Tottenhamboss Harry Redknapp is anticipating the pathogen unconditional by the bar willnot derail their Champions League hopes similar to 4 years ago.
Following "several" first-team players pang seizure this week, it was motionless to close the indoor comforts at the Spurs Lodge precision belligerent for sterilisation, with Redknapp holding his pre-match media lecture at White Hart Lane forward of Sunday"s strife opposite Everton.
Vedran Corluka and Wilson Palacios were the misfortune influenced but could still be fit for the Barclays Premier League strife opposite David Moyes" men as Spurs see to say their top-four challenge.
Virus: The north Londoners have been strike by a pathogen forward of Sunday"s game
A matter from Spurs read: "A series of (academy) scholars andseveral first-team players have reported feeling indisposed and, as aprecaution, are being kept afar from the precision belligerent for a periodof 48 hours in sequence to equivocate the risk of spread.
"As an one some-more precaution, the bar has undertaken acomprehensive low purify of the complete precision ground"s facilitieswhile all executive and academy staff have been educated to workfrom home until Monday."
Unwell: Wilson Palacios and Vedran Corluka have both been strike by the virus
It was in 2006 when Spurs were favourites to finish fourth headinginto the last diversion of the deteriorate usually to be strike by a norovirus, whichwas thought to have been a outcome of food poisoning from a lasagne.
With Spurs right away behind in the tip 4 after last Sunday"s win atWigan, Redknapp feels the pathogen will not affect their chances ofstaying there.
Redknapp said. "We are going to sight (at the Lodge) but everythingelse is off boundary - the offices and the cafeteria. There will be nofood or anything.
"We are only going to go in and sight and afterwards get out of there.It"s a box of only get in to the becoming different rooms, get out on the pitch,shower and get out of there. Other than that it"s been sealed downthere completely.
"We had a couple of down with it the alternative day. Corluka had the pathogen and Palacios was not feeling good with it either.
"It has swept by the Academy. There are about eighteen who work thereor the kids who have all got it so the alloy motionless we couldn"t useit.
Crocked: Spurs winger Aaron Lennon
"It hasn"t disrupted us, we are still precision as normal andhopefully nobody else gets it but there have been so most alternative peoplewho have left down with it, together with a couple of the press boys who cameover on Tuesday, it is positively spreading."
The last thing Redknapp needs at the impulse is some-more fitness concernsas Aaron Lennon is out with a groin aria and has seen anotherspecialist about his problem. Ledley King looks set to miss theEverton diversion with a thigh problem, whilst Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouchwill have slight knocks assessed.
"Aaron has been to see a an additional dilettante and got an additional opinion," Redknapp said.
"We are only watchful unequivocally but it looks similar to he is going to be outfor a small while. It"s unsatisfactory since it has been a prolonged job.
"Hopefully he won"t need surgery but if he did it should have beendone progressing on, that"s the problem. The healing staff didn"t feelsurgery was required and went down the alternative track but we stillhaven"t got him fit yet.
"Surgery would be the last review but hopefully we won"t need that.We goal with rest and strengthening we can get him behind fit.
"We need him back, he"s critical to me and is a illusory player but he"s not accessible so there"s zero we can do."
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