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Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool Match History 1894 to 2012
by Paul Yarden on 02/01/12
Liverpool host Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Monday 6th February 2012 in the 24th round of the 2011-12 Premier League season.
Liverpool come into the match in 5th place on 38 points, while Spurs are in 3rd place on 49 points.
This will be the 161st time the two teams have met.
The first meeting came on Boxing Day in 1894 when Liverpool, who had been established just two years earlier after a dispute with Everton, played a friendly at Tottenham Marshes in a game won 3-0 by Spurs. A further visit from Liverpool was even less successful in Easter 1895 with Spurs winning 6-0.
The first Football League meeting between the two clubs took place at White Hart Lane in November 1909 with Spurs winning 1-0 thanks to a Bert Middlemiss goal. He became the first Spurs player to score against both Merseyside clubs.
The reverse fixture that season was won by Liverpool at Anfield 2-0. Anfield had previously been the home of Everton before their move to Goodison Park.
All 134 League meetings played to date between Spurs & Liverpool have taken place in the Top Flight of English football.
Tottenham's 2-1 First Division win at Anfield in March 1912 would be their last at the ground for 73 years with the jinx finally being broken by a Garth Crooks goal in 1-0 win in March 1985.
The first FA Cup meeting came in the 5th Round in March 1968 and resulted in a 1-1 draw at the Lane. Liverpool won the replay 2-1.
To date, the clubs have met 7 times in the competition with Tottenham's only win coming at Anfield in the 6th Round in March 1995 when goals from Teddy Sheringham and Jurgen Klinsmann earned a 2-1 victory.
The teams first met in the Football League Cup in 1972 and have played 7 times in the competition with Spurs winning four games with two draws.
Liverpool's only win came in the 1982 Final at Wembley which was won 3-1 after extra time. Steve Archibald put Spurs ahead but Ronnie Whelan's brace and a goal from Ian Rush ensured that the Reds lifted the silverware.
The teams contested the Charity Shield in August that year with League Champions Liverpool beating FA Cup Winners Spurs 1-0.
Liverpool are one of three English clubs Spurs have played in European Competitions to date - the other being Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Spurs beat Liverpool in the 1973 UEFA Cup Semi-Final 2-1 with a brace of goals from Martin Peters but a 1-0 win to Liverpool in the second leg at Anfield meant that the Reds progressed to the Final on the away goals rule.
Two matches were played in Swaziland in June 1984 reulting in a 5-2 win for Liverpool and a 1-1 draw.
In December 1985 and January 1986 the clubs met in the Screen Sport Super Cup - a competition played due to English club's being barred from European competition - with Liverpool winning both matches 2-0.
Both Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur were founder-members of the Premier League in season 1992-93 and are two of the seven clubs who have been ever-present in the competition for the past 20 seasons (Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton and Manchester United are the other five).
The home fixture at White Hart Lane last season in November resulted in a 2-1 win for Spurs. Liverpool went ahead just before halftime with a goal from Martin Skrtel but Spurs came back in the second half with an own goal from Skrtel after 65 minutes and an injury-time winner from Aaron Lennon.
The reverse fixture at Anfield in May proved to be the UEFA Europa League decider with Spurs winning 2-0 with goals from Rafael van der Vaart and a Luka Modric penalty.
During the summer, Spurs added former Liverpool goalkeeper (1997-2000) Brad Friedel to their playing staff.
The game at White Hart Lane in September 2011 was won 4-0 by Spurs with goals from Luka Modric, Jermain Defoe and a brace from new loan signing Emmanuel Adebayor. Liverpool had both Charlie Adam and Martin Skrtel sent-off.
Liverpool have won 17 of the 39 Premier League matches played so far with Spurs on 12 wins and 10 draws.
Overall, Liverpool have the upper hand over Spurs with 73 wins to 48 with 39 of the 160 matches played so far drawn.
They Played for Spurs & Liverpool....
Nick Barmby
Keith Burkinshaw (Liverpool player, Spurs manager)
Harry Bradshaw
Joe Brough
Ray Clemence
Peter Crouch
Brad Friedel
Charlie Hewitt
Robbie Keane
Oyvind Leonhardsen
Doug Livermore (Liverpool player, Spurs official)
Danny Murphy
Jamie Redknapp
Ronnie "The Rocket" Rosenthal
Neil "Razor" Ruddock
John Scales
Tom Soulsby
Graeme Souness (also Liverpool manager)
John Stephenson
Paul Stewart
Paul Walsh
Christian Ziege
Tottenham Hotspur v Watford Match History 1894 to 2012
by Paul Yarden on 01/22/12
Watford host Tottenham Hotspur at Vicarage Road on Friday 27th January 2012 in a Fourth Round 2011-12 FA Cup fixture.
