Tottenham Hotspur FC vs Sunderland FC 7/4/14 @8PM

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ChrisOTDH

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I'm actually going to this game which is a rarity (shit fan) I would like to see some fight from the players; which to me is the only important thing at the moment.

I predict 6 wins on the bounce now. Would be Spursy as fuck to finish the season well enough to convince Levy that Sherwood is the man for the job. This is when Spursyness really starts to be spursy.

Spursy Spurs.


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Sunderland's next six are us (A), City (A), Everton (H), and Chelsea (A), Cardiff (H), and United (A). Doesn't look great for them.

I'm hoping we win 5 of our next 6 and break 70 points again. That would be the smallest of moral victories in this painful season.
 
it's now or never, if we fail to win this one, our season could unexpectedly turn into a disaster....
no, of course i'm not serious
 
Had I started this match thread, I would have titled it "Managerless Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland AFC
After all, we have been since December 2013. I could never want Spurs to lose a game, but I can take some solace in that a defeat will at least intensify the pressure on Levy to to do the right fucking thing. My fear is that a run of good results, which ultimately achieve fuck all, will give Levy the opportunity keep the prick in his job.
 
John Thomas said:
Had I started this match thread, I would have titled it "Managerless Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland AFC
After all, we have been since December 2013. I could never want Spurs to lose a game, but I can take some solace in that a defeat will at least intensify the pressure on Levy to to do the right fucking thing. My fear is that a run of good results, which ultimately achieve fuck all, will give Levy the opportunity keep the prick in his job.
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I don't understand why you say this? Levy has appointed tons of different managers that he had more stake in than Sherwood's success and he's never given them the benefit of the doubt when things have gone wrong. Why would it be different with Tim? Especially when Sherwood was clearly the back up choice after he was unable to convince LVG to do the Spurs and Netherlands jobs simultaneously.

What makes you think that Levy would be willing to keep Sherwood when we're not going to finish top 4? He's never afforded any other manager that luxury and besides people conjecturing that Levy and Sherwood are close there isn't any real reason to believe Sherwood isn't going removed at the end of the season. I think the only way you can think that is just by assuming the worst of Levy as opposed to actually looking at the facts.
 
Sunderland are pretty rubbish tbh. We will have to watch Rose and Naughton though as they are probably their biggest goal threats to us
 
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Tottenham Hotspur host Sunderland at White Hart Lane on Monday 7th April 2014 (KO 20:00) in the 33rd Round of 2013-14 Premier League matches.

This will be the 117th time the two clubs have met. Spurs come into the game in sixth place in the table on 56 points with Sunderland 19th on 25 points.

The first meeting came at Northumberland Park in March 1898 when Spurs were playing in the Southern League in a friendly which Sunderland won 2-0.

A second meeting followed within the year when Spurs beat Sunderland 2-1 in the old second round (today's fourth round) of the FA Cup in February 1899.

Tottenham's first visit to Sunderland came during a mini tour of the North-East to celebrate the turn of the new Century with Spurs winning the friendly match 3-1 on 2nd January 1900.

The first Football League meetings between the two clubs saw Sunderland win at home 3-1 in September 1909 and Spurs having a comprehensive win in the return fixture at White Hart Lane 5-1.

Tottenham Hotspur's all-time record attendance of 75,038 at White Hart Lane came in an FA Cup 6th round match against Sunderland in March 1938. Sundeland won the game 1-0. This was the only FA Cup match Sunderland have won out of the 7 played so far with Spurs winning five and one game drawn.

The only two League matches ever played outside the Top Flight came during 1977-78 when Spurs won at Roker Park 2-1 but lost the return Division Two match at the Lane 3-2.

The clubs first met in the Football League Cup in November 1984 with Spurs drawing 0-0 away but Sunderland winning the replay at the Lane 2-1.
The three matches in the competition have resulted in a win each and one game drawn.

Since Sunderland joined the Premier League in season 1996-97, no further domestic cup ties have been played between the two clubs.Spurs have a good record during the Premier League Era with 15 wins to Sunderland's 5 and the remaining 4 games drawn. Spurs have taken an average of 2.04 points off Sunderland in the 24 matches played so far.

The 2010-11 fixture at White Hart Lane ended in a 1-1 draw with Rafael van der Vaart putting Spurs ahead in the second half only for Sunderland's Asamoah Gyan to equalise three minutes later. The match at Sunderland resulted in a 2-1 win for Spurs with Asamoah Gyan putting the Black Cats ahead after 11 minutes before Michael Dawson's equaliser just before half-time. Niko Kranjcar scored the winner for Spurs in the 57th minute.

The 2011-12 match at White Hart Lane in December resulted in a 1-0 win for Spurs with substitute striker Roman Pavlyuchenko scoring the winner with just over an hour of the match played. The three points won put Spurs in third place in the table for the first time during 2011-12. The match at Sunderland in April 2012 was a goalless draw which produced very few chances for either team.

In August 2012, Tottenham's full-back Danny Rose went to Sunderland for a season's loan. The match at the Stadium of Light in December 2012 was won by Tottenham 2-1. John O'Shea opened the scoring for the Black Cats five minutes before half-time. Carlos Cuellar headed an own goal three minutes into the second half to even the game and Aaron Lennon scored the winner three minutes later for Spurs. A 90th minute Gareth Bale goal secured all three points for Spurs at home to Sunderland on the final day of the 2012-13 season.

Hong Kong provided the setting for the 2013 Premier League Asia Trophy in July and Sunderland beat Spurs 3-1 in the Semi-Final. Gylfi Sigurdsson put Spurs ahead after 28 minutes but Cabral equalised five minutes later. Second half goals from Wes Brown and David Karlsson ensured that Sunderland progressed to the Final, where they lost 1-0 to Manchester City.

Adam Johnson opened the scoring for Sunderland after 37 minutes in their home Premier League game in December 2013. Paulinho levelled things just before half-time and John O'Shea scored an own goal five minutes into the second half to give Spurs all three points.

Overall, Spurs have the upper hand over Sunderland with 48 wins to 39 and 29 of the 116 matches played so far drawn.

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Full Record of Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland Matches 1898-2014

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They Played for Spurs & Sunderland...​

Ben Alnwick
Darren Bent
Ted Birnie (Spurs player, Sunderland trainer & coach)
Ivor Broadis
Fraizer Campbell
Graham Carr (scout with both clubs)
Jim Chalmers
Pascal Chimbonda
Ernie Coquet
John Curtis
Calum Davenport
Jimmy Delvin
Márton Fülöp
Phil Gray
Jim Hartley
Alan Hutton
Joe Knowles
Steed Malbranque
Fred Mearns
Bobby Mimms
Bill Murray
George Payne
Gus Poyet (Spurs player & coach, Sunderland manager)
Andy Reid
Danny Rose
Louis Saha
Jimmy Seed
Paul Stewart
Teemu Tainio
Chris Waddle
Jack Whitbourne

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