After a bit of a rough stretch on the English Premier League schedule, Tottenham Hotspur has some stability at the top with Tim Sherwood staying on as manager and after getting a good result last time out, the Spurs are hosting West Bromwich Albion at White Hart Lane and they hope to continue moving up the table standings heading into the new year after Boxing Day on Thursday.
Tottenham sits at seventh position on the table ahead of Manchester United with nine wins and they have 30 points and are a solid streak away from getting into the mix at the top of the standings with the way the schedule breaks down over the next couple weeks. Everton and Newcastle are ahead of the Spurs on the table, while Chelsea is in fourth place behind Manchester City and Arsenal, with Liverpool in first place on the table by goals scored over the Gunners.
Manchester United and Hull City play the early match on Thursday for the Boxing Day holiday schedule and some of the other matches on the day includes Manchester City and Liverpool playing along with Everton and Sunderland, Chelsea and Swansea City and Arsenal and West Ham United. Tottenham got a nice win for Sherwood with a victory against Southampton and they had previously lost against West Ham United in the Capital One Cup and that came after a loss against liverpool 5-0 that got Andre Villas-Boas fired from the Spurs and now they are looking to get on a nice run as they play some tough matches against Manchester United, Arsenal and Everton coming up.
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Tottenham now has some stability at the top with Tim Sherwood and the Spurs are now looking to get back on track as the holiday schedule picks up with Boxing Day on Thursday and the Spurs will be looking for another positive result on the English Premier League schedule and here is more on the Spurs from Reuters.com. Tottenham Hotspur have given the inexperienced Tim Sherwood the chance to stamp his mark on the ambitious London club by naming him on Monday as head coach until the end of next season with their sights on the top four.
The Premier League club have promoted their former midfield player from his role as youth development manager to replace Andre Villas-Boas, 36, exactly a week after the Portuguese coach was sacked following a humiliating 5-0 home loss to Liverpool.
Chairman Levy is known to be short on patience, having sacked seven manager's during his time at the club, but Sherwood will hope his brand of attacking football can deliver a top-four finish and a place in next season's Champions League.
That was the minimum requirement that eluded Villas-Boas with the former Chelsea and Porto manager losing his job despite taking Spurs to their record Premier League points tally last term when they came fifth and missed out on Europe's top table.
The Portuguese, who took over in July 2012, had been under pressure after a 6-0 thrashing at Manchester City last month following a 3-0 home reverse by West Ham United, who again won at White Hart lane in the League Cup quarter-final last week.
The disappointing 2-1 Cup exit was Sherwood's first game as interim head coach but he engineered a 3-2 win at Southampton on Sunday to leave Tottenham seventh in the standings, six points off leaders Liverpool and north London rivals Arsenal.
That result helped his claims to be given the top job on a permanent basis and Sherwood, a combative midfielder who played nearly 100 games for the club before joining Portsmouth, now has a chance to show what he can do in his first job as head coach.
Spurs scored three league goals for the first time this season at Southampton and Sherwood said: "I like to set teams up like that (to attack). There are no rules, there are different ways to win a football match. You have to do what you believe."
A technically highly-rated coach, the 44-year-old Sherwood won the Premier League as captain of Blackburn Rovers in 1995 before joining Spurs four years later and staying until 2003 before returning five years later to join the coaching staff.
Sherwood was brought back to the club by former Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp who said this week: "...let's hope Tim can get the job, he has great knowledge of the game. They have got a boy on their books who knows the game inside out." Sherwood takes over a team on which Spurs spent more than the 100 million euros ($137.07 million) they got for Gareth Bale from Real Madrid in the close season on internationals like Roberto Soldado, Paulinho, Erik Lamela and Christian Eriksen.
His former Tottenham team mates, Les Ferdinand and Steffen Freund, plus Chris Ramsey, are in a new first-team set which should find favor with the club's demanding supporters who grew frustrated with the negative tactics adopted by Villas-Boas. (Reuters)
