Thu 04 August 2022, 12:40
Tottenham HotspurWelcome to a new series for 2022/23 - 1 from 30 - as we mark 30 years of the Premier League.
English football's new dawn kicked-off in August, 1992 as the FA Premier League replaced Barclays League Division One, ending a structure of Division One-Four that had been in place since 1958. Thirty years on, the Premier League is amongst the most watched and most valuable sporting leagues in the world.
The first weekend of the Premier League was the 15/16 August, 1992. Coincidentally, we faced a trip to The Dell and Southampton, our opponents for the big kick-off at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this time around on Saturday (3pm).
In this new series, 1 from 30, we'll feature a match from 30 years of the Premier League that corresponds with our next fixture. So, with Southampton at home first up, we turn the clock back to 2000, and a goal fest against the Saints at the Lane.
Spurs 7-2 Southampton | 11.03.2000
Who saw this one coming? We'd scored six goals in our previous nine league matches, yet blitzed the Saints in a second half display that the opposing manager, a certain Glenn Hoddle, would have been proud of in his many years in a Spurs shirt.
The final scoreline certainly looked a long way off as Southampton led twice in the first half, Jo Tessem and Tahar El Khalej scoring either side of an own goal. The game went mad from there as Darren Anderton, Chris Armstrong and Steffen Iversen all netted to put us 4-2 up by half-time!
With David Ginola in sparkling form, we took a firm grip on the second half as goals from Armstrong and a double from Iversen, completing his hat-trick in added time, saw us hit seven for the first time in the Premier League era - a feat matched since at Hull (May, 2017) and toppled by that memorable 9-1 win against Wigan (November, 2009).
Spurs: Walker, Carr, Campbell, Perry (Young 29), Taricco, Anderton, Freund, Leonhardsen, Ginola, Armstrong, Iversen. Substitutes (not used): Baardsen, Clemence, Korsten, Ferdinand.