Watford are currently in 18th place in the Championship on 30 points and beat Bradford City 4-2 at home in the FA Cup Third Round, while Tottenham Hotspur are in 3rd place in the Premier League on 46 points and beat Cheltenham Town 3-0 at home in the FA Cup Third Round.
This will be the 60th time the two teams have met and the 6th time in the FA Cup, with Spurs having won the previous five games.
The first meeting came on 13th October 1894 in the first qualification round of the FA Cup in what was Tottenham Hotspur's very first match in the competition. Over 2,000 saw Spurs beat West Hertfordshire 3-2, as Watford were known as then, at Northumberland Park. Peter Hunter and Don Goodall (2) scored Tottenham's goals.
West Herts and Watford St. Mary's merged in 1898 to form Watford FC and the club played Spurs at Cassio Road in the Southern League in October 1900 winning 2-1. The return fixture at White Hart Lane was won 7-0 by Spurs. The clubs met for a further six seasons in the Southern League resulting in a total of 8 wins for Spurs, one win for Watford and 5 drawn matches.
At the end of the 1907-08 season, Spurs joined the Football League and Watford would later become a Third Division team in 1920-21 when the Southern League was incorporated into the Football League as the Third Division.
The clubs met four times during the First World War with Spurs winning all the matches.
Two FA Cup matches were played during the inter-war years with Spurs winning a 2nd Round (today's 4th Round) match 1-0 in January 1922 and beating Watford again in a 3rd Round match 7-1 in January 1939.
There were 10 meetings during World War Two with Spurs winning 7 games, Watford one and two draws.
The first Football League Cup meeting came in the 2nd Round in September 1975 with Spurs winning 1-0 thanks to a Chris Jones goal.
Watford's first season in the Top Flight of English football came during 1982-83 and they beat Spurs at White Hart Lane 1-0 with Spurs winning at Vicarage Road by the same score with a goal from Mark Falco.
Watford remained in the First Division for another five seasons and Spurs had the slight edge with 6 wins to Watford's 5 with one game drawn.
The clubs were drawn together in the two-legged League Cup 2nd Round in 1994 with Spurs winning 6-3 at Vicarage Road and Watford winning 3-2 at the Lane.
Spurs won an FA Cup 3rd Round tie in January 1999 5-2 with goals from Steffan Iversen (2), Darren Anderson, Allan Nielsen and Ruel Fox.
Watford had two seasons in the Premier League, the first of which came in 1999-2000 with Spurs winning 4-0 at the Lane with goals from David Ginola, Steffan Iversen and a brace from Tim Sherwood. The reverese fixture was drawn 1-1 with Chris Armstrong scoring for Spurs.
The game at Watford in 2006-07 was drawn 0-0 with Spurs winning 3-1 at the Lane with goals from Jermaine Jenas, an astonishing long range goal from the Spurs goalkeeper Paul Robinson and Hossam Ghaly.
The most recent meeting between the two clubs came in the Football League Cup in December 2008 with Spurs winning the 5th Round fixture 2-1 with goals from Roman Pavlyuchenko and Darren Bent. Watford's goal was scored by Tamas Priskin.
Overall, Spurs have won 39 games, Watford have won 8 games and the remaining 12 matches played have been drawn.
They Played for Spurs & Watford....
Chris Adams
Gerry Armstrong
Espen Baardsen
George Badenoch
Bert Badger
Fred Barnett
Peter Beadle
Dennis Bond
Ron Burgess (Spurs player, Watford Manager)
Darren Caskey
Jim Chalmers
Bobby Cook
Harry Crump
Chris Day
Wally Earnes
Jack Elkes
Mark Falco
Lee Gardner
Johnny Galvin
George Gemmell
Arthur Grimsdell (also Watford Director)
Tommy Harmer
Danny Hill
Arthur Hopkins
Alex Inglethorpe (Watford player, Spurs development manager)
Pat Jennings
Jimmy Jones
John L Jones
Jimmy Kennedy
Peter Kyle
Bill Lane
Colin Lee (Spurs player, Watford Manager)
Roy Low
Paul Miller
Joe Moffatt
John Moran
Allan Nielsen
Tom Pangbourne
Steve Perryman (Spurs player, Watford Manager)
Jimmy Reid
Mark Robson
Ronny Rosenthal
John Ryden
Tim Sherwood (also Spurs Development Manager)
Peter Shreeves (Spurs Manager, Watford asst. manager)
Alf Stokes
Walter Tattersall
Peter Taylor (Spurs player, Watford asst. manager)
Andros Townsend
Dennis Uphill
Ramon Vega
Wilf Waller
Mark Yeates
Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City Match History 1909 to 2012
by Paul Yarden on 01/14/12
Manchester City host Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday 22nd January 2012 in the 22nd round of Premier League matches in the 2011-12 season.
