By John Ley Published: 2:42PM GMT twenty-six February 2010
Floored: William Palacios is one of dual high-profile players to have been struck down by a pathogen at Tottenham Photo: EPA Wilson Palacios and Vedran Corluka are along eighteen players and staff who have been strike by the seizure and disease bug.
Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham manager, said: "We"ve sealed the precision ground. It"s off limits. We"re only going to sight there and that"s it."
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"We had a couple of down with it the alternative day," combined Redknapp. "Corluka had the pathogen and Palacios was not feeling good with it either."
Following the revisit of Everton, when Spurs can serve urge their chances of removing in to the Champions League, they face Fulham in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, a week tomorrow.
Redknapp added: "It has swept by the academy. There are about eighteen who work there or the kids who have all got it so the alloy motionless we couldn"t make use of it.
"It hasn"t disrupted us, we are still precision as normal and hopefully nobody else gets it but there have been so most alternative people who have left down with it, together with a couple of of the press boys who came over on Tuesday, it is positively spreading."
Redknapp, who switched his normal pre-match press discussion from the clubs Essex domicile to White Hart Lane, stays carefree that Palacios and Corluka will be fit for preference opposite Everton.
A Spurs matter read: "A series of (academy) scholars and multiform first-team players have reported feeling indisposed and, as a precaution, are being kept afar from the precision belligerent for a duration of 48 hours in sequence to equivocate the risk of spread.
"As an one more precaution, the bar has undertaken a extensive low purify of the complete precision ground"s comforts whilst all executive and academy staff have been educated to work from home until Monday."
It is not the initial time Spurs have been strike by seizure at a consequential juncture. Four years ago Tottenham indispensable to compare Arsenals outcome on the last day of the deteriorate but went down with a hitch of food poisoning.
Attempts to have the last game, at West Ham, deferred unsuccessful even though 10 players were left with illness. Spurs lost 2-1.
