please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur host Swansea City at White Hart Lane on Sunday 16th December 2012 (KO 13:30) in the 16th round of matches in the 2012-13 Premier League season. Spurs come into the match in 5th place in the table on 26 points, while Swansea are in 8th place on 23 points. This will be the 40th time the two teams have met. Swansea City were founded in 1912 as Swansea Town (they changed their name to Swansea City in 1969) and joined the Second Division of the Southern League for the 1913-14 season. After World War One, The Jacks became members of the SL First Division and joined the Football League in season 1920-21 when the Southern League was incorporated to form the Third Division of the Football League. The following season the division was re-named the Third Division South. The first meeting between Spurs and Swansea came in the Second Division in November 1928 at Vetch Field with the home side winning 4-0. The reverse fixture in March 1929 at White Hart Lane ended in a 1-1 draw. The clubs met for a further eight seasons in Division Two between seasons 1930-31 and 1938-39 with 10 wins for Spurs, 2 wins for Swansea and 4 matches drawn. During the Second World War, the clubs played two games in the Football League South with a win each. The clubs played for two more seasons in Division Two after WW2 with three wins for Spurs and one for Swansea. Spurs and Swansea have played five games in the Football League Cup, the first of which came in the second round in September 1970 with Tottenham winning 3-0 at the Lane with goals from Steve Perryman, Martin Peters and Roger Morgan. Eight years later, Swansea drew with Spurs 2-2 at Vetch Field in the second round first leg and won 3-1 at White Hart Lane. The most recent League Cup meetings came in the second round in 1991 with Swansea winning 1-0 at home in the first leg and Spurs winning 5-1 at White Hart Lane with goals from Paul Stewart, Vinnie Samways, Gary Lineker, Paul Allen and an own goal. Swansea City won promotion to the Top Flight of English Football for the first time in season 1981-82 and were league leaders at one stage before finishing in 6th position. The match at Vetch Field in September 1981 resulted in a 2-1 win for The Swans with Glenn Hoddle scoring for Spurs, while the return match at the Lane in May 1982 was won 2-1 by Spurs with Gary Brooke scoring both goals. A similar set of results came in Swansea's second season in Division One with a 2-0 home win in Swansea and a 1-0 home win in Tottenham. The two clubs came in a friendly played in Swansea in November 1992, which resulted in a 3-3 draw. Tottenham Hotspur and Swansea City have never met in the FA Cup. Swansea became the first Welsh club to play in the Premier League by winning the play-off against Reading at Wembley 4-2 thanks mainly to a Scott Sinclair hat-trick. The fixture at the Liberty Stadium in December 2011 finished in a 1-1 draw with Spurs going ahead just before half-time through Rafael van der Vaart but Swansea salvaged a point with a late equaliser from Scott Sinclair. Rafael van der Vaart put Spurs 1-0 up at halftime in the match at White Hart Lane in April 2012 with a 19th minute goal. Sigurdsson equalised for Swansea in the 59th minute but a brace from Emmanuel Adebayor secured the three points for Spurs. During the summer Tottenham Hotspur signed Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson from 1899 Hoffenheim but who had been on loan at Swansea City for the 2011-12 season Overall, Spurs have won 21, Swansea have won 10 and 8 of the 39 matches played so far between the two clubs have been drawn. please log in to view this image Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Swansea City Matches 1928-2012 please log in to view this image They Played for Swansea & Spurs.... Terry Boyle Derek Brazil Ivor Brown Ron Burgess (also Swansea coach & manager) Steven Caulker Willie Davies Gerry Francis (Swansea player, Spurs manager) Roger Gibbins Mark Gower Charlie Handley Percy Hooper Jack Illingworth Cliff Jones Ernie Jones Mark Kendall Derek King Doug Livermore (Swansea coach, Spurs asst. manager) Terry Medwin (Spurs player, Swansea asst. manager) Joe Meek Paul Price Wayne Routledge Gylfi Sigurdsson Micky Stead Arthur Willis (Spurs player, Swansea coach) Alan Woods please log in to view this image Swansea City Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 2011-12 to 2012-13 Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2012-13 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
What a bloody good match thread, well done that man I'll take a point now, but we are capable of taking all 3 if we're at our best and Spurs have an off day. We do raise our game against the top sides so hoping for a good performance
Agreed!! Very well done. Spurs should be favourites but IF we play to our full potential we might get something.
I dont normally bother with match threads but i have to say thats one of the best ive ever seen on here,well done mate I think a 2-2 draw with the swans back on form
should be a close game but we have been terrible and very lucky to beat a championship side with an own goal in our last game so we had better not play like that against spurs or we will get hammered, Im still going for a spurs win as they are at home...2-1....love to win though...great match thread by the way...
Terrific thread mate, a real . We`re going to have to graft hard to get anything from this, a draw would be a good result.
Best Match thread I've seen ever, here's hoping the boys will put right that awful performance first half against Norwich tomorrow! I'm going for a 2-1 win to the Mighty Swans, another London win would be the fourth, man that would be great! .............. West Ham Arsenal QPR Spurs??............... Come on you Swans, get in there, I want that White Hart Lane record broken!........................ please log in to view this image
As much as I want it its going to be really tough to get anything tomorrow.... but this just might be our lucky weekend, Liverpool got whipped at home after Brendan spouted to the world he was targeting a 2nd place finish and our noisy neighbours lost their perfect home record to the club proping up the championship, so lucky weekend or have we already used up all our luck Great match day thread btw
