Tottenham's preparations for their crucial Premier League clash
against Everton on Sunday have been thrown into chaos after a virus
has hit the club.
Wilson Palacios and Vedran Corluka are both major doubts for the
crunch match after being struck down by the sickness and diarrhoea
bug which has swept through Tottenham's training ground.
Spurs base in Chigwell, Essex is off limits to the media, with
manager Harry Redknapp holding his pre-match press conference at
White Hart Lane instead.
Virus: The north Londoners have been hit by a virus
ahead of Sunday's game
'We've closed the training ground. Everything is off limits,'
Redknapp said.
'We're just going to train there and that's it. You couldn't
even get a cup of tea over there. Everything has been shut down.
The doctor has come over and had a look and decided we have to get
out of there.'
The Tottenham squad are no strangers to sickness bugs after they
were infamously struck down by a simliar virus on the final day of
the 2005/06 season. Spurs blamed a dodgy lasagne as they lost to
West Ham and subsequently missed out on a qualifying place for the
Champions League. And to make it worse, arch-rivals Arsenal stole
the spot.