Premier League Preview: Arsenal and Chelsea fight to catch up with Tottenham and Manchester City
- originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With 15 points separating the top five teams in the English Premier League, the race for a top
four place is well and truly on. If you bet on football, you'll know that Manchester City are still
favourites for the league title but with a tough set of fixtures ahead of them, things can change
very quickly.
Stoke vs Tottenham 2-1 Highlights 2011 Goals Etherington Kaboul Red Video Chris Foy Referee is a
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post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Stoke vs Tottenham 2011 ( Stoke v Spurs
video below) Final score and result:- Stoke vs Tottenham 2-1 ( Matthew Etherington*2/ Adebayor
penalty) 11-12-2011- December 11, 2011- 16.
Stoke are currently flying high (for Stoke) in 8th place and according to their internet forums,
confidence about the upcoming match against us is up there to match. A bit surprising considering
our run of form, but they reckon that they're the ones that can put a stop to it.
They always make it hard for us at the Britannia and they reckon that their strength in aerial and
dead ball situations vs our weakness in aerial and dead ball situations will get them goals.
After a disastrous run of defeats, Tony Pulis' Stoke City have made it two wins in two and their
home ground is starting to look like fortress Britannia once again ahead of Sunday's televised
clash.
This could be the toughest challenge yet to Scott Parker's unbeaten run as a Spurs player – a
fact that he acknowledges.
For many a tortured soul, Peter Crouch's exit from Tottenham was as good as a new signing. A
two-season career which peaked in Manchester on that famous evening- briefly spiking into
the green with a Young Boys beating hat-trick and the heroics in Lombardy- withered somewhat
terminally in its final months.
By Chris Wright
You may be aware that, in glorious 20-20 retrospect, Tottenham were fairly hard done to against
Stoke yesterday. The Potters ran out as 2-1 winners, but it turns out that Spurs were denied by a
couple of goal-line handballs, had a man sent off rather softly and saw an Emmanuel
Adebayor goal disallowed for offside despite Marc Wilson playing him on by a couple of feet.
Younes couldn't have picked a worse time to roll out his Petr Cech impressionWWWWDWWWWWWFOY.
Tottenham's remarkable run of winning form came to a shuddering end at Stoke yesterday but the
controversial decisions made by referee Chris Foy left a particularly bitter taste in the
mouth.
An inept first half showing from Spurs, unbecoming of a title-chasing team, had left them 2-0 and
with the prospect of scaling a metaphorical mountain in order to get anything from the game.
What are the odds Tottenham finish in the top four? Derek McGovern's Bets of the
Day
Three successive Stoke victories have finally forced pundits to accept that Tony Pulis has a
realistic chance of getting the England job. Surely he can't do any worse than predecessor Martin
Johnson.
Despite temporary setbacksCinderella always triumphs in the end. The Pantomime season
started on Sunday this year with Cinderella at the Britannia Palace with your very own Mr.
Christopher Foy playing Baron Hardup. There are several candidates for the Ugly Sisters, Petunia
and Nasturtium. (Petty and Nasty) Shawcross and Whitehead will do for me.
