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#4 Stoke City 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur, 18th October 2008 (101 minutes)
In the dark days of Juande Ramos, Tottenham Hotspur entered this game as the lowest scorers in the league. Their forward line was led by Darren Bent and they faced a Stoke City side managed by Tony Pulis who had fewer shots on target than Tottenham that season.
Quite a few predicted a 0-0 game which was going to be intensely boring and dull. 17 minutes in, the sensational Gareth Bale, then an up and coming young defender, threw himself at Stoke striker Soares in almost comical fashion and got sent off, giving Stoke a penalty in the process. Danny Higginbotham converted the spot-kick and the game resumed.
In the 25th minute, Darren Bent scored from an offside position latching on to a deflected ball and the goal was awarded. Tottenham created some good play on the wings till the end of the first half which ended at one-one.
In the 53rd minute, Rory Delap scored for Stoke to put them ahead. Around the 63rd minute, Spurs custodian Huerelho Gomes clattered into Vedran Corluka in an attempt to claim the ball. Spurs resumed play and began creating some chances, when in the 72nd minute, Corluka went to ground after another collision with Gomes.
The Croatian was treated on the sidelines while Gomes began struggling with a rib injury. Around the same time, Corluka was stretchered off with a neck brace and an oxygen mask from the sidelines and play resumed with Michael Dawson coming on to replace him.
Stoke continued to attack, applying pressure down the wings and hurling (literally with Rory Delap's throw-ins) balls into the box and managing to force Gomes into some interceptions.
The referee signalled for eleven minutes of injury time in the game. Dawson was sent off in the 98th minute, reducing Spurs to nine men. That wasn't the end of it; in the 100th minute, Ricardo Fuller beat Gomes once again with a splendid shot from the edge of the box, only for it to hit the crossbar, ending a bizarre and memorable game of football.
