please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur host Fulham at White Hart Lane on Sunday 17th March 2013 (KO 15:00) in the 30th match of the 2012-13 Premier League season. Spurs come into the match in 3rd place on 54 points while Fulham are in 10th place on 33 points. This will be the 138th time the two clubs have met and the 24th time in the Premier League. Fulham were founded in 1879 as Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School FC and played under the name Fulham Excelsior until 1888. The first meeting with Tottenham, who were founded three years later than Fulham in 1882, came in the Southern League in September 1903 at Craven Cottage and resulted in a 0-0 draw. The reverse fixture at White Hart Lane in January 1904 was won by Spurs 1-0. Spurs and Fulham also competed in the London League and both fixtures that season were won by Spurs 2-1 at home and 5-1 away. The clubs competed against each other for three more seasons in the Southern League with Fulham winning four games, Spurs winning one and the remaining match drawn. Spurs were Southern League Champions in 1899-1900 and Fulham Champions twice in 1905-06 and 1906-07. There were also two seasons in the Western League in 1904-05 and 1905-06 with Spurs winning twice, Fulham once and one game drawn. The clubs met on tour in May 1907 in Ostend, Belgium in a match which Spurs won 2-1. The first Football League meeting between the clubs came in the Second Division in December 1908 at Craven Cottage with Spurs winning 3-2. Tottenham also won the home fixture in April 1909 1-0 with the great Vivian Woodward scoring the winning goal. A few months earlier, Woodward had captained the Great Britain football team to their second of three Olympic Games Gold Medals. Sandwiched in between those first League encounters was the first FA Cup match in the old second round (today's fourth round) at White Hart Lane, which was won by Spurs 2-0. To date, the clubs have met 8 times in the FA Cup with Spurs winning 5 games, Fulham once and 2 draws. As Spurs had won promotion to the First Division after their maiden season, there were no more League meetings with Fulham until after the First World War. During the War, the clubs met frequently in the various competitions which were created to provide entertainment for the masses and many of Tottenham Hotspur's "home" matches were played at Arsenal's Highbury Stadium as White Hart Lane had been requisitioned by the Army. When football resumed in 1919, Spurs had lost their First Division status to Arsenal under contraversial circumstances and met Fulham in the Second Division in December at Craven Cottage in a game Spurs won 4-1. The reverse fixture was also won by Spurs 4-0 on their way to the Second Division Championship. There were no more competitive matches with Fulham until Spurs were relegated to the Second Division in 1932-33 and both fixtures ended in draws. There were four more seasons of Second Division football before the outbreak of World War Two and honours were even with two wins apiece and four draws in those eight matches. Spurs and Fulham met 13 times during the War with Tottenham winning nine games, Fulham one and three drawn matches. The clubs met in the Second Division for the first three seasons after the War with one win each and four games drawn. Spurs won the First Division Championship in 1950-51 and in the process did the "double" over Fulham 1-0 away and 2-1 at home. The clubs met for another 10 seasons in the First Division up to 1967-68 with Spurs winning 12 games, Fulham one and 7 games drawn. The next League meetings came in the Second Division in 1977-78 with Spurs taking four point off Fulham as they regained their Top Flight status. The first of three Football League Cup meetings came in December 1981 with Spurs winning 1-0 at the Lane with a Micky Hazard goal. Fulham were promoted to the Premier League for season 2001-02 and they've kept their place in the League ever since. Spurs have won eleven of the 23 games played so far with Fulham winning six and six matches have been drawn. The match at Craven Cottage in October 2010 was won by Spurs 2-1 with goals from Roman Pavlyuchenko and Tom Huddlestone with Diomansy Kamara getting Fulham's goal, while the reverse fixture at White Hart Lane on New Year's Day was won by Spurs with a Gareth Bale goal. Fulham had a very impressive 4-0 win over Spurs in the fourth round of the 2010-11 FA Cup at Craven Cottage. Danny Murphy put the West Londoners two goals up before Michael Dawson was sent-off for Spurs. Brede Hangeland and Moussa Dembele added further first half goals. In June 2011, Fulham appointed former Spurs manager (2004-07) Martin Jol on a two year contract to replace Mark Hughes as the Cottager's new manager. Both Spurs and Fulham participated in the 2011-12 UEFA Europa League. The fixture at Craven Cottage last season in November 2011 resulted in a 3-1 win for Tottenham. Fulham's Chris Baird deflected Gareth Bale's shot into the net after 10 minutes and Aaron Lennon scored on 45 minutes to give Spurs a 2-0 halftime lead. Younes Kaboul scored an own goal after 57 minutes but Jermain Defoe's 90th minute goal ensured that Spurs went away with all three points. Spurs completed the 2011-12 double over Fulham with a 2-0 home win on the last day of the season which secured 4th place. Emmanuel Adebayor put Spurs ahead in the 2nd minute and a 63rd minute goal from Jermain Defoe secured the three points. During the summer of 2012, former Spurs striker Dimitar Berbatov joined Fulham from Manchester United while midfielder Mousa Dembele and striker Clint Dempsey both joined Tottenham from Fulham. The match at Craven cottage in December 2012 resulted in a 3-0 win for Tottenham with Sandro putting Spurs ahead after 55 minutes and a brace from Jermain Defoe securing the 3 points. Overall, Spurs have won 71 of the 137 matches played, Fulham have won 30 and the remaining 36 games have been drawn. please log in to view this image Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Fulham Matches 1903-2013 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & Fulham.... Steve Archibald Dimitar Berbatov Ernie Bowering Michael Brown Laurie Brown Vic Buckingham (Spurs player, Fulham manager) Ron Burgess (Spurs player, Fulham coach) Roger Cross (Fulham player, Spurs asst. manager) John Curtis Sean Davis Simon Davies Mousa Dembele Clint Dempsey Terry Dyson Bert Elkin Harry Evans (Fulham player, Spurs asst. manager) Ray Evans Willie Evans Tom Fitchie Theo Foley (Spurs res. manager, Fulham youth manager) Matt Forster (Spurs player, Fulham scout) Phil Gray Martin Jol (Manager with both clubs) Cliff Jones David Gwilan Jones Stephen Kelly Paul Konchesky John Lacy Harry Lowe Ken McKay Tom Meade Terry Medwin (Spurs player, Fulham coach) Paul Mahorn Steed Malbranque John Margerrison Alan Mullery Danny Murphy Taffy O'Callaghan Tim O'Shea Frank Osborne Tony Parks Ernie Payne Tom Pratt Jimmy Reid Wayne Routledge Louis Saha Hans Segers (Spurs player, Fulham coach) Neil Smith Paul Stalteri Bob Stevens Alf Stokes Bob Tannahill Charlie Walters Bobby Zamora please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2012-13 Fulham Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 2001-02 to 2012-13 Premier League London Derbies 2012-13 Results, Fixtures & Mini-League Table please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Very much so, all eyes will be on us and how we react to yesterdays defeat, no disrespect to Fulham, but I'd say its as good a game as you could ask for in the circs.
