All the matches from the first Group Stage of the U21 Premier League have now been completed. The second Group Stage clubs for 2013 are: U-21 PREMIER LEAGUE ELITE GROUP 2012-13 Arsenal Liverpool Manchester United Southampton Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers U-21 PREMIER LEAGUE QUALIFICATION TIER 1 2012-13 Aston Villa Blackburn Rovers Chelsea Everton Fulham Middlesbrough Sunderland U-21 PREMIER LEAGUE QUALIFICATION TIER 2 2012-13 Bolton Wanderers Crystal Palace Manchester City Newcastle United Norwich City Reading Stoke City The winners of Qualification tiers 1 & 2 will play-off for the Semi-Finals, where they will be joined by the first three clubs in the Elite Group. Under-21 Barclays Premier League Season 2012-13
Our win would've put Chelsea through as the 3rd place side with the most points, but Southampton battered Newcastle 5-1, so they leapfrogged them. Shame...
Final score from this evening in the FA Youth Cup is Cheltenham 0 Spurs 1. We are away to West Ham in the next round. Our goal tonight came from Coulthirst, a young man who is having a fine season.
It's good to hear the youth's doing well,gives you hope for the future,wonder how many will make the 1st team?
Well our track record in bringing youth through is not impresive, but with the new training facilities and a manager who does show willingness to give youth a chance, then we can live in hope.
So our under 18s are throught to the next round with a 1-0 win over Cheltenham. That boy Coulthirst seems to be having a cracking season and Onomah again got a start for our youth side. http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/spurs/News/fayc-live-18122012.page
Goals from the win against Villa: [video=youtube;oYQ6QEsZig8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQ6QEsZig8[/video] Strange call of "Offside!" after the third.
We start the next stage of this excellent competition a week today when we entertain Wolves in the Elite division. We have 14 fixtures between January 14 and April 22 before the competition then goes to a knock out stage. We will also meet our ex youth manager Alex Inglethorpe as Liverpool are also in this Elite group. Our fixtures are as follows - Jan 14 Wolves home Jan 21 WBA away Jan 26 Southampton home Feb 4 West Ham home Feb 11 Liverpool away Feb 18 Man Utd away Feb 23 Arsenal home March 4 Wolves away March 11 WBA home March 18 Southampton away Apr 1 Liverpool home Apr 8 West Ham away Apr 15 Man Utd home Apr 22 Arsenal away
Today we kick off the next stage of this competition with a home game against Wolves. Todays line up is as follows - Miles, Fredericks, Fryers, Veljkovic, Hall, Livermore, Falque, Mason, Obika, Carroll and Townsend.
No Assou-Ekotto, SC? I thought he'd be eased back in like Parker was. With today's game nearly a full week before the visit of Fergie and his officials, I'm surprised at the omission. Still no Pritchard, either. Dodgy. Why do we seem to have no problem with scoring set-pieces at this level, yet our first XI's crap at them?
