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Tottenham VS Cheltenham
FA Cup Third Round
Venue: White Hart Lane Date: Saturday, 7 January Kick-off: 1500 GMT
Coverage: BBC Sport website, BBC Radio 5 live, BBC local radio, Final Score
Venue: White Hart Lane Date: Saturday, 7 January Kick-off: 1500 GMT
Coverage: BBC Sport website, BBC Radio 5 live, BBC local radio, Final Score
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Tottenham will be keen to avoid becoming another notable FA Cup scalp when potential giant-killers Cheltenham travel to White Hart Lane.
Spurs will be aware that they have nothing to gain from Saturday's third round clash, but everything to lose.
Harry Redknapp's side will be expected to sweep aside fourth tier opposition with consummate ease, but the FA Cup is littered with tales of plucky underdogs slaying top-flight giants.
Cheltenham will be looking to write their own piece of cup history this weekend, with the promotion hopefuls heading into the game in buoyant mood.
The Robins are in the middle of a nine-match unbeaten run and have won seven of those fixtures to clamber into second place in League Two.
They will, however, need no reminding that Tottenham are also flying high at present.
Victory over West Brom on Tuesday saw Spurs cement their third-place standing in the Premier League, with only one defeat suffered in their last 17 league outings.
A top-four finish remains the priority for those at White Hart Lane, while promotion is the ultimate target for Cheltenham, but both sides would welcome an extended run through a cup competition.
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Fringe stars
Tottenham are expected to shuffle their pack this weekend, with Redknapp set to name a starting XI made up of players on the fringes of his first-team plans.
Scott Parker, Aaron Lennon and Ledley King could come back into contention after missing out against West Brom, and they may be involved at some stage.
Senior stars such as William Gallas, Sandro and Tom Huddlestone will be missing, though, as they are nursing knocks.
Fully fit
Cheltenham boss Mark Yates has the luxury of being able to select from a fully-fit squad on Saturday.
Frontman Jimmy Spencer was nursing a cold earlier in the week, but he has shaken off the virus to put himself in contention.
Marlon Pack is also raring to go, with the midfielder having recovered from the hefty challenge which laid him low in the closing stages of Monday's victory over Port Vale.
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Defender Michael Dawson (Achilles tendon) will make his first Tottenham appearance in more than four months but William Gallas and Sandro are out.
Sebastien Bassong, Giovani Dos Santos and Roman Pavlyuchenko are likely to start for Spurs, while Aaron Lennon is back after a hamstring problem.
Cheltenham boss Mark Yates has a fully-fit squad available after Jimmy Spencer recovered from a cold.
Midfielder Marlon Pack is available despite taking a knock at Port Vale
Head-to-head
• This is the first time these clubs have gone toe-to-toe.
Tottenham Hotspur
• Tottenham are the third most successful club in FA Cup history, with the most recent of their eight wins in 1991. They have scored 749 goals in the competition proper.
• They last fell at this third round stage in 2006, but have not been ousted by a club from outside the top two divisions since Port Vale in the fourth round in January 1988.
• Harry Redknapp's side have won four and drawn one of their last five league and cup games.
Cheltenham Town
• Cheltenham are 67 places lower than Spurs on the league ladder, and looking for a place in the fourth round, last experienced in 2006, when they lost to Newcastle; the last time the Gloucestershire club was drawn against Premier League opposition.
• Cheltenham achieved a club record place in the fifth round in 2001/02.
• Mark Yates has guided his side to second in the League Two table, and to a nine-match undefeated run in all competitions, and 10-game unbeaten sequence on the road, in which all but one were wins.
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