please log in to view this image Cardiff City host Tottenham Hotspur at Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday 22nd September 2013 (KO 16:00) in the 5th round of the 2013-14 Premier League season. Cardiff come into the match in 10th place in the table on 5 points with Spurs in 2nd place on 9 points. This will be the 53rd time the two teams have met and the first time in the Premier League. The last meeting was in the FA Cup in 2007. Cardiff City were founded as Riverside AFC in 1899. In 1908, the club changed their name to Cardiff City and moved to Ninian Park two years later. They joined the Southern League Second Division shorty afterwards. The Bluebirds won promotion to the SL First Division for season 1913-14 and ended the 1914-15 season in third place before football was suspended for WW1. Cardiff spent one more season in the Southern League before joining the Football League Division Two in 1920-21, when they finished as runners-up and won promotion to Division One. The first meeting with Tottenham Hotspur at Ninian Park in August 1921 resulted in a 1-0 win for Spurs with Jimmy Banks scoring the winner. Spurs won the game at White Hart Lane 4-1 a week later with Tommy Clay, Andy Thompson (2) and Jimmy Dimmock all scoring. The first FA Cup meeting came in March 1922 with Spurs drawing 1-1 in Cardiff and winning the replay 2-1. To date, the clubs have played six FA Cup games with Spurs winning three, two games drawn and Cardiff winning once. The clubs met regularly during the 1920s and early 1930s, including two seasons in Division Two. Two matches were played during World War Two in March 1941 with Spurs winning the War Cup game 3-2 at Ninian Park after a 3-3 draw at White Hart Lane. The clubs met for three seasons in Division Two in the 1940s with Spurs winning five of the six matches. From 1952 to 1962, Spurs and Cardiff played 14 matches in Division One with 6 wins for Spurs, 4 draws and 4 wins for Cardiff. At the end of the 1961-62 season, Cardiff City were relegated and only returned to the Top Flight for season 2013-14. Tottenham drew 0-0 at Cardiff in the Second Division in September 1977 and won the game at White Hart Lane 2-1 in Juanuary 1978 with Scottish striker John Duncan scoring both goals. The only Football League Cup match the clubs have contested came in October 2002 with Teddy Sheringham scoring at the Lane. The most recent meeting came in the FA Cup 3rd Round in January 2007 with the clubs drawing 0-0 in Cardiff and Spurs winning the replay 4-0 with goals from Aaron Lennon, Robbie Keane, Steed Malbranque and Jermain Defoe. During the summer 2013 transfer window, Spurs central defender Steven Caulker moved to Cardiff City for a reported £9,000,000. Overall, Spurs have won 28, Cardiff have won 11 and 13 of the 52 matches between the two clubs have been drawn. please log in to view this image Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Cardiff City Matches 1921-2013 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & Cardiff.... Terry Boyle Charlie Brittan Ron Burgess Fraizer Campbell Steven Caulker Willie Davies Mike England Willie Evans Gerry Francis (Cardiff player, Spurs manager) Chris Gunter Danny Hill Roger Hoy David Gwilan Jones Terry Lee Doug Livermore (Cardiff player, Spurs manager) Terry Medwin (Spurs player, Cardiff coach) Bill Rees Wayne Routledge Cyril Spiers (Spurs player, Cardiff manager) please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2013-14 Cardiff City Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 2013-14 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
This will be a tough battle, as Cardiff close down quickly and press so these sort of games are where we can see how Eriksen copes with getting closed down. Hopefully Lennon starts as I prefer his overall ability compared to Townsend Caulker MOTM?
Don't think so,he still switches off at key moments,once he get's that outof his game,he should be an England regular
We MUST take them seriously as they beat City but I'm going for 0-2, I'm betting on our stingy defence to continue and Solly to score.
I think Spurs are fortunate that Fraizer Campbell had his one good game for the season v City. That team performance was totally at odds with the crabby, defensive games they have had before and since. I can see Spurs winning 1-0, but 0-0 wouldn't be a surprise.
Cardiff away won't be easy, City learned that the hard way and we'd be stupid going there thinking just because they've come up it should be a walkover. Malky Mackay is a top manager and he'll get Cardiff in the best possible shape to take us on. Team I'd like: Lloris, Walker, Kaboul, Vertonghen, Rose Sandro, Paulinho Lamela, Eriksen, Sigurdsson Soldado Subs: Friedel, Naughton, Dawson, Dembele, Chadli (assuming he missed NCFC with just a knock?), Townsend, Defoe Gylfi deserves to start after his brace against Norwich, would be unfair to drop him in my opinion. If we can replicate the Norwich performance then I don't see why we couldn't get a win, won't be easy by any means but we should have the quality to be able to go there and come away with 3 points. I'll go for 2-1. Soldado and Paulinho. COYS!
both Caulker and Campbell will be up for this big time...the crowd will be very hostile so it will be a real test. we will need to earn the right to play well ... too often in the past we have failed in these types of matches against newly promoted clubs...I remember losing to Stoke (on more than one occassion), Hull, Reading, wigan ... all newly promted at the time. Think this will be a tough match which will show how well our team is developing...or not! I'd take a draw tbh
Not if his defending in the Hull game is anything to go by. Our boys know him and his game well enough to catch him out. He'll be up for it of course, but that can go against you aswell, there's a fine line between being up for it and and a rush of blood....and he might have a blinder!...quite nice here on this fence.
Interesting point, Notso. We know Caulker well, but he won't know a lot of our players, as they either spent little time with him or signed after he left. Might be to our advantage, but he'll be desperate to make a point against us, so it could go either way.
We are looking very very good atm and this is early days. Not just winning but dominating, the media will need to catch up with the real situation and look beyond the smugness at Arsenal and the assumptions of Chelsea, City and United.
i would rather they kept underestimating us, if thats what they're doing. Better to be under the radar as long as possible
