please log in to view this image Stoke City host Tottenham Hotspur at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday 26th April 2014 (KO 15:00) in the 36th round of 2013-14 Premier League matches. Stoke come into the match in 10th place in the Premier League on 44 points with Spurs in 6th place on 63 points. This will be the 87th time the two teams have met. The first ever meeting came at the Victoria Ground when Stoke City were playing as Stoke FC in the old first round of the FA Cup in February 1896 in a match Stoke won 5-0. Stoke had become one of the 12 founding members of the Football League in 1888 and the clubs were drawn together in the third round of the FA Cup in February 1899 at the Victoria Ground with Stoke winning 4-1. The first match at White Hart Lane between the clubs was a friendly played in March 1900 with Spurs, then Champions of the Southern League, beating Stoke 6-0. Spurs joined the Football League for the 1908-09 season, replacing Stoke who had resigned at the end of the previous season for financial reasons. The clubs didn't meet in a League match until April 1920 in the Second Division with Tottenham winning 2-0 at the Lane and 3-1 at the Victoria Ground. The first meeting in Division One came in March 1923 at Stoke which resulted in a 0-0 draw. Spurs won the reverse fixture at the Lane a week later 3-1. The clubs met for five seasons in the Second Division between 1928 to 1933 and for two seasons in Division One from 1934 to 1935. After the Second World War, the clubs met in the modern FA Cup third round in January 1947 at White Hart Lane which resulted in a 2-2 draw with Stoke winning the replay 1-0 thanks to a Stanley Matthews goal. Three years later, Spurs beat Stoke 1-0 away in the third round. Spurs were Football League Champions in 1950-51 and beat Stoke 6-1 at home but could only draw 0-0 away during that season. Every League game played between Spurs and Stoke since WW2 has taken place in the Top Flight, except for season 1977-78 when Spurs spent a single season in Division Two, beating Stoke 3-1 in both matches. The clubs met in the FA Cup in January 1976 with a 1-1 draw at the Lane followed by a 2-1 win for Stoke in the replay. Tottenham Hotspur were founder members of the Premier League in 1992-93 but Stoke City's first season in the competition only came in 2008-09 with Stoke winning 2-1 at the Britannia Stadium and Spurs winning 3-1 at the Lane. During 2009-10, Stoke won 1-0 at White Hart Lane with Spurs winning 2-1 at the Britannia. In 2010-11, Spurs did the "double" over Stoke, winning the away fixture 2-1 with a brace of goals from Gareth Bale and the home fixture 3-2 in April with a double from Peter Crouch and a Luka Modric goal. The teams met for the first time in the Football League (Carling) Cup 3rd round in September 2011 at Stoke and the match finished in a goalless draw after extra time. Stoke went on to win the penalty shoot-out 7-6. Spurs youngster Massimo Luongo penalty was saved by Thomas Sorensen. The 2011-12 Premier League game at the Britannia Stadium in December was won 2-1 by Stoke with a Matthew Etherington brace putting the Potters 2-0 up at half-time. Tottenham's Emmanuel Adebayor pulled a goal back from the penalty spot after 62 minutes but defender Younes Kaboul was sent-off after collecting two yellow cards. The match at White Hart Lane in March 2012 resulted in a 1-1 draw. After a goalless first half, Cameron Jerome put the visitors ahead after 75 minutes but a Rafael van der Vaart header in the dying moments of the game ensured that honours were even. The match at White Hart Lane in December 2012 finished in a goalless draw. The match had few clear-cut chances for either team. A Steven Nzonzi header after just 3 minutes put Stoke ahead in the match at Britannia Stadium in May 2013 but Clint Dempsey equalised after 20 minutes. The winning goal came from Emmanuel Adebayor seven minutes from time. Ryan Shawcross handled an Emmanuel Adebyor volley and Roberto Soldado scored the resulting penalty at White Hart Lane in December 2013 to put Spurs 1-0 up at half-time. Further goals in the second half from Mousa Dembélé and Aaron Lennon saw a comfortable 3-0 win for Tottenham. Overall, Spurs have won 43 games, Stoke have won 23 games and the remaining 20 matches of the 86 played have been drawn. please log in to view this image Full Record of Tottenham Hotspur v Stoke City Matches 1896-2014 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & Stoke... Paul Allen Garry Brooke Joe Brough George Clawley Garth Crooks Peter Crouch Matthew Etherington Ray Evans Márton Fülöp Eiður Guðjohnsen Ken Hancock Archie Heggarty Stephen Kelly Fred Latham Billy Leech Gerry Mahon Ian Moores James Morton Wilson Palacios Tony Parks Jimmy Robertson Hans Segers Paul Stewart Charlie Wilson Jonathan Woodgate please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2013-14 Stoke City Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 2008-09 to 2013-14 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Excellent post THFC What a wonderful football team you had in 60/61 and the great Bill Nick. I never forgot Danny Blanchflower's thoughts about football (I often quote it on here), he said "its not about the winning, its about the glory"...quite so. At least you won't have Bale this time around with his wonder goals. May the best team win.
