• Striker out for a ‘few weeks’ with hamstring tear
• Defoe joins lengthy White Hart Lane injury list

Tottenham Hotspur and England’s striker Jermain Defoe has been ruled out for a “few weeks” after suffering a grade-two tear to one of his hamstrings, his club manager, Harry Redknapp, has confirmed.

Defoe is Tottenham’s leading scorer this season with 23 goals in all competitions.

He joins an already lengthy injury list at White Hart Lane with Redknapp currently without Tom Huddlestone, David Bentley, Aaron Lennon, Ledley King and Jonathan Woodgate.

The club do have cover up front, though, with Roman Pavlyuchenko finding a rich vein of form of late and Peter Crouch and Eidur Gudjohnsen are available.

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