Fans predicting the outcome of Saturday's Premier League clash against West Ham at the London Stadium may be advised to steer clear of one scoreline - 0-0!
After meetings in the Southern League going back to 1899, we finally met the Hammers in league action in the old Second Division back on 13 March, 1920.
Since then, we've met on 144 occasions in the Football League and Premier League - and there have been five goalless draws! That works out at 3.47%! In the Premier League, three goalless draws in 58 equates to 5.17%!
There has been one goalless draw in our last 42 meetings in the Premier League, played out at White Hart Lane on 19 March, 2011. Before that, you have to go back to 31 January, 2001 and 6 December, 1999 - the 1999 stalemate breaking a run of 75 matches between goalless draws - the previous one to that in a Second Division clash on 17 May, 1947!
Forget that - let's have some goals!
Pedro's 86 0-0s and counting...
Having highlighted the lack of goalless draws against West Ham, it's worth mentioning that full-back Pedro Porro has yet to be involved in a goalless draw in 86 Premier League games for us! It’s the second-longest start to a Premier League career without a 0-0, with only Mikaël Silvestre going more games from his debut without a goalless one (134 matches before featuring in Manchester United 0-0 Arsenal in September 2003).
Frank's treble treble - 100 years ago
It's approaching 100 years since a famous treble, treble - as striker Frank Osborne completed a hat-trick of hat-tricks against West Ham.
The England international bagged all three in a 3-1 win against Liverpool and as we went down 5-3 at Leicester City. He followed up with a third hat-trick in successive matches as we beat the Hammers 4-2 at the Lane on 7 November, 1925, Jack Elkes also on target.