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Saturday 22nd December 2012
K.O @ 1500hrs GMT

i heard bale is back for this one. i would keep him on the bench. we know how dirty stoke are and wil kick him all over the pitch .
bring him on second half if we need him. save him for the xmas games.

lloris
walker galas jan naughton
lennon dembelle sandro stigerson
ade defoe

Loughtonlegend wrote:i heard bale is back for this one. i would keep him on the bench. we know how dirty stoke are and wil kick him all over the pitch .
bring him on second half if we need him. save him for the xmas games.

lloris
walker galas jan naughton
lennon dembelle sandro stigerson
ade defoe

Don't Charlie Adams play for them now?

thought he was injurd

STOKE DONT TRAVEL WELL EXPECTING LEAST A 2-1 WIN .
DOMINATING THE GAME FOR MOST OF IT.

I've always liked Townsend, he gives 110%, is skillfull and has vision. Hope AVB gives him more chances.

Should hopefully be a comfortable win.

TEAM NEWS

Tottenham's Gareth Bale and Michael Dawson are fit again after hamstring injuries.

Striker Emmanuel Adebayor will have a fitness test, while midfielder Scott Parker and defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto could feature.

Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam is set to miss the match after being granted compassionate leave.

But Potters defender Ryan Shotton is available for selection again having completed a one-match suspension.
MATCH PREVIEW

At this time of year thoughts begin to turn, naturally, towards the January transfer window and prospective departures and arrivals. There's already plenty of speculation as to who might be turning up where, and what players are required by the various Premier League clubs as they look to achieve their objectives.
You could argue that Tottenham have already welcomed their best mid-season arrival: Scott Parker made his first appearance of the campaign last weekend when he came on as a late substitute against Swansea.

The England international has been out with an Achilles problem, and although he probably won't start against Stoke this weekend the return of Tottenham's Player of the Season will be a huge boost as Spurs aim for another top-four finish in May.

Away victories have been scarce for Stoke this season, with just one win on their Premier League travels at West Bromwich Albion earlier this month. Stoke took a point home from White Hart Lane and won at the Britannia last season, and this should be an intriguing encounter. Tony Pulis's side are unbeaten in their last seven, while Spurs have won four of their last five in the league.

The most interesting fact about this match is that 19 of the 24 goals scored at White Hart Lane in the Premier League this season have come in the second-half of matches; any Tottenham fan will tell you that they fear the last 10 minutes of games because of their poor defensive record in the latter stages.

Stoke will look to take full advantage of that and I wouldn't be too surprised if, just like in March, they returned to Staffordshire with at least a point.
MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

Tottenham have won four of eight Premier League games between the two sides, with Stoke winning three.
The biggest-ever win for either side at White Hart Lane came when Spurs beat Stoke 6-1 (in Division One) in October 1950.
The two clubs first met in the first round of the FA Cup in 1896, Stoke claiming a 5-0 victory at home.

Tottenham

Spurs have won four of their last five Premier League matches.
Nineteen of the 24 goals scored at White Hart Lane in the Premier League this season have been scored in the second half.
Against Swansea in their last match, Spurs made 39 interceptions - the most by a Premier League team in a single game since the 2009-10 season.

Stoke

Stoke are unbeaten in their last 15 Premier League games at the Britannia Stadium (W7, D8), their best such run in the top flight since November 1974 when they went 23 games unbeaten.
The Potters have conceded only three goals at home in the league this season, fewer than any other club in the Premier League or Football League.
However, they have won just one of their nine away games in the Premier League.
Kenwyne Jones could make his 250th career league appearance. His goal against Everton last weekend was his first in 28 Premier League games, a run stretching back to August 2011.

toothless upfront we are, all conjested in midfield going forward with even defoe and ade joining in there, get in the f*cking box both of you sometimes , please. vertonghen doing really well and making most of our probing attacks from him. cmon spurs your better than this.

defoe bein greedy. 2 goals in 10 games now

bale diving. its on sopcast 6816

greedy f*cker again he had 2 other players for a tap in

how did begovic save that from siggy at the end, jammy b*stard. 2 points lost for us. level with them pr*cks now

some of our players play for themselfs

bale today was trying to do every. he even tried to score from a free kick

stranges subs from abv aswell
begovic turned up at spurs and saw we also had another new keeper and thought sod that and left and didnt sign. thats 10 clean sheets for him in the prem

that was a corner he tried to score from, hes supposed to score from free kicks surely ?. anyway our corners are woefull every time we get one.

Sandro booked for not committing a foul that must be a first.

How can anyone watch Stoke season after season. 5 goaless draws, Arsenal played out one of those with them, 4 x 1-1 draws, 3 x 1-0 victories, 15 goals scored against 13. Says it all. Shut up shop for most of the game, hope for a breakaway goal and then go back to defending there goal lead. That is no excuse for our failure to break them down, but God, it would do my head in watching them week in week out, in fact it would drive me potty.

strange from avb today. late subs. and the fact he put bale in then played him the whole 90 mins

then taken of dembelle and bringing on parker??
parker was not needed in this game.
sandro had a poor game and maybe he should of taken off.

why didnt sig come on earlyer. how about using falque more