please log in to view this image Manchester United visit Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on Sunday 20th January 2013 (KO 16:00) in the 23rd round of matches in the 2012-13 season. Spurs come into the match in 4th place on 40 points with United in first place on 55 points. It will be the 183rd meeting between the two clubs who were the "glamour teams" of the 1960s. Tottenham Hotspur's first meeting with Manchester United came in the old 1st round (today's 3rd round) of the FA Cup in January 1899 when United were known as Newton Heath. The match was drawn 1-1 at Northumberland Park, but Spurs won the replay 5-3 at Bank Street in Clayton, Manchester. A decade later the two clubs met for the first time in a Football League match with United drawing 2-2 at White Hart Lane in the First Division. The reverse fixture at Old Trafford was easilly won by United 5-0. Tottenham's first League win over United came in November 1911 2-1 at Old Trafford. Both clubs met for four seasons in the Second Division during the 1930s. Since the start of football after WW2, all League meetings have taken place in the Top Flight of the English League system. In 1952, both clubs toured North America and played two exhibition matches with Spurs winning 5-0 in Toronto, Canada and 7-1 in New York, USA. The clubs were drawn together in the 1963-64 European Cup Winners' Cup with Spurs winning 2-0 at the Lane and United winning 4-1 at Old Trafford. Old Trafford was the venue for the 1967 FA Charity Shield with League Champions United and FA Cup Winners Spurs drawing 3-3 in a game most remembered for goalkeeper Pat Jennings' long-range goal. The Charity Shield was shared. August 1979 saw the clubs meet for the first time in the Football League Cup and Glenn Hoddle's magnificent volly was the winning goal in a 2-1 Spurs victory at White Hart Lane. United went on to win the second leg at Old Trafford 3-1. In June 1983, the clubs played two matches in Swaziland, Southern Africa, resulting in a win each. Prior to this season, Spurs last win at Old Trafford came in December 1989 thanks to a Gary Lineker goal. The clubs have only ever met in one Domestic Cup Final - the 2009 Football League (Carling) Cup Final at Wembley, which ended in a 0-0 draw after extra time. United won the subsequent penalty shoot-out. Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur were founder members of the Premier League in 1992-93 and are two of the seven clubs who have been ever-present up to the 2012-13 season - Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton and Liverpool being the other five. The fixtures during season 2010-11 saw United win 2-0 at Old Trafford in October while the reverse match at White Hart Lane ended in a 0-0 draw. 2010-11 was the first season when both Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur competed together in the UEFA Champions League. Both clubs won their respective Group Stages and progressed to the Knock-Out Phase. Spurs eventually went out to Real Madrid in the Quarter Finals while Manchester United made it to the Final, only to lose to Barcelona. The away fixture at Old Trafford last season in August resulted in a 3-0 win for United with goals from Danny Welbeck, who headed in Tom Cleverley's cross just after 60 minutes and he then produced a wonderful instinctive flick to set up a second for Anderson. Wayne Rooney scored with a pinpoint late header from Ryan Giggs's centre. The game at White Hart Lane in March 2012 was won by United 3-1. Wayne Rooney scored on the stroke of half-time to put the visitors ahead at the break. Further goals were added with a brace from Ashely Young before Jermain Defoe got one back for Spurs with three minutes remaining. This season's earlier fixture at Old Trafford resulted in an historic 3-2 win for Tottenham - their first in the League at Old Trafford in 23 years. Jan Vertonghen's second minute strike was deflected-in off Jonny Evans and Gareth Bale added a second goal after 32 minutes. United hit back through Luis Nani after 51 minutes but Spurs restored their two goal cushion a minute later with a Clint Dempsey goal. Shinji Kagawa scored United's second goal a minute later and Spurs survived the pressure for a United equaliser to come away with three very well earned points. Former Manchester United defender Zeki Fryers joined Spurs in January 2013 from Standard Liege in Belgium. Overall, United have a very good record over Spurs with 86 wins to 50 with 46 of the 182 matches played so far drawn. please log in to view this image Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur Complete Match History 1899 to 2013 please log in to view this image They Played for United & Spurs.... Jamie Attwell David Beckham (United player, Spurs trainee) Dimitar Berbatov Bill Berry Alan Brazil Jimmy Brown Fraizer Campbell Michael Carrick Garth Crooks Harry Erentz Quinton Fortune Zeki Fryers Terry Gibson Tommy Gipps Greoge Graham (United player, Spurs manager) Jack Hall Stewart Houston (United player, Spurs asst. manager) David Gwilan Jones Joe Jordan (United player, Spurs coach) Cyril Knowles Chris McGrath James McNaught Fred Milnes Louis Saha Teddy Sheringham please log in to view this image Manchester United Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 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
Now this is a quality matchday thread for next Sunday. Please rename it appropriately. I hope we get the win as the 2-3 loss still burns and things need to be set right.
Someone made a matchday thread for a game before Matth. What the **** is going on? Quality effort though it has to be said.
Potentially it could be a cracking game. With any luck we'll be missing Adebayor when he finally links up with Togo, which means that we'll stop playing 2 strikers when it clearly doesn't work. It does mean we'll rely on Defoe being fit but frankly I'm tired of an out of form Adebayor playing alongside Defoe when the formation doesn't suit us anymore. It's even been putting Defoe off his game, he's only scored 1 league goal when Ade's been on the pitch. Dempsey and Sigurdsson have both been improving since their poor starts to the season too and deserve to be getting more gametime. What about you guys, do you think Fergie will prioritise your game against West Ham as you have a bit of a cushion in the league at the moment, or do you think you'll rotate a few players in for that game and keep RVP and the likes fresh for our game?
Sir Alex always favours the prem over the domestic cups, This is a going to be a real close match. Would be a massive 3 points if we can get an away win here.
I think it's oly Arsenal fans that can't handle a bit of snow, Tottenham fans appear to be made of sterner stuff. Same as the teams then. We need to win this game. If we do, we'll have beaten City, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelase and Liverpool in the away fixtures, which would be be title winning form it has to be said. I can't see us allowing Spurs to do the double over us so I don't really expect us to lose, tough game though it is. Another nice Sunday evening viewing.
Bad feeling about this weekend. A bunch of good things have happened in my sports world and I'm afraid it's time for the balance of nature to take its toll.
