SUNDAY'S FIXTURES
Portsmouth 0-0 Tottenham (1330 BST)
Wigan Athletic v Man City (1600 BST)
GOALFLASHES AND MAJOR INCIDENTS (all times BST)
Ramos angry but refuses to panic ...
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By Jonathan Stevenson
1403: "Tottenham made a mistake in signing Bentley as he is a very overrated player. Ashley Young would have been a much better signing to make. However Luka Modric will come good and I'm suprised he is on the bench today."
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1359: "You wouldn't think this was a game between the FA Cup winners and the Carling Cup winners, would ya?"
Anonymous (for the love of...) via text on 81111
No, ya wouldn't, in fairness.
1358: Spurs work the ball well down the right and after Roman Pavlyuchenko misses the ball, Jamie O'Hara's shot is easily saved by David James.
1356: Heurelho Gomes is getting some attention for an accidental kick to the head he received from Peter Crouch while he was making the save from Richard Hughes.
1354: Richard Hughes smashes in a left-foot volley from a corner and Heurelho Gomes makes the save, Spurs eventually clearing as Jermain Defoe prepared to pounce.
1354: "David Bentley is never a top player. He is average at best. Name me any Arsenal "rejects" that are top players?"
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1352: Peter Crouch heads a right-wing corner over the Tottenham crossbar.
1349: Lovely stuff. Nadir Belhadj ploughs forward from the left-back position, skips past two Spurs players and swings in a deep cross that Heurelho Gomes leaps into the sky to grab ahead of Peter Crouch.
1348: Spurs are on top at the moment, but their delivery from wide has been pretty poor so far. David Bentley is the usual suspect, I'm afraid to say.
1346: Fabulous interception from Lassana Diarra just as Jamie O'Hara was about to pull the trigger from 16 yards. Top, top covering from the midfielder.
1346: "Stevo this match really is a throwback to years gone by- James reverting back to dodgy keeper mode and Spurs with an overpriced eastern European up front!"
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1344: Richard Hughes stings the palms of Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes with a left-foot drive from 22 yards.
1342: David Bentley volleys in a cross from the left and David James leaps high and plucks the ball out of the sky. At the other end, Jermain Defoe is causing Michael Dawson some early problems with the speed of his movement.
1340: Sol Campbell is the subject of some lively singing from the Tottenham fans, still raging about his decision to leave Spurs for arch-rivals Arsenal seven years ago.
1338: "If Tottenham don't get their act together, they're in danger of making Newcastle look good."
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1335: Jermain Defoe puts the ball in the net after a lovely flick on from Peter Crouch, but he is correctly adjudged to be in an offside position.
1333: About 17 seconds on the clock when Roman Pavlyuchenko - who clearly likes a proper challenge - and Nadir Belhadj go in all guns blazing for a 50-50. The Algerian comes off worse, but he's OK.
1333: The immaculate Fabio Capello is in the stands to watch plenty of English players (good day for a clean sheet I'd say, Jamo) and Spurs get us under way in bright, autumnal sunshine.
1332: "City are clearly going to beat Wigan today, 4-0 at least! I sometimes question your ability as a football pundit."
Anonymous via text on 81111
Sometimes??!! Pundit?? Never been called that before, thanks. And also, can you lot please remember to put your name in, especially if you're having a dig, it's the least you can do...
1329: The teams are out at Fratton Park, we're almost ready to rock and roll.
1328: "Spurs won't be bottom of the Premier League table come the end of the season, will they? In fact, they won't even be near it. That's obvious."
Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp
1326: Incidentally (or is it incidental?), is that Spurs bench the best a bottom-of-the-table Premier League team has ever had the luxury of naming? Cesar, Tom Huddlestone, Aaron Lennon, Darren Bent, Luka Modric, Chris Gunter and Giovani dos Santos. Remarkable.
1323: "Stevo, what have you been smoking? Tottenham to keep a clean sheet? No chance. Pompey will win 3-0."
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We'll see, sonny jim.
1320: Just to clarify, we've got two badly struggling sides in action at Fratton Park. Spurs have made their worst start to a season in 53 years, while Pompey have conceded 10 goals without reply in their last two games.
