please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester City at White Hart Lane on Sunday 21st April 2013 (KO 13:30) in the 33rd round of Premier League matches in the 2012-13 season. Spurs come into the match in fourth place in the Premier League on 58 points with City in second place on 65 points. This will be the 146th time the two teams have met. The first meeting came on 16th January 1909 in the FA Cup 1st round (today's 3rd round) at Hyde Road in Ardwick (City's original name) in a match which Spurs won 4-3. The first League meeting came in the First Division in December 1910 at White Hart Lane and resulted in a 1-1 draw. Walter Tull, who was the first black outfield footballer to play League football scored Tottenham's goal. City won the reverse fixture in January 1911 2-1. All the League meetings between Spurs and City up to season 1934-35 took place in the First Division. The clubs were drawn together in the 1913-14 FA Cup 2nd round with City wining 2-1 at Hyde Road (City would move to Maine Road in 1923 and stay there for the next 80 years) and also met in the 1921-22 FA Cup 3rd round with FA Cup holders Tottenham beating City 2-1 at White Hart Lane. The only League meetings between the clubs outside the Top Flight took place either side of the Second World War with City winning both Second Division matches in the 1938-39 season and taking three points out of four off Spurs in the Second Division matches played in 1946-47. Spurs and City resumed their Top Flight meetings in the 1951-52 season. The clubs contested the 1956 FA Cup Semi-Final at Villa Park with City winning 1-0 with a goal scored by Bobby Johnstone. City would go on to win the FA Cup that season, beating Birmingham City 3-1 in the Final at Wembley. Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City contested the centenary FA Cup Final in 1981. The match finished in a 1-1 draw after extra time after Tommy Hutchison had put City ahead but also scored an unfortunate own goal. The replay was the first to be played at Wembley and Spurs won 3-2 with a brace from Ricky Villa and a goal from Garth Crooks. City goals were scored by Steve MacKenzie and Kevin Reeves. Ricky Villa's second goal was voted Goal of the Century and the match is one of the best remembered Finals of all-time. The first of three Football League Cup meetings came in the 1992 3rd Round with Spurs winning 1-0 at Maine Road with a Vinny Samways goal. Tottenham also won the other two matches - a 4th Round match in 2003 3-1 and a 5th round match in 2007 2-0. City had an amazing comeback in the 2004 FA Cup 4th Round replay at White Hart Lane after going three goals down to goals from Ledley King, Robbie Keane and Christian Ziege in the first half. City, who had been reduced to ten men after Joey Barton received a second yellow card, scored four second half goals from Sylvain Distin, Paul Bosvelt, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Jonathan Macken to win a memorable game 4-3. Both Spurs and City were founder-members of the Premier League, although City have only competed in 16 of the 21 seasons played in the competition so far, while Spurs have been one of seven ever-present clubs. Spurs have generally had the upper hand during this era with nineteen wins to City's five wins and five matches drawn. In fact, City have only won three times in the past 17 meetings between the clubs in all competitions. In 2009-10, Spurs did the 'double' over City with a 3-0 win at the Lane with goals from Nico Kranjcar (2) and Jermain Defoe followed by a vital 1-0 end of season win at Eastlands, which secured fourth place and Champions League football for Spurs thanks to a Peter Crouch goal. The 2010-11 fixtures featured an opening day of the season match at White Hart Lane which finished in a 0-0 draw and a late season game at Eastlands which City won 1-0 thanks to a Peter Crouch own goal. During the summer of 2011, Spurs secured the services of Manchester City's Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor on a season's loan. The match at White Hart Lane last season ended in a comprehensive 5-1 win to Manchester City with Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko scoring four goals for the visitors, who were 2-0 up at half-time. Sergio Aguero also scored for City while Tottenham's goal came from Younes Kaboul. The match at Etihad Stadium in January 2012 resulted in a 3-2 win for Manchester City. After a goalless first half, City scored twice through Samir Nasri and Joleon Lescott before Spurs made things level with goals from Jermain Defoe on the hour mark and Gareth Bale five minutes later. But a last minute penalty from Mario Balotelli secured the points for the home side. Emmanuel Adebayor made his move permanent to Spurs during the summer of 2012. The teams met in Manchester in November 2012 and a Steven Cauker header put Spurs ahead after 21 minutes. City equalised through Sergio Aguero in the 65th minute and substitute Edin Dzeko secured the three points for the home side two minutes before the match ended. Overall, Spurs have won 57 games, City have won 54 games and the remaining 34 matches played have been drawn. please log in to view this image Complete Results of Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City Matches 1909-2013 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image They played for Spurs & City... Emmanuel Adebayor Clive Allen (Player with both clubs, Spurs development manager) Jamie Atwell Kevin Bond (City player, Spurs asst manager) Ivor Broadis Michael Brown Jock Chaplin Vedran Corluka Bill Felton Márton Fülöp Foster Hedley Chris Jones Neil McNab Bobby Mimms Joe Moffatt John Sainty (Spurs player, City coach) Bert Sproston Alex Steel Paul Stewart Perry Suckling (City player, Spurs coach) Ben Thatcher Paul Walsh Charlie Williams Clive Wilson Alex Young please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2012-13 Manchester City 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
Bert Sproston has quite a resemblance to Tin tin. Cheers again 6061 Massive game this, just like all of the remaining matches. However, if Bale and Lennon are back, i think we'll beat city at home. They have nothing to play for and our lot are showing real character at the moment. We're also due a result against city. - been so unlucky over the last 2 or 3 games.