City come into the match as Premier League leaders on 48 points with Spurs in third place on 46 points.
This will be the 144th time the two teams have met.
The first meeting came on 16th January 1909 in the FA Cup 1st round (today's 3rd round) at Hyde Road in Ardwick (City's original name) in a match which Spurs won 4-3.
The first League meeting came in the First Division in December 1910 at White Hart Lane and resulted in a 1-1 draw. Walter Tull, who was the first black outfield footballer to play League football scored Tottenham's goal. City won the reverse fixture in January 1911 2-1.
All the League meetings between Spurs and City up to season 1934-35 took place in the First Division.
The clubs were drawn together in the 1913-14 FA Cup 2nd round with City wining 2-1 at Hyde Road (City would move to Maine Road in 1923 and stay there for the next 80 years) and also met in the 1921-22 FA Cup 3rd round with FA Cup holders Tottenham beating City 2-1 at White Hart Lane.
The only League meetings between the clubs outside the Top Flight took place either side of the Second World War with City winning both Second Division matches in the 1938-39 season and taking three points out of four off Spurs in the Second Division matches played in 1946-47.
Spurs and City resumed their Top Flight meetings in the 1951-52 season.
The clubs contested the 1956 FA Cup Semi-Final at Villa Park with City winning 1-0 with a goal scored by Bobby Johnstone. City would go on to win the FA Cup that season, beating Birmingham City 3-1 in the Final at Wembley.
Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City contested the centenary FA Cup Final in 1981. The match finished in a 1-1 draw after extra time after Tommy Hutchison had put City ahead but also scored an unfortunate own goal.
The replay was the first to be played at Wembley and Spurs won 3-2 with a brace from Ricky Villa and a goal from Garth Crooks. City goals were scored by Steve MacKenzie and Kevin Reeves. Ricky Villa's second goal was voted Goal of the Century and the match is one of the best remembered Finals of all-time.
The first of three Football League Cup meetings came in the 1992 3rd Round with Spurs winning 1-0 at Maine Road with a Vinny Samways goal. Tottenham also won the other two matches - a 4th Round match in 2003 3-1 and a 5th round match in 2007 2-0.
City had an amazing comeback in the 2004 FA Cup 4th Round replay at White Hart Lane after going three goals down to goals from Ledley King, Robbie Keane and Christian Ziege in the first half. City, who had been reduced to ten men after Joey Barton received a second yellow card, scored four second half goals from Sylvain Distin, Paul Bosvelt, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Jonathan Macken to win a memorable game 4-3.
Both Spurs and City were founder-members of the Premier League, although City have only competed in 15 of the 20 seasons played in the competition so far, while Spurs have been one of seven ever-present clubs.
Spurs have generally had the upper hand during this era with nineteen wins to City's five wins and five matches drawn. In fact, City have only won three times in the past 17 meetings between the clubs in all competitions.
In 2009-10, Spurs did the 'double' over City with a 3-0 win at the Lane with goals from Nico Kranjcar (2) and Jermain Defoe followed by a vital 1-0 end of season win at Eastlands, which secured fourth place and Champions League football for Spurs thanks to a Peter Crouch goal.
Last season's fixtures featured an opening day of the season match at White Hart Lane which finished in a 0-0 draw and a late season game at Eastlands which City won 1-0 thanks to a Peter Crouch own goal.
During the summer, Spurs secured the services of Manchester City's Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor on a season's loan.
The match at White Hart Lane earlier this season ended in a comprehensive 5-1 win to Manchester City with Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko scoring four goals for the visitors, who were 2-0 up at half-time. Sergio Aguero also scored for City while Tottenham's goal came from Younes Kaboul.
Overall, Spurs have won 57 games, City have won 52 games and the remaining 34 matches played have been drawn.
They Played for Spurs & City....
Emmanuel Adebayor
Clive Allen (Player with both clubs, Spurs development manager)
Jamie Atwell
Kevin Bond (City player, Spurs asst manager)
Ivor Broadis
Michael Brown
Jock Chaplin
Vedran Corluka
Bill Felton
Márton Fülöp
Foster Hedley
Chris Jones
Neil McNab
Bobby Mimms
Joe Moffatt
John Sainty (Spurs player, City coach)
Bert Sprostson
Alex Steel
Paul Stewart
Perry Suckling (City player, Spurs coach)
Ben Thatcher
Paul Walsh
Charlie Williams
Clive Wilson
Alex Young
