marcus jones

Ok I'll forgive you for singing the blues!!!

Rubes, I'm listening now and for 25 min you have just played every tune that you grew up listening to!!!! Should have a disclaimer pronouncing '' Warning, not suitable for under 65's''!!!!!!!! Oi Peggy Rubes!!

That makes him a contender for MotM then because most of the side were dross for the full 90

Saurez's agent nearly got him a place on 'splash' the diving competition.........but apparently ITV said he couldn't compete as he was already a semi-professional diver.

Why that reaction Zoo?
 
Also, wanted Magarth at Everton for a bit. Very good coach.
 
If he pulls then away from relegation, he'll do well!

The incentives to finish 5th rather than 6th, are:
 
TV money from Europa League, gate receipts from EL, potential prize money from EL, raising the club's profile, attracting players with the promise of European football, the chance to blood some youngsters in the 'lesser' EL group games, plus do we get more money from the PL for finishing a place higher, not sure?
 
Having said all that, of course I would prefer 4th. But 5th is better than 6th, so there's the incentive in finishing above Spurs (and whoever else we can).

I think those days are long gone , oh and by the way the " star " was Trevor Francis a then British record transfer fee

Lol so Im probably wasting my time saying that Didier Deschamps was spot on when he said every good team needs a water carrier
 
If your looking at him to spray 40 yard passes and beat 10 men then you are going to be dissapointed but thats not his game, he breaks things up and then gives it to the more technically gifted players to do their thing. He also gives them the confidence to try things knowing that he can bail them out if it goes wrong
 
The lad never stops running and he is playing alongside the best mentor he could possibly have in the game, one things for certain if he moves from Everton this side of his 30th birthday I bet we make a tidy profit on him

Everton were easily the better team in the first half but Spurs came back to edge the second.
 
The best of luck for the rest of your season, but I've got a funny feeling neither of us will be playing Champions League Football in 2014-15.

It's up to our players to stand over that ball and not let a quick one get taken our mistake.

Ref didn't lose us the match, our players did. Stop sounding so desperate.
We were poor after the goal and as soon as peanuts went of we just died.
We need creative midfielders and at the moment don't seem to have anyone stepping up.
Mirralas has been our only player recently.

It doesn't matter if you have 70% possession if you don't have a shot at goal you will never win. Once we got near the penalty area it was as though the players were under orders not to shoot.
 
If the ref had given the penalty whoever took it would have passed it back.

This is a genuine question, so dont read it in any other way!
 
How would this defending deeper work? Say if we were 10-15 yards deeper. Shites attacking quartet are still going to press...our players would still make the mistakes, have a nightmare...the only difference being that it hapoens closer to our goal??? Does one team sitting deeper not just allow the other team to push up further?

Paddy's Wife said I think I need a Rape Alarm
 
So next morning Paddy leans across the bed, puts his Hand over her mouth, Punches her in the Kidney and roughly fucks her in the arse, then gently say's " time to get up now dear"

It was absolutely the right decision to send him off, Carroll was trying to connect with Flores, but Flores' reaction was ridiculous and he deserves a ban of equal length.

In this tournament, the organizers do all they can to ensure there's "cannon fodder" to make the "big" teams look good. Last year, unfortunately for them, Everton weren't cannon fodder and played well. They had to rig one of the games to ensure we lost, thereby ensuring the final featured the teams needed to draw the largest TV audience. This time around, it seems, Everton is too good. For an average team that the big names can beat, they've chosen United.

Before we all get too carried away with Martinez, I'm waiting to see when the defensive change happens.
 
This defence was built under Moyes, a defensive tactician who got at least one thing right - his back four. Built on solid foundations for Martinez to add his attacking players and knowledge.
 
The big question mark over Martinez will be his ability to replace Moyes back four. If he does this with success then we have a real talent on our hands. However, previously we have seen his sides ship goals. Put it this way you wouldn't see a Moyes side go to Anfield and lose 4-0. On another night it could have been 8-0. A scoreline, that we have seen Martinez sides get beat (or close to).
 
For me this is the major question mark. Let's see who he replaced Distin and Jags with. So far his only defensive signing has a red flag waved over his head. No pace and always injured.

