please log in to view this image Sunderland host Tottenham Hotspur at the Stadium of Light on Saturday 13th September 2014 (KO 15:00) in the 4th Round of 2014-15 Premier League matches. This will be the 118th time the two clubs have met. Sunderland come into the game in 13th place in the table on 2 points with Spurs 6th on 6 points. The first meeting came at Northumberland Park in March 1898 when Spurs were playing in the Southern League in a friendly which Sunderland won 2-0. A second meeting followed within the year when Spurs beat Sunderland 2-1 in the old second round (today's fourth round) of the FA Cup in February 1899. Tottenham's first visit to Sunderland came during a mini tour of the North-East to celebrate the turn of the new Century with Spurs winning the friendly match 3-1 on 2nd January 1900. The first Football League meetings between the two clubs saw Sunderland win at home 3-1 in September 1909 and Spurs having a comprehensive win in the return fixture at White Hart Lane 5-1. Tottenham Hotspur's all-time record attendance of 75,038 at White Hart Lane came in an FA Cup 6th round match against Sunderland in March 1938. Sundeland won the game 1-0. This was the only FA Cup match Sunderland have won out of the 7 played so far with Spurs winning five and one game drawn. The only two League matches ever played outside the Top Flight came during 1977-78 when Spurs won at Roker Park 2-1 but lost the return Division Two match at the Lane 3-2. The clubs first met in the Football League Cup in November 1984 with Spurs drawing 0-0 away but Sunderland winning the replay at the Lane 2-1. The three matches in the competition have resulted in a win each and one game drawn. Since Sunderland joined the Premier League in season 1996-97, no further domestic cup ties have been played between the two clubs.Spurs have a good record during the Premier League Era with 15 wins to Sunderland's 5 and the remaining 4 games drawn. Spurs have taken an average of 2.04 points off Sunderland in the 24 matches played so far. The 2010-11 fixture at White Hart Lane ended in a 1-1 draw with Rafael van der Vaart putting Spurs ahead in the second half only for Sunderland's Asamoah Gyan to equalise three minutes later. The match at Sunderland resulted in a 2-1 win for Spurs with Asamoah Gyan putting the Black Cats ahead after 11 minutes before Michael Dawson's equaliser just before half-time. Niko Kranjcar scored the winner for Spurs in the 57th minute. The 2011-12 match at White Hart Lane in December resulted in a 1-0 win for Spurs with substitute striker Roman Pavlyuchenko scoring the winner with just over an hour of the match played. The three points won put Spurs in third place in the table for the first time during 2011-12. The match at Sunderland in April 2012 was a goalless draw which produced very few chances for either team. In August 2012, Tottenham's full-back Danny Rose went to Sunderland for a season's loan. The match at the Stadium of Light in December 2012 was won by Tottenham 2-1. John O'Shea opened the scoring for the Black Cats five minutes before half-time. Carlos Cuellar headed an own goal three minutes into the second half to even the game and Aaron Lennon scored the winner three minutes later for Spurs. A 90th minute Gareth Bale goal secured all three points for Spurs at home to Sunderland on the final day of the 2012-13 season. Hong Kong provided the setting for the 2013 Premier League Asia Trophy in July and Sunderland beat Spurs 3-1 in the Semi-Final. Gylfi Sigurdsson put Spurs ahead after 28 minutes but Cabral equalised five minutes later. Second half goals from Wes Brown and David Karlsson ensured that Sunderland progressed to the Final, where they lost 1-0 to Manchester City. Adam Johnson opened the scoring for Sunderland after 37 minutes in their home Premier League game in December 2013. Paulinho levelled things just before half-time and John O'Shea scored an own goal five minutes into the second half to give Spurs all three points. Tottenham completed the double over Sunderland with an emphatic 5-1 win at the Lane in April 2014. A defensive error led to Lee Cattermole putting the visitors ahead after 17 minutes but an Emmanuel Adebayor goal after 28 minutes saw the sides level at half-time. Furthur goals from Harry Kane, Christian Eriksen, Adebayor and Gylfi Sigurdsson ensured all three points would remain at the Lane. Overall, Spurs have the upper hand over Sunderland with 49 wins to 39 and 29 of the 117 matches played so far drawn. please log in to view this image Full Record of Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland Matches 1898-2015 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & Sunderland... Ben Alnwick Darren Bent Ted Birnie (Spurs player, Sunderland trainer & coach) Ivor Broadis Fraizer Campbell Graham Carr (scout with both clubs) Jim Chalmers Pascal Chimbonda Ernie Coquet John Curtis Calum Davenport Jimmy Delvin Márton Fülöp Phil Gray Jim Hartley Alan Hutton Joe Knowles Steed Malbranque Fred Mearns Bobby Mimms Bill Murray George Payne Gus Poyet (Spurs player & coach, Sunderland manager) Andy Reid Danny Rose Louis Saha Jimmy Seed Paul Stewart Teemu Tainio Chris Waddle Jack Whitbourne please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Squad Numbers 1992-2015 Sunderland Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1996-2015 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Looking at that I'd like to have the amount of loans, from one club, limited. It can't be good for the game, as a whole, imo. Spurs are loaning out an entire team. Good thread btw
Erm mate care to look at Chelsea's? http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/on-loan-players.html 26 players on loan mate, thats a full squad 9 of which could get into our squad/team easily
Always like playing Spurs, always seems a bit of bite to the atmosphere. Great game early doors to get an idea of where we are at the moment, being the strongest side we've faced to date, by some distance. Think they've got the right manager in now, but will take a few weeks to get everything preciseky how he wants it, so I think we could shade this. I'd expect at least 44,000 to turn up, so will be a good day for ome of the more occasional fans. 2-1 the lads I fancy.
I have mate but this a Spurs thread. I just don't believe this is any good to the game as a whole and I don't exclude Sunderland from blame. It's of benefit to the top clubs to the detriment of the rest of the leagues. It also furthers the 'mercenary culture' whereby players move around without any loyalty. No wonder many supporters are losing their loyalty to the clubs but more significantly the players. I have no heroes at Sunderland any more, Cattermole comes the closest but he's a bit of a throwback isn't he?
I think that's why he's earned the respect of many of the Sunderland crowd mate. He could easily switch clubs and earn signing on fees etc but seems to want to prove himself at a club he seems to care about. He appears to love playing football, something the likes of Borini etc seem to have forgotten all about. If Hodgson wants someone who would give his all for his country he need look no further.
When I watch SAFC play, half of the team I'm not sure what I'm gonna get.. With Catts I bloody know exactly what I'm getting and his heart for the team! He's a ****ing legend to me
Hodgson begs & pleads for 'Stevie G' to reconsider, hands out caps to young kids whose haircut is more important than their country and then wonders why we allow the rest of the word to take the ****ing piss out of England. Cattermole would've made a difference in Brazil, who was there who can claim they did?
I haven't been involved in football long enough mate to have a sound opinion of the three lions tbh.. But from the outside looking in over the last 4 years, for me it looks like a team of individuals rather a coherent team culture.. Sure the talent is there! Comes down to the management and team bonding sessions Etc For me, the FA is that confused ATM that the captain of England is the same bloke who was handing in a transfer request last season cause the going was getting tough lol 'Your actions speak louder then words, not what ****ing club you play for'
What an excellent point! To offer an opinion from 'outside' I'd have to say that having lived in France for a decade no one there either rates Rooney let alone fears him. I'd wager that's the same in Germany, Spain, Italy etc ....... Bale was hot stuff, Rooney is just stuffed. People in the UK have seen him built up into a world class superstar when he's actually been carried by United's foreigners. He was an Everton badge kissing Blue until he decided he was a badge kissing Red. Should any player who basically tells the England supporters to '**** off' be given the honour of captaining his country? Bobby Moore would turn in his early grave.
Not just our league mate. How demoralising it must be for lower league club fans here, and all over Europe, seeing their local lads being snapped up at 15 years old. They're then sent out by the likes of Spurs & Chelsea to clubs all over Europe while they are left with the dross.
