Gallery: Player Ratings – Tottenham 0-1 Newcastle United

Look, I dunno. I know some of you hate it when I just slag off our team in some smart-arse fashion. I don’t like it either. All I guess I can say is pretend it’s still summer and replay some reruns of the glorious test match and don’t read this – it’s x-rated!

I guess I’m angry, angry to have forked out for another season ticket and angry to be spending almost 12 hours on the game every match day. And I know every dull, cynical manager in the league is going to set up two banks of five and tell his players just to keep organised and watch the glory boys run themselves ragged thirty yards out from goal doing feck all. That’s what I see right know: a whole season of this.

Maybe, Pochettino saw it coming and, when you could argue we needed cen...