09 Mar 2014 10:16:40
Ok, heard some different views on the Chelsea game on this site and in regard to the TS post match interview, but personally I am fuming with Sherwood. Try saying you were f***ing wrong to play walker right mid, with Naughton behind him, wrong for playing Lennon in the hole and Sigurdsson out wide, wrong for dropping Solddado after he gets MOTM and a goal the week before, wrong for playing an unproven Algerian kid over an experienced Brazil international. Then go bleeding about character, Adebayor, Dawson and Sandro, are definite characters, Lloris is captain of France, Kaboul has often been captain of Spurs, with Vertonghen and Walker also captaining on occasion. Tim YOUR JOB is to pick the right team and motivate the players, don't blame just them. Sherwood is ridiculously out of his depth, good riddance in the summer, he's Redknapp without the player motivation or flowing football, shocking.

1.) 09 Mar 2014
If you think those players showed any fight or pride in wearing white yesterday and on several other occasions this season we have been watching different games.

2.) 09 Mar 2014
Fair point, however it is the manager's job (AVB failed to) to motivate the team to fight for him and the shirt, it shouldn't be, but that's the way it is with a team of foreign players and non academy graduates

3.) 09 Mar 2014
Agree motivation is a part of management, but is pride in ones own performance not something these players should be held accountable for?

For all Dawson's flaws he usually puts his heart into, Holtby is another that at least appeared to try and cared about the result.

Too many of this team are going through the motions for whatever reason. Lame duck manager or not, a few of them will leave I'd be shocked to see LLoris and Verts at the Lane next season, they do not look nor sound happy. Unlike Soldado and Eriksen who have come out and expressed a desire to stay.