I never realised Hoddle scored so many goals for us, but the goals I have seen off him are all quality. I'm sure I saw him once lob a keeper from inside the 6yard box lool

Unintentional double post

Yes, Hoddle scored a lot of goals for us but of course he also played for a long time. His goal scoring percentage was 22%. Amongst our other prolific midfielders Chris Waddle was on 24% with 42 goals (playing about 1/3 as many matches as Hoddle did). Darren Anderton scored 48 goals but only on 13%. Paul Gascoigne was on 29% with 33 goals.
Anyway, Glenn Hoddle was one of our greatest ever players so it is an achievement for Defoe to get up there. Now he's only got Jimmy Dimmock on 112 goals between him and the guys in the top ten list!
(Pavlyuchenko moved up to 53rd with 40 goals with his cracking free-kick against Rubin Kazan.)

Nice stats! It'd be brilliant to see Defoe up there in the top 5 before he retires/moves on. I agree that he'd have been quite a bit higher if it weren't for last year (his worst year ever, I suppose) and the Portsmouth year

Defoe's match winning goal against WBA was his 111th for the club, which takes him one past Glenn Hoddle and is now only one behind Jimmy Dimmock in 11th place of our all time top scorers. It's not impossible that Defoe could go past Les Bennett, who is currently 10th placed, already this season...

That's Defoe now on 116 Spurs goals. The next one he bags will put him in 10th equal with Les Bennett...

Defoe's been brilliant for us throughout his career. And somehow he's still behind other strikers even when he's banging in goals for fun all season even in sub appearances. I think he's got the highest conversion rate for shots outside the box this year in the PL as well. I'd say given a run now, he can challenge Sheringham's tally!

Yo mag, brilliant is deffo the wrong word to describe his career with us, he had the potential to do so much more.... Teddy on the other hand, know he was brilliant lol

Defoe has had his ups and downs but his talent is undeniable. When he's on form he should be played!

I'm not exactly trying to question Defoe's talent vs Teddy's (that somehow makes it sound like Defoe's a bear ) Just willing him to break the record by scoring more for us!

Like North says, Defoe has his ups and downs. I remember wanting to burn that 100th goal shirt last year. He wore it every time and it came back to bite him. That said, he's a player who relies on being on form and finding that perfect moment more than any other player in our squad. He's currently in one, and it would be our loss if we don't make use of it

It is a very real possibility that Defoe could end up amongst our top 5 top scorers of all time. That would be one helluva achievement and wouldn't be surpassed for a very long time

With Defoe's four goals so far this season he is now 9th equal with Robbie Keane. They've both scored 122 goals. Taking on Teddy Sheringham next...

Really? He could be 5th all timer by the end of the season, if he has another good season next time around he could go up to 4th

I think it will be a stretch to catch Cliff Jones in 4th place but 5th can definitely be within Defoe's reach! What an achievement that would be!

With Defoe's goal away to Shamrock he has now scored 12 European goals which puts him 5th equal with Berbatov!

Overall in all competitions Defoe is now in 12th equal with Glenn Hoddle, having scored 110 goals for Spurs!

He can easily go second for us!

Good chance, so bring on Champions League next season!

In my books, he will go down as a very good player who just wasn't appreciated by people. He wasn't exceptional, especially in his last 10-15 games, but he was always asked to come off the bench to do an impossible job. And when he did it, he got no credit or reward. 2 and a half seasons of that, its not surprising that he's left. I still cannot fathom how people/media drool over adebayor while ignoring someone who truly could have given more. Adieu, Pav. I truly hope you do well at Locomotiv and at Euro 2012

The thing is, at one stage he was highly regarded BY THE FANS, alas the Super-Pav thing, but he got stuck in a horrible vaccum where whatever he did wasn't good enough. He lost confidence and got out of sync. In the end he became a wasted talent, like a few other players in the squad, and nobody could blame him for walking away. Who knows, maybe we'll see him again at WHL in the Champions League for Lokomotiv...

From official website:

Jermain Defoe immediately placed his first goal against West Ham in the top five of his 128 for Spurs.
The striker broke the deadlock in spectacular fashion in Sunday’s 3-1 victory at the Lane.

Jermain did well to initially control Kyle Walker’s pass on the right touchline, just yards inside the West Ham half. He controlled and spun away from George McCartney and Winston Reid, darted towards the penalty area, beat Mark Noble by switching onto his right foot and rifled home from 22 yards.
It was key goal just before half-time and the lads stepped up again in the second half, Gareth Bale made it 2-0 in 58 minutes and then JD added his second for 3-0 six minutes later.
“Kyle pinged the ball into me and I thought ‘wow, get that under control’ but I managed to turn, ran with it and my first intention wasn’t to shoot but it opened up and I just wanted to get a shot off, ” he said. “I was delighted when it went in.
“It’s right up there in my goals for Spurs, top five. It’s such a great feeling to get a goal like that, I’m sure you can imagine.
“i thought we deserved it, we had chances in the first half and it was important to get that goal before half-time.
“We came out in the second half more relaxed and the second goal was key, Gareth scored that and after that it was comfortable, to be honest.
“i thought from the first minute, without the ball as well, pressing, playing from the back, the whole performance was fantastic. ”

Jermain has scored 10 goals this season (seven Premier League, three Europa League) to move onto 128 for Spurs and up to eighth in the club's all-time goalscoring list.
His next target is Alan Gilzean on 133 goals - and the legendary former striker was back at the Lane on Sunday for the first time since he left the club in 1974

Two more at Craven Cottage so that's 130 now for jer-main man Defoe!

He should be 5th before the end of season IMO. Legend(too soon?)

He probably will be Suraj

Defoe on 131 goals after the one he scored vs Panathinaikos

132 after the Villa game!

Defoe has now joined Alan Gilzean in 7th place with 133 goals. Len Duquemin on 134 next...

Bale's 50th against Inter, which means he's scored 4/50 against the Italians.
Ahead of him he has four players on 51 goals, incl legend Dave Mackay