Gareth Bale scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur grabbed a controversial 2-1 win at Stoke City in the Premier League. More
90+7 There's the whistle! Spurs in, and with some controversy! Yet another talking point about goal-line technology.
90' OFF THE LINE! Crouch I think! Collins powers the header in, tipped off the post by Gomes, Walters heads it diving in, Crouch blocks it on the line, with his chest, and that was over the line! Surely! But no goal! Stoke are apoplectic!
88' STOKE SUB: Poor Sidibe's game is over just after it begun, stretchered off with a leg injury and his head in his hands. Tonge comes on.
87' A delay in play as recent entry Sidibe is down hurt. Meanwhile, Kyle Walker comes on for Lennon as Spurs try to shore it up.
85' STOKE SUB: Sidibe on for Delap.
84' Stoke break, the have men over as Fuller spreads it wide to Walters, he puts in a decent low ball AND FULLER but Gomes saves!
79' Tuncay AGAIN gets on to an Etherington cross, this time chesting it down to put himself through but Gomes is alive to it and claims just before the finish.
74' Shawcross finally enters the book for taking out Bale, kicking the back of his heels. Wild from the big man.
70' The corner is swung in, off Kaboul’s head and in the air and Gomes flaps AND SHAWCROSS but he smashes it over!
69' Tuncay AGAIN with an inventive effort from distance that Gomes puts behind for a corner.
68' Etherington puts the corner far post AND TUNCAY WITH THE HEADER BUT IT BOUNCES INCHES WIDE! Told you so.
67' Tuncay gets his first touch, he turns on a sixpence AND FIRES IN A DIPPING SHOT THAT GOMES TIPS OVER! Thanks.
64' STOKE SUB: Whelan is off for Tuncay. Phew. No offence to Whelan – I’d have taken Walters off, who looks a Championship player at best – but this game needs the Turk.
54' Ouch! Palacios very late into Whitehead and he becomes the first Spurs player to be booked.
52' Whitehead runs into Lennon, who half-rides it but can’t continue the dribble as he stumbles. A very harsh yellow card.
46' Second half resumes.
45+2 That's the break, Spurs lead after an entertaining half of football, two goals from Gareth Bale, one comedy, one classy.
45+2 Fuller sees the game’s first card for a late tackle on Dawson. Nasty little swipe at his ankles.
45+1 Somehow the ball doesn’t go in! More super wingplay by Bale to race down the left on to a lovely through ball from Jenas, Bale drills a savage low cross in, Sorensen spills it and Jenas flies in but somehow it comes off his heel and Sorensen manages to palm it away!
33' Should have been 2-2! Super turn by Fuller on the edge of the box, rolling off the hapless Kaboul, but he drills a weak shot straight at Gomes. You’d back him to score there.
30' WHAT A GOAL! GARETH BALE WITH A BRILLIANT FAR-POST VOLLEY! Ooooh! Lennon does well on the right to wriggle into a crossing position but Bale has it all to do - and boy does he do it. He just wraps his left boot around the ball and swerves it inside the top right. Wow.
26' GOAL STOKE! FULLER! Spurs fail to clear the corner and Fuller poke the loose ball in the box with his right foot into the right side of goal. Gomes is furious. Rubbish defending. Kaboul’s attempted clearance of Etherington’s corner is derisory, as is Huddlestone’s marking of Fuller.
19' FREAK GOAL SPURS! In off Bale’s face after Crouch’s goal-bound header is cleared off the line by Shawcross. Brilliant build-up play from Lennon though, who cuts in from the left with a superb touch, beats three men and clips a lovely diagonal pass that initially puts Bale in, whose shot is parried and spins into Crouch’s path, whose header hits Shawcross's knee and goes in off Bale's mug.
