please log in to view this image Hull City host Tottenham Hotspur at the KC Stadium on Sunday 23rd November 2014 (KO 16:00) in the 12th round of the 2014-15 Premier League. Hull City come into the match in 15th place in the Table on 11 points while Spurs are in 12th place on 14 points. Sunday's match at will be the 34th time the two teams have met. Hull City AFC were founded in June 1904, playing their home games at The Boulevard (the home of Hull Rugby club) and were admitted into the Second Division of the Football League for the 1905-06 season and finished in 5th place. Tottenham Hotspur first played Hull City on 12th January 1907 in the FA Cup 1st Round (today's 3rd Round) when Spurs were in the Southern League and Hull were in the Second Division of the Football League. The match at White Hart Lane ended in a 0-0 draw, as did the replay at Anlaby Road but the match was abandoned after just 10 minutes of extra time. The result stood and a second replay was held at White Hart Lane with Herbert Chapman (later to become a successful manager at Arsenal) scoring the winning goal for Tottenham. Spurs were admitted into the Football League for season 1908-09 and met Hull City in the Second Division. The Tigers took three out of four points off Spurs but it was Tottenham who won promotion to the First Division. The two clubs next met in a friendly played in Brussels, Belgium in May 1912 with Hull City winning 2-0. Spurs lost their Top Flight status when football resumed after WW1 and The games played against Hull on Christmas Day and Boxing Day in 1919 were both won by Tottenham 4-0 at home and 3-1 away. Those four points taken off Hull helped Spurs win promotion again. The next 10 League meetings all took place in the Second Division over the course of 50 years between 1928 and 1978. Hull City moved to Boothferry Park in 1946 and remained there until 2002. Leeds United played a home Division One game there against Spurs on 25th August 1971 as they were serving a ground closure penalty. Alan Gilzean scored Spurs goal in a 1-1 draw. The clubs met in the 1953-54 FA Cup with Spurs winning a replayed 5th Round tie 2-0 at the Lane after the first match ended in a 1-1 draw. Hull were also beaten by Spurs in the 1980-81 FA Cup 4th Round 2-0 at White Hart Lane with Steve Archibald and Garry Brooke getting the goals. Tottenham would go on to win the Centenary Final that season against Manchester City. The Tigers won promotion to the Top Flight of English Football for the first time in their history for the 2008-09 Premier League season and beat Spurs 1-0 at White Hart Lane in October 2008. The return match at the KC Stadium in February 2009 was won 2-1 by Spurs with goals from Aaron Lennon and Jonathan Woodgate. A second foreign match was played between Spurs and Hull in Beijing, China in the Final of the Barclays Premier League Asia Trophy in July 2009. Spurs won 3-0 with Robbie Keane scoring a brace and Aaron Lennon getting a goal. Jermain Defoe scored a hat-trick and Wilson Palacios & Robbie Keane scored in the 5-1 Premier League Spurs win at the KC Stadium in August 2009. The match at the Lane in January 2010 ended in a goalless draw. Hull were relegated at the end of the season. Midfielder Tom Huddlestone joined Hull City from Spurs during the Summer 2013 transfer window for £5.25 million and fellow midfielder Jake Livermore went on loan for the season. A Roberto Soldado penalty late into the game was enough for Spurs to take all three points at the Lane in the Premier League match played in October 2013. The clubs met in the 4th Round of the Football League (Capital One) Cup later in October 2013 with the game finishing in a 2-2 draw after extra time.Gylfi Sigurdsson opened the scoring for Spurs after 16 minutes. Brad Friedel scored an own goal after 53 minutes and Paul McShane put Hull ahead in extra time before Harry Kane leveled things up after 108 minutes. Spurs won the penalty shoot-out 8-7. New Hull signing Shane Long opened the scoring after 12 minutes in the February 2014 Premier League game at the KC Stadium but a 61st minute equaliser from Paulinho ensured Spurs travelled back to mLondon with a