Vital for us and vital for mancini !

This fourth place is going to go to the death, mancini knows if he doesnt get city there then he will probably go the way of hughes, but what is so frustrating is that chelsea lost at home to them and now fulham have as well.

Its vital for spurs to maintain improvement, that fourth spot is there for the taking and the game away to city is going to be a cracker , (if both clubs are still placed as we are at the moment) every game now really is a cup final for us in the league, i personally dont think it will be enough for us just to win games against teams below us, we have to scrap for a point at least in the man utd chelsea and arsenal games, take points from those games and we will wont have failed for lack of effort.

wanting arsenal to beat man city baz i sense.

burger777 wrote:wanting arsenal to beat man city baz i sense.

No, draw will do, that takes 2 points away for your quest for top spot.

Anyway Citeh got Everton weds night, will be tough.

The last time we beat Stoke away we finished 4th it's an omen. Seriously though we need to go into April believing we can beat the top 3. Last season at O. T 2 0 up then lose by a large score showed a lack of it (mind you the referee didn't help with that penalty decision) City also have to play United on the day we play Chelski. So with a bit of belief and some of our injured being back we will get 4th.

Redknapp's Spurs can hold off rivals


Tottenham are currently in pole position for that final Champions League spot and TEAMtalk's Rob McCarthy believes they might just make it.




Love him or hate him, you cannot deny that Harry Redknapp has done a triffic job at Tottenham since his arrival from Portsmouth in October 2008.
The 63-year-old has turned a relegation-threatened team of individuals into an organised outfit who can now mix it with opponents as well as play the slick football for which the club has always been renowned.
The battle for fourth spot in the Premier League is proving almost as exciting as the fight for the title, with Manchester City, Liverpool and Aston Villa the contenders to Spurs' hopes of snatching that final Champions League place.
Despite currently being in pole position, the north Londoners have a really tough end to the campaign, with home games against Chelsea and Arsenal and trips to Manchester United and City still to come - but if they can make it to the promised land then surely Redknapp should be right up there when they're dishing out the top, top honours come the end of the season.
Many pundits expected them to struggle after injuries to Ledley King, Jonathan Woodgate, Aaron Lennon, Tom Huddlestone, Jermaine Jenas, David Bentley and now Jermain Defoe, but the White Hart Lane outfit have won their last four Premier League games and currently sit two points clear of City, who have a game in hand.
The strength of the squad Redknapp has assembled has been key, along with the rejuvenation of the likes of Heurelho Gomes, Gareth Bale and Roman Pavlyuchenko and the relentless industry of Wilson Palacios in central midfield.
Redknapp knew when he took over that Spurs were a soft touch and easy to play against and while there is still an element of that, given the open nature of their play, there can be no doubt that Palacios has made a major difference alongside a slimmed down and more mobile Huddlestone in the middle of the park.
The pacy Bale has been nothing short of sensational after returning to the side during the enforced absence of Benoit Assou-Ekotto while Pavlyuchenko, who looked like he might be on the way out in January, has finally, consistently shown his international quality and the goals have followed.
Gomes, who was a joke figure in the early part of his White Hart Lane career, has really turned his form around and is now arguably one of the better keepers in the league - thanks largely to the club's intelligent appointment of the highly-rated Tony Parks as goalkeeping coach.
Redknapp wheeled and dealed, as is his wont, to bring in Nico Kranjcar for a paltry £2.5million from Pompey back in September and he has scored some important goals - none more so than in the terrific win at Stoke on Saturday - while his Croatian colleague Luka Modric continues to go from strength to strength after his recovery from a broken leg.
Michael Dawson must be a good outside bet for a World Cup place after a solid campaign in the continued absence of first-choice duo King and Woodgate, and Sebastien Bassong may be raw but has shown plenty of potential alongside him.
One thing that could cost Spurs a place at the top table, however, could be Harry's willingness to let squad members out on loan this season.
Keeping players fit and happy was always going to be a tricky balancing act after the club decided to scrap their reserve side, but allowing Jamie O'Hara to rejoin Portsmouth in January when central midfield options were, by his own admission, short was a mistake.
Letting an out-of-sorts Robbie Keane join Celtic was fair enough, especially with the arrival of the experienced Eidur Gudjohnsen, but the highly-rated Kyle Naughton should have got more game time ahead of Alan Hutton at right-back before his eventual loan exit to Middlesbrough.
That said there is still enough quality in the squad to snatch fourth - expecially if the likes of King, Lennon, Huddlestone and the deadly Defoe return soon - and I'm sure most neutral fans would prefer to see a new English name in Europe's Premier club competition come the qualifying draw this summer.