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PREMIER LEAGUE

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM

1972: The most tragic Olympic

Games opened in Munich. The

Games were to be marred by the

deaths of 11 Israeli athletes.

2004: American Shawn Crawford won 200

metres gold at the Olympics in Athens.

2007: American Tyson Gay won gold in the

men’s 100m at the World Athletics

Championships in Osaka.

2008: England claimed a 10-wicket victory in

the second one-day international against South

Africa at Trent Bridge. They went on to win the

series 4-0.

TOTTENHAM

striker Peter

Crouch scored

a hat-trick in

their emphatic

win over

Young Boys.

The 4-0

victory – 6-3

on aggregate

• secured
  Champions
  League football for White Hart
  Lane. England star Crouch was delighted with
  the result.
  “Bring on Inter Milan and the big guns,” he
  said.

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AUGUST ON THIS DAY

26

FACT ROOM...

Against no Premier League side

have Newcastle won more games

(22) and scored more goals (74)

than they have versus Tottenham.

Newcastle registered their first

away Premier League win against

‘big six’ opposition since December

2015 v Spurs (2-1).

Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino

marked his 500th match as a

manager in all competitions

(W231 D112 L157), with this his first

defeat against Newcastle since

May 2016 (1-5).

Newcastle manager Steve Bruce

recorded his first ever away win

against Spurs in the Premier

League, ending a run of nine

games without victory (D2 L7).

Bruce (5) is the sixth manager in

Prem history to win with five or

more different teams after Alan

Pardew (5), Harry Redknapp (5),

Mark Hughes (6), Roy Hodgson

(5) & Sam Allardyce (7).

COMING UP...

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STATS YOUR LOT...

PAUL DUMMETT

MAN OF THE MATCH

80% POSSESSION 20%

2 SHOTS ON TARGET 3

8 SHOTS OFF TARGET 2

91% PASSING SUCCESS 72%

6 CORNERS 6

1 OFFSIDE 4

10 FOULS 5

0 2 CARDS 2 0

Referee

Mike Dean

Attendance

59,245

THEY SAID IT...

“I am very disappointed with the

result and the performance. We

conceded a cheap goal and it is

not easy to come back.”

MAURICIO POCHETTINO

BY PAUL BROWN

MAURICIO POCHETTINO claimed

this week that Tottenham are not a

charity. They better stop giving the

opposition so many gifts then.

They did it against Aston Villa,

dozily handing John McGinn the

opening goal, before eventually

fighting back to win.

And they were at it again here,

giving Newcastle a first-half lead

despite

dominating

possession. This

time the biggest

culprit was

Davinson

Sanchez, again

preferred to Jan

Vertonghen.

Sanchez

switched off so

badly that

former Spurs

midfielder

Jermaine Jenas,

in his role as a

BBC pundit,

called it

“ridiculous

defending”.

But it also highlighted how the

rebuild Pochettino keeps talking

about has shaky foundations.

Once a mainstay of the Spurs

defence, Vertonghen is out. So too

is Christian Eriksen, despite him

coming on to change the game

against Villa.

He seems to be out of favour

simply because he won’t sign a new

contract. But such stubbornness

from Pochettino is in danger of

hurting his team.

Without the Denmark star, Spurs

relied on Erik Lamela in the No.10

role, and he struggled. Eriksen got

the biggest cheer of the

day when he finally came

on in the 62nd minute.

But still they laboured

against a Magpies team

getting deeper and

deeper. There is

something not quite right

about Spurs this season.

They spent a lot of

money to back

Pochettino in the transfer

market. But it took a late

rally to beat newly-

promoted Villa at home

and the tightest of VAR

calls to get a point at

Manchester City.

They will feel aggrieved

Harry Kane (above) didn’t win a

penalty, but they were the

architects of their own downfall,

managing just two shots on target,

and shouldn’t need a spot-kick to

rescue a point at home to Toon.

Generous

Spurs give

away too

many gifts

gave the perfect response. “A lot of

it has been unjust, unfair,” he said,

“and the only way you can quiet the

storm is to get a result.”

Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino,

who once again started with

contract rebel Christian Eriksen on

the bench, was furious with his

team. “We cannot justify our

performance,” he said.

Asked if Eriksen had played his

last game for Spurs, Pochettino said:

“I don’t know. Do you know

something? That does not justify the

performance.”

TOON SIMPLY SM-ASH IT

first goal in English football. Bruce

said: “I don’t know what was more

nervy, the last 10 minutes of the

cricket or this.

“The players had gone for a

warm-up and usually I just sit and

read the programme but how could I

not watch it?

“The kitman was running around

like a blue-arsed fly, saying ‘We need

27 more – get it on!’ It was better

than reading the match programme,

that’s for sure.”

Bruce had taken abuse from Toon

fans before the game but his players

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PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

(^) P W D L F A Pts
Liverpool 3 3 0 0 9 3 9
Man City 3 2 1 0 10 3 7
Arsenal 3 2 0 1 4 4 6
Leicester 3 1 2 0 3 2 5
Man Utd 3 1 1 1 6 3 4
Burnley 3 1 1 1 5 3 4
Tottenham 3 1 1 1 5 4 4
Brighton 3 1 1 1 4 3 4
Sheff Utd 3 1 1 1 3 3 4
Crystal Palace 3 1 1 1 2 2 4
Bournemouth 3 1 1 1 4 5 4
Everton 3 1 1 1 1 2 4
Chelsea 3 1 1 1 4 7 4
West Ham 3 1 1 1 4 7 4
Wolves 3 0 3 0 2 2 3
Aston Villa 3 1 0 2 4 5 3
Norwich 3 1 0 2 6 8 3
Southampton 3 1 0 2 3 5 3
Newcastle 3 1 0 2 2 4 3
Watford 3 0 0 3 1 7 0
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CONTROVERSIAL Harry Kane goes down under a challenge from
Jamaal Lascelles but did not get a penalty – despite a VAR review (below)
DEADLY New boy Joelinton unleashes to score the Toon winner
GLOOMY Pochettino
reflects on the game
TOTTENHAM
Aug 31 Arsenal (a) .....................PL
Sep 14 Crystal Palace (h) ..........PL
Sep 21 Leicester (a) ...................PL
Sep 28 Southampton (h) ...........PL
Oct 5 Brighton (a) .....................PL
NEWCASTLE
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Sep 14 Liverpool (a) ...................PL
Sep 21 Brighton (h) ...................PL
Sep 28 Leicester (a) ..................PL
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