Pochettino admits he is ‘suffering’… but vows to fight on at faltering Spurs

MAURICIO POCHETTINO admits he is “suffering”. The Spurs boss vowed to fight on after Tuesday’s Carabao Cup loss to Colchester but said: “Of course I am suffering. Football is about glory, it is about winning. Poch, 47, took Spurs to the Champions League final last season and is on the radar of both Manchester United […]

MAURICIO POCHETTINO admits he is “suffering”.

The Spurs boss vowed to fight on after Tuesday’s Carabao Cup loss to Colchester but said: “Of course I am suffering. Football is about glory, it is about winning.

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Poch, 47, took Spurs to the Champions League final last season and is on the radar of both Manchester United and Real Madrid.

But asked if Spurs can still match his ambition, he said: “I hope, yes. That is my wish.”

“You can be frustrated and disappointed sometimes but the challenge is to get back to where we were.”

Some Spurs fans called for Pochettino to go after their embarrassing exit at League Two Colchester.

But he insisted it was not as disappointing as losing to Liverpool in Madrid in June or being knocked out of the World Cup with Argentina in 2002, when he claimed Michael Owen dived under his challenge to earn England’s winning penalty in the group clash that sent them home.

Poch said: “In football, I have suffered only two big disappointments.

“One, when I was a player and there was the penalty at the World Cup.

“The second was in the Champions League final. I so much want to win a trophy with Tottenham.”