Did you have to put Fulop up. After his one man crusade to get Arsenal above us last year I could do without his ugly mug.
I'm tempted to go to Wikipedia and edit Paul Stewart's profile to include every professional side in England. Shouldn't take too much tampering, either. I wonder if Defoe will make it back for this one? He seems to get a few against them, doesn't he? Bench cameo, perhaps?
From memory he also seems to MISS occasionally against them too, unfortunately........ One in particular comes to mind.....
Not as bad as this miss from Howard Webb... [video=youtube_share;6caNpwDYJ98]http://youtu.be/6caNpwDYJ98[/video]
I'm not convinced that Bale or Lennon will start, and less convinced that they should. As much as I'd like them to play, I'd rather have fit players. I think the team and the crowd will be fired up, and a healthy Spurs team should have the legs and desire to make life difficult for Man City. I can't see juggling the lineup, much as Hudd has impressed recently, as well as Carroll, and little as many seem to think of Ade.
I'm kinda with you. It seems stupid to say with 6 games left but anything from this game is a bonus. The other 4 scheduled games (Wigan away, Saints home, Stoke away, Sunderland home) are all fairly winnable imo. Do the business in those and we bag 70pts which history suggests should be enough. Chelsea also more important than this game. This is basically our least important of the remaining fixtures imo.
Under the present circumstances, we done have a prayer... no chance... not a hope..... infact we should save on the laundry bill., give them the 3 points now. Need to get 3 or 4 players out of the repairers and into training this week, if we're going to engage in any kind of contest against this bunch of mercenaries. To be honest, at the moment, I'm just hoping they keep it respectable for us.
Oi! don't be so negative We can do this, Bajan! City aren't all that this season, and their campaign is over! Home crowd, players up for it.... COYS. It's Chelsea away that's probably worth writing off. We never get anything there!
I fear that game as a CL/EL decider, and we all know the outcome there!, but how nice it would be for Spurs to end the hoodoo and consign them to ITV4.
Bettors will not a favor Spurs minus Bale and Lennon (nor, for that matter, with them). But if that team plays as well as it did against Basel, and maybe has a better day goalkeeping...
Chelsea !!! Nope...,we havn't a Scooby Doo, Roo. We'll get nowt there. The only saving grace, is that the Chelks maybe tired, which only means we lose respectably.. as apposed to being thrashed. I believe we've already 'shot our bolt'., and it looks like we the fans should now brace ourshelves for the inevitable shafting. If we don't get Bale back at 100% now:......Lennon back at 100% now: ....Messers Adebayor and Defoe scoring goals now.......... we're doomed. If we're having to put our trust in the likes of 'Dreary Dempsey', Threeyard Holtby and Sweetboy Sig., for the rest of the season.....we are doomed. I know football's a funny old game Roo., but I'm not laughing especialy after watching Spurs waste time and risk injury time and time again on unfertile 'wild goose chases', and with a squad not fully equipped to do so. Also, I've noticed referees and linesmen making some strange calls (just lately), in favour of Asrsnil, Chelsea and Man $ity. Then I remembered that Spurs could've been well out of harms way,. with points in hand, had we not conspired to pissed a 7 point margin away.......yet again. You can expect a mini miracle if you like Roo., I suppose they do happen .....but in the meantime I'm looking for a 'hard cover book' or two, to put down my trousers. Rum please !!!!!!.
City just finished playing on that tiring Wembley turf and they have a game on Wednesday against a rested and resurgent Wigan team. If Martinez can get his side to give them a good game, then they should be thoroughly knackered when they face us. I hope.
Wigan played yesterday on the same turf so I think calling them rested is a bit much but hey ho. It'll be a mixed blessing if Aguero is banned for that ridiculous tackle on Luiz. He's been playing awesome lately but if he's banned then City will just play Dzeko who, along with Nasri, always scores against us.
That extra day makes all the difference! Millwall didn't give them much of a game and the pitch there generally looks far worse for the second semi-final, though I didn't notice anything untoward about it today.
That is true actually - I didn't see anything of yesterday's match but I'm guessing the tempo of today was far far higher.
