Tottenham Hotspur

[Fosterbloke]

****ing Spurs..........if we made Holtby an offer, they'd probably try to buy him again or something.

[peekay]

****ing Spurs..........if we made Holtby an offer, they'd probably try to buy him again or something.

[Pablo]

I guess it indicates a mental weakness, once they feel a game is lost they give up and are prone to a hammering. It also indicates they never win by much.

Long term you'd think the above would cost them more points.

[meffin]

I wonder, if you took a teams 2 biggest home defeats in a season, would there be anybody with a worse goals against than Spurs?

Choosing their games against us and city, thats 10 goals against in 2 home games. Outrageous.

[Fredo]

The Tottenham Hotspur manager, Tim Sherwood, has rejected the suggestion that he needs to alter his approach against top teams, insisting that Wednesday's 5-1 defeat by Manchester City was caused by the brilliance of the opposition and a few individual mistakes by his players rather than any systemic flaw with Spurs.

Sherwood was accused of failing to deploy a midfield that provided adequate protection for Spurs' defence as City tore them apart at White Hart Lane. However, the manager said that that is not the lesson that he took from the match. "What we learned from it – what we learned from them really – is don't make a lot of unforced errors and keep the ball properly. Their goals came from human error."

Sherwood did not agree with the Match of the Day analysis by Alan Hansen, who claimed that Spurs needed to solidify their midfield. "I don't see that," said Sherwood, who suggested that any such adjustment would be excessively defensive. "I've seen a lot of teams go with 10 behind the ball, as we saw with West Ham [against Chelsea] the other night. But, if you concede 35 shots, you're usually going to concede goals. One in every 10 games might come off for you but, if you're going to keep taking punches, then you're going to end up on the floor."

Sherwood will attempt to get Tottenham's challenge for a top-four finish back on track on Saturday when they travel to Hull. The match could see Jan Vertonghen, Younès Kaboul and Paulinho return to action after long injury lay-offs. "They are like new signings," said Sherwood.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/31/tim-sherwood-tottenham-lessons-learned-manchester-city?CMP=twt_gu

[Liverpel]

Basically they have conceded one goal more than they have scored. But they have also won enough games to accumulate the points for 5th.

HTH

[Buzzo]

Classic stuff from Sherwood.

"Maths isn't my strong point, but I would say you can afford to lose another four or five games out of what we have got left," added the ex-England international.

[Fivex]

Classic stuff from Sherwood.

What?

[chadrtc]

Classic stuff from Sherwood.

That means he is expecting us to lose at least 5 or 6 of our remaining 13 games... I'd be shocked and disappointed if we did.

The guy is a bit soft in the head I suspect.

[Leyton388]

He's a ****ing ****. no way we're losing that many games. If we do lose that many I expect his lot to loose 10.

[Red_Polo]

He's basing it on what teams finishing 4th have got recently. Highest of those being 73 points. If they lose four and win the rest, they finish with 74. Simplistic, wrong even, but not as completely moronic as some would believe.

[Fivex]

He's basing it on what teams finishing 4th have got recently. Highest of those being 73 points. If they lose four and win the rest, they finish with 74. Simplistic, wrong even, but not as completely moronic as some would believe.

Obviously taken out of context it sounds worse than it was intended - but it's still a defeatist mentality.

[Muddled]

'Ex-England international'?! He's got three caps!

Matching such luminaries as Keith Curle and Geoff Thomas.

[Daffy Duck]

FFS just remembered these cunts are only 3 points behind us I hope we blast them even more at home than we did away!

[Norbs]

Don't bank on it, they're better away