" Cardiff C v Tottenham Hotspur " ' Official Match Thread '

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Cardiff come into the match in 12th place in the table on 5 points with Spurs in 2nd place on 9 points.

This will be the 53rd time the two teams have met and the first time in the Premier League. The last meeting was in the FA Cup in 2007.

Cardiff City were founded as Riverside AFC in 1899. In 1908, the club changed their name to Cardiff City and moved to Ninian Park two years later. They joined the Southern League Second Division shorty afterwards. The Bluebirds won promotion to the SL First Division for season 1913-14 and ended the 1914-15 season in third place before football was suspended for WW1.

Cardiff spent one more season in the Southern League before joining the Football League Division Two in 1920-21, when they finished as runners-up and won promotion to Division One.

The first meeting with Tottenham Hotspur at Ninian Park in August 1921 resulted in a 1-0 win for Spurs with Jimmy Banks scoring the winner. Spurs won the game at White Hart Lane 4-1 a week later with Tommy Clay, Andy Thompson (2) and Jimmy Dimmock all scoring.

The first FA Cup meeting came in March 1922 with Spurs drawing 1-1 in Cardiff and winning the replay 2-1. To date, the clubs have played six FA Cup games with Spurs winning three, two games drawn and Cardiff winning once.

The clubs met regularly during the 1920s and early 1930s, including two seasons in Division Two. Two matches were played during World War Two in March 1941 with Spurs winning the War Cup game 3-2 at Ninian Park after a 3-3 draw at White Hart Lane.

The clubs met for three seasons in Division Two in the 1940s with Spurs winning five of the six matches.

From 1952 to 1962, Spurs and Cardiff played 14 matches in Division One with 6 wins for Spurs, 4 draws and 4 wins for Cardiff. At the end of the 1961-62 season, Cardiff City were relegated and only returned to the Top Flight for season 2013-14.

Tottenham drew 0-0 at Cardiff in the Second Division in September 1977 and won the game at White Hart Lane 2-1 in Juanuary 1978 with Scottish striker John Duncan scoring both goals.

The only Football League Cup match the clubs have contested came in October 2002 with Teddy Sheringham scoring at the Lane.

The most recent meeting came in the FA Cup 3rd Round in January 2007 with the clubs drawing 0-0 in Cardiff and Spurs winning the replay 4-0 with goals from Aaron Lennon, Robbie Keane, Steed Malbranque and Jermain Defoe.

During the summer 2013 transfer window, Spurs central defender Steven Caulker moved to Cardiff City for a reported £9,000,000.

Overall, Spurs have won 28, Cardiff have won 11 and 13 of the 52 matches between the two clubs have been drawn.

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People who Played for Spurs & Cardiff....

Terry Boyle
Charlie Brittan
Ron Burgess
Fraizer Campbell
Steven Caulker
Willie Davies
Mike England
Willie Evans
Gerry Francis (Cardiff player, Spurs manager)
Chris Gunter
Danny Hill
Roger Hoy
David Gwilan Jones
Terry Lee
Doug Livermore (Cardiff player, Spurs manager)
Terry Medwin (Spurs player, Cardiff coach)
Bill Rees
Wayne Routledge
Cyril Spiers (Spurs player, Cardiff manager)

Team news :

Tottenham Injuries

M Dembele - Ankle/Foot Injury (no date)
D Rose - Ankle/Foot Injury (no date)
Y Kaboul - Hip/Thigh Injury (no date)
N Chadli - Groin/Pelvis Injury (no date)
E Capoue - Ankle/Foot Injury (1 week)
A Lennon - Ankle/Foot Injury (2 Weeks)

Cardiff injuries :

Craig Bellamy - knee injury (3days)
David Marshall - hip/ thigh injury ( no date )
Andreas cornelius - ankle/foot injury ( 2 weeks )
Kim bo kyung - thigh strain ( 50/50 )


Expected lineups :

Cardiff city - Lewis ,Catherine , caulker, turner, Taylor, medel, gunnarsson, whittingham, kim bo kyung , odemwingie, Campbell

Tottenham - Lloris , naughton, Dawson , vertongen , walker , Townsend , siggurdson , eriksen , lamela , holtby , Defoe


Match Appointments
Referee: Mark Clattenburg. Assistants: S Beck, S Child. Fourth Official: A Taylor.
Clattenburg's last game in charge of Cardiff City was the 2012 Carling Cup final when the Bluebirds lost to Liverpool on penalties.
This season, the 38 year old has officiated six games, the last of which was the 6 - 1 win for Real Madrid at Galatasary on Tuesday.


Match odds - cardiff to win 3/1 Draw 5/2 Tottenham 10/11

Dembele and kaboul will be fine for sun according to avb

I got a bad feeling about sunday.....................the same feeling I had before we played Man city

Going to stuff them 3-0 bring it on!!!

Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay believes Tottenham now have a ‘Champions League’ quality squad, as reported by BBC Sport.

Spurs visit the Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday and Mackay believes the Gareth Bale sale has enabled Andre Villas Boas to revamp his side enough to push them into the top four.

The Bluebirds beat Manchester City at home earlier this season and are now facing another of the top sides as they settle in to Premier League life.

Mackay is confident that his side can give Spurs a game but the former centre half knows that Tottenham now have the quality to become a top four side.

“Because of the extra amount of the money the Bale deal actually made for the club, their squad… looks like a Champions League squad,” said Mackay.

“Spurs went out and brought all those players in and then eventually did the [Bale] deal.

“It looks as if it has been very good business,” said Mackay.

“The players that they brought in – everyone in football knew in football they were top talents that were on the market and they were going to cost a lot of money

“It was a top six Premier League squad but… they have gone and strengthened in depth and some of the players they have got I really covet.”

- quite an offensive spurs linup posted there 3 wingers and 2 attacking midfielders

Lloris
Walker Dawson Vert Naughton
Sandro Paulinho
Townsend Eriksen siggurdson
Soldado

Would be my take on their starting 11.. (Rose for Naughton and dembele for sandro if they become fit before match)

Don't think lamela will get a start yet and despite Defoes two goals against Tromsø, I think AVB still prefer soldado.

Good luck tomorrow

2-2 draw for me

Haven't been able to get tickets for today - can anybody recommend a good streaming site?

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/footbal ... 32645.html

Malkys half time team talk;



This is why the guys are so fired up..?

WELL, WELL, WELL! The stats will be a minging site, but if it wasn't for this unhelpful ref we easily could have said that it was the perfect half. However, the keeper is allowed to handle the ball outside the area, he now shouldn't be on the pitch and the foul decision for the corner goal was soft.

Positives, get as many corners as possible!!!

Marshall is a BEAST!!

Get the subs on!

Here comes Pete!

Cheating fcks, that free kick was about three yards outside where he placed that

Dawson should be off so many dirty tackles!

What a missed chance by Gunna

Unlucky to loose so close to full time. Well done boys

Unlucky to loose so close to full time. Well done boys

in some ways unlucky but was good goalkeeping that prevented a rout! but if cambell had scored and gunner could been different story but wont come up against a team so talented as them every game!