
Pat Jennings wasn't at Everton very long and he returned from his loan spell up there to play one more game for Spurs in the Screen Super Sport Cup - a competition invented as compensation for the English club's exclusion from UEFA European competitions. He also played in the 1986 World Cup Finals in Mexico for Northern Ireland as a Spurs player, making him the oldest footballer to take part in the compeition at the time.
It was noticable how Hodgson had the players take their turn in fouling Bale once he got up and going. Perhaps if Halsey hadn't left his cards in the dressing room for the first half, they'd have more than 3 yellow cards for fouling him. I'd suggest keeping Bale as far away from Heitinga as possible.
Ref for Everton....Atkinson. http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/match-official-appointments-11-jan.html Likes a straight Red!... http://www.worldfootball.net/schiedsrichter/eng-premier-league-2011-2012/1/
Your usual high standard has been maintained, 6061. The most cynical foul that Neville performed against Bale last season, and the one that really wound me up, was both subtle and extremely dangerous. He intentionally unbalanced him by backing in when the Welsh lad was in the air for a header, forcing him to land badly. Disrupted the rest of his season, but was largely missed. Nasty stuff, really. Should be a good incentive for Pienaar to put on a top display against Cheltenham, assuming he starts. He won't need motivating to play well against Everton, but it'll be hard for him to get into the side in the first place. I think that there's a place in the first XI up for grabs at the moment, if not two, so I hope to see some of our squad players trying to grab the chance with both hands.
Well, waddya know... Mother Nature has one more assist than Pav. Anyone know if G-d is selling her this window?
Someone pointed out yesterday that the wind now has 1 more assist this season than £20m Liverpool winger, Stewart Downing! Still, he's only played 20 games and made 73 crosses.
To be fair, the wind has been there for every minute too and only contributed 1 goal. Probably find Liverpool making an offer soon?
