Match Thread Vs Newcastle United

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11/02/12
Kick Off @ 1730hrs GMT

time to bump this baby up
team news.
so much for vdv commming off as a percution aganst wigan
hes still out.
king out.

good news is lennon and defoe is back
time to go 442 time for some goals

brad
walker daws kaboul mr cool
kranker parker modric bale
vdv defoe
subs cudichini jake saha gio lennon

i dont think kranker derserves to get dropped after hes fine performace aganst liverpool.

he tracked back well and loads of neat passing and it was hes pass that set bale up

we are due a big win. plus they have a few inportant players out. and that dirty git is still away at the afraican nations.

and we will see if the team has been affected in the wrong way by all the harry Bollox in the media, i really hope not, fingers crossed for a good result.

Tottenham V Newcastle

TEAM NEWS

Tottenham duo Jermain Defoe and Aaron Lennon are fit but Ledley King, Younes Kaboul and Sandro are doubts, and Rafael van der Vaart is ruled out.

Harry Redknapp returns to the dugout, having missed the game at Liverpool after his flight was cancelled.

Newcastle are without Ryan Taylor, who was stretchered off against Aston Villa with a badly swollen ankle.

Leon Best is out for six weeks with medial ligament damage, while Yohan Cabaye completes a three-game ban.
MATCH PREVIEW

Can I look into my crystal ball here and ask a cheeky question: will Alan Pardew be the next manager of Tottenham Hotspur? The 'Harry Redknapp for England' bandwagon is going to take some stopping now and everything he has said over the last couple of years suggests that Redknapp will push for an amicable way out of White Hart Lane to take the England job once the season is over.
England have only one friendly arranged between now and the end of the Premier League season, and Stuart Pearce is filling the gap for that game against the Dutch. Redknapp could be named as successor whilst continuing at Spurs for now, knowing that he can move seamlessly from one job to the other in time for the friendly in Norway on 26 May, followed by the European Championship.

So where would that leave Spurs? There would certainly be a scramble across Europe to take over such a squad but, like the FA, I feel they have had their fill of foreign managers. Christian Gross, Jacques Santini and Juande Ramos were all derided; Martin Jol was popular but not quite successful enough.

No, I am pretty sure the next Tottenham manager will be British. He will need to possess a successful CV without having his best years behind him. He will need to have shown that he can work under intense pressure and win over a public who, unhappy at the loss of his predecessor, may not immediately be on his side.

I might as well be writing Alan Pardew's CV. He even played for Spurs. Before you tell me I am talking nonsense, yes he did. He played four times in the Intertoto Cup of 1995, having just been released by Charlton and before joining Barnet. What you may not find on his CV was that one of those games was Spurs' record defeat, 8-0 at Cologne!

If all that were to happen, then who next for Newcastle? What's Fabio Capello up to? Only joking - I think!

I am really looking forward to this game. Both Tottenham and Newcastle are enjoying marvellous seasons and the atmosphere after such a tumultuous week for Redknapp should be one to savour. The only prediction I am willing to make is that, whilst I am wearing 10 layers of thermals on the gantry, the Geordie fan with the Tyne Bridge tattooed on his belly will be going topless!
MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

Tottenham have only lost one of their last six league and cup games against Newcastle.
The Magpies won 3-2 at White Hart Lane in 2006-07 and 4-1 the following season, but have lost their subsequent two games away to Spurs.
Newcastle have failed to keep a clean sheet in their previous 14 league games against Tottenham. Their last shut-out against Spurs came in a 4-0 home win in December 2003.

Tottenham

Spurs' goalless draw with Liverpool was the first time they had failed to score in 23 Premier League games.
Opta statistics show that Luka Modric has received 1,436 passes this season, more than any other Premier League player.
Emmanuel Adebayor has failed to score since Christmas, a run of eight games.
Tottenham have claimed 29 points from their 12 home league games this season - only Manchester City (36) have a better record.
Spurs have drawn 99 home games in the Premier League.
Rafael van der Vaart, who celebrates his 29th birthday on Saturday, could make his 50th Premier League appearance.

Newcastle

The Magpies have won four of their last five league games.
They have kept clean sheets in five of their previous nine top-flight matches.
Newcastle have claimed 42 points from their opening 24 Premier League matches. It is their best start to a season since the 2002-03 campaign, when they had 45 points after 24 games, and went on to finish third to secure a place in the Champions League qualifying round.

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King Louie whos Pav? Newcastle r shocking how r they top 6 they r more open than a tarts legs have u heard the fans singing for redknapp to stay.

Adebaayor superb levy sign him levy levy sign him up all around great team performance