BRADFORD 3-3 TOTTENHAM

LEDLEY KING wrote his name into the Premiership history books just after three o‚ÇÖclock at Valley Parade by scoring the fastest goal in the history of the league although it was not enough to earn Spurs their first away win of the season.

King‚ÇÖs speculative 20-yard drive, which beat Matt Clarke after a deflection off Andy O‚ÇÖBrien, was timed at just ten seconds, beating the thirteen-second efforts of Chris Sutton and Dwight Yorke in 1994 and 1995 respectively.

More importantly for the visitors, Tottenham could not capitalise on King‚ÇÖs strike, and further goals from Sol Campbell and Chris Armstrong, as they threw away a 3-1 lead, missing out on all three points after Benito Carbone volleyed home with a minute of normal time remaining.

Spurs travelled to Bradford without more than £30 million worth of talent, George Graham forced to do without the services of the injured Sergei Rebrov, Steffen Iversen, Oyvind Leonhardsen, Ben Thatcher, Mauricio Taricco, Luke Young and the suspended Darren Anderton.

Nevertheless, it looked as though the Londoners could live without that plethora of talent when King gave them their perfect start.

The lead did not last long ‚Çô Jamie Lawrence claiming his first of the season on nine minutes after bundling home a Dean Windass corner ‚Çô but when Sol Campbell stooped to head home a Stephen Clemence corner in the 20th minute, Spurs were back in control.

Bradford‚ÇÖs might have equalised three minutes later but Carbone's lofted right-foot shot from just inside the area was beyond keeper Neil Sullivan, and inches past the right-hand post.

The Bantams were made to pay for that miss early in the second half, when Armstrong was fed by Les Ferdinand to roll home his second goal of the season and double Tottenham‚ÇÖs advantage with 35 minutes remaining.

That was not to be the end of the story though. Windass threatened the comeback with 20 minutes remaining with his fifth goal of the season from a Peter Atherton cross, and Spurs‚ÇÖ fans fears were realised a minute from time when Carbone hooked home after good work from Lee Sharpe and Dan Petrescu.

It was a fine comeback for Jim Jefferies side, who played the sort of quality football that they know they are capable of in the second half, forcing Spurs on the back foot for much of the time.

Indeed, they might have pulled level sooner had Stan Collymore‚ÇÖs effort not been ruled out for offside 13 minutes from time. Windass also hit the post with a free-header six yards out.

Still, they did enough eventually and Spurs have still not won at Valley Parade since August 1935.