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Previous Cup-ties with Leicester City

FA Cup

13-14 1  A   5-5  Bliss 2 Middlemiss Minter Cantrell
      1R H   2-0  Bliss Walden (as Leicester Fosse)
27-28 5  A   3-0  O'Callaghan 2 Dimmock
47-48 5  H   5-2  Duquemin 3 Cox 2
56-57 3  H   2-0  Blanchflower Robb
57-58 3  H   4-0  Smith 2 Stokes Medwin
60-61 F  W   2-0  R Smith Dyson
73-74 3  A   0-1
81-82 SF VP  2-0  Crooks Wilson own goal
05-06 3  A   2-3  Jenas, Stalteri

League Cup

98-99 F  W   1-0  Nielsen

History repeating itself

Previous Cup Final opponents just keep on coming for Spurs this season! Having conquered our 1962 FA Cup Final opponents Burnley in the last round, we now face the team we had to beat at Wembley on May 6th, 1961, in order to become the first team to win a modern day League and Cup Double. The feat has been emulated a few times since, but at the the time, it truly was a historic achievment. The full story of our FA Cup Final win over Leicester is told within Brian Judson's final article detailing the Double Season in full.

Leicester were also our opponents in our last Cup Final win at the old Wembley Stadium in March 1999, when Allan Nielsen dived and scored that famous last minute winner. Spurs had won with 10 men, after Robbie Savage performed histrionics and got Justin Edinburgh sent off. Savage admitted in his autobiography faking to get Tottenham defender Justin Edinburgh sent off in the 1999 Worthington Cup final against Leicester.

'I cheated,' he admitted. 'It's something I shouldn't have done. 'He didn't touch me, but I fell down and made a meal of it. It's something I regret now.'

Spurs fans hated this man before and after that incident. It still irks me that such a man is in gainful employment with the BBC and BT Sport as a pundit.

We are half-way through a League Cup semi-final tie with Sheffield United, who we beat in 1901 in the FA Cup Final. if we win that match we will face Chelsea or Liverpool, both of whom we have previously met in a League Cup Final. One wonders who we will draw in the next round of the FA Cup, should we beat Leicester.

Bearing in mind our form on Wednesday night, and the difficulty we had in beating "The Foxes" at the King Power Stadium on Boxing Day, victory tomorrow is by no means a certainty, and will be hard to achieve.

After all, we would do well to remember January 8th, 2006, when Martin Jol's Spurs went out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle at Leicester. We frittered away a two goal lead, given to us by Jermaine Jenas and Paul Stalteri. This had been Stalteri's first goal for Tottenham, and was a cracking solo effort finished with a 20 yard drive into the roof of the net. Stalteri only scored another two goals for Spurs, but one of those was that dramatic last minute goal at Upton Park in March 2007, when we won 4-3.

In that Third Round defeat, Leicester bounced back quickly, with a goal by substitute Elvis Hammond, before Hughes (57 mins) and De Vries (90 mins) sealed victory. Martin Jol gave us our shortest ever season that year. It consisted of just 40 games, and here we are in January, playing game 37 of our season so far. For Leicester, this will be just their 25th game of the season, and they have a full week to wait for their next game, so we can expect to face their strongest team.

Nigel Pearson has recently acquired a 23 year old Croatian, Andrej Kramaric, who made his club debut last week against Stoke, coming off the bench after 65 minutes. Kramaric may well get more exposure tomorrow. He comes with prolific goal-scoring pedigree, having scored 37 league goals in his last 42 league games for Rijeka. That was in the Croatian League though, so he has still to pass the test here. He also has to supercede Ulloa and Nugent, who are established strikers. Kramaric tends to operate on the flanks.

Leicester will be missing Riyad Mahrez, who impressed against us in December. Mahrez is absent for the African Cup of Nations, playing for Algeria with Nabil Bentaleb. They are also still missing goalkeeper Casper Schmeichel, which is one reason why they have signed 42 year old Mark Schwarzer from Chelsea, to back up ben Hamer.

Matthew Upson was signed last summer from Brighton, but has yet to play for Leicester following ankle surgery. He too is still 3 weeks away from availability.

Spurs could have a full squad available, although I have not received any official team news. Nacer Chadli was given compassionate leave mid-week, following the death of his father, and may still be absent tomorrow. Kyle Naughton has been sold to Swansea for a reported £5 million, so perhaps Vlad Chiriches will play at right back tomorrow. Chiriches should be fit, and I fancy that Kyle Walker will be held for next Wednesday's game at his old stomping ground.

No doubt there will be changes for tomorrow's game. I anticipate the return of Hugo Lloris, with Danny Rose to replace Ben Davies at left back. Jan Vertonghen, who has played 90 minutes of the last 11 games, and more minutes than any other outfield player this season may be due a rest, with Fazio hopefully available again.

Similarly, Christian Eriksen has only sat out the Burnley away Cup game, and may need a breather. I fancy seeing Kane and Soldado in tandem tomorrow.

As for a prediction, Spurs have to take advantage of being at home. We certainly do not want a replay and could do with a mid-week off after the West Brom game next Saturday. As usual, there won't be much in it, but I'll take Spurs to win 3-1.

Tomorrow's match referee will be Robert Madley, who looked after our game at The Liberty Stadium in December, when we beat Swansea.

· More Spurs v Leicester FA Cup history, written in January, 2006 by my good friend Declan Mulcahy

· 10 years ago this week, we lost 3-0 away to Crystal Palace

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