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Tim Sherwood hopes West Ham will be distracted by their precarious Premier League position when managerless Tottenham face their London rivals in Wednesday night’s Capital One Cup quarter-final.

Tim Sherwood hopes to have a swift impact on managerless Tottenham and avenge the disappointing loss to West Ham when the teams meet in tonight’s Capital One Cup quarter-final at White Hart Lane (kick-off 7:45pm).

West Ham manager Sam Allardyce maintains he has enough to worry about with his own injury-hit side than what Tottenham might do following the sacking of Andre Villas-Boas ahead of their Capital One Cup quarter-final.

Tim Sherwood is to take charge of Tottenham in an interim role after Spurs sacked Andre Villas-Boas as manager.

Branislav Ivanovic is suspended as Chelsea travel to Sunderland for the Capital One Cup quarter-final.

PREMIER LEAGUE:

Arsenal’s season of struggles continued yesterday as they were knocked out of the FA Cup by npower Championship side Blackburn.

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert and his former club Norwich have agreed a settlement over the dispute regarding his departure from Carrow Road.

Rafael Benitez today admitted he could not guarantee John Terry would be fit for Chelsea’s Christmas fixtures.

Rafael Benitez welcomes Oscar’s dismay at his exclusion from Chelsea’s starting line-up in Sunday’s Club World Cup final against Corinthians.

Liverpool have all but finalised a £12 million (€14.7m) deal for Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge for the start of January, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Leeds manager Neil Warnock faces a selection dilemma ahead of the Capital One Cup quarter-final with Chelsea.

A furious Gary Cahill accused Corinthians striker Emerson of smashing him in the face but he admitted he deserved to be sent off for his reaction in yesterday’s Club World Cup final defeat.

Players’ union boss Gordon Taylor has called for technology to be used in the fight against diving in the wake of the Santi Cazorla controversy.