12' It’s long throw time! But Delap, oddly, takes it short. Aha, a training-ground routine as Huth then pumps it into the box, Spurs barely clear, swung back in again from the left now and it drops to DELAP AT THE FAR POST but he smashes the volley across Gomes and wide!
1' The first half gets underway at the Britannia Stadium!
14:20 TEAMS - Stoke: Sorensen, Huth, Abdoulaye Faye, Shawcross, Collins, Delap, Whitehead, Whelan, Etherington, Walters, Fuller; Subs: Begovic, Higginbotham, Sidibe, Pugh, Sanli, Tonge, Wilkinson /// Tottenham: Gomes, Corluka, Dawson, Kaboul, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Jenas, Huddlestone, Palacios, Bale, Crouch; Subs: Alnwick, Naughton, Bassong, Kranjcar, Rose, Walker, Livermore
90' OFF THE LINE! Crouch I think! Collins powers the header in, tipped off the post by Gomes, Walters heads it diving in, Crouch blocks it on the line, with his chest, and that was over the line! Surely! But no goal! Stoke are apoplectic!
84' Stoke break, the have men over as Fuller spreads it wide to Walters, he puts in a decent low ball AND FULLER but Gomes saves!
79' Tuncay AGAIN gets on to an Etherington cross, this time chesting it down to put himself through but Gomes is alive to it and claims just before the finish.
70' The corner is swung in, off Kaboul’s head and in the air and Gomes flaps AND SHAWCROSS but he smashes it over!
69' Tuncay AGAIN with an inventive effort from distance that Gomes puts behind for a corner.
68' Etherington puts the corner far post AND TUNCAY WITH THE HEADER BUT IT BOUNCES INCHES WIDE! Told you so.
67' Tuncay gets his first touch, he turns on a sixpence AND FIRES IN A DIPPING SHOT THAT GOMES TIPS OVER! Thanks.
45+1 Somehow the ball doesn’t go in! More super wingplay by Bale to race down the left on to a lovely through ball from Jenas, Bale drills a savage low cross in, Sorensen spills it and Jenas flies in but somehow it comes off his heel and Sorensen manages to palm it away!
33' Should have been 2-2! Super turn by Fuller on the edge of the box, rolling off the hapless Kaboul, but he drills a weak shot straight at Gomes. You’d back him to score there.
30' WHAT A GOAL! GARETH BALE WITH A BRILLIANT FAR-POST VOLLEY! Ooooh! Lennon does well on the right to wriggle into a crossing position but Bale has it all to do - and boy does he do it. He just wraps his left boot around the ball and swerves it inside the top right. Wow.
26' GOAL STOKE! FULLER! Spurs fail to clear the corner and Fuller poke the loose ball in the box with his right foot into the right side of goal. Gomes is furious. Rubbish defending. Kaboul’s attempted clearance of Etherington’s corner is derisory, as is Huddlestone’s marking of Fuller.
19' FREAK GOAL SPURS! In off Bale’s face after Crouch’s goal-bound header is cleared off the line by Shawcross. Brilliant build-up play from Lennon though, who cuts in from the left with a superb touch, beats three men and clips a lovely diagonal pass that initially puts Bale in, whose shot is parried and spins into Crouch’s path, whose header hits Shawcross's knee and goes in off Bale's mug.
12' It’s long throw time! But Delap, oddly, takes it short. Aha, a training-ground routine as Huth then pumps it into the box, Spurs barely clear, swung back in again from the left now and it drops to DELAP AT THE FAR POST but he smashes the volley across Gomes and wide!
14:20 TEAMS - Stoke: Sorensen, Huth, Abdoulaye Faye, Shawcross, Collins, Delap, Whitehead, Whelan, Etherington, Walters, Fuller; Subs: Begovic, Higginbotham, Sidibe, Pugh, Sanli, Tonge, Wilkinson /// Tottenham: Gomes, Corluka, Dawson, Kaboul, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Jenas, Huddlestone, Palacios, Bale, Crouch; Subs: Alnwick, Naughton, Bassong, Kranjcar, Rose, Walker, Livermore
Stoke CityManager: Tony Pulis
Tottenham HotspurManager: Harry Redknapp
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87′ are you millwall in disguise