Matt, when you're a kid you just accept things as they are. When it all started I was too young to remember what it was like before. The only thing I can remember really missing was bananas. I had a memory that I loved bananas and could actually remember the taste. Didn't have another banana for about 8 years. I remember in secondary school, a lad had a brother who was in the Navy and when his brother came home on leave he brought some bananas. The lad in our class brought a piece of banana, about an inch long, in a piece of greaseproof paper. He was a kind lad and he passed it all round the class for everyone to have a lick, when everyone had had a lick he ate it. The taste of the banana from that lick was exactly how I remembered it. Can't eat a banana now without thinking of that incident! Another lad brought in a dagger with a curved blade that his uncle had brought home from the Middle East. We were in the Science room with big wooden tables and the lad was stabbing the knife into the table top. One of the other lads spread his hand out on the table and kept pulling it away before the knife got down. The inevitable happened and his hand got pinned to the table. All in a days schooling!

Tottenham Hotspur host Everton at White Hart Lane on Sunday 9th February 2014 (KO 13:30) in the 25th round of Premier League matches of the 2013-14 season.

Spurs come into the match in 6th place in the League on 44 points, while Everton are in 5th place on 45 points. This will be the 173rd time the two clubs have met.

The first meeting came in April 1897 in an end of season friendly match at Tottenham Marshes which Spurs won 2-1. Everton were founder-members of the Football League and had just finished 7th in the First Division while Spurs were in the Southern League and had finished 4th.

A further friendly was played at Goodison Park on New Year's Day 1902 which Everton won 3-1.

The clubs' first competitive match came in the old First Round (today's Third Round) of the FA Cup in February 1904 at Goodison Park which Spurs won 2-1 with a Vivian Woodward goal and an own goal from Everton's Balmer.

Both clubs embarked on a central European tour in the summer of 1905 an met twice with Everton winning both matches 2-0 in Vienna and 1-0 in Prague.

A second FA Cup meeting came in January 1908 with Spurs losing 1-0 at Everton.

At the end of that season, both Spurs and Everton set sail for a tour of South America and played two exhibition matches in Palermo, Argentina with the first game drawn 0-0 and Everton winning the second 4-0. On the voyage home, Spurs 'borrowed' the ship captain's parrot who lived happilly for a decade at the Tottenham offices in the High Road until it dropped dead the day news came through that Arsenal had stolen Spurs' First Division place in 1919.

The first Football League meetings came in the First Division in the 1909-10 season with Everton winning 4-2 at Goodison and Spurs winning 3-0 at the Lane.

The clubs then met regularly in the First Division up to season 1927-28 with eight wins for Spurs, ten wins for Everton and eight matches drawn.

The only League meetings between the two clubs outside the Top Flight of English Football came in season 1930-31 in the Second Division with Everton winning 4-2 at Goodison Park and Spurs winning 1-0 at White Hart Lane.

The clubs met for two more seasons in Division One before the outbreak of World War Two with a win apiece and two games drawn.

Spurs won a 3rd Round FA Cup tie 3-0 at home in 1934 and a 5th round tie at home in 1937 4-3 after a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park.

The first meeting after WW2 came in the FA Cup 5th Round at Goodison Park in February 1950 with Everton winning 1-0.

Spurs regained their First Division status in 1950-51 and did the 'double' over Everton on their way to the first Football League Championship won by Tottenham Hotspur with a 2-1 away win and a 3-0 home win. Everton lost their First Division place that same season along with Sheffield Wednesday, while Chelsea escaped the drop on goal average.

Everton were back in the First Division for the 1954-55 season and the clubs have met in the Top Flight for every subsequent season to date, except for 1977-78 when Spurs dropped down to the Second Division for one season.

Bill Nicholson's first game as Tottenham's manager came at White Hart Lane in October 1958 and Spurs were 6-1 up at half-time and went on to beat Everton 10-4.

A League game at White Hart Lane in December 1969 was abandoned due to floodlight failure after 29 minutes.

The two clubs met in February and March of 1986 in a competition called the Screen Sport Super Cup, which was introduced to give teams who would have qualified for the European competitions some compensation, as English clubs were banned from Europe. The first match at White Hart Lane ended goalless while Everton won the return leg 3-1.

The only Football League Cup meeting between the clubs came in the Fourth Round in October 2009 with Spurs winning 2-0 at the Lane with goals from Tom Huddlestone and Robbie Keane.

Both Tottenham Hotspur and Everton were founder-members of the Premier League and are two of the seven clubs who have been ever-present for the entire 22 seasons of the competition, along with Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.

