White Hart pain was nothing but a circus

OOKAY, now it’s our best Premier League start. Of course that’s only making me worry all the more.

Unusually I spent a few days in the chilled zone last week. Losing to Tottenham in a meaningless competition somehow managed to get an indecently large number of Reds in a right old flap.

You can’t go there, make 10 changes and expect cohesion. I’m not even sure you can demand much effort — selection for these games is like a horse’s one-way ticket to the glue factory.