Two penalties, a fallen giant and the player of the moment grabbing two goals. The FA Cup match between Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United was everything that a football fan could ever want from the famous competition.

Spurs are very much still in the hunt for fourth place and that Champions League qualification spot but they aren’t going to turn down the chance of a May trip to Wembley. They may rather wait until the following season because everyone knows that it’s lucky for Spurs when the year ends in 1…but get it whilst its going is a good motto for life.

Spurs may have thought they were due to open the scoring from the spot but yet again, Jermain Defoe was the player to miss. The forward can be deadly in front of goal but his touch quite often goes missing from the 12 yard spot. With the World Cup looming, English fans will be hoping that other players will be ready to step up to the plate when it matters.

Spurs weren’t to be denied and took the lead on the stroke of half-time. There was a stroke of good fortune about Peter Crouch’s goal but the tall forward reacted quickly to the rebound that came at him with pace.

This half-time lead should have been the catalyst for Spurs to ease to victory but Leeds came roaring back. Within 7 minutes of the second half, Beckford was on hand to bundle the ball home and have the Leeds fans dreaming of another Premier League scalp.

If Beckford is the man of the moment, Roman Pavlyuchenko has been the forgotten man of the season but he looked to have grabbed the winner with his strike on 75 minutes. Some lucky Spurs fans was the lucky recipient of the players gloves as he threw them into the crowd but Spurs were unable to hold onto their passage into the next round.

It was deep deep into injury time when Matt Dawson put a ludicrous challenge in that the referee decided was worthy of a penalty kick. Spurs fans will argue that Dawson took some of the ball but as a defender, you should not be taking that sort of risk in injury time.

Beckford picked himself up and fired the ball past the despairing dive of Gomes to draw Leeds level and earn his side a replay on the 2nd of February.

Leeds will think that they have every chance of progressing at Elland Road and it should be a fascinating match once again.

Leeds fans, can you get past Spurs?

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