· Brian Judson's Preview
· Last Year's Game - 2-1 to Spurs
· This week - last year
· What happened in the Premiership in Match 6 2002-3

Spurs

Spurs       0  4   Blackburn
Birmingham  1  0   Spurs
Spurs       2  1   Leeds
Liverpool   0  0   Spurs
Spurs       0  3   Fulham
Chelsea     4  2   Spurs

Southampton

Man City   0  1   S'hampton
Leicester  2  2   S'hampton
S'hampton  0  0   Birmingham
Leeds      0  0   S'hampton
S'hampton  1  0   Man Utd
S'hampton  2  0   Wolves

Pos           P  W  D  L  F-A  GD  Pts
 6 So'pton    5  2  3  0  5-2   3   9
17 Spurs      5  1  1  3  4-9  -5   4

I'll let the stats speak for themselves this week, as I am behind my normal schedule, but let me just say that last season we experienced our highs and lows against the Saints. When Teddy Sheringham scored that late penalty last August 31st to give us a 2-1 home win, we were on top of the league albeit briefly. Come the New Yeear we had lost two games at St Mary's Stadium - 1-0 in the league was bad enough, but the Cup Defeat was a total embarrassment, that I hope never to see again.

Of course this is a crucial game for the team and for the manager. Like Brian, I'll go for a 2-1 to the Spurs.

Spurs - 4 points (17th)

· Only 1 victory this season 2-1 v Leeds.
· 1 draw 0-0 @ Liverpool and 3 defeats, Brum 0-1, Fulham 0-3 and Chelsea 2-4
· Only won 2 of our last 11 league games. Leeds and WBA 3-2 on 21/4
· Looking for our 3rd straight home win v Saints
· Unbeaten in our last 8 v Southampton at home
· Lost last 2 league games, Fulham 3-0 and Chelsea 4-2
· We have failed to score in three of the first 5 games.
· 16 Premiership games since we last won by more than 1 goal, 4-1 8/2 v Sunderland
· Steve Carr to make his 200th Prem appearance, all for Spurs
· Ledley King (if fit) to make his 100th appearance for Spurs
· Taricco to make his 100th Premiership start if in starting 11
· Anthony Gardner was 23 yesterday

Southampton - 9 points (6th)

· Undefeated this season. Drew first three games (Leciester 2-2 A), Brum 0-0 H Leeds A 0-0 and won their last 2, Man Utd 1-0 H and Wolves 2-0 H
· Last won 3 straight games last year, between Nov 23 and 7 Dec. Arsenal H, West Ham A, Brum H
· Drawn both away games this season, Leciester 2-2, Leeds 0-0
· Beattie has scored in every game they have scored in this season.
· Only let in 2 goals this season, and they were both on the opening day. (Dickov pen and Sir Les) and they were both in the opening 10 mins
· A point will be their best ever start to a Premiership season.
· Wednesday is their first European action in 19 years.Home to Steau Bucharest of Romania
· Rory Delap to make his 50th league start for Soton if in starting 11
· Pahars to make his 100th Prem start if in starting 11
· Paul Telfer to make his 400th career league appearance Game
· Saints only Premiershp win at WHL was on Sept 12th 1994 when Le Tissier scored 2 in a 1-2 win. Klinsmann scored our goal.
· That game was their only win in 11 league visits to WHL
· Highest Premiership victory was in March 2000 when we beat them 7-2 Iversen got a hat trick that day
· Total League record P94 W40 D25 L29 @WHL P47 W30 D9 L8
· Premiership P22 W10 D5 L7 @ WHL. P11 W8 D2 L1
· Last season, we won 2-1 with goals from Les & Teddy pen in which put us top. Treacle og on 31/8/02
· Last season away saints won 1-0 Beattie on New Years day with an 82nd min goal
· Spurs have an 8 match unbeaten home record v Saints
· Simon Davies scored for Wales v Niemie in 1-1 draw v Finland on 10th Sept

Ref Andy D’Urso

· 2 games, 14 yellows and 1 red (Reid of Blackburn in 2-2 draw with Bolton) Both his games were draws, 2-2 Blackburn v Bolton and 0-0 Wolves v Portsmouth

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