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Prem          Pl   W   D   L   For-Ag  Pts
Home          17   3   4  10   20 -29  13
Away          16   0   3  13    5 -29   3
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Total (Prem)  33   3   7  23   25 -58  16
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Football Lge
Home (Div 1)  51  20  19  12   89 -64  63
Away (Div 1)  51   9   9  33   55 -101 28
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Total(Div 1) 102  29  28  45  144 -165 91
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Football Lge
Home (Div 2)   4   2   1   1   10 - 3   5
Away (Div 2)   4   1   2   1    3 - 3   4
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Total(Div 2)   8   3   3   2   13 - 6   9
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Total (Prem)  33   3   7  23   25 -58  16
Total (Div 1) 102 29  28  45  144 -165 91
Total (Div 2)  8   3   3   2   13 - 6   9
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Grand Total   143 35  38  70  182 -229 116
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Last Six Premiership results:-

Manchester United

Newcastle  1-2   Man Utd
Man Utd    1-4   Liverpool
Fulham     2-0   Man Utd
Man Utd    3-2   A. Villa
S'derland  1-2   Man Utd
Man Utd    2-0   P'tsmouth

Spurs

S'derland  1-1   Spurs
A. Villa   1-2   Spurs
Spurs      1-0   Chelsea
Blackburn  2-1   Spurs
Spurs      1-0   West Ham
Spurs      1-0   Newcastle

Pos        P  W  D  L   F-A GD  Pts
1 Man Utd 32 23  5  4  56-21  35  74
9 Spurs   33 12  8 13  39-36   3  44

Could Spurs spring a surprise?

Every season brings one or two fixtures where we have not visited a club in a league fixture for over 18 months. This year the trip to Old Trafford falls into that category, as our last Premier League trip was 20 months and two managers ago. When we went there in August 2007, Martin Jol was still in charge, under pressure because of a poor start, and yet we did have more points on the board than United at that stage. Nani scored the 68th minute pile-driver that separated the teams. Despite our failure to have won a Premier League game at Old Trafford, there have been some close games - most controversially of course the one featuring Pedro Mendes' "goal" in January 2005

We have met United three times already though this season, and we have been to Old Trafford too. In December we played the home league game, after the arrival of Harry Redknapp, and while he was still in his "honeymoon period" with Spurs. We kept one of our 10 home league clean sheets that day, with many thanks to an impressive performance by Gomes, who had already won over the home fans who had doubted him earlier in the season.

In January, when both sides played "Cup teams", Pavlyuchenko scored an early goal to silence the Old Trafford crowd, but United came back to progress in the Cup from which they were eliminated in last week's semi-final.

It will of course be a different United side we face tomorrow, with as many big guns taking part as possible, although United are in a very busy period, with their home semi-final Champions League game next week against Arsenal to follow. Having won one of his games in hand on Wednesday night, maybe Sir Alex will hold back one or two players for mid-week, although despite such absences and in juries, any side that Sir Alex puts out can be formidable.

Gary Neville and John O'Shea picked up injuries the other night, but Owen Hargreaves is the only other definite absentee.

United started this season slowly due to missing a game or two, but took hold of the league leadership firmly until a recent blip which saw them lose at home to arch-rivals Liverpool and away to Fulham in consecutive games. It is not often that United lose consecutive league games "in anger", but now they have got the lead back, and with one game still in hand (at Wigan), they are firm favourites to retain their title.

It wasn't so long ago that we Spurs fans dreaded our run-in with this game and two further away games in Liverpool to face when we feared we were in a survival race. Now, our Premier League status is assured, and on form we are in fact currently above United, so we can relax and approach this game in a confident frame of mind.

Michael Dawson will be missing, and we must hope that Ledley King can play tomorrow. Jermaine Jenas may still be out with his hamstring, and if fit would surely get the nod above Huddlestone in a game where combat will be sharp in the midfield. Pace will be very much required too!

The Spurs team will be eager to face Berbatov, but of course he would be well up for a performance against his former team and with pressure being brought to bear upon him by United fans after his penalty miss last week, and a perceived lazy approach to the game. As we know too well, that languid style camouflages great skill and panache. I look forward to Woodgate versus Berbatov with relish again!

It appears that Harry Redknapp has four fit strikers this week, so he has the sort of selection dilemma that we did not have in the first half of the season, which was the core of our problematic results until Defoe, then Keane returned in January.

Could Spurs spring a surprise tomorrow? It's a question that has often been asked before only to be met by failure. Maybe it could happen tomorrow, but I'm going to sit on the fence and predict a 1-1.