Gareth Taylor, a life-long Tottenham Hotspur supporter, forgot about past loyalties and earned The Reds a well-deserved point at White Hart Lane this afternoon. Forest defied all the odds to earn themselves at replay at the City Ground in 9 days time.

Away from home, struggling in the Championship and participating a match against a premiership team. gary Megson sumed it up when he stated that he would be 'lying' should he have said that he'd always believed the Tricky Trees would come away with a point.

This pre-match scepticism looked to be justified when on-loan debutant 'keeper Colin Doyle allowed himself to be beaten by a Jermaine Defoe free-kick that slipped through his hands. Forunately though we do not look to have another Barry Roche on our hands as he produced quite a few fine saves throughout the match to deny a Spurs team that produced more chances than us, but ultimately, didn't take them as well.

Gareth Taylor that Doyle wouldn't go away being talked about with a tone of hate in the fans voices by taking the ball past England No. 2 Paul Robinson and scoring mid-way through the second half.

Man of the Match - Kris Commons

Nottingham Forest: Doyle, Melville, Doig, Morgan, Curtis, Rogers, Evans (Thompson 74mins), Powell, Perch, Commons (King 90mins), Taylor (C)
Subs not used: Roche,  Bopp, Harris
Bookings: Morgan 35mins, Melville 45mins
Scorer: Taylor 55mins

Spurs: Robinson, Kelly, Naybet, King (C), Atouba, Davies, Brown, Carrick, Ziegler (Keane 67mins), Kanoute (Mido 66mins), Defoe.
Subs not used: Cerny, Bunjevcevic, Mendes, 
Bookings:Carrick 67mins
Scorer: Defoe 45mins

Referee:  S G Bennett
Attendance: 35,640

Spurs			Forest
Goal Attempts	22	:	11	Goal Attempts
On Target	14	:	7	On Target
Crosses	1	:	3	Crosses
Corners	8	:	2	Corners
Offside	5	:	6	Offside
Fouls	10	:	11	Fouls
Free kicks	18	:	15	Free kicks
Yellow cards	1	:	2	Yellow cards
Red cards	-	:	-	Red cards
% Possession	61	:	39	Possession %

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