Football Daily | Tottenham’s fabled penchant for self-sabotage is still very much to the fore

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Football Daily didn’t get where it is today putting in more effort than is strictly necessary. But if Tottenham thought a Leeds team who had just guaranteed their own Premier League safety would give them an easy ride in their own harrowing survival battle, they were quickly disabused of any such notion. Lending credence to our possibly half-baked theory that most teams are determined to send Spurs down because it would be a great laugh, Daniel Farke’s side scarcely left an inch of grass uncovered at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. While Spurs welcomed visitors whom they hoped would be sipping metaphorical mojitos “on the beach”, the dawning realisation that Leeds hadn’t travelled to London to mess about was a sight to behold. Leeds contested every loose ball, tackle and throw-in fiercely, showing the kind of intensity that has been conspicuously absent from much of Tottenham’s play this season. Only time will tell if the team from Yorkshire successfully pounded a nail into the Tottenham coffin lid but it certainly wouldn’t have been for the want of swinging the collective hammer.

As a Rochdale fan based in Sydney for the last 25 years, I have only ever seen one other person wearing a Rochdale shirt in Australia (at an Ashes test at the MCG). Now we have the glory of our own paragraph in Football Daily, can I expect to see a similar explosion in replica Rochdale shirts as I’ve witnessed with Manchester City?” – Nick Livesey.

I wonder how West Ham fans feel about Oliver Glasner’s comments about having a responsibility only to Crystal Palace after the anaemic performance offered by a depleted Aston Villa team against Spurs plunged the Hammers back into the drop zone?” – Neill McGowan.

A recent Big Website article said ‘Tottenham hope to exorcise demons’. Risky, they’ve been useless out of possession” – Nick Coupland.

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