Our first Premier League game at the Lane finished 4-3 as Jermain Defoe scored on his Spurs debut and Gus Poyet, now assistant manager at the club, scored the winner with a late, late winner.
Since then we've been downed single-handedly by another Spurs debutant, Mido, and have suffered a couple of dodgy penalty decisions via Gary O'Neil's "handball" two years ago and Zokora's dive last season. It's safe to say that we are under a jinx when we travel to North London!
Our task of beating mid-table Tottenham has been made even harder with the loss of Sol Campbell to injury, Sulley Muntari and Papa Bouba Diop to suspension and Jermain Defoe to the FA's stupid rules. Thankfully Hughes and Davis could take part after shaking off injuries.
However, it looks like Pedro Mendes and Arnold Mvuemba will take the places of Muntari and Diop whilst Kanu will play up front with Milan Baros. Lauren is struggling with a virus which means we may see Lucien Aubey finally start a game!
Spurs put four past Chelsea on Wednesday but also conceded four in the process so we can expect goals in this game. Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov have scored over 40 goals between them already and you'd think that if Ledley King and Jonathan Woodgate stay fit next season then Spurs can achieve great things.
For this season, they will have to settle for the bottom half of the table and the Carling Cup. If we fail to win tomorrow then we can kiss our hopes of fifth place goodbye and we'll have to focus on making our own cup glory.
I won't be expecting too much tomorrow but the curse has to be broken eventually and considering we've already won at St. James' Park, Villa Park and Old Trafford this season, I think we could give a team that have nothing to play for a good game.
Predicted Starting Line-Ups
Tottenham
GK: Paul ROBINSON
RB: Alan HUTTON
CB: Ledley KING
CB: Jonathan WOODGATE
LB: Pascal CHIMBONDA
RM: Aaron LENNON
CM: Jermaine JENAS
CM: Didier ZOKORA
LM: Steed MALBRANQUE
CF: Robbie KEANE
CF: Dimitar BERBATOV
Bench: Radek CERNY, Michael DAWSON, Kevin-Prince BOATENG, Tom HUDDLESTONE, Darren BENT
Pompey
GK: David JAMES
RB: Glen JOHNSON
CB: Hermann HREIDARSSON
CB: Sylvain DISTIN
LB: LAUREN
RM: Arnold MVUEMBA
CM: Pedro MENDES
CM: Lassana DIARRA
LM: Niko KRANJCAR
CF: Milan BAROS
CF: KANU
Bench: Jamie ASHDOWN, Lucien AUBEY, Richard HUGHES, Sean DAVIS, John UTAKA
Last Time: Tottenham Hotspur 2 Pompey 1
Glen Johnson was made to pay for dawdling over the ball near our goal as Berbatov robbed him and allowed Danny Murphy to tap in during the first minute of the game. Didier Zokora then dived over Pedro Mendes to con Chris Foy into giving Spurs a penalty which Jermain Defoe scored.
Pompey pulled one back shortly after when Kanu headed in Gary O'Neil's cross but Paul Robinson denied Lomana LuaLua a late equaliser to win all three points for Martin Jol's side.
Pundit Watch
Lawro: Home Win (1-0)
Sky Sports: Home Win (1-0)
Matt Le Tissier: Home Win (2-1)
My Prediction: Home Win (3-2)