1317: "As a Spurs fan re: the Martin Jol comment (see 1259), I don't think we'll ever learn. Spurs suffer the same delusions as Newcastle and it's no surprise that our respective instabilities find us in bottom two positions of the league."
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1315: Stevo's Predos:
Portsmouth 0-0 Tottenham
Wigan Athletic 2-2 Man City
1311: "Sometimes I think Ramos doesn't want us to win. Please tell me you have made a mistake by typing Gilberto instead of Giovani?!"
Tom, via text on 81111
Mate, I really wish I had. Makes Stevo's Predos a bit tricky, this line-up...
1308: "Ah. Lennon and Giovani on the bench. Expect a horrifying game."
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Could be. Can't help but think Juande Ramos retreats further into his shell as Spurs' winless league runs goes on. Giovani and Luka Modric must start for me, whereas David Bentley has been woeful so far. I worry for this team.
1304: Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra has overcome a knee injury and starts. Glen Little also comes into the side as Younes Kaboul drops to the bench. Tottenham centre-back Michael Dawson starts ahead of the absent Ledley King, while Roman Pavlyuchenko spearheads the attack with Darren Bent on the bench. Luka Modric is also a sub and Gareth Bale is injured.
1300: PORTSMOUTH v TOTTENHAM TEAMS
Portsmouth: James, Johnson, Campbell, Distin, Belhadj, Little, Diarra, Hughes, Armand Traore, Crouch, Defoe.
Subs: Ashdown, Kaboul, Hreidarsson, Pamarot, Utaka, Mvuemba, Kanu.
Tottenham: Gomes, Corluka, Dawson, Woodgate, Assou-Ekotto, Bentley, Jenas, Zokora, O'Hara, Gilberto, Pavlyuchenko.
Subs: Cesar, Huddlestone, Lennon, Bent, Modric, Gunter, Giovani.
Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral).
1259: Tottenham fans might be interested to know that Hamburg are sitting comfortably atop the Bundesliga in Germany after a 1-0 home win over the enormously-named Borussia Moenchengladbach. Their coach? Martin Jol, the amiable Dutchman deemed a failure at White Hart Lane for two fifth-placed Premier League finishes. When will they learn?
1255: "Is it true that Man City have never beaten Wigan?"
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Oh how wrong you are, ye of the comedy name. City have beaten Wigan, but only once at the Latics, at their former home Springfield Park in October 1998 when Shaun Goater ("feed the goat and he will score...") bagged the winner. In the Premier League, Wigan are indeed unbeaten against the world's richest club (apparently).
1251: I know you'll know because you're not stupid, but there's a fairly major Grand Prix about to start in the Singapore night time, with Britain's title-chasing, wet-weather wizard Lewis Hamilton starting from second on the grid. Feel free to join Cheesy for her no doubt exceptional updates, but do remember to come back. Please.
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1247: "Looking to add to the Magpies' woes by swapping places with them today."
SPURSTAR, via text
1244: According to The Observer, England's number one goalkeeper David James has told Michael Owen to drop him from his Fantasy Football team after he conceded 10 goals in his last two outings. I don't know what's more disturbing, the fact that a 28-year-old international still plays Fantasy Football, or that the country's current custodian is so presently pitiable.
Sunday's gossip column
1239: Portsmouth, according to one of today's newspapers, are struggling under massive debts and owner Alexandre Gaydamak has put the club up for sale. However, chief executive Peter Storrie told the BBC this morning the story is a "total load of rubbish". Are they trying to make today's crisis club visitors Tottenham feel a bit more comfortable, do you think?
1235: But it does mean today's boys have a fair bit to live up to. Are you ready, Portsmouth, Tottenham, Wigan and Manchester City? Because quite frankly I like being royally entertained. That includes you lot, too. I want you at your absolute, blinding best today. Text me gags, anecdotes, embarrassing stories, whatever you like on 81111. Oh, and massively get in the 606 mixer too. You only live once, after all.
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1230: Let's be honest, yesterday was a belter. Sensational strikes, terrible tackles, rubbish refereeing - it had it all. I mean, who on earth could have predicted that Arsenal would lose at home to Hull? They hadn't played in the league since 1915, for heaven's sake! I just love football when it's mental.
(BBC)
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