Spurs winning so clinically 4-0 away at the team that have been champions 6 of the last 7 years has got to be up there as one of the most stand out unexpected score lines I can remember.
Our 4-2 win at Highbury I think ‘scrapes’ into the category, but I suspect there are plenty more (and probably more standout).
QPR winning 4-1 at Old Trafford in 92 (Denis Bailey hat trick) when Man U were pretty peak.
Newcastle smashing Man U 5-0 at a rocking St James Park in 96 (Phillipe Albert chip) was also special.
What other stand out, so unexpected score lines / victories can you remember?
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Next week Spurs at home to Fulham, who would fancy predicting the score?
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Micky Quinn x 3
22nd August 1998
Although it doesn't meet the strict criterion of of a "top division" match, the game between Real Madrid (who, at the time had won the Spanish title no fewer than 31 times, the Copa del Rey 17 times, and were Champions of Europe nine times over) and third-tier AD Alcorcón, who played in the third tier of Spanish football, alongside the Real Madrid reserve team, in a municipal, 5,100 capacity stadium.
This match wasn't just a daunting prospect for Alcorcón - it was a mountainous one. Founded in 1971, they had still never played against Real Madrid - or, in fact, any other Spanish top-flight side. Their salary budget was less than €1m. Real's was 110 times that. And Real had spent €254m on new signings that Summer.
Probably the statistic that best describes the difference between the two sides is that AD Alcorcón players' average salary was less than Cristiano Ronaldo was being paid by Real, per day.
The first leg of the tie ended with the astonishing scoreline of AD Alcorcón 4-0 Real Madrid.
And I was there - walked out ground at final whistle and I could not believe what I had just witnessed !!!
I went to both. Never seen a turn around like it .
Then Man U at Old Trafford. I went on a friends season ticket, when we scored I forgot where I was and leapt out of my seat. Next thing two coppers appeared from nowhere and threw me out for my own safety! TBF, they did walk me round to where our lot was and got me back in.
Eventful few days following Charlton.
Liverpool won the title that season, while Wolves were relegated with only 29 points and a goal deficit of -53.
A young lad called Steve Mardenborough scored his only ever Wolves goal that day.
It was as much of a home banker that you could ever get in a league game.
Fun Facts;
Wolves had three players in their 11 who moved to Charlton shortly after; Tony Towner, John Pender and John Humphrey..
The attendance was only 23,000
2010/11.