Tottenham Hotspur v Hull City (23rd Nov)

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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 Woolwich) 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.


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


 
I hope after the international break that Poch will start to get something right...

I bet we end up 1-1 with them or maybe 0-0.

Even if he improves the first 11 by selecting those with good attitude and all the rest he's looking for then we're still not going to be good enough to beat anyone for a while.

My hope is we don't get a negative result, he finds that 11 and keeps playing them. Maybe we pick up a few points in the build up to January and then off-load the problem childs. Bring in a few of Poch's targets and going toward next Summer we continue to improve.

If this happens and Levy keeps Poch I think we will get 10th.

If in the Summer Poch gets more of his 'own' players then the next season we may be in contention for 6th.

Grim reality, but this is going to take some time now...
 
I hope after the international break that Poch will start to get something right...

I bet we end up 1-1 with them or maybe 0-0.

Even if he improves the first 11 by selecting those with good attitude and all the rest he's looking for then we're still not going to be good enough to beat anyone for a while.

My hope is we don't get a negative result, he finds that 11 and keeps playing them. Maybe we pick up a few points in the build up to January and then off-load the problem childs. Bring in a few of Poch's targets and going toward next Summer we continue to improve.

If this happens and Levy keeps Poch I think we will get 10th.

If in the Summer Poch gets more of his 'own' players then the next season we may be in contention for 6th.

Grim reality, but this is going to take some time now...
Probably. It seems like the problems are at positions which leave us badly exposed no matter what the rest of the guys do. I hope Bentaleb will be back, a Mason-Bentaleb pivot might have the bite we've been looking for
 
Probably. It seems like the problems are at positions which leave us badly exposed no matter what the rest of the guys do. I hope Bentaleb will be back, a Mason-Bentaleb pivot might have the bite we've been looking for
Would be a nice pairing I think... I think Bentaleb will play for the team. He's probably spent a lot of training days watching the team as well, maybe this will give him a different perspective on how Poch wants us to play.

I think we may see him being eased in rather than dropped straight into the starting XI though.
 
Would be a nice pairing I think... I think Bentaleb will play for the team. He's probably spent a lot of training days watching the team as well, maybe this will give him a different perspective on how Poch wants us to play.

I think we may see him being eased in rather than dropped straight into the starting XI though.
Think he's injured at the moment, that's why he's been missing.
 
Think he's injured at the moment, that's why he's been missing.
Yeah, sorry I wasn't being clear... I mean this is why I feel that he may give us something different as he won't have been training as much, or at all at the moment. I see Poch being the kind of guy who wants him there for the sessions though, even if it's to watch.

Integrating him into the team may take time or it might not. I hope he jumps in straight away, but only if he's up for playing the system that Poch wants us playing.
 
Bring back Chiriches, if we are going to concede stupid goals, we may as well let our headline comedian do it for his Christmas DVD compelation "VLAD DOES THE STUPIDEST THINGS"

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Lloris​

Dier - Fazio - Vertonghen - Rose
Stambouli - Dembele
Chadli - Mason - Eriksen
Kane​

1-2
 
Lloris
Dier - Fazio - Vertonghen - Rose
Stambouli - Dembele
Chadli - Mason - Eriksen
Kane​

1-2

As good as he has been, I'm still not sure Kane is suited to being the lone striker. I think he's played best with Ade/Soldado up there with him. Dembele has not done enough to warrant a start at all.

..................Lloris
Dier Kaboul Vertonghen Rose
........Stambouli Mason
Lamela.......Kane.........Chadli
................Soldado

Kaboul has been shocking but had his best game with JV. Hopefully he can use these 2 weeks to focus on getting back to the basics and re-learning to clear the ball from the box. Obviously going to be too soon for Walker to be back so Dier replaces Naughton. Rose has been caught out a few times for goals recently but won't be away on internationals so should be fitter and fresher than Davies for this one, assuming he plays for Wales

Eriksen or Lamela at the moment, not sure we can accommodate both and if we do we play 1 striker which we have struggled with. Capoue has been poor and Stambouli has showed he can get stuck in and showed some fight alongside a bit of skill, so hopefully he will get a chance in the centre of midfield for us.

Tough game either way, think we'll nick it by the odd goal at best.
 
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