Tottenham 9-1 Wigan

Jermain Defoe fired in five goals as Tottenham Hotspur destroyed Wigan Athletic 9-1 at White Hart Lane in the Premier League.

Peter Crouch scored the opener for Spurs with the returning Aaron Lennon, Niko Kranjcar and substitute David Bentley also hitting the target, but Defoe rightly hogs the headlines as he rocketed up to the top of the league scoring charts, overtaking Fernando Torres with 11 goals.
Defoe's haul eclipses that of his club captain Robbie Keane, who managed four in the 5-0 win over Burnley in September, and equals the Premier League record set by Andy Cole in Manchester United's 9-0 defeat of Ipswich Town in 1995.
The stunning exhibition of clinical finishing from the England striker also takes his record against the Latics to nine goals in six Premier League starts against them.
His hat-trick came in a frantic seven-minute spell early in the second -half in which Paul Scharner also scored Wigan's consolation goal, but it was Crouch who got Spurs off and running.
After a opening 10-minute onslaught in which he had already put two chances wide, Crouch got in behind Titus Bramble to stoop low and head in Lennon's cross to put Spurs ahead.
Lennon, making his first appearance since picking up an injury in the 1-0 defeat to Stoke a month ago, terrorised former Spurs left-back Erik Edman throughout the match, if this game can be called that.
After Chris Kirkland had kept his side in the match at the break with two good saves from solid Defoe strikes, his team completely fell apart in the second half and looked nothing like the side that has beaten Aston Villa and Chelsea this season.
Five minutes after the break Defoe got off and running when he steered Lennon's low cross into the roof of the net from close range.
Three minutes later it was two for him when Emmerson Boyce failed to intercept Wilson Palacios's through ball and Defoe fired a clinical low strike across goal into the far corner.

With Wigan 3-0 down they already looked dead and buried, but Scharner gave them a sliver of hope when he fired in Hugo Rodallega's cross after clearly controlling the ball with his arm. Referee Peter Walton ignored Tottenham's protests and gave the goal, but it was cancelled out moments later when a rasping shot from Lennon's ball from the byline sealed Defoe's hat-trick and restored Tottenham's three-goal lead.
From then on there was only one side in this game and Tom Huddlestone, Lennon and Kranjcar ran riot in midfield. Lennon got a goal he richly deserved when Crouch played him in on the right to smash a low finish past Kirkland, and four minutes later Defoe latched on to Vedran Corluka's through ball to fire in his fourth.
The match began to open up as Tottenham eyed a record scoreline and Wigan frantically tried to save face, but it all fell apart for the visitors as they conceded three more in the final few minutes.
Edman's awful miscontrol of a long ball allowed Defoe to saunter through and fire in his fifth, and in the very next minute Bentley saw his well-struck free-kick rebound off the bar and in off the back of Kirkland's head.
Bentley turned provider in the third minute of injury time when he found Kranjcar on the edge of the box, and the Croat midfielder rounded off the rout with a swift turn and rocket shot that flew in off the underside of the bar.