please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur host Swansea City at White Hart Lane on Sunday 1st April 2012 (KO 16:00) in the 31st round of matches in the 2011-12 Premier League season. Spurs come into the match in 4th place in the table on 55 points, while Swansea are in 10th place on 39 points. This will be the 39th time the two teams have met. Swansea City were founded in 1912 as Swansea Town (they changed their name to Swansea City in 1969) and joined the Second Division of the Southern League for the 1913-14 season. After World War One, The Jacks became members of the SL First Division and joined the Football League in season 1920-21 when the Southern League was incorporated to form the Third Division of the Football League. The following season the division was re-named the Third Division South. The first meeting between Spurs and Swansea came in the Second Division in November 1928 at Vetch Field with the home side winning 4-0. The reverse fixture in March 1929 at White Hart Lane ended in a 1-1 draw. The clubs met for a further eight seasons in Division Two between seasons 1930-31 and 1938-39 with 10 wins for Spurs, 2 wins for Swansea and 4 matches drawn. During the Second World War, the clubs played two games in the Football League South with a win each. The clubs played for two more seasons in Division Two after WW2 with three wins for Spurs and one for Swansea. Spurs and Swansea have played five games in the Football League Cup, the first of which came in the second round in September 1970 with Tottenham winning 3-0 at the Lane with goals from Steve Perryman, Martin Peters and Roger Morgan. Eight years later, Swansea drew with Spurs 2-2 at Vetch Field in the second round first leg and won 3-1 at White Hart Lane. The most recent League Cup meetings came in the second round in 1991 with Swansea winning 1-0 at home in the first leg and Spurs winning 5-1 at White Hart Lane with goals from Paul Stewart, Vinnie Samways, Gary Lineker, Paul Allen and an own goal. Swansea City won promotion to the Top Flight of English Football for the first time in season 1981-82 and were league leaders at one stage before finishing in 6th position. The match at Vetch Field in September 1981 resulted in a 2-1 win for The Swans with Glenn Hoddle scoring for Spurs, while the return match at the Lane in May 1982 was won 2-1 by Spurs with Gary Brooke scoring both goals. A similar set of results came in Swansea's second season in Division One with a 2-0 home win in Swansea and a 1-0 home win in Tottenham. The most recent game played between the two clubs came in a friendly played in Swansea in November 1992, which resulted in a 3-3 draw. Tottenham Hotspur and Swansea City have never met in the FA Cup. Swansea became the first Welsh club to play in the Premier League by winning the play-off against Reading at Wembley 4-2 thanks mainly to a Scott Sinclair hat-trick. During the summer, Tottenham Hotspur's England U-21 central defender Steven Caulker joined Swansea City on a season's loan where he joined former Spurs players Wayne Routledge and Mark Gower. The reverse fixture at the Liberty Stadium in December finished in a 1-1 draw with Spurs going ahead just before half-time through Rafael van der Vaart but Swansea salvaged a point with a late equaliser from Scott Sinclair. Overall, Spurs have won 20, Swansea have won 10 and 8 of the 38 matches played so far between the two clubs have been drawn. please log in to view this image Spurs have a winning percentage against Swansea of 52.63%, while Swansea have a winning percentage of 26.32% against Spurs. Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Swansea City Matches 1928-2012 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & Swansea.... Terry Boyle Derek Brazil Ivor Brown Ron Burgess (also Swansea coach & manager) Steven Caulker Willie Davies Gerry Francis (Swansea player, Spurs manager) Roger Gibbins Mark Gower Charlie Handley Percy Hooper Jack Illingworth Cliff Jones Ernie Jones Mark Kendall Derek King Doug Livermore (Swansea coach, Spurs asst. manager) Terry Medwin (Spurs player, Swansea asst. manager) Joe Meek Paul Price Wayne Routledge Micky Stead Arthur Willis (Spurs player, Swansea coach) Alan Woods please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2011-12 Swansea City Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 2011-12 please log in to view this image
Tottenham Hotspur Player's Goals & Assists for the season so far going into the game against Swansea City... please log in to view this image
" Just once in a League Cup second round match " ... There's more where that came from ... ( whistling )
I hope that Lennon's back for this one and we can return to the formation that we've looked most comfortable with so far. A win's a must. Top stuff as always, 6061.
Fair play 6061 I have to say this is an excellent thread. You must be favourites but beware, we are virtually safe and stranger things have happened, at the very least it should be a good footballing game. One piece of trivia for you though regarding our only win at WHL. On Sunday you will hear the "Swansea City" song and one of the verses is dedicated to that win but please take it as a very big compliment as the result was a shock to us too !!
I'll keep an ear out. Expect loads of generic Wales chants too, although you never know we might steer away from those if Bale plays
I hope that Lennon doesn't return for this and we stick to the formation that looked so good v Bolton, Chelsea and Norwich. For me Lennon isn't part of our best XI, good player but not as good as VDV, Modric, Bale or Ade.
Lennon is desperately needed so that we can get the best out of VDV and Adebayor. Our best formation is having two wide men stretching their defence. Hope he goes straight back into the team.
If he's fully fit. We've brought him back early a couple of times now and he's broken down again straight away.
Lennon on the bench for me. We don't need him desperately at all, we played very well without him on Tuesday and against Chelsea the game before.
We did play well on Tuesday, but we were toothless before that. Even the Chelsea game was there for the taking and I think Lennon would have helped us get in behind their slow defence.
You mention Roger Gibbins as playing for both clubs. I doubt if anyone on here is the slightest bit interested, but Gibbin's wife used to cut my hair. I am going back about 30 years here, but she was a smashing lady and Roger was a good guy to know.