are you millwall in disguise

up the spurs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A referee who must have received a liitle extra to miss seeing a 100% goal from 4 to 5 yards away from the action. Stoke must realise they need to offer more money to the incompetent Chris Foy.

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stoke were robbed spurs got the cheque book out again let's hope they don't qualify for the champions league they don't deserve it come on youg boys do us a favour please

Spurs are a Champions league team now, get used to getting all the big decisions.

this what Huds call an ugly win...great escape this is the way we should be learning how to win with this kind of game. Thanks to the great goal by Bale...^^

You're worrying me a bit now 'Arry...was only Bale on today? I don't know what the rest of them were doing, although they talk big in the papers of how we deserve to be in the Champs League. Mty heart is with you Tottenham, but unless you develop some consistency, and stop celebrating a win in the bars with a @#$% and a flaggon of beer, you are just going to make us look silly all season...and why you keep buying Arsenal rejects who have seen their best days behind them, I don't really know...but you are worrying me and my heart too much to take! It true tho about the Arse...Olly you have it spot on...they can celebrate 6 against Blackpool..but the trophy cabinet has cobwebs! Let Fabregas go home where he wants to be too!

You're worrying me a bit now 'Arry...was only Bale on today? I don't know what the rest of them were doing, although they talk big in the papers of how we deserve to be in the Champs League. Mty heart is with you Tottenham, but unless you develop some consistency, and stop celebrating a win in the bars with a @#$% and a flaggon of beer, you are just going to make us look silly all season...and why you keep buying Arsenal rejects who have seen their best days behind them, I don't really know...but you are worrying me and my heart too much to take! It true tho about the Arse...Olly you have it spot on...they can celebrate 6 against Blackpool..but the trophy cabinet has cobwebs! Let Fabregas go home where he wants to be too!

You're worrying me a bit now 'Arry...was only Bale on today? I don't know what the rest of them were doing, although they talk big in the papers of how we deserve to be in the Champs League. Mty heart is with you Tottenham, but unless you develop some consistency, and stop celebrating a win in the bars with a @#$% and a flaggon of beer, you are just going to make us look silly all season...and why you keep buying Arsenal rejects who have seen their best days behind them, I don't really know...but you are worrying me and my heart too much to take! It true tho about the Arse...Olly you have it spot on...they can celebrate 6 against Blackpool..but the trophy cabinet has cobwebs! Let Fabregas go home where he wants to be too!

You're worrying me a bit now 'Arry...was only Bale on today? I don't know what the rest of them were doing, although they talk big in the papers of how we deserve to be in the Champs League. Mty heart is with you Tottenham, but unless you develop some consistency, and stop celebrating a win in the bars with a @#$% and a flaggon of beer, you are just going to make us look silly all season...and why you keep buying Arsenal rejects who have seen their best days behind them, I don't really know...but you are worrying me and my heart too much to take! It true tho about the Arse...Olly you have it spot on...they can celebrate 6 against Blackpool..but the trophy cabinet has cobwebs! Let Fabregas go home where he wants to be too!

You're worrying me a bit now 'Arry...was only Bale on today? I don't know what the rest of them were doing, although they talk big in the papers of how we deserve to be in the Champs League. Mty heart is with you Tottenham, but unless you develop some consistency, and stop celebrating a win in the bars with a @#$% and a flaggon of beer, you are just going to make us look silly all season...and why you keep buying Arsenal rejects who have seen their best days behind them, I don't really know...but you are worrying me and my heart too much to take! It true tho about the Arse...Olly you have it spot on...they can celebrate 6 against Blackpool..but the trophy cabinet has cobwebs! Let Fabregas go home where he wants to be too!

You're worrying me a bit now 'Arry...was only Bale on today? I don't know what the rest of them were doing, although they talk big in the papers of how we deserve to be in the Champs League. Mty heart is with you Tottenham, but unless you develop some consistency, and stop celebrating a win in the bars with a @#$% and a flaggon of beer, you are just going to make us look silly all season...and why you keep buying Arsenal rejects who have seen their best days behind them, I don't really know...but you are worrying me and my heart too much to take! It true tho about the Arse...Olly you have it spot on...they can celebrate 6 against Blackpool..but the trophy cabinet has cobwebs! Let Fabregas go home where he wants to be too!

great spurs won

You're worrying me a bit now 'Arry...was only Bale on today? I don't know what the rest of them were doing, although they talk big in the papers of how we deserve to be in the Champs League. Mty heart is with you Tottenham, but unless you develop some consistency, and stop celebrating a win in the bars with a @#$% and a flaggon of beer, you are just going to make us look silly all season...and why you keep buying Arsenal rejects who have seen their best days behind them, I don't really know...but you are worrying me and my heart too much to take! It true tho about the Arse...Olly you have it spot on...they can celebrate 6 against Blackpool..but the trophy cabinet has cobwebs! Let Fabregas go home where he wants to be too!

come on you spurs,though it was a goal,about time we had some luck...

the better team lost the stoke were all over spurs. you were just very lucky and the ref was blind

Well done Spurs!!!!!!!!!!!
