Fulham boss Chris Coleman has promised there will be no repeat of last season's dire 2-0 defeat at Tottenham - thanks to his side's new positive style.

Fans travelling to White Hart Lane are desperate to avoid a repeat of February's encounter which looked destined for the dullest of goalless draws until late strikes from Fredi Kanoute and Robbie Keane snatched all three points for Spurs.

This term Fulham, who sit five places off the foot of the Barclays Premiership table, have been less circumspect and Coleman is expecting his attack-minded team to go on the offensive in north London.

"Last season Tottenham away was such a boring game for the fans. Our fans were thinking we could get a point or nick a goal. We were right in the game and then they scored from a free-kick," he said.

"It was disappointing because we were not really competing and at half-time I thought we might get away with it because they were not much better. But once they scored our performance got really bad.

"We lost and performed badly. Fans might have turned a blind eye to our display had it been 0-0.

"Tonight we have to be up for it right from the start and we have been so far this season. We have played good football, attacked and made chances, so I can't criticise the guys apart from one half against Blackburn.

"I am confident we will win games because we create chances. It would be nice to add to the score if we go 1-0 up because that would give us confidence.

"Tottenham are a good team and we respect them. But I am confident we have got the quality to go to White Hart Lane, put on a show and get three points - regardless of whether or not Spurs are up for it."

Coleman will reinstate the team beaten 2-1 by West Ham after calling on his reserves for the midweek Carling Cup drama against Lincoln and hopes to wipe out memories of the club's last Premiership outing.

"West Ham was a killer after the game - it was the lowest I have seen the guys. It was hard to pick them up because we had so many chances in the first half," he said.

"Then there was a mad 10 minutes in the second half when they went ahead and then scored a freak goal which came off the back of Tony Warner's head.

"We missed a chance to jump into the top 10 with that defeat and that's what happened to us all last season."

Tottenham Coach Martin Jol vowed Spurs will honour the ideologies of Bill Nicholson to entertain the crowds.

Spurs host Fulham in Monday night's live Barclays Premiership encounter, when attention will again be on any whether there are any empty seats at White Hart Lane and on the approach of both sides as the English top-flight examines itself following a drop in attendances and criticism over a perceived negative approach.

Dutchman Jol, however, maintains the national sport is not in a state of decline and there are plenty of positives to take out of the opening weeks of the new campaign which have seen Chelsea already take up a commanding lead at the top of the table following seven wins in a row.

During Nicholson's reign, it was Spurs who were the team to beat, as the Yorkshireman lead the north London side to a League and FA Cup double in 1961 - the first team to achieve the feat in the 20th century. Nicholson - manager from 1958 to 1974 - also guided his men to UEFA Cup Winners' Cup glory three years later as Spurs became the first British club to lift a European trophy, as well as two more FA Cup wins, two League Cup triumphs and the 1972 UEFA Cup.

And Jol is determined to uphold the ideologies of the club's former manager, who died at the age of 85 in October last year following a long illness.

The Dutchman reflected: "We have a book here, in which is written a remark from Bill Nicholson, and he said 'we are not playing for ourselves, and having a 1-0, we are playing for the crowds'.

"You have to pull the crowds and they have to be excited, that is the only way to do it, I think."

For the current Spurs manager, there is little fundamentally wrong with the domestic game, and the dominance of Chelsea just produces new challenges to overcome.

"If you take six out of 10 games in England, they are pretty nice to watch and that is a good average, because if you go to another country, Holland or Italy, you would go home after 50 minutes, believe me," commented Jol.

"But in England there is so much ambience and so much atmosphere, that I think you have to attack. "Even at Stamford Bridge you can say 'okay, we park two buses in front of the goal', but you still can lose the game because they have a specific quality."

The Tottenham head coach added: "I believe in attacking football in a very good, organised way. "You have a good balance in your team, good players on the wings, you have strikers who can link up."

Jol admitted the midweek Carling Cup defeat at Coca-Cola League Two side Grimsby had left him feeling "sick" and skipper Ledley King revealed "hurtful stuff ... needed to be said" as the squad had an inquest into the disappointing display.

The Dutchman, however, is now fully focused on securing maximum points against Fulham following successive draws in their last two league outings.

"Time heals all the wounds," said Jol, whose side have lost just once in the Premiership, to Chelsea, this season. "Although it is a big blow to everybody, we are still fine in the league.