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***Tottenham Hotspur v Reading OMT***

Simon_B said:
It was five years ago with two completely different teams, so we can't really use these statistics. IMO Reading is by far the worst team in the league and I expect a comfortable victory. AVB may be tempted to rest a few players, but we have been starting to find the right formation and style, we just need Ade to step up.
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Agreed but Spurs' worst enemy are Spurs ! We tend to get complacent when facing shyte teams, especially at home. We simply need to get early goals in this match. The more the match goes without us scoring, the more pressure it will put on us.
 
Reading had a war with West Ham yesterday and there were a few nasty challenges going in. Brian McDermott said on MOTD "We now know what we have to do to stay up"
So, once again I am more concerned about the ref before a match than the team.
I can't see many changes in the line up to the Sunderland game but if Carroll is fit and does not feature I think you can forget about him. Shame Townsend has the flu.
The subs recently have really made a difference so great selection problems for the manager. He will earn his corn keeping everybody happy.
 
Simon_B said:
It was five years ago with two completely different teams, so we can't really use these statistics. IMO Reading is by far the worst team in the league and I expect a comfortable victory. AVB may be tempted to rest a few players, but we have been starting to find the right formation and style, we just need Ade to step up.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/reading/results

Funny old season. Reading were raped by Arsenal but in their next game narrowly lost but could maybe have beaten City then drew with Swansea and beat West Ham yesterday.
They conceded 5 against Arsenal then only 1 on their next 3 games.
However I am very confident of an emphatic win. I think we are due a real good show at home and this could be the one.
 
I'd settle for the ugliest premier league victory since Iain Dowie bundled over a last minute winner against bradford city, with his arse.
 
Great with games coming thick and fast, especially when we're doing well and winning.

-------------Lloris--------------
Walker-Daws-Caulker-Vertonghen
Lennon--Parker-Dembele-Dempsey
---------Ade---Defoe------------

With Bale out I want to see a left footed left back so that we don't end up with two right footed players on the left so Vertonghen to start out there. Caulker and Dawson were good again last game, but Gallas could obviously start as well. Dempsey seems like the obvious choice on the left. Parker to come on for Sandro who has played every single league game this season to bring some more fresh legs into the side. With Dempsey, Parker and Vertonghen all rested and Lennon subbed against Sunderland I think we should have enough running to be fresh for this one.

Looking forward to this, no doubt they will park the bus and it's quite likely we will struggle to break them down, we have been playing well though and should have the confidence to just keep working and keep trying until we get a goal. If we get the early goal this could get very entertaining (for us).
 
not too bad for Bale to sit this one out, Dempsey could stretch those legs again and repeat those through ball assists.
i'd like to see Townsend and Naughton to start this one blazing and going for the jugular to upset Reading a bit.
Sandro and Dembele is really a solid core so they should start.
With Parker and Siggy as tactical subs we should be able to close down the game when we're miles ahead.
ade is long overdue a goal and i expect him to be confident in finding the net for this one.
 
This is gonna be a 1-1 draw

I wish we could play all our games away from home - would suit us much better
 
So we have 19th placed Reading, then 20th placed QPR. You'd think we'd get 6 points out of these two wouldn't you..
 
THFC6061 said:
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Tottenham Hotspur host Reading at White Hart Lane on New Year's Day, Tuesday 1st January 2013 (KO 15:00) in the 21st round of Premier League matches.

Tottenham are currently in 3rd place in the table on 36 points, while Reading are in 19th place with 13 points.

This will be the 94th time the two clubs have met. Reading were founded in 1871, eleven years earlier than Spurs were, and were connected with the Huntley & Palmers bakery firm and became known as The Biscuitmen. When Berkshire became a Royal County, their nickname changed to The Royals.

The first meeting came at Tottenham Marshes in January 1896 in a friendly which Spurs won 2-1. A second meeting came in April 1896 at Reading's new Elm Park ground which Spurs also won 3-2.

The first competitive meeting between the two clubs came in the Southern League in December 1896 with Reading winning their home match 2-1 and the reverse fixture in March 1897 ending in a 4-4 draw.

