BIG-MATCH FACTS

[gertcha EFM]

MANCHESTER UNITED face red hot Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford in a top three showdown, looking for the two goals that will make them the first club to score 1,000 in the Premiership. But United will need an improvement on Tuesday's goalless draw with Lille in the Champions League. Sir Alex Ferguson's side is also looking to complete three Premiership victories on the spin for the second time this season, having won their opening trio this term. The Red Devils have scored three goals in each of the last two games - both away at Fulham and Sunderland.

 

United lost their last Premiership match at the Theatre of Dreams against Blackburn, and have won one, drawn one and lost one of the last three league encounters on home soil. They've scored one goal in each of the last five home Premiership matches and kept one clean sheet in six at Old Trafford. Victory would see United leapfrogging Spurs and rising into the top two for the first time this season.

 

United are defending an unbeaten home Premiership record against Tottenham.

 

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR go to Old Trafford chasing a fourth successive Premiership victory inside a month, but they've failed to score in their last three League contests with United and in six of the last seven against them. Each of these clubs have won five Premier League matches this season and lost one, but the Londoners are one point ahead having played and drawn one more match than their opponents.

 

Spurs' only defeat in the top flight this season was home to Chelsea. They've lost only one of the last 10 Premier League outings. The Londoners are nine points off the pace in second place, defending an unbeaten away Premiership record. They've beaten Fulham (h), Charlton (a) and Everton (h) on the bounce, and last posted four successive League victories between 9 and 30 September 1995.

 

Spurs halted the Red Devils' four match winning Premiership run with a goalless draw on their last visit to Old Trafford in January. The Londoners last beat United on 19 May 2001, with a 3-1 triumph at White Hart Lane. Tottenham have not won at the Theatre of Dreams for 17 years, since a 0-1 victory on 16 December 1989, when Gary Lineker scored the winner.

[EFC_Callum]

We DID score last season against you!

[gertcha EFM]

Didn't quite cross the line I recall if you are thinking of the Mendes effort.

 

Good try though.

[EFC_Callum]

Good try? Beat that Tottenham Reserves keeper!

[YELLOW]

Saw West Ham v Tottenham reserves the other night. The Tottenham goalie that night was massive!!

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

You need to get out more (but obviously you have) just somewhere better

[Electric ~soul~]

Giggs, Keane, Heinze and Neville all out tomorrow, so we stand as good a chance as ever, I guess.

 

Mind you, we'd have stood more of a chance if Neville was playing!!

 

I predict 1-0 to United, though.

[Electric ~soul~]

Oh yeah - and another of their players is up on a rape charge!!

 

Do you reckon he'll play, Gertch?

[gertcha EFM]

Yeah, probably have a blinder to.

 

Poor kid. His old man's just died and now some greedy bitch is trying to make some cash out of him.

[Electric ~soul~]

Just because your dad has died, that's no excuse for you to jump on top of a woman and force yourself violently upon her.

 

Although, in Labour Britain, it'll probably be seen as a perfectly reasonably excuse.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Crime figures down again mate, more people in prison than ever before, doesn't sound like a soft government to me!

[Electric ~soul~]

Amazing what a bit of spin can do, mate.

 

This country is more violent than ever. Glad I'm fking off across the pond in a couple of years, personally.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

The country is more violent, granted. I was talking about crime in general though.

 

How would a Tory government make the country less violent? Unfortunantly it's just the society we live in. If you think this place is violent wait until you get over the pond!

[Electric ~soul~]

Bringing back the death penalty and corporal punishment for petty thieves and vandals would be a start.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Because that's going to happen!

 

And you'd be hung for your wing mirror's mate!

[Electric ~soul~]

No I wouldn't. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

 

I wasn't even cautioned, let alone charged.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Well Kevin the gerbil would of gone to the gallows for you!

 

Good job you paid off the bloke in Chester, that's perverting the course of justice if i'm not mistaken <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Electric ~soul~]

Roland Rat would have gone to the gallows "for me"?

 

1. Why "for me"? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

 

2. Corporal punishment is not the death penalty.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

You said the death penalty as well!

 

Didn't Roland Rat take the rap for the wing mirror incident?

[Electric ~soul~]

What do you mean, take the rap?

 

Take the rap for who? It was him that did it.