please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur host Everton at White Hart Lane on Sunday 7th April 2013 (KO 14:05) in the 32nd round of Premier League matches for the 2012-13 season. Spurs come into the match in 3rd place in the League on 57 points, while Everton are in 6th place on 51 points This will be the 171st 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 21 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 71 points won by Spurs against Everton in the 41 matches played to date gives an average of 1.73 points won per game. The 2010-11 meetings 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. The Toffees' goals were scored by Leighton Baines at Spurs and Louis Saha & Seamus Coleman at Goodison Park. Rafael van der Vaart scored both Spurs' goals last season. Spurs' home game last season was re-arranged from the opening day to January 2012 due to rioting in the Tottenham area. Spurs won the match 2-0 with goals from Aaron Lennon and a belter from Benoit Assou-Ekotto. During the January transfer window, Spurs signed Everton's French striker Louis Saha while Steven Pienaar moved in the opposite direction on loan until the end of the season. The match at Goodison Park in March 2012 was won 1-0 by Everton when Nikica Jelavic scored his first goal for the club in the 22nd minute. During the Summer of 2012, Everton re-signed Steven Pienaar from Spurs on a permanent basis. Everton won the fixture at Goodison Park in December 2012 with two very late goals in injury time from Steven Pienaar and Nikica Jelavic after Clint Dempsey had put Tottenham ahead after 76 minutes. Overall, Spurs have won 61 of the 170 matches played so far with Everton winning 59 and 50 matches drawn. please log in to view this image Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Everton Matches 1897-2013 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 Louis Saha Vinny Samways Pat Van den Hauwe John Watson Alex 'Sandy' Young please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2012-13 Everton 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
Should be a tasty game this. Everton are still pushing for a top 4 spot and Spurs know they have Chelsea and Arsenal breathing down their necks. The run in shaping up to be very exciting this season
I'd rather have your run in than ours, that's for sure. The next couple of weeks will be crucial for us.
I say it every week but this is a huge game. I hope AVB recognises the importance of qualifying for the CL over winning the EL and rests our best players midweek.
A tricky game yesterday, where we got a great away result against a side who we could easily have dropped points against. 1 down, 7 to go. Again, we have to beat Everton. We should never have lost at Goodison. The crowd are going to need to be right behind the players for the 90 mins. This is another massive game, but it's at home. We simply have to win.
Davies wasn't the worst by any means Shogs - well, he did a good job for Fulham for several years... I take it Pienaar and Fellaini will both be back for you?
He picked up a knock playing for France, but he's expected to be back in training tomorrow, by all accounts. I would still expect to see Friedel in goal on Thursday, though. Saha was actually ok for us and we made a profit on Pienaar, so I guess we can't complain too much about that one, either. Still don't think that he was given enough of a chance, to be honest, but he was never going to displace Bale.
Davies was horrible for us. No, Felli and Pienaar are both still out. I think we will miss Fellaini for this game, he tends to show up in the big games.
I think he should have went to Chelsea at the time. Benefitted us in the long run anyway It's funny as well as he'd probably have gotten a look in the amount of times you've had to play Sigurdsson or Dempsey out wide lately.
Piennar was unlucky with injuries in his brief time with us. I do agree, however, with PNP in that he wasn't really given a decent chance by Harry boy. A much better player than he was allowed to show in his time with us. Wish we could have kept him.
He tweaked his knee playing for France, and then took a knock on the same knee in a training ground collision with Tom Carroll.
Gonna be a really tough game this, Everton always do well against us so it goes without saying that we'll need to be at our best to win. Fellaini being out is a massive, massive bonus for us. Pienaar not playing is also a result, although he was dog **** for us, at Everton he's a completely different player and no doubt like the revers fixture, he'd have done us damage, so sigh of relief there. Hoping we go with: Lloris, Naughton, Dawson, Vertonghen, Ekotto Parker, Dembele Lennon, Holtby, Bale Defoe Subs: Friedel, Caulker, Walker, Gallas, Carroll, Sig, Ade Dropping Sig this game as he's been a bit quiet in the past couple of games after looking like he was finding his feet, Holtby still needs time to prove himself even if he hasn't made the desired impact as what I initially thought he would after first couple of cameos. Still want to see Naughton given a proper run at RB. If we play like we did in the first half against Swansea, I think we can get 3 points. 1-0 Spurs. Lennon the scorer. COYS!!!
Holtby's too much of a gamble for me at this point. I'd start him against Basel, though, probably instead of Gylfi, though just maybe in Dembele's spot. Swansea was the first game I thought he might have won us points--him coming on changed the game. I'd also start Ade. I think Ade and Gylfi create openings and chances for other players and Defoe doesn't.
Comparative of the two sides net spend over the past five years: please log in to view this image Following transfer fees unreleased: Louis Saha to Everton 08/09 Carlo Nash to Everton 08/09 Cody Arnoux to Everton 09/10 Joao Silva to Everton 10/11 Bryan Oviedo to Everton 12/13 Cesar Sanchez to Tottenham 08-09 Souleymane Coulibaly to Tottenham 11-12 Iago Falque to Tottenham 11-12 John Ruddy to Norwich from Everton 10/11 Lukas Jutkiewicz to Coventry from Everton 10/11 Hossam Ghaly to Al-Nassar from Tottenham 08-09 Lee Young-Pyo to Dortmund from Tottenham 08-09 Tommy Forecast to Southampton from Tottenham 08-09 Joe Martin to Blackpool from Tottenham 08-09 Tomáš Pekhart to FK Baumit Jablonec from Tottenham 09-10 Troy Archibald-Henville to Exeter from Tottenham 09-10 Paul-Jose M'Poku to Standard Liege from Tottenham 11-12 Jermaine Jenas to QPR from Tottenham 12-13
We've definitely spent more than you in that time Shogs, but those figures are wildly inaccurate. Where are they from? Even Transferleague's dodgy stats only have our gross spend for the 08/09 season down as £87.2m. Where'd the other £17.3m come from? It'd be interesting to see how we made a loss this season, too. £36.1m over 5 seasons? That's about one season in the Champions League, isn't it?
seriously? thought Piennar and Fellaini only had a one match ban each? will be a very nervy game in my opinion...neither team can afford to drop points...so I'm guessing a draw!