cheers again 6061! Brilliant thread as ever I think you've summed it up Spurm. - must win. I'd even say that we need to be attempting a thrashing if possible. Goal difference is going to start to become v important soon. Fulham are a decent side and I'm very fond of Jol, but they are a side we are capable of putting 4 past, on our day. - There's also a few other very tough fixtures coming up, so we need to take advantage of this one and bounce back from the Liverpool defeat.
Just think if we'd have won yesterday we'd be 5 points clear of Chelsea and 10 clear of Arsenal,we had the chance. Anyway I think we'll return to winning ways. We haven't had a EL hangover yet so we should be ok against Fulham. There is a nagging doubt now that we have conceded three against Pool so it's fingers crossed. Both are must win matches.
Thats for all comps not just league, its not great agreed, but compared to previous seasons its a bloody miracle!
That's in the past notso. Liverpool had scored fewest goals of the PL in the last 15 minutes of matches but they had a penalty yesterday didn't they so it means nothing about only the third time we've conceded three goals. Inter can do it so we have to be bloody alert and not make the same cock ups as yesterday. It's not so long ago that Pool were getting thrashed at home by the likes of Villa so notso.............stay cautious eh?
its not as if Liverpool ripped us apart though. Walker went insane (again) for 1 of them and Benny did a sort of kung-fu-bumming on Suarez to give away a pen. Self harming. If we played the same against Fulham without the mistakes we should win. No real adjustments needed imo. The liverpool game was a kind of good defeat. Its a game where if you get a point you are fairly happy and if you get a beat its no unexpected. We've gotta make sure we don't drop too many points against the more easily beatables though. I'd class Chelsea and Man City as "good defeats" too. The others are the key games for me.
I consider City and Chelsea as there to be taken provided we get a victory or two before we meet them.
City will have lost the league by then, with manager and players wondering about next season, and Chelsea may well be up to their armpits in fixtures.
Scott Sinclair more like!...if he hasn't taken root to the bench! ...what a waste of a year for that lad!
Yesterday's result has made this fixture, which was always important given the crucial run of tricky games we've entered, even more important. With absolutely no disrespect meant to Fulham, as a team looking to cement our league position in the top 3/4 we should always be looking for 3 points from this game. I agree with the points made by many others in the last day or so in so far as I don't think we played badly on Sunday, rather than individual errors capitalised on by Liverpool robbed us of 1, or even 3 points. Thursday's game will be important for our morale obviously, and we need a strong performance in Milan, but even more important is to pick up maximum points at home this weekend. Personally I think the decision to start with Livermore and Parker won't be repeated, it was too defensive for my liking at Anfield, and at home we need to be more ambitious. If Lennon isn't available again the I'd like to see Carroll or Holtby alongside Parker, or Dembele could move deeper and Holtby could play further up in his place. I'm not really panicking over the loss on Sunday, it was annoying to lose in the manner that we did (particularly as I was watching the game with a Liverpool fan.....) but I feel that Fulham is a vital game to win for us with Swansea away being a potential banana skin and then tricky fixtures against Everton, City and Chelsea. I see no reason not to have confidence that we will bounce back however, the squad seem to be very united in their aims and barring an utter, demoralising disaster on Thursday then we have no reason not to be confident IMO.
I'm not so sure this one is quite as huge as it seems. Spurs are entirely capable of a bad run in even if they win, and a good run in even if they lose. Though if they fail to win, brace yourself for an endless run of "Spurs Collapse" -themed articles.
Yeah, the defeat against Liverpool represents a fair test. We'd been getting one nearly miraculous win after the next. It wasn't going to last all year. The fact is if the team can't react well to a loss and maybe a little bad luck they don't deserve success. And I think every member of the team knows that as well. (edit) Sorry for the double post.
i'm sorry to say this too as i like the guy and he seems like he loves the club and is willing to fight but i just don't see Livermore as a starter for us. He's good as a late sub when we need a lucky charm but for me not an option for the majority of a match in central midfield.
