Spurs look to Kanoute

Tottenham are hoping for more goals from Fredi Kanoute to lift them away from the relegation zone when Birmingham visit White Hart Lane tomorrow night.

The striker has scored 12 times this season and the club will learn tomorrow if they will lose him for Mali’s African Nations Cup campaign, which starts in Tunisia from January 24.

Temporary manager David Pleat is still hoping Dean Richards and Darren Anderton will have shaken off calf injuries in time to be in the squad for tomorrow, but skipper Jamie Redknapp and Christian Ziege (both knee) remain sidelined.

Provisional squad: Keller, Carr, Richards, Taricco, Gardner, King, Ricketts, Poyet, Anderton, Keane, Postiga, Kanoute, Dalmat, Jackson, Davies, Bunjevcevic, Doherty, Zamora, Mabizela, Marney, Kelly, Burch.