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Birmingham have new £3million midfielder Craig Gardner available for the first-time against Tottenham at St Andrews. Gardner, who joined Birmingham on a four-and-a-half year deal from Aston Villa earlier this week, will be the only addition to the squad from Wednesday's 3-0 defeat at Chelsea. Kevin Phillips is still missing with a groin problem but fellow forward Cameron Jerome is fit having suffered no reaction to his ankle injury after making his comeback against Chelsea. Despite the defeat at Stamford Bridge, manager Alex McLeish is set to name an unchanged starting line-up. | |||||
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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp will give loan signing Eidur Gudjohnsen a "week or so" to settle in at White Hart Lane so he will not feature in the match at Birmingham. Aaron Lennon is still out with a hernia problem which the club hope to cure with physio treatment while Roman Pavlyuchenko will be out for at least a week with a groin strain. Full-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto, meanwhile, has been cleared by a specialist to start rehabilitation on the hip problem which has kept him out since early January. With five matches in a fortnight Redknapp will decideon Saturday whether to risk Ledley King, who played against Fulham on Tuesday. | |||||