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· Last Season's Corresponding Game - Spurs 1 Bolton 0
· This Season's Away Game - Bolton 4 Spurs 2
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Full League record against Bolton:-
Premier Pl W D L For-Ag Pts
Home 11 7 2 2 19 -10 23
Away 12 1 4 7 13 -23 7
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Total(Prem) 23 8 6 9 32 -23 30
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Football Lge
Home (Div 1) 29 17 5 7 57 - 31 39
Away (Div 1) 29 9 3 17 38 - 52 21
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Total(Div 1) 58 26 8 24 95 - 83 60
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Football Lge
Home (Div 2) 2 2 0 0 3 - 1 4
Away (Div 2) 2 1 0 1 1 - 1 2
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Total(Div 2) 4 3 0 1 4 - 2 6
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Total(Prem) 23 8 6 9 32 -23 30
Total(Div 1) 58 26 8 24 95 -83 60
Total(Div 2) 4 3 0 1 4 - 2 6
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Grand Total 85 37 14 34 131 -118 96
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Last Six Premiership results:-
Spurs
Spurs 2-0 Newcastle
Spurs 1-0 Fulham
Everton 2-1 Spurs
Spurs 0-0 Man Utd
Newcastle 1-1 Spurs
Blackburn 0-1 Spurs
Bolton
Chelsea 1-0 Bolton
Liverpool 2-1 Bolton
Bolton 1-1 Wigan
Stoke 2-0 Bolton
Bolton 0-4 Chelsea
Bolton 1-0 Wolves
Pos P W D L F-A GD Pts
5 Spurs 24 11 8 5 33-26 7 41
8 Bolton 25 8 9 8 35-35 0 33
Revenge against the "Trotters" is needed!
Just over 6 years ago, Bolton were our guests on the day that Bill Nicholson passed away. Their fans joined us in respectful and solemn silence for one of the great names in football. Sadly, Spurs lost that game. I mention this occasion because recently Bolton lost their own former club President, Nat Lofthouse. Lofthouse was a little before my generation, but he remained one of the great names in football history, and he will always remain in the minds of those who have an interest in such matters.
Apart from the fact that he was a great footballer, Lofthouse was a humble man from a modest background. There are few of his generation, and his ilk left with us today. This week, I watched a brief item on "The One Show" (still available on the I-Player at the time of writing) about the home of one of our own playing legends, Danny Blanchflower. In the week that has seen the first £50 million transfer between two English clubs, it is worth pausing for a moment longer to think about Nat Lofthouse and his contemporaries.
One of Nat Lofthouse's favourite modern-day footballers was Mark Hughes, and I am sure that he had great affection for one of his pallbearers, Bolton's skipper Kevin Davies, now a veteran of 8 seasons at The Reebock. Davies is the type of physical centre-forward who would have been a success in any generation of the game, although he has never been the most prolific of goal-scorers. Davies is not a favourite with Spurs fans, as he does so often pop up and score against us, as he did (twice) in Bolton's 4-2 win over us in November. The game came immediately after one of our most glorious nights at White Hart Lane, when we had beaten treble Champions Inter 3-1. Harry Redknapp made some changes, and we paid for the penalty for a definite example of "after the ball was over" type football.
With that win, Bolton overtook us in the head to head record between the two clubs since the inauguration of the Premier League, having 9 wins to our 8 in the 23 such meetings to date. They also have a goal difference over us in these games of plus 1! All due respect to you Bolton, but this is not a satisfactory record for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club!
Bolton's win came in the midst of 11 league games in which Bolton were beaten only once, and the run carried them into a position where they were neck and neck with us, chasing a possible place in the top four. Since Christmas however, they have only won 1 of their 6 games, and now their realistic target has to be a potential Europa league qualification. Whilst Bolton did get to Europe twice under previous management, their current manager, Owen Coyle, who played for the club in the early nineties, has brought a style of football not usually associated with the club.
The partnership of Elmander and Davies up front has rendered 16 league goals, and now Coyle has brought in Chelsea's Daniel Sturridge on loan to support them. Sturridge scored on his debut in added time on Wednesday night in a 1-0 win over Wolves, but was reliant on an awful back-pass by Wolves' right back, Zubar.
Matty Taylor and Lee Chung-yong continue to impress and fire the strikers, whilst Martin Petrov was an astute acquisition from Man City. England under-21 International centre back David Wheater has been bought in from Middlesbrough this week to boost Coyle's defence. Former Spur Sean Davis is still on Bolton's books and was signed in 2009 from Portsmouth, but made only 4 appearances before suffering serious knee injuries.
Despite their recent form, Bolton are in no way to be under-estimated. In that recent disappointing run, they have had the misfortune to face a resurgent Chelsea twice, and the Blues well and truly spoilt the night Bolton remembered Nat Lofthouse with a 4-0 decimation.
Spurs' injury problems are hardly likely to have dissipated in the little time since Wednesday night's win at Ewood Park. The only significant change is likely to be the return of Michael Dawson, after serving his one match suspension. Mindo you, on the form he showed in fifteen minutes last Sunday, there must be a case for letting him start from the bench!
I'll plump for the home crowd and pyschology to give Tottenham the clear advantage for this game, where we'll see few Bolton fans, so come on you Spurs, and give us a win to be proud of, and improve that head to head against Bolton! I'll even predict a 3-1 victory!
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