point. Sunday's game at the KC will be the 34th match played between the two clubs and Spurs have the edge with 13 wins to Hull's 9 with 11 matches having been drawn. please log in to view this image Full Record of Tottenham Hotspur v Hull City Matches 1907-2015 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & Hull.... Stan Alexander Nick Barmby (also Hull manager) Jim Blyth John Bostock Charlie Brown Fraizer Campbell Stephen Clemence (Spurs player, Hull reserve team manager) Michael Dawson Kevin Dearden Andy Duncan Anthony Gardner George Goldsmith Foster Hedley Tom Huddlestone Jake Livermore George Maddison Dean Marney Terry Neil (Hull player & manager at both clubs) Peter Taylor (Spurs player, Hull manager) Alton Thelwell Mark Yeates please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2014-15 Hull City Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 2008-09 to 2014-15 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Hull were/are my 3rd team. I picked them up because Nick Barmby was my fave Spurs player back in the day. At the time Hull were terrible and in the 3rd or 4th tier. I fully expect them to beat Spurs this weekend :-(
*ahem* Still, if we did play the game this weekend without telling Hull, we might be awarded a 3-0 win!
I don't count international weekends as real weekends, so i'm still right, sort of. Also, bad news folk, i'm travelling abroad that weekend so we're gonna take a pasting. Sorry
They have hit a dip in form, they looked awful last weekend against Burnley. Might be a good time to play them. I think we'll overrun them, but will we score?
If we played an empty field with the 4-2-3-1 inverted winger system I'm not so sure we'd come out on top.
Yep. 4-4-2, please. Lloris; Chiriches, Fazio, Vertonghen, Rose; Chadli, Mason, Capoue, Townsend; Kane, Soldado. More 4-4-2 against Partizan on the Thursday, but with a completely different XI: Vorm; Naughton, Dier, Kaboul, Davies; Lennon, Eriksen, Stambouli, Dembele; Adebayor, Lamela. Then back to the first team for the next few league matches, making as few changes as possible. Send the 2nd XI to Turkey and then pick them again for the League Cup.
A back four including Naughton, Chiriches and Fazio could make it tough on Lloris no matter how few opposition players they're facing!
You just know it's written by the footballing gods that one of Hudd/ Jake/ Daws will score an important goal against us. Lloris, Kaboul, Dier, Vertonghen, Rose Lennon, Stambouli, Mason/ Eriksen, Townsend Chadli just playing off of Kane 4-4-1-1/ 4-4-2. Sod the inverted stuff for a few games, go with natural wingers, stick Nacer a bit further as he and Kane are our most lethal finishers at the moment. Debating between Mas or Eriksen, Eriksen has been well of form but is the only player in the squad who has that magic in them to score or create something from nothing but Mason has been the hardest grafting CM over the past 4-5 games, so it's a choice of creativity or graft in my opinion, or maybe just play the two together .
I agree, but I think that we've been mixing the side to often. Dropping our whole starting XI for cup games wouldn't be disruptive, in my opinion. If we start two different sides but play them both consistently and use the same system, then I think it will give them time to gel. There's no difference for the first XI than if we weren't in the Europa or League Cup, like most of the teams in the division.
This reminds me of the match v pompey in 2008 where they had 3 or 4 ex spurs like defoe, kaboul, botang playing for them...was an abysmal performance and we lost...think it may have be ramos last league game in charge.
I think that was the season Defoe scored from the penalty spot against us at Fratton. Bizarrely, all the Spurs fans then started chanting Jermain Dedoe is a Yiddo.
No doubt. Too much twisting overall, and not enough sticking. Unfortunately, sticking with the wrong thing doesn't help you either...and there, in a nutshell, is the dilemma we've failed to solve.
That's the one...after he scored he look perplexed at the response from our lot. Bloody awful match from our point of view ... hoping hull dont match it!