Spurs have taken more points off Everton in the Premier League than from any other opponent. The 73 points won by Spurs against Everton in the 43 matches played to date gives an average of 1.7 points won per game.

The 2010-11 meetings in the Premier League only yielded one point for Spurs, which came in a 1-1 draw at the Lane in October 2010. The reverse fixture in January 2011 was won 1-2 by Everton. The Toffees' goals were scored by Leighton Baines at Spurs and Louis Saha & Seamus Coleman at Goodison Park. Rafael van der Vaart scored both Spurs' goals that season.

Spurs' home game last season was re-arranged from the opening day to January 2012 due to rioting in the Tottenham area. Spurs won the match 2-0 with goals from Aaron Lennon and a belter from Benoit Assou-Ekotto. During the January transfer window, Spurs signed Everton's French striker Louis Saha while Steven Pienaar moved in the opposite direction on loan until the end of the season. The match at Goodison Park in March 2012 was won 1-0 by Everton when Nikica Jelavic scored his first goal for the club in the 22nd minute.

During the Summer of 2012, Everton re-signed Steven Pienaar from Spurs on a permanent basis.

Everton won the fixture at Goodison Park in December 2012 with two very late goals in injury time from Steven Pienaar and Nikica Jelavic after Clint Dempsey had put Tottenham ahead after 76 minutes. The return game at White Hart Lane in April 2013 finished in a 2-2 draw. Emmanuel Adebayor put Spurs ahead in the first minute but Phil Jagielka leveled things after 15 minutes. Everton took the lead with a Kevin Mirallas goal after 53 minutes and Gylfi Sigurdsson scored for Spurs with three minutes remaining.

Everton & Spurs drew the Premier League match in November 2013 at Goodison Park 0-0.

Overall, Spurs have won 61 of the 172 matches played so far with Everton winning 59 and 52 matches drawn.




Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Everton Matches 1897-2014



They Played for Spurs & Everton....


Jamie Attwell
Espen Baardsen
John Barlow
Nick Barmby
John Brearley
Frank Brettell (Everton player, Spurs manager)
Charlie Brown
Bob Cain
John Cameron (also Spurs manager)
Simon Davies
Anthony Gardner
Paul Gascoigne
David Ginola
Richard Gough
Charlie O'Hagan
Ted Hughes
Pat Jennings
Steve Kelly
John Kirwan
Gary Lineker
Bobby Mimms
Charlie Morgan
Steven Pienaar
Robert Pilch
Louis Saha
Vinny Samways
Pat Van den Hauwe
John Watson
Alex 'Sandy' Young




Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2013-14

Everton Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2013-14

I think with any half decent team there'd be points in a match (particularly playing 4-3-3) where you could draw nine triangle off the central midfielder....nothing very stunning about it, just players being in the right position.

Id swap Lloris for Mignolet (I know, I will go wash my mouth out). De Gea is still learning but is already a very good keeper, you can see why SAF invested in him. Hes going to be a great keeper

Finally someone gets it! :jump for joy:

That game was the very definition of 'character'. On a day when United and Newcastle lost and Spurs could only draw, this comeback makes a big difference to the season.

i enjoy watching Keys and Gray on Al Jazeera's sports channel [dodgy feeds] since they were outed from Sky. Still enjoy Grays analysis.. was good to listen to him on BT Sport for sure

I really don't understand the negativity. Jelavic hasn't been part of the first team for ages. He played one game recently - big whoop. He's started twice for Hull and missed some sitters. No big loss. And then there's Heitinga, who similarly has not been part of the team but consumes large sums of cash in salary. Isn't it a positive simply to be rid of these players? If we really do become stretched further (unlikely since several injured players will be back soon), we do have several younger players who are close to being ready for prime time. For sure, they are no worse than the two players we let go.

And I would reiterate: This is not the right window to bring in players. If a player is good, a team will not release them halfway through a season. If there really is a reason to do so, the price will be inflated. Why would we want to blow cash on second-rate players? Of course, we wouldn't. Even then, we did bring in two players - both good deals. One was out of favour and wanted to return to Britain. The other was a recent buy at Monaco who needs toughening up.

So, we've again made money, and we've cut the wage bill. We did so by selling two players who were not likely to make it again into the first team. In my book, that is good business. Anyone who thinks we could have brought in a top-notch player for a low fee is living in cloud-cuckoo land.