I was just too young to see the 60-61 team in action but I started going to WHL in 1965, so I was there for Greaves, Mackay, Cliff Jones, Gilzean and Jennings. This season, Spurs are still on target to equal our club record Premier League points haul of 72 points. Which when you consider the upheaval we've suffered this season added to the loss of players like King, Modric, Van der Vaart and a certain Gareth Bale is quite a remarkable achievement in itself. In fact, take away the Top Four clubs and the Table would look like this... please log in to view this image Although Stoke have slightly the better record over the last six Premier League matches, I fancy Spurs to come away with something more than the match programme from the Britannia Stadium.
I echo Nick's comments about Spurs, they were brilliant in the early 60's when I was first interested in football. I especially remember them humiliating our neighbours Crewe in an FA Cup replay at WHL 13-2 (10-0 at HT). We did however beat Spurs 2-1 in our opening Div1 game after promotion in 1963 (John White, Dave Mackay, Blanch and all) As for the upcoming game it should be a cracker. Without Bale and with our home form this season we have a chance I think. We also have a chance to catch Newcastle so the incentive is there. Spurs will also want to finish strongly and they have beaten us twice at the Brit recently I think so perhaps a draw is the most likely outcome.
I went to Molineux towards the end of the 1950's , or early 1960's to watch Blanchflower's 'Spurs take the Wolves apart. He scored one of 'Spurs several goals that day , a tremendous drive from distance; and in those days they only had the very heavy "caseballs" to play with.
Remember Wolves back in the day, floodlit games against Honved, Moscow Dynamo and Spartak etc. Great teams and unforgetable nights, long before Euro cup games. Re Spurs...John White was a really special player.
Lawro's Prediction for Stoke City v Tottenham Hotspur Stoke are one of the good-news stories of the season. Mark Hughes was under a bit of pressure when they were down near the bottom of the table at the end of January but, since then, he has not done much wrong. Hughes has changed the system that the Potters played under previous boss Tony Pulis and it is working, and I can see him improving the team again this summer. But Tottenham have taken seven points from their last three games and they are finishing the season well under Tim Sherwood. Christian Eriksen has found some form and Harry Kane has started to look a decent player since coming into the team. I am backing them to continue their good run. Lawro's prediction: Stoke City 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur Lawro's 2013-14 Predictions
I personally think this is the worst team spurs have had in years, ill take a draw but will be having a bet on a win, I fancy us tomorrow up the potters
Agree with that Ricc...they wasted Bales's transfer fee, I thought only Pulis could blow £80 odd million pounds on not much. Mind you, that lad Erikkson (sp) is some player, saw him play for Denmark and destroy England by himself. I honestly thought that he was a natural for Man Utd or Liverpool not so long ago. I think that we will sneak it...I hope that Hughes has reminded the chaps that they are not on their holidays - yet. Every additional place in the league is worth what...a couple of million??? I guess that's one of the reasons Coates was cheesed off with Pulis at the end of the past couple of seasons... the 40 point mark and that's yer lot.