The clubs would compete together in the Southern League for a total of twelve seasons with Spurs winning 10 matches, Reading winning 7 and the remaining 7 games drawn.

At the same time, both clubs also played in the Western League for seven seasons and the United League in 1888-89. Spurs won 8 of those games, Reading won 3 and the 5 other games were drawn.

The clubs met for the first of their 7 encounters in the FA Cup in March 1901 at Elm Park in a drawn 1-1 game. Spurs won the replay later that month 3-0 and went on to win the competition as the first non-Football League club to lift the trophy.

There was one meeting during World War One in September 1916 which Spurs won 4-2 in a London Combination fixture.

The first Football League meeting came in the Second Division on Christmas Day 1928 with Reading drawing 2-2 at White Hart Lane and winning their Elm Park game 4-3 on Boxing Day. Reading took three points out of four off Spurs in the 1929-30 season but Spurs won the last of the six Division Two meetings in 1930-31 7-1 at home and 2-1 away.

The clubs met 14 times in various competitions during the Second World War with Spurs winning 6, Reading winning once and 7 matches drawn.

A series of eight friendlies were played after WW2 with Reading winning once in August 1988.

The Royals won promotion to the Premier League for season 2006-07 and Reading won the first Top Flight League game against Spurs in November 2006 3-1 after Robbie Keane had put Spurs ahead with a 24th minute penalty. Nicky Shorey and Steve Sidwell scored to give Reading a 2-1 half-time lead and Kevin Doyle added a third late in the game.

Tottenham won the reverse fixture at the Lane in April 2007 with another Robbie Keane penalty.

The December 2007 match proved to be a ten-goal thriller with Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov scoring four for Spurs and Steed Malbranque and Jermain Defoe making it a half-dozen. Reading goals were scored by Kalifa Cisse, Ivar Ingimarsson and a brace from Dave Kitson.

Robbie Keane scored the winner for Spurs at the Madejski Stadium in May 2008 and Reading were releagated at the end of the season.

The clubs met in the 2007-08 FA Cup 3rd Round with Reading drawing 2-2 at White Hart Lane. Steven Hunt had put Reading ahead but two goals from Dimitar Berbatov looked like securing Spurs progess but Hunt struck again in the 78th minute to force a replay. Robbie Keane scored the only goal of the match at the Madejski.

Reading were back in the Premier League for the 2012-13 season and Spurs won their first match of the season 3-1 in September at the Madejski Stadium. Jermain Defoe opened the scoring in the 18th minute and Gareth Bale scored Spurs second in the 71st minute. Defoe scored again three minutes later and Reading pulled a goal back through Hal Robson-Kanu in stoppage time.

Overall, Tottenham Hotspur have won 45 of the 93 games played with Reading winning 19 matches and the remaining 29 games drawn.


Steve Archibald
John Barlow
Stuart Beavon
Mark Bowen
Garry Brooke
Charlie Brown
David Brown
Ivor Brown
Chris Carrick
Darren Caskey
Sid Castle
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Bobby Cook
Ernie Coquet
Ronnie Dix
Kerry Dixon
Matt Edwards
Matt Forster
James Fulwood
Jack Gibbons
Chris Gunter
Lee Hodges
Sid Helliwell
Bill Lane
Colin Lee (Spurs player, Reading youth development)
David Leworthy
David McDonald
Tom Meads
Fred Milnes
Billy Minter
Tom Pangbourne
John Polston
Jimmy Reid
Jock Robertson
Martin Robinson
Harry Robshaw
Mark Robson
John Sainty
Max Seeburg
Fred Sharpe
Peter Shreeves (Reading player, Spurs manager)
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Neil Smith
Brian Statham
Archie Turner
Dennis Uphill
Pat van den Hauwe
Fred Wilkes

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Great OMT. Unlike the other ones that don't show WHEN, WHERE, and the TIME
 
Im more worried about this then Sunderland away.

I hope im wrong and we start the new year with a bang !
 
Amazed that in our last 5 games, we have seen only one goal scored in the first half and that was the goal that Sunderland scored against us! Almost worth backing second half to have more goals in each of our future fixtures. The odds of second half having more goals has been reduced on Betfair from the even money bet that it was at the weekend to something more like 7/10
 
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